Localism, Staycations and Conserving Less Fuel for the Good Life
Posted on July 18, 2009
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With the most recent historic hikes in the price of fuel, it seems as if everyone is staying a little closer to home these days. And who can blame them? The excess price of fuel for commutes and errands has eaten up the discretionary income of many North Americans. As luck would have it, staying home is also a great way to decrease your personal “carbon footprint.”
It also happens to be a great way to meet the neighbors and patronize local businesses. Part of the sustainability model requires people to have the services and goods they require as close to them as possible. In many urban and suburban areas, it is now possible to take care of all your daily needs without even having to get in the car.
Some people are even choosing to vacation at home. Just unplug the phone, set aside your tasks an enjoy the city you’re usually too busy to take notice of.
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Judging Support for International Climate Change Agreements
Posted on July 1, 2009
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Most people agree that something must be done about climate change. Getting some of the biggest polluters on Earth to do something about it has been the challenge so far. It’s hard to know how to judge whether this is about to change or not. However, increasing international pressure and domestic social pressure can certainly have an effect.
Consider upcoming elections in the United States. For the first time, candidates on both sides of the aisle are touting themselves as the “green” candidate. However, a closer examination of their voting records shows what sort of support each has had for sustainable development and other matters of ecological importance. Since these issues are all related as part of sustainable development, you can be reasonably sure this is an indicator of their understanding of the subject and their regard for the lives at stake. Showing your support for domestic sustainable development makes it that much more likely that international agreements to limit carbon dioxide emissions are quick in coming.
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The Scope of Sustainable Development Necessary to Avert Climate Change Disaster
Posted on May 17, 2009
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Sustainable Development touches on all aspects of social, environmental and developmental needs to craft a solution that can help mitigate the disasters that climate change threatens. To accomplish this, a seemingly endless laundry list of concerns that sustainable development encompasses just about every scope of human endeavor.
The primary effects of climate change are ripe for immediate action. It is basic to the concept of sustainability that the biggest problems be tackled first and that keeping things from getting any worse is basic to that premise. To that end, sustainable development in the 21st century must focus heavily upon reducing carbon dioxide emissions. And not just to pre-1990 levels, but to levels not seen since before World War Two.
The secondary impacts of climate change present the greatest challenges because protecting both human and natural life requires a very precarious balance be reached in an era of dwindling resources. With the help of scientific study, it is hoped that leaders and advisors can come up with attainable solutions.
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Passive Geothermal Heating Reduces Fuel Bills Anywhere
Posted on March 18, 2009
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While active geothermal energy that produces steam for electric production is restricted to unique environments where magma reaches near the crust, passive geothermal heating can be used anywhere. It works by using the heat of the Earth to lower the amount of heating required in your home or business. This is possible because the mass of the entire planet is kept at a constant 50F/20C or so.
All that’s required is a long length of pipe and excavation equipment. Usually this snakes through a residential yard in a “closed loop” configuration. Here water or anti-freeze is circulated within this closed system that allows a lot of surface contact with the subsoil. The other end is attached to the foundation of your home or business. The heat is then radiated up through the house itself. Open loop systems are less commonly used and cycle water from the bottom of a pond. This requires less pipe and digging, but may be subject to local environmental regulations.
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Solar Power Innovation: Cheap Electric on the Horizon?
Posted on December 12, 2008
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Since people are going to need energy, eliminating carbon dioxide emissions will require adopting renewable energy. However, the cost has been prohibitively high for most of the commonly used and available methods. Home generation has many possibilities, including getting a check from the power company for excess power that you’ve sold back.
The best and only way to make its manufacture as cheap as possible. Several recent innovations in solar technology have brought humankind to the brink of affordable solar power that can be used anywhere. Flexible film solar can be built into just about anything, from awnings to bikinis. New advances is how to put the flexible sheets together has recently come from an American company that literally prints the solar cells onto a substrate at dizzyingly fast rates. Even solar paint is on the horizon.
The next step to really getting solar everywhere as it should be it to have similar revolutionary advances in storage technology.
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Islands in Danger of Climate Change Destruction
Posted on December 1, 2008
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One of the direct consequences of climate change is the rise in sea levels. Observations since the mid-19th century, though convouluted, show a global average of about 20cm/8 inches in that time. Some coral atolls in the Pacific Island nations of Micronesia are already disappearing. This is demonstrated by the Maldives, Kiribati and Tuvalu – all nations that may disappear beneath the waves .
With the onset of increasingly frequent and fierce cyclones or hurricanes, the islands are physically weakened and begin to sink a bit. Even a .5cm/1/8 inch increase in the level of the seas could half of some small islands to disappear by 2012. The most populous island threatened by 2020 is New Guinea and it’s mirror twin Papua New Guinea, home to many of the last “undiscovered” tribes. Because of climate change, that first contact may be an evacuation of the island observed after inundation with rising sea waters.
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The sustainable development’s Course
Posted on December 1, 2008
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In the hope of global success preserving the globe, we will for the next 52 weeks, publish this, never before published, significant e-course on Sustainable Development.
Best Regards
Bo Larsen
www.pollution.wheneveryouwantthis.com
Sustainable development
Posted on October 24, 2008
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Atomic power is not a part of sustainable development. That’s the opposite!
Bo
Facts About Global Warming: What is the Real Deal?
Posted on October 24, 2008
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Global warming is hot topic on everyone minds, but who is responsible for giving us the facts about global warming? How much of what we know are actual facts about global warming and how much is fiction?
With so much information floating around about global warming and from so many sources it is hard for the layperson to truly tease out what is real and what is not. Some tabloids and conspiracy theorists will try to persuade you to believe that the whole global warming topic is some kind of elaborate theory to scare people into believing they are perpetrating a major meltdown of the earth. These wild allegations are not substantiated and the only true theory coming out of that lot is that the earth does go through cycles of warming and cooling. Thus these disbelievers will tell you that there is no such thing as global warming, or that the research out there supporting such a theory is flimsy at best.
Although negating the phenomenon of global warming is both encouraging and a rationale to deny our part as the people of the world to act responsibly to save our planet, all scientists, the true specialists on this topic do agree upon the overwhelming facts about global warming.
Facts about global warming have come through from various scientific investigations and the biggest contributing factor is human intervention stemming from the way we live. Since the Industrial Revolution, we have been releasing fossil fuels within the atmosphere as we rush to create diesel engines for trains, gas and oil for automobiles, electricity power plants, machines operated by fuel, machines operated by electricity, electronics, and telephone and satellite equipments. The rush for modernization from industrial to the information highway has lead us to releasing tons of fossil fuels also known as greenhouse gases within the atmosphere.
The facts about global warming stare us in the face. These fossil fuels, like oil, gas, coal, wood burning for heating or a nice little bond fire for our camping enjoyment is warming our environment as well as our homes. Carbon dioxide is being released and trapped in the earth’s atmosphere warming up our entire planet.
The forests are being cut down to make way for modernization, but these trees also sheltered us from carbon dioxide as they absorbed the earth’s natural supply, now we are losing them as well as we build more homes, and golf courses etc.
We burn our garbage in giant quarries and landfills, and each time we do, we release methane into the air, another greenhouse gas.
In 2005, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, along with 10 other supporting scientific bodies released a document clearly stating, “The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action. It is vital that all nations identify cost-effective steps that they can take now, to contribute to substantial and long-term reduction in net global greenhouse gas emissions.” (Joint Statement of Science Academies: Global Response to Climate Change [PDF], 2005).
Some people are worried that we as consumer society have become to dependant upon our way of life and that we are not able to give up our gains. They fear that shutting down factories and buying fewer automobiles we lead to mass unemployment and malcontent. This myth could not be farther from the truth. Yes consumers must change their current way of life to secure a better future for our children, but programs are being developed to change our current habits and implement sustainable programs to better our world.
Such programs already in operation such as The Acid Rain program in the United States, reduced the sulfur dioxide emissions by over 30 percent in the 1990’s, not only cleaning the air, but costing the government much less than was anticipated
Restricting other areas of industry to limit their gas emissions would encourage new technological developments in existing and new products on the market. It would also create new jobs and new wealth for the economy.
Another myth circulating is that evolution has provided us with the ability to adapt to planet changes. The facts about global warming tell us otherwise. Many cultures and societies in the past have been wiped out completely because of climate changes. Coastal nations will loss much of their homes and land due to flooding, many cases of new and existing diseases such as skin cancer will surface, and famine will wipe out thousands upon thousands of people because the vegetation and wild life could no longer life in the new climatic conditions.
Another myth widely accepted is that a local weatherperson is rarely accurate on a day-to-day basis, so how can scientists be accurate about the entirely climatic change of the globe? The facts about global warming is based on measured results, as well as future predictions, climate change is reflected over time and is different from weather which can fluctuate from day to day.
Green Power Direct Energy Partnerships
Posted on October 17, 2008
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Let green power direct your home activities by getting involved with a green power partnership in your area. The partnerships encourage individuals and organizations to buy more renewable energy, rather than power made from fossil fuels to help stop global warming. By entering into the partnerships with other green power users you not only help to protect the environment, but you also receive discounts from many of your local stores, restaurants and hotels.
By switching to green power direct energy you will adding less waste into the environment. For every person that switches to green power direct energy the power companies burn less coal and save tons of greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere. Join with other people of your community through your local green power direct partnerships to make your neighborhood a green community.
Join with others in your area to learn how to save money on your monthly power bills by using green power direct energy blocks. Each green power direct energy block is sold in 150-kilowatt-hours. You can purchase as many blocks as you want. If you go 100 percent green you will add about $20 to your total electric bill. You can easily save the amount you have to spend for the energy blocks by changing your light bulbs in your house from conventional incandescent bulbs to green energy bulbs. There are many other ways in which to save on the energy used in your home. Your power company’s membership corporation has information about how to purchase clean energy, the benefits of going green, and how to save money on your monthly bill.
If you are not sure why you should switch to green power direct energy, joining your local partnership will help to educate you on the advantages of switching to green power direct energy. Electrical power produced from conventional ways releases tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, which is the leading cause of global warming. You can’t pick up a newspaper, magazine or turn on the television without seeing evidence of global warming.
Switching now to green power direct energy may not make a huge difference in your lifetime, but it will make a difference for your children and their children that come after them. The goal of switching to green power direct energy is not to save money, but to save the earth. The effects of global warming are many. At this time the polar ice cap is melting at an alarming rate. Polar bears are decreasing in numbers because their habitat is melting away. We need the rain forests to produce much needed oxygen, but they are also decreasing in size. Acid rain is a major problem. If we want to save the planet for the generations that come after us we have to make major changes. Join into a partnership in your area to discover how switching to green power direct energy can not only benefit you, but also help the environment.
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