June 17th, 2010
With the disaster that is currently happening in the gulf coast to the waters, fish, sealife and beaches, it is a great move forward in the protection of the world’s seas and oceans with the new initiative Green Blue.
The Green Blue is the joint environment initiative created by the British Marine Federation(BMF) and Royal Yachting Association(RYA) for anyone whose livlihoods depends on the oceans or for anyone who loves to be out, on or in the water. Boat users, boating businesses, sailing clubs and training centres are given information and help to reduce their impact on coastal and inland waters.
The Green Blue projects aims are to raises awareness, conduct scientific research, identify environmentally friendly products and offer the best practice advice to anyone keeen to make boating in the UK as sustainable as possible. The project will cover a wide variety of topics from waste management, fuel efficiency and marine paints to effects on wildlife and efficiency resources on board boats.
Projects withing the Green Blue programme are taking place across the country and are already making a difference to the nations surrounding seas. For full information on the Green Blue project visit http://www.thegreenblue.org.uk/
Tags: BMF, British Marine Federation, environmentally friendly products, fuel efficiency, Green Blue, rescource efficiency, Royal Yachting Association, RYA, waste management | Posted in News, Self sufficiency
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April 21st, 2009
At the end of the day, the best way to get about for our bodies and our environment is always going to be under our own steam. Left to our own devises, who wouldn’t want to travel this way? After all in many cases the journey is as much an experience as the destination. Unfortunately for us, despite all of our time saving devises, time is always critical. We can seldom afford the luxury of walking, cycling and smelling the flowers on route . Time is very often money; we need to get to where we are going quickly, efficiently and hopefully with as little impact on the environment as we can possible get away with.
Driving in a relatively fuel-efficient car (25-30 miles per gallon) usually generates fewer greenhouse-gas emissions than flying. According to the environmental website Grist.org, a trip of around 300 miles, would generate about 104 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2) in a typical medium-sized car, regardless of the number of passengers. Flying that same distance on a commercial jet would produce some 184 kilograms of CO2 per passenger.
From an economical standpoint however, the high price of fuel means that it would be far more cost efficient to hop on a cheap internal flight than to drive a long distance. Of course, you would also have to factor in the time spent in restaurants and hotels along the way and of course the extra time it would take to get there.
Perhaps before over analyzing the best way to get somewhere, we should first spend some time considering exactly where we are going and why….
Tags: carbon emissions, ethical transport, fuel efficiency | Posted in New Road Protests
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