Wellington, New Zealand

New Zealand is in a very windy region of the world, particularly around Cook Strait!

A $440 million wind farm with future capacity to power Wellington was connected to New Zealand’s electricity grid yesterday.

Twenty 111m-high turbines at Meridian’s West Wind project in the hills of Makara began spinning to generate enough energy for 17,000 homes.

By the end of this year it will use 62 turbines, which have 40m-long blades, to generate enough power (more…)

It’s NOT an Urban Legend about the world’s largest plastic trash islands
floating in the Pacific. There is actually two, an eastern floats between
California and Hawaii, and a western located off of the Pacific side of
Japan.  Their combined area covers two times the size of Texas.

100 million tons of free floating trash.  90 percent of it is plastic.
The ocean’s natural currents keeps it floating together. A large current (more…)