Biofuel Producing Enzyme Found in Cow Stomachs has yielded an important secret to researchers, which will help farmers produce biofuel (ethanol) which can be easily turned into biodiesel, more efficiently in future and from non-food crops.
Author Archive | Steve Evans
Anaerobic Digestion Process Used on Effluent from a Ben & Jerry’s (Unilever) Ice Cream Factory
Construction has started on an anaerobic digestion bio-digester at a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Hellendoorn, the Netherlands. The bio-digestion process, is uniquely green process.
Organic Milk Has More Beneficial Fats And Consistent Quality
Organic milk has reduced saturated fats. It is more nutritionally beneficial than its chemically fertilised equivalent. What the organic community has been saying for a long time has in general been found scientifically correct, according to researchers from Newcastle University.
UK Environment Agency Takes Further Steps to Enable Industry to Produce Products from Waste Materials
In recent years there has been a rapid increase in UK recycling, however, there has also been disappointment at the difficulties experienced by innovative recycling organisations when it comes to the Waste Regulations.
The Michael Phelps Diet – is it for you?
The Michael Phelps diet is receiving quite a lot of publicity right now, and some people that have heard there was a buzz around his diet are mistakenly thinking that it might be used for weight loss. Let us be clear. His diet is perfect for him, you can see that is self-evident from his […]
Facts About Pizza and Nutrition – Easy and Simple Diet Facts to Answer Recent Press Publicity
Pizza and nutrition – tasty but is it good nutrition? If you are like me you like pizza. I would like to eat pizza a lot! So, what does the sensible person think about eating pizza from the point of view of pizza and nutrition?
Life Expectancy in US at Record High
Life expectancy in the US has risen to a new high of 78 years and 2 months, according to statistical analysis released by the Centers for Disease and Control, for 2009.
Ticket Touts Met Police Hold 49 Suspects in Olympic Games Ticket Sales Probe
Detectives from London’s Met Police force have made 49 arrests in a ticket touts crackdown launched immediately before tickets go on sale for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Games organisers have also been giving out the official games website name, with warnings to the public only to use that website, or risk dealing with a […]
CO2 Emissions Rise With Economic Post-Recession Growth in EU
Since the 2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change the world’s focus on climate change has been much reduced. Many people have been more concerned with the effects of the stock market falls the previous year, which at the time of the 2009 conference had not run their course to the […]
‘Home Compostable’ Certification Scheme Launched to Help People Compost More at Home
Has it ever struck you that, as an environmentally aware person who is keen on sustaining the environment and to act responsibly as a householder and citizen generally, there is a lot of packaging you use that probably could be safely composted in your yard/garden compost heap, but you are unsure which?