Green Recycling
December 21, 2009 by Erwin Heid · Leave a Comment
Why Go Green – Living with all the “Green” Garbage and Green Recycling
Once a week the “green”garbage disposal truck drives up to your house and lets the stinking rubbish disappear in his belly. Did you ever think about, where your garbage is driven and what happens to it?
Green Garbage disposal becomes more problematic from year to year – and more expensive.
These immense garbage amounts must be decontaminated in some way. The garbage waste dumps are full, up to the edge, which overloads combustion arrangements. Dumps, suitable for poisonous garbage disposal and processing arrangements are missing.
And so originated a quite new, rather dubious branch of industry: the garbage tourism. In road containers and stinking ship bellies lands our mud, in particular the hazardous waste hardly to be removed, against foreign currency in poorer countries, mainly in the Third World.
In the meantime, there are waste dumps with highly toxic garbage everywhere on earth and even already on the sea bottom.
That’s why the “Dual System Germany” (DSD) was introduced in on the 1st December, 1991. Since then the “ green point “ smiles at us on most packaging. He lets many consumers believe, they act for the benefit of the environment if they buy products with this marking, besides, even if it states merely that the necessary packaging of these consumables should be returned and be recycled.
Experts have calculated that thereby the piles of rubbish can be relieved yearly with about seven to eight million metric tons of packaging material.
The reasonable solution would be to produce more meaningful packaging.
It is quite strange: On the plastic bottle one finds, for example, no „ green point “, although it is going back to the refiller, up to 40 times again and produces therefore by far less rubbish and claims, above all less raw resources and energy than one aluminium tin with the ” green point “.
Any type of recycling takes a load of the environment and the purse of the consumers.
Over this come the trade the originating costs – also count as addition the professional advertisements for the ” green point “ or that the consumers have to pay per packaging, up to 30 cents more. And whether actually everything can be recycled is not sure generally yet.
The laughing winners are the packaging manufacturers, cheerfully producing as much as before.
Nearly 30 percent of our household waste consist of packaging of all kind.
Most packaging materials are senseless, environmental-damaging and expensive.
Therefore, we may pay for it three times.
1. with the purchase at the supermarket,
2. when we pay our green garbage disposal fees
3. with our tax money with which garbage combustion arrangements, waste transports are financed.
with the combustion of every single metric ton of garbage originate in addition circa 4,000 to 5,000 cubic metres of toxic exhaust gases which are blown more or less in the air and are spread out to the surrounding fields, meadows and forests.
Better than any combustion or green recycling is avoiding of garbage.
II. You can avoid rubbish already at the purchase
A little packaging IS necessary – for hygienic reasons and for the protection of the contents.
Nevertheless, mostly the packaging serves only for the purpose of the advertisement or to draw the attention of the customer to the product and to force him to buy more.
From the goods of the same kind You should always select that which are packed in an easy way.
And use for shopping a carrier bag, a basket or a net.
You should buy vegetables and fruit of the season, freshly, instead of ready packs
Drinks and milk products you should buy instead of in tins, plastic bottles or disposable bottles only in refundable plastic bottles. They can be refilled up to 40 times. For the production of a refundable plastic bottle about 0.17 kWh of energy is spent, but during the production of the disposable bottle almost the tenfold, namely 1.65 kWh are needed.
You burden the environment if you buy drinks in tin cans. The production of a tin can from a tin plate claims about 2 kWh, of an aluminium tin even 3.6 kWh. Always remember: Green Recycling is good, refundable plastic bottles are better!!
Leave all food in tin cans on the store shelve. Completely apart from material consumption and energy consumption in the production, they are the most expensive kind of the packaging.
The price lies sometimes higher than the contents of the packaging. In addition, fresh food contains much more vitamins, is healthier and tastes better.
Prefer afterfilling packs, e.g., with spices or salt.
Leave single use products, like ballpoint pen or lighters on the shelve, reach to refillable products.
Don’t buy in plastic packaging whatever there is also in glass containers.
If our politicans are not able to do anything, than you should go green
World leaders have failed us. They have walked away from the global summit in Copenhagen without a treaty to save the climate. They still have a chance to get it right and we will not let them fail. The future of 6.5 billion people is at stake… You are one of them.
They are not done yet, and neither are we.
Act Now – Change the Future
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Global Warming Kids
December 21, 2009 by Erwin Heid · Leave a Comment
Why Go Green – Global Warming Kids and the Environment !
Where can Global Warming Kids help with the environment protection?
According to an interview conducted with 15,000 children between four and fourteen years, 92% wish for a healthy environment. 89% want to help the environment themselves and 48% would even be ready to give off a part of their pocket money for the protection of nature.
It has never happened before, that children looked so worried in their own future,
Children fear the most the catastrophes which deal with water soiling and air pollution and the growing piles of rubbish.
If children become active themselves, their fear becomes smaller.
Children act with a lot of seriousness and engagement in the matter of environment problems and react only with disinterest when they notice that they can reach no immediate changes.
Therefore, it is quite important that you support your children in their activities for nature and show a good Example yourself in all the interests of the environment protection.
For our Childrens Future
There are some Groups who offer this possibility, worldwide, like ;
Greenpeace inc. (“Greenpeace-youth project”)
The group Greenteam was founded in September, 1990 by Greenpeace for children and youngsters. In the Greenteam 5-6 or more children or youngsters can choose a specific cause for what they dedicate their time.
Mostly they choose smaller projects from their immediate surroundings, following their slogan “ worldwide, locally act”. Each team is supported by an adult.
The nature conservation alliance of Germany as an example
„ getting children active for nature conservation “
They send information about, ” how can global warming kids actively help in environment protection”, for instance, they construct puddles for frogs and toads, build nests for birds, gather garbage to clean nature and lots more.
The nature conservation alliance in your country can also give you addresses of active nature conservation children groups in your proximity.
As other big environmental federations such as
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) http://www.panda.org/
Greenpeace international http://www.greenpeace.org/
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Finally, US leads on environment
December 10, 2009 by Erwin Heid · Leave a Comment
By Derrick Z. Jackson
December 8, 2009
IN A CRITICAL demonstration of backbone on global warming, the Obama administration yesterday declared carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant. Saying the country “will not ignore science and the law any longer,’’ Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said her findings and declaration “cement 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse gas pollution.’’
Climate Scientist
December 10, 2009 by Erwin Heid · Leave a Comment
Climate scientists once suspected global cooling
December 8, 5:32 AM Essex County Conservative Examiner Terry Hurlbut
Thirty-four years ago, the world’s climate scientists once acknowledged the Little Ice Age (LIA) and feared a return of those conditions. In fact, authorities were worried enough about that eventuality to fear that wars might break out over scarce foodstuffs.
Today, those who insist that the globe is warming, and that such warming is man-made, refuse to acknowledge that their colleagues once held the opposite fear. That their denials are believable might be because few persons alive today remember a time when winters were much harsher than they are today. In fact, many people, including this Examiner, who are significantly older than forty years of age, can remember, or at least should be able to remember, a time when winters were very harsh indeed and getting harsher, and when authorities were concerned that much colder climate was coming.
The most obvious article that anyone remembers today that predicted global cooling was an article that appeared in Newsweek magazine in 1975 (Gwynne P., “The Cooling World”, Newsweek, 28 Apr 1975, pp. 64), reproduced here. Peter Gwynne, the author, went so far as to predict widespread famine:
There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
William Connolley of RealClimate.org acknowledged (in 2005) the existence of the Newsweek piece, and also of a piece in National Geographic (November 1976) that he described as non-committal. Yet as regards the scientific literature of the period, he insisted:
The state of the science at the time (say, the mid 1970’s), based on reading the papers is, in summary: “…we do not have a good quantitative understanding of our climate machine and what determines its course. Without the fundamental understanding, it does not seem possible to predict climate…” (which is taken directly from NAS, 1975). In a bit more detail, people were aware of various forcing mechanisms – the ice age cycle; CO2 warming; aerosol cooling – but didn’t know which would be dominant in the near future. By the end of the 1970’s, though, it had become clear that CO2 warming would probably be dominant; that conclusion has subsequently strengthened.
However, Mr. Connolley is perhaps unaware of a thirty-seven-page report, issued August of 1974, issued by the Office of Research and Development, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), titled A Study of Climatological Research as it Pertains to Intelligence Problems. Its executive summary, found on page 4 of the report, read in part:
The western world’s leading climatologists have confirmed recent reports of a detrimental global climatic change. The stability of most nations is based upon a dependable source of food, but this stability will not be possible under the new climatic era. A forecast by the University of Wisconsin predicts that the earth’s climate is returning to that of the neo-boreal era (1620-1850)–an era of drought, famine, and political unrest in the western world.
The report went on to detail several episodes of drought in southeast Asia and other sensitive parts of the world, and ended with a grim conclusion that global cooling was both imminent and permanent.
(Note that the Office of Research and Development was part of the CIA’s Deputy Directorate of Research and existed from 1962 to 1995, the year that this Directorate changed its name to the Directorate of Science and Technology.)
The scandalous Climategate affair has forced a re-examination of both the climate and the prevailing official, scientific, and popular opinion of the era. This is especially so in view of the revelations involving Michael E. Mann’s famous “Hockey Stick” graph. Not only was that graph far from accurate, but also–as previously noted in these pages–the CRU Archive contains a temperature-anomaly dataset that reflects accurately the decline in global temperatures since the 1960s, culminating in the harsh winter of 1977-78, which this Examiner has previously described from his own personal experience. Four different blogs have recalled the original Newsweek story, and the administrators’ own memories of either the climatic conditions of the era, typical school lesson plans, or both:
Fabius Maximus
Iain Dale
George Sutton (Forbes online)
Charles Crawford
At least one blogger, Charles Crawford, recalls speculation being given to the deliberate injection of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, in the belief that such action would forestall a return of the Little Ice Age.
These and other events perhaps best recall the aphorism by George Santayana:
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Hydro-energy
December 10, 2009 by Erwin Heid · Leave a Comment
The power of water: advantages of Hydro-energy
December 7, 10:27 PM Bay Area Green Careers Examiner Michal Lenchner
Water is a source of renewable energy and is an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuel-based (oil, coal and gas) electricity generation.
Water is currently the leading renewable energy source used by electric utilities to generate power. Harnessing the power of flowing water can generate a substantial amount of clean and cheap energy, without generating air or thermal pollution nor depleting fossil fuels.
In 2008, hydro power accounted for 6% of total U.S. electricity generation and 67% of generation from renewables.
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Climate Change
December 10, 2009 by Erwin Heid · Leave a Comment
Climate Change Impact on Nepal
Last Updated : 2009-12-01 11:57 AM
Bidur Prasad Upadhyay
The Earth’s climate is unique as it supports life due to the availability of oxygen in atmosphere, water on its surface and the occurrence of reasonable range of surface temperature due to the presence of naturally occurring green house gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide). Climate thus, has been playing central role in human societies since long. However, humanity today is playing a dice with its natural environment through multitude of interaction- injecting trace atmospheric gases like the green house gases, engineering massive land use change, depleting species in the natural habitat and accumulating stockpiles of nuclear equipment sufficient to destroy human civilization.
Climate Summit
December 10, 2009 by Erwin Heid · Leave a Comment
FRANK McDONALD,
Environment Editor in Copenhagen
THE EU delegation at the Copenhagen climate summit, which opened yesterday, has said it would be “astonished” if US President Barack Obama did not put more on the table when he arrives here at the end of next week
Swedish environment minister Andreas Carlgren, who heads the EU’s negotiators, was referring to the recent US offer to cut American greenhouse gas emissions by 17 per cent by 2020, relative to 2005. This equates to a cut of only 5 per cent, based on 1990 levels.
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Climate Risks Report
December 10, 2009 by Erwin Heid · Leave a Comment
China CO2 targets not enough to avert Climate Risks -Report
Reuters, Tuesday December 8 2009
* China’s 40-45 pct CO2 intensity targets not enough
* Dramatic increase in funding from rich countries required
By David Stanway
BEIJING, Dec 8 (Reuters) – China must do much more if it is to halve per capita greenhouse emissions by 2050 and thereby avoid a catastrophic rise in global temperatures, but it cannot go it alone, a report released in Beijing said on Tuesday.
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Save Rain Forest
December 10, 2009 by Erwin Heid · Leave a Comment
Special Report: Business of Green
Guyana Offers a Model to Save Rain Forest
By ERICA GIES
Published: December 8, 2009
In Guyana, where pristine rain forest still covers 75 percent of the land, and barely 750,000 people live in a country roughly the size of Britain, a young economist-turned-president is pushing a development model based on conservation that has earned his government international recognition in the United Nations talks on a climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
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Electric Car Conversions – Parts List
December 10, 2009 by Erwin Heid · Leave a Comment
Why Go Green – Your individual Electric Car Conversions – Parts List.
More and more car manufacturers are developing “greener” versions of their well-known brands. The infusion of Hybrid machinery has made a big splatter in the motoring world and its popularity as well as the developing concern for the environment has added to the demand for this type of vehicles, urging more truck manufacturers to add more of their vehicles in the hybrid bandwagon to describe more potential customers in the market.
It isn’t certainly a difficult process to do electric car conversions but you will require to obtain certain expert parts.
You will call for, an electric motor, deep cycle batteries, controller, battery charger an adaptor kit and numerous other small parts.
Build Your Own Electric Car
December 10, 2009 by Erwin Heid · 1 Comment
Why Go Green – Build Your Own personally Electric Car for a shoestring budget.
Insist for hybrid cars has harshly grown over the past three years, as force prices keep on to surge and eating a extensive part of the family budget.
Hybrid cars may not be the full solution to expanding oil prices but they are very economical, as they rely more on electricity as a substitute of gas for power. For 2006, business circumstances have remained turbulent. The existing crisis in Israel and Lebanon will probable have an contrary consequence on oil markets given that they are very near the world’s top oil producers.
Learning how to create your own individually electric car is not in truth that difficult of a project. We did our own conversion of a 1995 Toyota Corolla in about 2 weeks at a price of only a few hundred dollars. How did we do it? It actually turned into a family project after it began, here’s how you can do it too.
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