Topic: Iceland

Rice Porridge Pancakes

Pancakes are the ultimate in frugal comfort food, taking very little fuel or time to prepare (a factor in Iceland, which was deforested quickly after its settlement), and often created from leftover ingredients like oatmeal, rice porridge, or rice pudding. Rice porridge ...

GreenQloud Uses Nimsoft Monitoring for its Cloud Solution

Monitoring solutions provider Nimsoft (www.nimsoft.com) announced on Tuesday that cloud solutions provider GreenQloud (www.greenqloud.com) has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to provide customers with 24-hour visibility into its carbon-neutral compute cloud. Iceland-based GreenQloud says it will be the first truly green cloud ...
Leading printing company Oddi Printing, has received a certification from the Nordic Ecolabel for its leading environmental awareness within the Icelandic printing industry. Iceland's Environmental Minister presented Mr. Jon Omar Erlingsson, CEO at Oddi Printing, a certification from the Nordic Ecolabel for ...

Best Fish Oil on the Market

There are many types of fish oil on the market today but the best fish oil depends on several factors like production, origin of fish and pollutants. There are differences of where the oil comes from to the type of processing it ...

Commercial whaling may continue for 10 years: IWC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japan, Norway and Iceland could continue commercial whaling for another decade, despite a global ban, under a proposal released Thursday by the International Whaling Commission.Between 4,000 and 18,000 whales could be saved over the next 10 years under the ...

U.S. leads bid to phase out whale hunting: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is leading an effort that could result in an agreement in coming weeks to limit and ultimately end whale hunting by Japan, Norway and Iceland, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.Citing people involved with the ...

Whaling compromise under attack

A fragile plan to resolve the global feud on whaling is coming under attack from both sides, with Australia seeking more concessions from whalers and Japan vowing never to end its hunt completely.Key nations in the whaling debate submitted comments to the ...

Freezers produce 25% of supermarkets' carbon footprint

Supermarket fridges and freezers are environmentally unfriendly, spewing out bad gases that make up more than a quarter of the companies' total carbon footprint.. None of the 10 high-street stores fared well in a survey that had Iceland scoring an alarming -1 ...