How To Stay Sexy with Zero Carbon Footprint

If only we would check our carbon footprint as often as we check our rear.  But going beyond just checking how they emit, Castello Monte Vibiano Vecchio olive oil farm, north of Rome, is attempting to create a pioneering carbon-neutral farm. A range of new technologies is being installed at the farm as part of an experiment to cut its CO2 emissions to zero over the course of the next year.

They include everything from electric farm vehicles to sun-reflecting paint on storage buildings. One of the key investments is in a unique solar powered battery re-charging centre, built by Cellstrom of Austria. Until now, electricity generated by the sun has generally had to be used immediately. It is one reason why opponents say solar power is limited. 

Depending on the amount of usage, the battery centre can store solar-sourced electricity for up to three days. They are working to extend that to 10 days and more, enabling the farm to continue operating through foggy days when the sun does not shine.

Cellstrom estimates the farm can save 4,500 litres of petrol every year and reduce CO2 emissions by 10 tons.

The farm owner believes they have no choice but to get agriculture to adapt to climate change, and that "it is our interest for the sake of our crops to be friendly to the planet."

So, agriculture is now doing its bit on climate change.

Source: BBC News

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Wonders of Sex on Ice With Grid Girls

Grid girls they say are hot. I've never seen them in action. Ice shelves they say are icy cold. Such oxy-moron statements. Hot sex with hot grid girls will melt the ice - that's the truth of the century. Why don't the morons doing the Merdeka Endurance Race take this simple truth instead of going round and round like goldfish in a fish tank, burning fuel for 12 hours and contributing to a warmer Earth causing ice shelves to melt.

(Picture: Large pieces of ice float off after separating from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf July 29. That shelf has lost about eight square miles and the Serson shelf 47 square miles as the Markham Ice Shelf has separated and gone adrift. Source: Associated Press / MSNBC)

A huge chunk of ice shelf, more than 60 sq. km has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

The 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean. This comes on the heels of unusual cracks in a northern Greenland glacier, rapid melting of a southern Greenland glacier, and a near record loss for Arctic sea ice this summer. And March this year a 160-square mile chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated.

The loss of these ice shelves means that rare ecosystems that depend on them are on the brink of extinction, said Warwick Vincent, director of Laval University's Centre for Northern Studies and a researcher in the program ArcticNet.

It is the burning of oil and other fossil fuels that scientists say is the chief cause of manmade warming and melting ice.

We know it's you and me are the culprits.

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