Category Archives: The Green Frontier

Competition – next steps

By gf-admin | Published: June 3, 2011

Many thanks to all our fabulous eco-affluent photographers! Winners of the eco-affluent next steps competition are … Winner of the  main prize: Karl D from Suffolk with his photos, Breakfast, Plan Bee – facebook like and Smiling away from the camera. But  most impressively Karl’s next step towards eco-affluence will be to “understand the principle […]

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London Green Fair

By gf-admin | Published: May 23, 2011

We’ll be at the free festival in Regents Park on the 4th and 5th of June. Visit us in the Permaculture zone to find out about eco-affluent convergence. At 6pm on Sunday we’ll be talking about eco-affluence in the Permaculture workshop marquee. There are talks all day with some great subjects including Polly Higgins talking about […]

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LED Lamps and Ecoaffluent Convergence

By gf-admin | Published: March 19, 2011

To help explain this concept consider for example the use of kerosene lamps in Sub-Saharan Africa and India. A friend of ours who is based in Burkina Faso has explained that very poor people can spend up to a dollar a day on kerosene for lighting alone. Kerosene causes terrible respiratory problems in general use […]

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Thesis completed – What is the potential for reducing atmospheric CO2 levels through solar-desalinated irrigated vegetation of the Sahara and Arabian deserts?

By gf-admin | Published: February 15, 2011

I have finally completed my MSc thesis: What is the potential for reducing atmospheric CO2 levels through solar-desalinated irrigated vegetation of the Sahara and Arabian deserts? The purpose of this thesis was to estimate how much carbon could be sequestered annually in the Sahara and Arabian deserts if those deserts were irrigated with seawater that […]

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350ppm pyramid illustration

By gf-admin | Published: November 28, 2010

It takes a lot of wood to store enough carbon from carbon dioxide (CO2) to get the atmospheric CO2 down to 350ppm (methodology described in the CO2 Pyramids post). In these illustrations, the smaller pyramid is the same size as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. The larger one illustrates the amount of wood […]

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Population for a reforested Sahara

By gf-admin | Published: April 5, 2010

Population and land area The sahara is 9,000,000 square kilometres or 900,000,000 hectares. The population of the world is predicted to stabilize at 9,000,000,000 by 2050. If the entire world population moved to a transformed sahara the population density would be 10 people per hectare – or 0.1 hectares available per person – see CIA […]

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Reforest Haiti

By gf-admin | Published: April 5, 2010

Haiti could be rebuilt and reforested at the same time, turning it from the poorest nation in the Americas into a tropical paradise. Haiti is a tropical island next to Cuba. With a population of 9,035,536 people and a land mass of 2,775,000 hectares there is 0.31 hectares available per person. The country currently has […]

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Green Frontier!

By gf-admin | Published: February 23, 2010

Welcome to the blog of the Green Frontier website. This area will contain general entries before they are catalogued into toolkit items. The purpose of the blog is to post items of interest and importance, so as to make the available before there have been placed in context with the rest of the information offered […]

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