A well renowned Electronic wares and goods manufacturing firm named Haier has recently gained an overt approbation and regard by World’s leading green organization called Greenpeace as of the remarkable green feats conducted by it in the current year Beijing Olympics. This hyper eco active consumer electronics firm has embodied around 30 diverse green artifacts like refrigerators, air conditioners and added white goods etc. in this year Olympic Games. And in today’s point the most up-to-date contraption grasping mega green factor is the lately introduced solar powered air-conditioners which would employ only natural coolants like water to chill the surrounding areas.

What’s more these exceptionally designed air conditioners would be enclosing only minimal quantity of hydro fluorocarbon content making the settings unreservedly unsoiled. Hence in view of Haier’s green and ecofriendly endeavors to make ambiance sparkling and spotless I undergo that its shots are profoundly be worthy of global admiration.

Via GoodCleanTech

China is on top of the medal tally at the Beijing Olympics and it seems that it intends to stay there by the time the flame starts its journey to London. Irrespective of who finish on top of the tally with the highest number of golds, China has bagged a golden honor with the way it has built and maintained its Olympic Village. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson presented Chinese officials with a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold award for the 2008 Olympic village. That is one ‘Olympic Gold’ that China can only claim to have!

This is indeed being dubbed as the ‘Green Olympics’ and ironically so as Beijing is one of the world’s most polluted cities before the games started and there was a frantic effort to clean things up. While the Olympic Village is a segment of the celebrated athletic event’s environmentally-friendly planning, a major goal for the Olympic Village was that its practices and techniques would also serve as a model for future development in China.

Currently housing 16,000 Olympic athletes, the 160-acre site contains 42 residential buildings ranging between six- and nine- stories, seven community centers, three commercial and retail buildings, a health center, library, gyms, swimming pools, tennis courts, and a kindergarten. Using high levels of insulation, energy efficient windows, and a system that collects and re-uses rainwater for heating and cooling, these buildings are 50 percent more energy efficient than most other buildings in Beijing.

The apartments are also partially powered by solar energy and use greywater to flush toilets. Vegetated green roofs make up more than 60 percent of the impervious surface on rooftops, and 95 percent of parking was constructed underground, freeing up area for open green space as well as a network of pedestrian and bicycle pathways. What is nice to know is that the village is being used as a model for future villages in China and for that reason alone the LEED accolade is well deserved.

Via: Inhabitat

Well, yes we have been talking about the lengths that China is going to keep the Olympics alive and kicking. Here’s more. For the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing, Chinese meteorologists fired 1000 plus rockets into clouds to prevent rain showers to disrupt the grand sporting affair.
These rockets, filled with silver iodide crystals, were part of the largest operation of its kind in China. It dropped the rain onto other areas of Beijing and nearby Hebei province. Guo Ho, head of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, said, “A total of 1,104 rain dispersal rockets were fired from 21 sites across Beijing between 4 pm to 11:39 pm that intercepted the stretch of rain belt moving towards the stadium.” He added, “We were compelled to take a step like this because humidity had reached 90 per cent and even a small bubble in the rain cloud would have triggered rainfall.”
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In current eon, every nation has to face the crisis situation of electricity shortage. To crack this hitch regimes in all states are probing pioneering energy generation prospects. It would be a real bliss, particularly in rural areas if a nation builds up techniques to produce electricity out of fritter away stuff. Lately it has been guesstimated based on a report that electricity generated via cow dung could be of enormous aid as it is capable of fulfilling approximately 3% of US electrical demand. Subsequent to this, one of the largest chicken farms in China has lately set up a chicken waste consumption plant that claims to be one-of-its-kind in the whole country.

The electricity generating poultry waste biogas plant forenamed Beijing Deqingyuan Chicken Farm is sited around 50 kilometers north of Beijing. This chicken waste utilization set up will operate on 220 tones of compost coming out from farm daily to produce electricity as well as heat. Anaerobic digesters supplied with cow’s manure would produce biogas, which would be again employed to stimulate two GE Jenbacher gas engines.

Nearly 14,600 MWH of electricity is anticipated to be produced by this set up every year and it would result in a yearly cutback of $1.2 million in energy overheads. Moreover, it is being said that it will cut down farm’s carbon emissions by 95,000 tones per annum.

I strongly believe other nations must also value this eco project as apart from providing renewable electricity source, this set up would facilitate them in creating a green emanation free environment.

Via BioEnergySite

US swimming star Amanda Beard and four time Olympian came out loud in support of PETA in Beijing. The ad was one of those typical PETA campaign ads that feature nude celebrities who say they’d rather be naked than wear fur. But officials fear fir the safety of the gold medallist and her entourage. In fact, one of her press cons were cancelled last minute. Apparently, the Public Security Bureau even paid a visit to the hotel she was staying in. But Beard was not shaken as she decided to step outside the south gates of the Olympic village with her campaign and talk to a group of some 25 reporters, fans and fellow athletes expressing her feelings about cruelty against animals.
Security guards kept an intent watch and police cars drove by but didn’t interfere. Check out her website, amandabeard.net, for her thoughts and a link to an animal rights petition.
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Sex bomb and active PETA member Pamela Anderson is in news with her letter of appreciation to NYC council member Tony Avella who introduced a bill to ban horse-drawn carriages in the city. She expressed her dread of seeing the poor horses work in the summer heat and hoped that NYC will join Toronto, Paris and Beijing in pulling horse carriages off the streets. In January this year, Chrissie Hynde brought attention to the same issue. Ironically, Hynde got married while sitting in a horse-driven carriage in Manhattan in the 80s but now she has different views on it and romance is certainly not a part of it. More and more celebs and people are coming forth to encourage tourists especially to not to support the carriage-horse industry which is infamous for ill-treating the animals it so much profits from, making them pull heavy loads through exhaust-filled streets in all weather extremes.

There is a long history of incidents like the one on January 2, 2006, when a horse pulling a hansom cab in Manhattan got spooked and bolted down 9th Avenue. It went galloping for several blocks before smashing into a station wagon at 50th Street. The horse was badly injured, wrapped around the car, with his rear legs on top of it and his head on the ground. He was later euthanized. He was five years old and had only been working in the city for a few months. The driver was critically injured and was taken to the hospital along with the two passengers of the station wagon. I really hope the poor animals get some respite.
Via ecotalks

The Chinese government has left no stone unturned to control pollution in their capital city in the wake of the Olympic Games. The skyline is accentuated by a hazy smog that just refuses to lift as more and more foreign journalists pour into the 2008 Olympic city. In fact, the government is so worried about the whole thing that measures which should be invoked only in ‘extremely unfavourable weather conditions’ were posted on the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection Website on Thursday. And this crusade against pollution was started on 1st July with a ban on 300,000 high polluting vehicles. Soon driving and traffic restrictions were imposed removing almost two million vehicles in the city.

Looks like the stereotypical preventive measure are not enough for the Chinese government as they have also come up with innovative traffic restrictions. Apparently, odd number (licence plate) vehicles can hit roads on odd days and even number vehicles on even days. More than 105 heavy polluting factories too were padlocked. The sky gods seem to be ppreciating the Chinese effort to bring down pollution with the approaching rains. Environmental officers claim that pollution has dropped by 20 percent due to all these efforts. However, the foreign journalists beg to differ.

Via greendiary

It’s a well thought stride out to make available 20% of electric power to Beijing’s Olympic site via 64,500 kilowatts competence wind power set up. This extensive power production venture would anticipatory bring in 100 million-kWh electricity every year. With internally build up 43 wind power entities this scheme intends at accumulating 50,000 tones of coal per year. While coming into action on Jan. 20, besides delivering 35 million kWh of eco-hazard free power to Beijing this plant former division assists in incising annual secretion of CO2 by 100,000 tones. This electrifying wind power plant, China’s first of its own kind endeavor assures to accomplish an eco friendly Olympics and convene for the ever-increasing requirements of 100,000 family circles on a daily basis.

Via FarEastGizmos