Articles tagged with: Earth
Posted in Earth, Global warming, Go green on 27 August 2008
‘Climate Porn’ is the latest term on the green block. Apparently, a soon-to-be released movie for the television in Australia has been labelled so. Interestingly called ‘Scorched’, it shows Sydney of 2012 suffering through 200 days of zero rainfall. Insiders reveal that the film focuses on the effects of drastic climate change. There are bushfires surrounding the city in the film and the authorities don’t have enough water to put them out.
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Posted in Animals, Earth, Environment, Ocean, water on 10 August 2008
The fish are dying. It may be shocking but the truth is, 25% of the world’s known fish species, especially tuna and cod, are at the brink of extinction. The oceanic ecological balance has gone berserk and as a last minute preventive measure, governments have banned fishing in certain areas. Apparently, EU pays 61 million dollars to Greenland every year so that Germany can continue fishing in its waters. Incidentally, Germans like their fish frozen thereby giving fisherman a lot of time to fish and ruin the ecological system even in far off areas.
Posted in Designer, Eco-Friendly, Fashion, Green on 5 August 2008
We must comprehend Earth’s precincts while making our day to day choices as the wellbeing and endurance of our planet relies mainly on our understanding. As we are consuming the bequests of our nature in profusion, we ought to have thoughts of recurring or replenishing it in one way or other. Accordingly, in recent times a considerable fact regarding environment has been articulated by ‘WalMart’, a substantial retailer of Gold jewelry that more or less 20 tons of mining waste is produced by a solitary gold ring. In view of that WalMart has introduced a novel range of jewelry that would take away the gold mining bangs on inhabitants and surroundings.
Posted in Earth, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Go green, Green, concept on 5 August 2008
For the travellers of wilderness, the Green Living Project is like a dream come true for your folks. Well to start with, they let you travel to far off places, documenting all of the successful, sustainable projects that different communities are trying out. Not only this, you even get the chance to stay in eco-resorts that most people don’t even get to see. Right now they are exploring Africa and North America. Apart from taking fabulous trips to amazing places, the project hopes to inspire others by documenting and demonstrating successful, sustainable projects The documentaries are well made and include interviews with the local populace and the cultural aspect of the area.
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Posted in Animals, Earth on 4 August 2008
You are lucky in case you are able to spot an exotic langur/ monkey in your area. By the time your children will grow up, primates might become an ancient relic- one found only in books and folklores! The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently evaluated the status of primate species world over and has found that those representing the vestiges of once abundant exotic monkeys and great apes will soon vanish from the Earth’s surface. The report compiled after a study involving the work of hundreds of scientists, reveals that, nearly half of world’s primate population face extinction threat and their situation is worsening day by day. This study has been the most comprehensive analysis done in recent times. The fall in their numbers is evident as the “red list” (by IUCN) reports an increase in the number of primate species and sub-species in the three highest threat categories - vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered, from 39% to 48% in just one year! As of now, some 303 of the 634 species and sub-species of primate face survival threats in the wake of an increasing trend of poaching for bushmeat trade.
Posted in Architecture, Designer, Earth, Eco Art, Eco-Friendly, Eco-friendly products, Environment, Fashion, Go green, Green, concept on 4 August 2008
The concept of eco-interiors was talked about at great length by Jeanie Pyun, editor of Sprig along with famous eco-interior designer Kelly LaPlante on Discussion on WashingtonPost.com. The strongest point of the show was the little tips that were offered to help you green your style. And that was not all as the hosts gave guidelines on finding healthy food and products. Even FAQs like “What is a green roof” and “What does VOC mean” were answered by them. Since the discussion was hosted online, the two eco-friendly women could post web-links directly to the chat to give readers easy, direct access to the tips being discussed. Other areas of concern were, “why it is still so difficult to find healthy products and why are they not cheaper?” as well as “what is a single mom hoping to green on a limited budget?”
Posted in Automobiles, Car, Eco-Friendly, Eco-friendly products, Energy, Environment, Fuel, Renewable, concept on 4 August 2008
You want to save the earth? Ask Mondo-green mermaid Daryl Hannah how. The pretty lass nurtures a deep love for bio-fuels and leaves no stone unturned to make it a part of her life. She has been using the fossil fuel alternative for over a decade in her converted El Camino and bio-diesel for buzzing around her farm. She even founded the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance. Wow, it is indeed very cool to see people and celebs go the extra mile to save the earth.
Posted in Earth, Environment, Himalayas on 4 August 2008
‘The Savage Mountain’ is the nickname given to the K-2 peak. And rightfully so, coz it is one of the most dangerous peaks to conquer in the world. Living up to the sobriquet attributed to it, K-2 once again claimed eleven lives (not confirmed) yesterday when an ice avalanche swept away some of the climbers and also the lines used by the climbers, thereby stranding the others midway.
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Power, Solar on 3 August 2008
Startling is this fact about solar power that, just about an hour of sunlight hitting the Earth’s surface is sufficient to fulfill the power needs of humans for an entire year!!! However, we know that if our systems were that efficient how much power we could generate with the sun rays coming down on our planet for the whole year. Besides expensive silicon components of a photovoltaic panel and low system efficiency, till now our knowledge on the mechanism behind solar storage was also limited. Bugged by the twin factors of inefficiency and expense a MIT professor Daniel Nocera undertook an exhaustive research at the end of (which he believes) his team has unlocked the ‘nirvana of energy’.The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy, Prof. Nocera has made a discovery that may change the way we have so far used solar power through PV cells. Being inspired by green plants that photosynthesize and store solar energy all the time in them, Prof. Nocera has developed a simple method to split H2O molecules.
Posted in Automobiles, Car, Earth, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Pollution, World on 1 August 2008
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.