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Active Planet: HP’s video conferencing studio set to ground work-related air travel

You might be reading this article with a Hewlett Packard (HP) computer. If you are, well done, you bought the ECO choice.



Active Planet: New Yorker indicted for breaching Clean Air Act

Anyone who watched The Sopranos would have thought the air in New York to be permanently blue. Apparently not, and charges have been laid against David Vega and Francis Rowe alleging failures in an asbestos removing process.



Active planet: Asia-Pacific rocks as earthquakes rumble around region

Shortly before 3:40 yesterday afternoon, the coffee in the cup alongside my keyboard started to "tide" back and forth, the front of my head began to sense motion, like being on a boat in choppy seas; the curtains moved as if in a breez...



Active Planet: Aus court finds magnetic motors "could not work."

The Supreme Court of Queensland has made final orders in relation to unlawful conduct by Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc (CME) and its chairman Micheal (sic) Peter Nugent, 46, of the Gold Coast.



Active Planet: mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday smoke

This is central Kuala Lumpur at midday today. What Malaysians, with typical courtesy, refer to as "haze" is choking, acrid smoke engulfing the city, and trapped in...

Active Planet: Electric motorcycles taking off while the world looks the other way

While attention is focussed on low or no emission cars, the motorcyle industry has been racking up surprises in the past few months.



Active Planet: Malaysian government says no to new airport

Proof positive that public opinion can have a positive effect. Malaysia's government has said that it will not approve a new airport, which its C...



Active Planet: AirAsia wants a new airport

Malaysia's AirAsia, which launches its AirAsia X service to London shortly, says that KLIA's Low Cost Carrier Terminal is overcrowded and that if...



Active Planet: New Heathrow runway opposed

The UK's Labour government has decided to over-ride objections of thousands of "stakeholders" and build a new runway at Heathrow. Oppon...



Active Planet: McCain wants "a bunch" of nuke plants

US Presidential hopeful John McCain set out his environmental stall in the second of two live debates, this one held on 7th September. He thinks...

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