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What is the Degrowth perspective on ad blocking and online advertising?
From a Degrowth perspective, how would one argue in favour or against ad blocking and online advertising?
Degrowth is a political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics, anti-...
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What's the environmental impact of industrial sources of store-bought bagged soil? Is it a 'net positive' in terms of building soil & storing carbon?
To help grow lots of trees and ecologically friendly gardens, I've bought lots of bags of soil over time. There are better, more local sources of soil/mulch/compost, but nevertheless I go the route of ...
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How do I choose the most sustainable chocolate?
I've heard that the production and import of chocolate has some consequences including deforestation, excessive use of pesticides and CO2 emissions. There are also concerns about exploitation of ...
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Is thermal heating of soil contaminated by coal gasification plant safe in a built-up zone?
Where I stay, theres a site (see intro here) nearby that used to be a coal gasification plant (produces coal gas for lightning etc.). The plant contaminated the soil with PAHs and heavy metals with ...
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How effective is a Smoke Control Area at reducing particulates? (UK)
Smoke Control Areas are in place in 195 out of 434 local authorities. 53 of those cover the entire local authority.
Smoke Control Areas make it illegal to burn coal and other smokey fuels and ...
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Which part of the process of estimating wind resource has the potential greatest benefit from further research?
Estimations of the potential generation resource of wind power happens at all scales from very coarse global estimates, to detailed estimates at individual sites based on specific locations and ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using lidars over sodars for wind resource assessment?
The process of wind resource assessment has used a variety of methods over the years; more recently, lidar - radar-style sensing using lasers; and sodar (similar, but using sound) have come to ...
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Radiative Cooling for Residential
I've seen a lot of references to films which radiate heat from an underlying surface out into space. For example:
http://radi-cool.com/
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/projects/passive-...
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Can mealworms form part of a healthy diet in the UK?
Mealworms for birds are a cheap form of nutrition. Could they be processed at home in a way to make them healthy?
Dried mealworms are sold as bird food for just under £8/Kg in the UK or $3/Kg from ...
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How much CO2 is currently captured in the EU per year with CCS technologies?
I wonder how much carbon dioxide is captured per annum in the EU at the moment. In this article (p. 5), one can read that the two largest CCS facilities in Europe currently capture around 1,55 Mt/y. ...
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Are talcum powder tins more sustainable than the ones that come in plastic boxes?
I was shopping and as a trial, I bought a talcum powder in a tin container instead of the usual ones that comes packaged in a plastic box. The material looks like a tin, although one cannot tell from ...
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Any sustainability difference between anionic/cationic/nonionic detergents?
Are any of these three types of detergents more or less damaging to manufacture and/or use or dispose of than the others?
I realise these are rather broad classes, but this is usually the only detail ...
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Pond for largemouth bass / perch
In NE Ohio (Zone 5 - 6) how large of a pond would I need to raise largemouth bass or perch for food production.
What is the minimal depth and diameter required for 100 fish?
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Large-scale test data on LED, CFL, and incandescent brightness and longevity
A google search for "comparing LED, CFL, and, incandescent brightness" returns hundreds of charts showing what equivalent wattage of LEDs and CFLs are to match an incandescent bulb. This is fine for ...
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Are there toasters with a selector for one or two slices?
I noticed that all toasters I could find (even the ridiculously expensive ones, 300 Euro/dollars) toast both slots at the same time, instead of offering a selector one/two.
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