Seems like my country is finally doing something good to the environment. According to an article on reuters.com Norway is making plans to build enormous sea-based wind parks that will cost a staggering $44 billion. If everything works out the wind parks should be finished in 2025 and could help the European Union reaching it goal of getting 20 % of its electricity from renewable sources.
The energy produced by the wind parks would be the equivalent to up to eight nuclear power plants so this seems like a massive push for renewable energy sources in Norway.
Wind parks far out on the sea sounds like an excellent idea since the land based wind parks often look very ugly and the construction of the mills can be bad for the local environment. There has also been reports that wind mills along the coastline of Norway are killing a lot birds.
I hope they are thinking about the routes that birds use when they construct the wind parks or else we will get to see many dead sea birds.
I still do not own a car yet, but I have been thinking about buying one soon. Since I live in the countryside and work a little with farming it would be practical for me to get a car that can be used off the road. A LandRover would fit my needs pretty good.
A website that sells Land Rovers is Guy Salmon Land Rover which have a big selection (over 300 in stock) of both new and approved used Land Rovers. They are selling all the current UK models from Land Rover in dealerships across the UK.
On the website you can browse their selection by model, what state the car is in (new, approved pre-owned or demonstrator vehicle) and the price range.
The used vehicles they are selling have been prepared and inspected by Guy Salmon Land Rover. You also get a warranty on the used cars. The warranty varies a bit by how old the car is.
There should not be any worries about the quality on the used vehicles.
WWF was able to capture a video of the world’s rarest rhinos, the Javan rhino, with their video trap. In this remarkable video you can see a mother and her child in an Indonesian rain forest foraging for food.
At the end of the video the mother rhino attacks the camera in a scene that looks straight out of The Blair Witch Project.
The Javan rhinos are highly endangered with only 60 rhinos living in the wild. Let us hope WWF are successful in protecting the rain forests so this will not be the last glimpse we get of the Javan rhinos.
Have you ever wanted a career in the healthcare system? Medical-Career-Training.com can help you with just that providing information on medical careers in USA, Canada and different online schools.
You can search for what type of school you want to attend like different ultrasound schools (also known as sonography schools).
The website explains in detail what an ultrasound technician will do, how the work environment is, what kind of salary you can get and other things linked to being an ultrasound technician.
More good news for us who cares about the environment 🙂
According to an article on timesonline.co.uk milk from organic cows are healthier than conventional milk. A study that was done in 2004 – 2005 by Newcastle University and the Danish Institute for Agricultural Science states that milk from cows eating fresh organic grass contains more good fatty acids such as omega-3 and conjugated linoleic acid known as CLA9 than milk from conventional intensive farming. The best results came from cows that were outside most of the year and had access to fresh grass. They had up to 60 per cent more CLA9.
These fatty acids are good for combating cancer, coronary heart disease and type II diabetes.
Nice to see scientific proof that organic food not only tastes better but also are healthier for us 🙂
In the last few years whenever I go traveling I always check online websites to find the cheapest tickets and fares with the most convenient travel times. For me this has been much easier than finding tickets by telephone or visit travel agencies that are not online.
Lowfares.com is a bit different than regular travel agency websites I have previously used by that on Lowfares.com you search several different travel portals to find cheap tickets. They offer an easy way to search for cheap flights, cheap hotels, car rentals and vacation packages from multiple sites.
Here is how it works: You choose if you want a hotel room, an air ticket or car rental (vacation packages has a bit different kind of system). Then you state the days you want to search for and the places you want to travel from / to. At the end you choose which merchants you want to compare against each other and then you are free to select the best option for you.
Lowfares.com also offer a service where you sign up via email to get exclusive hot deals directly into your email in box.
The concept that this site is running seems like a very good alternative to regular travel agencies as a way to find the cheapest tickets on the marked.
According to this article on guardian.co.uk it seems like Germany has come to it senses and are starting to ban pesticides.
In the German region Baden-Württemberg 50-60% of the bees have died this year. 8 seed treatment pesticides that contain a chemical called clothianidin (made by Bayer CropScience) has been banned because the chemical has been found in 99% of all the dead bees.
This is not the first time Bayer CropScience are being accused of killing honey bees. Both in France and USA beekeepers have accused the company for being behind the deaths of large number of bee hives.
Pesticides has been linked to the term Colony Collapse Disorder that describes a phenomenon where bee colonies suddenly disappear. This phenomenon have dramatically increased the last few years and is worrying for farmers across the world.
Read more about Colony Collapse Disorder on Wikipedia.
In my opinion it is pretty insane to use highly toxic chemicals to fight against the nature. It is high time that the farming industry looks to alternative organic ways of farming instead of killing the nature.
Please buy products from organic farms the next time you go shopping 🙂
When I travel abroad I always make sure to have some good travel insurance to protect myself from various situations that may occur. You never know when your luggage might be stolen, you get sick or if you get yourself into an accident. In situations like these travel insurance is a must for everyone.
When you get over a certain age regular travel insurance will not cover you or cost much more. Then you can look into getting a more specialized travel insurance that is more suitable for you.
A company that offer exactly this is Cover My Travels. They have a policy called Over 65 Travel Insurance that suits older people that want to travel. This insurance is for people between 65 and 79 years old for single trips, and if you are going on multiple trips it covers people between 65 and 69 years old.
Getting an insurance like this seems like a good idea if you are a traveler over 65.
