192 nations at UN climate conference in Copenhagen

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The largest and most important UN climate change conference in history opened Monday, with diplomats from 192 nations warned that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming. The UN meeting started with this video "Save the world".

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Make a gift bow from a magazine page

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In gift wrap emergencies when you've got the present but need some wrapping, here's an idea for turning a magazine page into a bow. (There may be better ways to stick this thing together, but I used what I had on hand: staples and adhesive glue dots. Double stick tape would work, too.)

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The house that generates energy

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In Denmark, near Aarhus, the world’s first Active House is being tested. Thanks to 50m2 of solar panels, solar collectors and a heat pump, over the course of a year this house actually captures more energy than it uses.

For 8 months of the year, the house feeds excess energy into the national grid and then for 4 months of the year, it takes it back, meaning that the grid acts as an energy bank.

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