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Environmental Issues Besetting the Great Barrier Reef
2011-11-02 09:15:00 There are many environmental issues that has made life in the Great Barrier Reef unhealthy for its wildlife. There needs to be corrective action to be done in order to save this natural wonderland.
New Urbanism and Environmental Issues Video
2009-06-02 21:33:00 While updating our twitter account today, we noticed a fun article written by Aubrey Cohen titled, “The greatest threat to our planet is cul-de-sacs!” The article/video has also created some heated commenting including one unregistered user who offered a drink of their kool-aid after making the statement: new urbanism is just another way to get tax ...
projects dealing on environmental issues
2009-05-02 16:56:00 can anyone share their ideas about some projects that can help solve some of our environmental issues which solutions can be formulated with the aid of concepts of electronics and communications..at least a thing that can give us some bird's eye view..its up to us on how to start the process like ma
WordsDay: environmental issues?
2008-04-24 20:32:00 As we watch gas prices surge past $4 per gallon many places in the country and we receive ever more alarming reports of the self-destructive effects of our war on nature, it behooves us to indulge in what John Stuart Mill might have called the consolation of poetry. First, we look at Wordsworth’s warning to us in “The World is too much with Us”: The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not…. Then, there are Sara Teasdale’s lines to remind us of what the planet may be once we have, as Ray Bradbury chillingly describes for us in his short story of the same name, disappeared because of our folly: There will come soft rains and the s...
CFL (Compact Fluorescent Lights) And Environmental Issues
2008-04-24 15:54:00 CFL (Compact fluorescent lights) bulbs are seen as an environmentally friendly replacement for incandescent lights. But are they really as good for the environment as claimed? The two issues often raised as arguments against using CFL's are1 - It requires more energy to manufacture a CFL than an incandescent lamp.2 - CFL's contain mercury which can potentially end up polluting the environment.The first issue is fairly easily answered in that even though they do require additional energy to manufacture; this is soon offset as CFLs last a lot longer than incandescent bulb.On this issue of mercury pollution I have summarized some of the for and against points of view below:Arguments For CFL'sOverall mercury emission by compact fluorescent lamps is less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by coal-fired power generation for an equivalent incandescent lamp over the same period. This assumption is based on the electricity generated to run lighting in your local area being gene...
Asian Environmental Issues Exhibition at SM The Block
2008-02-21 01:21:00 The Japan Foundation Manila's 10th Asian Cartoon Exhibition is currently on display at the activity center of SM North EDSA's The Block. The exhibition's theme is Asian Environmental Issues. Drawings and sketches created by Asian cartoonists focus on environmental issues, but given that they are cartoons, the issues are portrayed with a touch of humor. It is a little ironic that the Japan Foundation is sponsoring this, because the Japanese government has plans to dump its country's toxic wastes in our country through the JPEPA deal. But...that's another story.Representing the Philippines is Elizabeth T. Chionglo, creator of the comic strip Love Knots, which can be read in the Philippine Daily Inquirer from Mondays to Saturdays. Environmentally-related works from Love Knots and her other comic Bobita are displayed. I read the Love Knots series in the Inquirer everyday. It always focuses and sheds humor on major current events such as the Peninsula Siege and the ZTE Scandal. I'm...
By: Taga-Q.C.!
Livestock's Long Shadow, Environmental Issues and Options
2008-02-15 00:00:00 The 2006 FAO Report “Livestock’s Long Shadow – Environmental Issues and Options” predicts that global meat consumption will more than...
Global Credit and Environmental Issues affect smaller developers in Bangkok
2008-01-30 15:57:00 Bangkok at night Small and medium-scale property developers in Bangkok are being forced to sell their projects to larger developers as they start to face difficulties in obtaining financial support for construction. This is according to Visanu Suchatlumpong, vice-president of Asian Property Development Plc. ?Financial institutions did not approve project loans as they considered their (smaller developers) ...
UK - World ORT seminar to concentrate on environmental issues in education
2007-11-26 05:30:00 The ORT educators from Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Israel, Italy, France, the Czech ...
By: Israel-Times.com
Expert Review on our Around the World Packaging
2007-10-23 17:25:00 For those of you that read this Blog site, you will know that I designed our Around the World range of products with a view to keeping the packaging as environmentally friendly as possible. Bomb Cosmetics is a member of Valpak who deal with our recycling obligations under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2005 ...
BP Does It Again
2007-10-14 00:31:00 I am consistently amazed at BP. You wouldn’t think a company primarily devoted to oil refining and gasoline production would worry about ecology or being energy-efficient. But that just isn’t the case with BP. They are a major force behind the BP Solar Decathlon. The Solar Decathlon is an event that takes place every two ...
By: Gothic-Peach.Net
Environmental issues, biofuel and forest
2007-09-26 17:29:00 Forest conversions always linked to some environmental issues. Indonesia forest fire in 1997 caused economic activities became slowly, health causes in Sumatera and Kalimantan. Even smoke of forest fire in Sumatera reached Singapura and Malaysia. Burn the forest or grass land is the cheapest method to clear the land, instead to recover the acidity soil since the land partly peat area. Land burning is more harmful than its advantages. There are peat areas in Sumatera and Kalimantan stored numerous tones of carbon. If it is drained then the land will simple to be burnt and more carbon released. Experts say that peat land plays significant roles in global climate change.World’s demand of biofuel may threat the last Indonesia rainforest, said an environmental organization. It is possible that Indonesia will lose more forest in next years, and change it to oil palm plantations. Recent study revealed carbon emitted from forest conversion to make biofuel is greater than carbon could be a...
By: Climate n Change
I Have Moved - TheDailyConservative.net
2007-09-13 00:10:00 So, after a few months of a Wordpress hosted site I decided to move to the next big thing. I have created a brand new site for all your conservative news needs and I welcome you to visit me there. The site is TheDailyConservative.net and I hope to see you there daily!
By: Patrick Britton
Rain and shunshine
2007-09-02 06:42:00 It was raining intermittently over the past two months or so, you can blame it on climate change and the global warming. When its rains, it really come so suddenly and can develop into a torrential downpour instantly. Then with less than a few minutes has past, the rain stop as suddenly as it started. Then ...
Edwards Wants Your Family Crammed Into Tiny Hybrids
2007-08-29 16:15:00 This is nothing new. Who was surprised when they heard the latest from John Edwards? “One of the things they should be asked to do is drive more fuel efficient vehicles.” Says Edwards, in which he answered “Yes” when asked if he would tell them to give up their SUVs. So while the environmentalists aren’t ...
By: Patrick Britton
Edwards Wants Your Family Crammed Into Tiny Hybrids
2007-08-29 16:15:00 This is nothing new. Who was surprised when they heard the latest from John Edwards? “One of the things they should be asked to do is drive more fuel efficient vehicles.” Says Edwards, in which he answered “Yes” when asked if he would tell them to give up their SUVs. So while the environmentalists aren’t ...
New Bomb Cosmetics ?Eco? Brochure Launch
2007-08-24 21:22:00 Bomb Cosmetics are proud to announce the launch of our new brochure covering our product range from September 2007 to February 2008. The brochure follows the same format as previously but is now printed on paper approved under the Nordic Swan and FSC schemes. The paper mill is approved under the ISO:14001 environmental quality standard and operates ...
The Adventurist: Global Warming or Global Crazies?
2007-08-15 04:07:00 I am pretty much in the balance right now. Everyday we turn on the news and have Global Warming this or that on the television. People have not only gotten woried, but they have down right freaked out in some instances… I think at this time there are way more questions than answers. Until a definate ...
By: The Adventurist
Portable Water Filters
2007-08-06 17:19:00 If there’s one thing that bothers me about our world, it’s the way we’ve destroyed the planet. Especially our water sources. Rivers and streams are coming up clouded by chemicals that destroy our ability to drink it. Other filth is added to the water, such as trash, “treated” sewage, etc, which makes the water unfit ...
By: Gothic-Peach.Net
BP?s stance on Environmental Issues
2007-07-23 19:47:00 *This is a sponsored post Environmental issues have been getting a lot of attention lately. There is a world wide movement to raise awareness of what is happening to our climate and environment. Everyone of us has a role to play in saving the environment, no matter how insignificant our effort may seem. Big ...
Whiting, IN BP Refinery
2007-07-23 09:34:00 You know, I don’t like newspapers. The writers always seem to be biased and a lot of the time, they don’t put the proper facts into perspective before going off on a tangent. Like with the BP refinery in Whiting, IN. This Chicago Tribune Article is screaming about increased ammonia and sludge being dumped into Lake Michigan ...
By: Gothic-Peach.Net
The Las Vegas Landscape and Other Environmental Issues
2007-07-22 22:17:00 Interesting, New York Times video regarding the water shortage and the biggest waste of water in our Valley - lawns.While we are on the subject of the environment, I encourage everyone to recycle. Las Vegas does offer curbside recycling. Call Republic Services and get your recycling bins. They are free.Another way you can help the environment is to opt for paperless billing. Most of our local utilities offer this option. This means you will get your bills online, not via mail. This definitely saves time - no more bills to open, process, and shred. Just open an e-mail, pay, and that is it.*** Las Vegas Homes Search*** Las Vegas Communities***Las Vegas Relocation and Homes***
The Las Vegas Landscape and Other Environmental Issues
2007-07-22 22:17:00 Interesting, New York Times video regarding the water shortage and the biggest waste of water in our Valley - lawns.While we are on the subject of the environment, I encourage everyone to recycle. Las Vegas does offer curbside recycling. Call Republic Services and get your recycling bins. They are free.Another way you can help the environment is to opt for paperless billing. Most of our local utilities offer this option. This means you will get your bills online, not via mail. This definitely saves time - no more bills to open, process, and shred. Just open an e-mail, pay, and that is it.*** Las Vegas Homes Search*** Las Vegas Communities***Las Vegas Relocation and Homes***
Summit Stones: Giving Back Adventure Joy
2007-07-14 19:22:00 DSD over at Summit Stones & Adventure Musings has been embarked on a quest to bring a little bit of light to all of us Adventurers. The mission is what it is.. DSD has seemingly been placing these very artistic stones where ever the adventure takes us..and part of the fun is discovering where they are ...
By: The Adventurist
China vs. Mother Nature: The Quest for Artificial Weather
2007-07-13 18:26:00 Who controls the weather? This debate, in a round about way, has been taking place for centuries. When the weather was unbearably dry, ancient Indian nations would come together and perform their “Indian Rain Dance” to try to persuade the Gods to open up the skies– Step ahead a couple of centuries to the present. A ...
By: The Adventurist
Global Warming and Mt. Everest: Is Everest Shrinking?
2007-07-12 19:30:00 Global Warming has become a huge subject around the world as of late. If, indeed the world is in a warming crisis, perhaps the ones that should know are the Climbers. Today, in the Asian Journal Online, Reggie Pablo speaks out about this current issue and how it relates to Mt. Everest. He, for one, should ...
By: The Adventurist
Injury on Broad Peak, Death on Gasherbrum II
2007-07-07 18:39:00 Climber Dies on Gasherbrum II ExplorersWeb’s Pakistani correspondent Karrar Haidri has confirmed the death of a climber that perished a couple of days ago on Gasherbrum II. The climber was 41 year old Austrian Ulrike Gschwandtner. She died at Basecamp on Gasherbrum II due to high-altitude sickness. In related news: Kenneth Hill, an American climbing with the Austrian International ...
By: The Adventurist
Around the World - Recycled Packaging Information
2007-06-29 16:54:00 At Bomb Cosmetics we are very aware of our obigation to preserving the environment. A major part of our commitment to the environment is choosing packaging materials that either contain recycled materials or are easily recycled once they have been used. We recently redeveloped the packaging for our Around the World range of products. Initially launched ...
First Pluto is Demoted, and now The Nile?
2007-06-21 19:25:00 That is right. The world we live in and beyond is vastly changing at a rate that not many of us are to fond of. Pluto has been written off the planet charts (even though I agree with my daughter, most of us will still consider it a planet in our world of “underground” knowledge) by ...
By: The Adventurist
Celebrate National Trails Day! June 2, 2007
2007-06-03 04:58:00 The Adventure Blog Casually reminded me that June 2 is National Trails Day. What a better way to enjoy a quiet bit of sunshine, bask in nature’s wonders, and get a bit of the ol’ exercise that the Doc always seems to recommend–by hiking up or down your favorite trail! My personal favorite trail happens to be ...
By: The Adventurist
Everest 2007 Update: More Details on Two Rescues As Well As Another Missin
2007-05-23 17:25:00 Yesterday, I reported on two High Altitude Rescues taking place. One was of a Nepalese Woman who had been stranded on the South Balcony, supposedly left behind by her team. I now have more details on this incident. I recieved an anonymous tip yesterday identifying the climber as Usha Bista. I have held on to this ...
By: The Adventurist
Everest 2007 Update: Two High Altitude Rescues, More Summits, and a Possib
2007-05-22 21:47:00 Over the past day, two amazing rescues have occured at high-altitude, one each on the North and the South. One rescue is cause for concern though, as we will see: Female Nepali Climber Abandoned at 27,500 Feet An Unknown female climber with the Democratic Nepal Everest Expedition was seemingly left for dead by her own team near ...
By: The Adventurist
The Adventurist: The David Tait Interview Pt. 2, Post Everest 2007
2007-05-21 01:17:00 In March of this year, The Adventurist had the priviledge of interviewing David Tait before he set off to climb Mt. Everest. David’s ambitions were made very clear. He wanted to become the first person to ever “Double-Traverse” Mt. Everest in the same season. He was well prepared. David had summited Mt. Everest previously in 2006 ...
By: The Adventurist
Everest 2007 Update: More Summits Being Reported as Day Three of Everest S
2007-05-17 14:06:00 Day three of the massive push to the summit is coming to an end. These three days have seen well over 150 summits occuring both on the North Ridge Route, as well as the South Col. Reported summits today include the whole Ice8000 Expedition as well as the London School of Business Team. From the Ice8000 Expedition: Everyone ...
By: The Adventurist
Everest 2007 Second Update, May 15, 2007: 50 Summits Reported Today..David
2007-05-15 17:28:00 David Tait Update David Tait has made it to lower ground on the South Side, arriving at Camp 2, along with his Sherpa Phurba Tashi, after successfully reaching the summit of Mt. Everest around 1:30 am this morning. Adventure Consultants, The team that will run David’s logistics on the South, are reporting that David and Phurba Tashi ...
By: The Adventurist
Everest 2007 Update: DAVID TAIT SUMMITS, SummitClimb Summits 6..and more h
2007-05-15 12:32:00 David Tait Makes First of Two Summits!! At 1:30 am this morning I recieved a new dispatch from David Tait. “To all you happy followers out there ? David reached the summit at about 1.30 am this morning!! Through the fierce noise of the wind, he sounded jubilant as you could imagine. Fingers crossed as he makes his ...
By: The Adventurist
BREAKING NEWS: Five Climbers Go Missing on Mt. Hood
2007-05-13 05:46:00 Five Climbers have been reported missing on Mt. Hood this evening. Not alot of information is known at this time about who the climbers are or their situation, but a search and rescue effort has been put in to place. It has been noted that the climbers were in contact at one point with the ...
By: The Adventurist
ExplorersWeb Taking a Stand?The Adventurist: A Call for Change
2007-05-04 18:02:00 ExplorersWeb has published a very strong editorial today about people dying on Everest…Here is a question they pose: “The questions is though, how many times will we have to witness a Kazakh, a Pole, a Spaniard or any other of the world’s foremost climbers rescue people in the death zone while we keep hearing amateur climbers ...
By: The Adventurist
David Sharp HAD to Die on Everest
2007-05-03 17:17:00 People die on Mt. Everest. That is a fact. In fact until the last few years the statistic was that for every four people to make the summit, one would die. In recent times (the 2007 Everest climbing season involves close to 1,000 individuals) that number has grown to one in twenty. Last season brought the ...
By: The Adventurist
Tragedy x 3: Alpine Climbing Greats Andi Orgler and Kasper Ochsner Dead as
2007-05-01 00:10:00 Today has been a day of tragedy in the climbing World. As mentioned in a previous post (found just below this one) Lara Kellogg has reportedly died on Mt. Wake and now more tragedy coming in from the world of Alpine Climbing as being reported from The Alpinist. Andi Orgler, from Austria, has apparently been killed ...
By: The Adventurist
Media in China will Cover More Environmental Issues
2007-04-30 16:35:00 A top Chinese legislator has asked the media to help the government in controlling pollution. During an annual media tour, where journalists representing 28 state media outlets tour the country, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, Wu Bangguo, called for a greater role for the media in raising awareness of environmental issues in China. Wu suggested that the media should create public awareness surrounding energy use and conservation, and should cover environmental problems facing the country - more specifically calling for in depth reports on issues that get the most complaints. This 2007 media tour is focused on topics of energy consumption and pollutant emissions - both areas that the central government are falling behind on in their targets. Although much of the state run media is, well, controlled by the state, utilizing the media to help in emission reduction and energy use targets is a good move for th...
By: Green Options
Everest 2007: The Best of the Best
2007-04-27 03:59:00 It has been said many times before–You can fake your way to Everest Basecamp, but once you hit that mountain the higher camps will show who you are and what you are made of… Over the past couple of weeks The Adventurist has taken you from the trek in to Everest Basecamp on both the North and ...
By: The Adventurist
Responsibility and Death on Everest: A Response Comes In?
2007-04-26 20:06:00 Yesterday I posted an editorial titled “Responsibility and Death on Everest”. I am not going to go back and rehash what was said, but I will let you click the title and read it for yourselves. It seems like this issue is drawing some interest here as well as possibly opening up further dicussions in the ...
By: The Adventurist
Responsibility and Death on Everest: An Adventurist Editorial
2007-04-25 21:46:00 I am finding something a little bit disturbing as the 2007 Everest climbing season takes shape. First, I am going to post three little snippets and then I will go in to more detail: “Gazing up at the Col we were mesmerized by the slow train of “black dots”, gasping their way higher - sometimes so ...
By: The Adventurist
The Chinese Closing Everest?s North Ridge Route in 2008?
2007-04-20 02:50:00 Alan Arnette is reporting today that through a conversation with Jon Miller, from Rest of Everest fame, that he has learned that there is currently some speculation taking place that the massive Chinese team set to take the Olympic Torch to the top of Everest in 2008, may be closing the North Side of Everest ...
By: The Adventurist
Student Leaders Selected to Study Global Environmental Issues
2007-04-11 17:09:00 Sixteen college students from around the country have been selected to study conservation in the United States and Brazil through an environmental leadership program developed by Nissan North America (NNA) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Now in its second year, the Nissan-WWF Environmental Leadership Program provides student leaders the opportunity to examine environmental issues and become effective advocates for conservation. The program is part of a $1 million partnership between NNA and WWF which will also help support WWF field conservation projects in the United States and Brazil.Each winner of the Nissan-WWF Environmental Leadership Award receives a $5,000 cash prize and will participate in an Environmental Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. and Nashville, Tenn., and a research expedition in Brazil. The award recipients represent a diverse range of backgrounds and were selected based on their demonstrated leadership, academic achievement, and commitment to the environment."... |
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