Month: April 2007

Bamboo Ecobook

- Adam Clare 1 Comment

Bambooing
Asus is making a line of notebooks that are modular and easily upgradable for the end user. One of these easy modifications that can be done is making the notebook an ecobook by having bamboo casing and all the plastic made of recycled materials!

There won’t be many who find issue with the choice of material used in the EcoBook. Bamboo wood is easily replenished (it grows infamously fast) and yet when polished up it creates a luxurious wood veneer that is also biodegradable.

But the goodness of ASUS new ECOBOOK doesn’t stop there. the plastics chosen to manufacture the EcoBook come from recyclable raw materials and are numbered to facilitate recycling when the product reaches the end of its life cycle.

The sound of music is called “makorn” in Afghanistan.

- sohorobin

In Afghanistan, the hills are alive again with the sound of music…

“For three decades, music was an endangered art in Afghanistan. Soviet occupation and civil war disrupted people’s lives. When the Taliban took over in the mid-’90s, music was banned altogether.”

Ontario Bans Bad Blubs

- Adam Clare 1 Comment

Canada’s largest province has decided to ban old light-bulbs. Entire nations have already done this, at least Australia and Venezuela have, and it is good to see other regions following in their lead.

“It’s the equivalent of taking 250,000 cars off the road,” said Environment Minister Laurel Broten.

Things are getting better for half of us(women) in Saudi Arabia

- sohorobin

I do hope this one comes true. I am persuaded that things are actually hopeful having read an article about opportunities for women in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi minister of planning and economy, in remarks published recently noted that the eighth five-year development plan (2005-9) aims to improve the situation of Saudi women by providing them with more job opportunities.

He expects the percentage of women in the Saudi work force to increase from a mere 5.4 per cent to 14.2 per cent by the end of the plan’s period.”

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