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The series was sparked off by an article I read on eco-friendly hats
A hat that suits Oscar
This tortoise has been alive a long time - he met Beetle Bailey when he was young
tortoise loves mail
my favourite of the tortoise cartoon series
tortoise makes a break for it
Tags: beetle bailey, cartoon, eco, hat, tortoise
I had to explain biochar to my editor, so this rough is a reject
Oscar explains the most eco-friendly way to be disposed of
I’ll leave it to CSIRO to define biochar:
Biochar is a stable form of charcoal produced from heating natural organic materials (crop and other waste, woodchips, manure) in a high temperature, low oxygen process known as pyrolysis. Due to its molecular structure, biochar is chemically and biologically in a more stable form than the original carbon form it comes from, making it more difficult to break down. This means that in some cases it can remain stable in soil for hundreds to thousands of years.
Tags: biochar, burial, carbon fixing, charcoal, cremation, eco, environmental, fixing carbon, green
Taste of Melbourne - Inside the Exhibition Building
The boyf won tickets for Taste of Melbourne last week. I was expecting I would get bored after the initial (very overpriced) dishes from the restaurant stalls, but it wasn’t too bad.
For starters there were a lot of chocolate and ice cream companies giving out free samples. The marshmallows dipped in Green and Black's chocolate fountain were to die for and only bettered by Gundowring Golden Syrup icecream worth going to purgatory for.
I got to chat to the guy at Bultarra Saltbush Lamb - usually they are very busy when we buy their lamb from the farmers market
I also had a good chat with Enviromeat, who raise, market and distribute beef that has a low environmental impact
I ended up being there for 2 hours (the boyf was there for nearly four – I had to repair to the adjacent Melbourne Museum and revive myself by looking at Ordician fossils and the odd dinosaur skeleton)
Some of the trilobite fossils have been painstakingly cleaned and look quite animated
Tarbosaurus - Tyranosaurus' marginally less scary cousin
When he emerged, we went on to Brunswick Street and found a great new bar with food that was just as good as what we had had at Taste of Melbourne, but waaaaay cheaper ($2 per tapas, not $8 to $12) – it was almost like being in Donostia-San Sebastian.
Plus the pipework in Naked for Satan should make a great reference for a cartoon one day...
Tags: eco, enviromeat, environmentally friendly, green, meat, melbourne museum, taste of melbourne
I was reading an interesting Treehugger article about more environmentally-friendly concrete this week. Concrete from Portland cement produces a lot of carbon dioxide in its manufacture, but is very useful as a heat sink for passive solar heating. Now it looks like there is a very real alternative to Portland cement in the form of “E-crete” made from fly ash – a by-product of burning coal and something that is currently hard to get rid of. Buildings made from this stuff have lasted a very long time and the production means an 80-90% reduction in carbon emissions.
Later the same day, I read another article in CSIRO’s magazine, ECOS, about Zeobond , based right here in Melbourne, which is a leading manufacturer of this eco-concrete. I hope they are successful in promoting this kind of building material over regular concrete.
Zeobond Pty Ltd utilises waste materials of fly ash and bottom ash from power stations, blast furnace slag from iron making plants, and concrete waste to make geopolymers, which is what gives this material the large energy saving. This technology has experienced rapid growth in the last decade with an extensive range of applications particularly in the construction, architectural and refractory industries.
Tags: carbon emissions, concrete, eco, environmental, fly ash, geopolymer, sustainable building
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