The 52:52:52 project, launching on this site and on social media in 2025, will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.
Energy
Solar
A range of personal responses to the challenges of solar power.
ENERGY
- What one individual can do - a campaign to stop railway stations keeping their lights on all day.
- Generating wind power at home.
- Google claims that its forthcoming PowerMeter can answer such questions as: How much does it cost to leave your TV on all day? Which uses more power
Energy
Key considerations:
- Using biofuels as energy.
- Using home wind turbines.
- A critical look at carbon footprint calculators.
Halcyon Identifies
Over 850m people are at risk due to the current food crisis. Rising fuel costs, erratic weather, and the conversion of land to grow crops for biofuels are all factors.
Halcyon Identifies
75 nations have jointly launched the world's first multinational organisation dedicated solely to promoting renewable energy worldwide.
Financial, food, and fuel crises pose a severe threat to uprooted people
Halcyon Identifies
17 October 2008
Global financial, food, and fuel crises and the negative impacts of climate change pose a severe threat to the world's 37 million uprooted people.
Halcyon Identifies
- Habitat - people are participating increasingly in grassroots communities around local issues like inclusion, education, energy, food, health, housing, land use, transport, waste reduction, and water use.
Halcyon Identifies
- Energy - renewable energy is approaching a "tipping point" and should expand dramatically in the next decade, narrowing the gap between alternative forms of energy and fossil fuel use.
Halcyon Identifies
- Change/Collaboration - around the world, communities are starting to adopt the "transition model" to respond to the twin challenges of peak oil and climate change.