The goal of our blogs is to help diffuse any confusion about sustainable design and building your new green home, whether it is post and beam, timber frame, structural insulated panels, or a conventionally-built energy efficient home and also how we can all be a little greener in our existing homes. You may be building a new green home and want more information on green options available to you (based on your site location, budget, and availability of materials). We also discuss energy systems, how they affect our daily lives, and what decisions you’ll have to make in building a new green home - and also let you know if we find any tax incentives (see our blog on Solar Energy Systems).Everyone’s going green (even the Oscars, The Superbowl, and the National Football League!) and talking
For some people - mainly the better off - the need to take action against global warming holds an almost religious status (honor Al Gore, do not covet your neighbor's gas-guzzling SUV, etc). But does being good do any good?Not much, says a team of students at MIT. You can swap the Hummer for a hybrid and diet on lentil curry instead of lamb chops, but it will a have only a limited effect on your carbon footprint (read a PDF of their study). The students interviewed people from a range of different income brackets. They then calculated how much energy is needed to sustain every aspect of their subjects' lives, from the food they eat to health services they receive....and found there is a threshold energy use that almost no one in the US can avoid, and in global terms it's high
By Kelly Magill, publisher, Positively Green Once you’ve been on the green train for a while, you’ve got the basics; recycling, sustainable energy, canvas bags, fuel efficient vehicles, and all the little energy and water saving ideas that you can apply daily. Unfortunately, even with all of these eco-friendly practices, you still leave a carbon “footprint”. Admittedly, it is significantly smaller than if you didn’t make green choices, but you’re still creating carbon dioxide, which is intensifying the climate problem. How can you “erase” the remainder of your carbon footprint? Purchasing carbon offsets is one possible solution. When you purchase carbon offsets, you’re essentially donating money to a group that will fund projects that actively decrease the amount of
Carbon Footprint is a commercial business—they believe that solutions to global warming will be found in solutions that are economically sound. Carbon Footprint is a UK based privately owned company and a member of the London Chamber of Commerce and...
Entice your guests to RSVP by sending these amazing baby shower footprint invitation. You could download our baby shower invitation and other baby shower cards, all for free. Also have lots of other baby shower themes to choose from
Come the year 2020, new cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. must average 35 mpg. It’s the law. But why wait? We’ve rounded up eight new models that deliver a 35-mpg average right now, more or less, according to federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) calculations.
Reality check: Although the Congress has mandated 35 mpg, our tests show that 35-mpg cars get 25 to 27 mpg in the real world. Close enough for government work? Well, yes, but there is a solid logic at work here. CAFE is a regulatory process first and foremost, and CAFE mpg comes from laboratory tests designed to reliably measure mileage for regulatory purposes. Any resemblance of your mileage to CAFE is purely coincidental.
But there is a payoff. The government tests are extremely reliable in producing the CAFE milea
People will behave altruistically towards the environment if given the tools to do so. Education, infrastructure and resources are key elements in fighting environmental degradation. Additionally, environmental buzzwords or ideas like “carbon footprint” and “carbon neutrality” serve as tools that help bring abstract or intangible ideas like environmental degradation and global warming into perspective. Recently these buzzwords were voluntarily put into action in a few fishing tournaments across Florida.Some recreational fishing tournaments have taken steps to reduce their impact on the environment by practicing catch and release, raising money for charities, carpooling to tournaments and fishing with kayak. Kayaks go where motorboats cannot and there is no rumbling or smoky out
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Today’s Wordless Wednesday Walkers has been moved to Friday because I found this amazing video today and just had to share it with you.
Below, is a video produced by National Geographic entitled "Carbon Footprint of a Cheeseburger." As part of their Six Degrees film project, Jamais Cascio, the filmmaker, broke down the carbon emissions of this unique and definitively American cuisine, which is now eaten world-wide in virtually every country.
What’s a Carbon Footprint?
A carbon footprint means all the energy that was consumed every step of the way for each of the cheeseburger’s parts. Each of us has a carbon footprint, based on what we do, how we do it, and how long it takes us to get it done.
When you look at the variety of processes in the making of a ch
A few years ago a report titled the 'Dust to Dust' report claimed that the total environmental footprint of a Hummer SUV was less than that of a Toyota Prius. If you want to read the entire 458 page report you can download the PDF here, but the synopsis of the report basically puts forth that once you take into the account the full costs associated with research, development, mining, operation and maintenance and finally the recycling of the hybrid car the total amount of energy consumed is greater than that of a Hummer over each vehicle's usable lifetime.Needless to say, the report was widely quoted in the media. However, a rebuttal has since been published by Dr. Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute which points out some questionable methods. Two of the highlights in the Dust to Du
“One of the big incentives for moving over to Bio-ethanol fuel is a 50 per cent reduction in VRT, saving you up to €5700 euro on a Saab. The other is the price per litre.” Jeremy Carr –Mulroy Motors“Everyone loves a wood fire; it really turns a house into a home. Modern wood pellet boilers offer the warmth and comfort of wood heating and are highly efficient, clean burning and totally automatic, saving you time and money”. Darren Collins- Evergreen“Solar panels can save you up to 70% on your domestic hot water and 30% on overall heating costs”. Chris Maasson.ECO SUPPLIERS IN THE NORTH WEST (AD FOR THE INISHOWEN INDEPENDENT)Until recently, finding suppliers of sustainable energy products such as solar panels and wind turbines meant travelling miles or even venturing into Eur
In the Server Core installation option, there is a way to remove the server roles and optional features from the disk, to free up more space. In addition to reducing disk usage, this could be used to ensure an administrator doesn’t add a role or feature to a server that is supposed to perform a [...]
Many people know a little about their Human Footprint and how their lives leave a carbon footprint on the world, but millions do nothing about it.
What you can do to reduce your carbon footprint?
There are many ways you can help the environment and many more than I have listed below, but the 10 things below [...]
The first human shuttle went to space on October 4th 1957 and half a century later, hearths orbit looks like a junk yard. The European Space Agency (ESA) released some amazing simulation pictures of what our planet looks like from space. It is estimated that "only" 800 satellites are currently operational out of the 6,000 that were launched and still circle our planet. You can see here all the rest of the images.
Blogger’s Note: Where’s the world’s global warming watchdog when you need him? Al Gore is nowhere to be seen around the CO2-belching publicity stunts involving the Olympic Torch Relay, even though it ranks right up there with the carbon footprints left by the most recent convention of climate catastrophists.
But while liberals and Europeans are [...]
Fiji Water Calculates Its Carbon Footprint: In another step to offset negative environmental press aimed at bottled water industry, Fiji Water is disclosing the carbon footprint of its products.Fiji is the first privately-owned U.S. company to join the Carbon Disclosure Project Supply chain Leadership Collaboration, and it is challenging other companies in the industry to calculate their own carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.Fiji determined that for the base year ending June 30, 2007 it's total carbon footprint from production and distribution was 5,396 metric tons of CO2 equivalent.To measure its carbon footprint, Fiji says it calculated its carbon emissions across every stage in the product lifecycle: producing raw materials for packaging, transporting raw materials and equipment to the pla
IMAGE from The Vulcan ProjectAccording to The Vulcan Project, which aims to quantify North American fossil fuel carbon pollution, the Southeast of the United States spews as much carbon pollution as the Northeastern area. From The Daily Dish and Wired:The work, known as The Vulcan Project, has already yielded a significant discovery: Previous CO2 estimates that used population as a proxy for emissions overestimated the Northeast's greenhouse-gas generation, while underestimating the coal-heavy Southeast's contribution.Now, given the opposition of the Southeast's congressional delegations to climate-change action, I'd like to see the new emissions map matched up with House and Senate districts.On the Net: The Vulcan Project
Last night, we were fortunate enough to be invited to a premier screening of the National Geographic Channel's newest film, The Human Footprint, at the National Geographic Society's headquarters here in Washington, DC.
To give you a quick backgrounder on the film, it was a cooperative project between the Wildlife Conservation Society and the National Geographic Society. The goal of the project
Its nearly impossible to navigate all the conflicting information about which type of TV is better for the environment. Traditional tube televisions contain a vast array of toxic materials, the worst of which is lead. LCD & plasma TV's may also contain lead, but in far smaller quantities. Of course, LCD and plasma TV's burn about four times the amount of electricity that traditional tube TV's do.
What you see above is a newly paved concrete road, on which a dog ran while the surface was still wet and thereby has left its foot print.. What a lucky dog... Now everone in the locality are following the foot prints of that great dog.. literally.
Now you know how to leave your foot print and make others follow it... All the best.
Couldn't think of a better post for April 1. Apologies if you
With just one day left until Earth Hour this Saturday, have you made plans to reduce your carbon footprint and take part in this worldwide event yet?
At 8pm on March 29th, Earth Hour asks you to turn off your lights and non-essential appliances for one hour to promote the conservation of electrical energy in an [...]
There was a long piece in the Observer yesterday criticising people who buy food based on the distance it has travelled. It says that “working out carbon footprints is horribly complicated” and cites all the examples of local food being more carbon intensive than food produced far away.
At one point in the article, a representative [...]
The potential to increase server utilization is the primary reason virtualization has been gaining traction in the enterprise. Cost reductions — through greater data center efficiency, flexibility, lower energy usage and space needs — are others. Though it does not directly impact the functional footprint of IT systems, virtualization can enable organizations to manage [...]
Recently, the word “footprint” has gained a lot of popularity when people talk about emissions and carbon consumption. But “footprint” is becoming quite rampant in the information technology world as well. In its original form, the footprint contains a lot of information about the identity of its owner. So in looking for ways to determine [...]
Global warming seems to be all the buzz today. Many people are concerned and or confused about a carbon footprint and what exactly is it? A carbon footprint is simply the measure of the carbon dioxide emissions from your activities. It's basically a measure of your impact on the planet. What can you do about it? You can buy some different light bulbs that does
ITC`s lifestyle retailing business division is planning to expand its retail footprint further by setting up more Wills Lifestyle, John Players and Miss Players stores across the country, reports Economic Times. The company has also embarked on an active exercise to create a stronger brand and retail identity for Wills Lifestyle, which it wants to position as a more international and aspirational brand.ITC has piloted a new store concept with FRCH Design of the US, a specialist in store and mall design. Three concept stores have already been launched, two in Mumbai and one in Delhi. It is also working with the UK`s Elemental Design and The Friedman Group from the US in areas like product presentation, visual merchandising and retail training. The company intends to increase the number of W
In a standard home, approximately 30% of the living space is taken up by radiators. Underfloor heating systems give you back this valuable space and the flexibility to live completely in your own space. Underfloor heating offers a near-perfect heating system giving maximum comfort and maximum control as well typical savings over 25% on [...]
Baby Footprint Graphic-Where to Find Them for Free?Are you ready with unique baby shower invitations for your baby shower party using baby shower footprint invitation?if you do not want to use your own baby footprint for the baby shower invitations, you could use from another baby footprint graphic that available online for free or with the very low cost.Where You could get those baby footprint graphic for the baby shower footprint invitations for Free?There are two of my favorites resources that could offer me a wide selection of baby footprint graphic for free. We could find another graphic for free like:baby handprint, baby faces, etc.The two free stock photo resources that offer us free baby footprint graphic are CreativeCommons.Org and Stock.Xchng (Sxc.hu).Go to Creative Commons searc
Baby Shower Footprint InvitationDo you plan for holding baby shower party?Have you prepared all the needs for the baby shower party?To help you to prepare and make a great baby shower party, you could read the baby shower ideas report first, then use some free baby shower games and free baby shower bingo games to entertain your guests with a fun games. And the most important thing is prepare the baby shower invitations with the free baby shower invitations, so you could make a great and fun baby shower party without spending much money.You could make a unique baby shower invitation using baby footprint. I have told you before, that we could memories the moments with our baby using baby footprint poem or baby handprint crafts. We could use baby footprint to make a cute baby shower footprint
Baby Footprint Poem - How to Make it?There is another unique way to memories every moments with our beloved baby beside using baby handprint crafts, its called baby footprint poem. In baby footprint poem, we combine our baby footprint with baby poem on a cute frame together with our baby photos. We could make our baby looks more special with this footprint poems for baby.How to make baby footprint poem?Are there steps by steps instructions to make it with ease?Yes, you could make your own baby footprint poem by your own hand and own creativity. But for your basic ideas, you could read the tips from Pamella Neely, she is mom who expert with baby footprint and handprint.She has wrote a really clear instructions to make baby footprint poems with 4 easy steps. The first step, find a baby poem
A baby’s footprint says everything: the innocence, tenderness and charm of a newborn. These values come to mind of anyone who sees it. No wonder it is a favorite theme for occasions that call for such, like that of a baby shower. Here is a guide on how to use the baby’s footprint in the [...]
Log Homes and Timber Frame Homes may have the lowest carbon footprint of any other type of construction. A carbon footprint is the measurement of carbon dioxide released as a result of using a particular product or other human activity. Carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas released into the atmosphere and major contributor to global warming.Â
A report prepared by the Edinburgh Center for Carbon Management1 (ECCM) compared the carbon dioxide footprints of three structures and the benefits when more timber was introduced into the construction. The results were astounding. ECCM estimated that there could be up to an 88% reduction of greenhouse gases by using log or timber structural elements wherever possible rather than other conventional building materials. The reduction of greenhouse gases was achieved by replacing materials high energy, high CO2 production values, such as steel and concrete, with solid wood. The report states that the production of steel and concre
You have a copy of An Inconvenient Truth on your nightstand that you—at some point—intend on reading. You carry the plastic Nalgene water bottle to refill instead of buying bottled water.
You may even have switched to energy-saving fluorescent bulbs, started buying local from farmer’s markets, and are an iTunes devotee (not because of the instant gratification, but to reduce plastic consumption).
Whether you’re charging chartreuse or just green-curious, there’s no excuse to NOT think eco-consciously nowadays.
Even with only 4% of plastic bottles actually making it to the recycling bin, there is more being done today to help the environment than hybrid cars and solar energy. And even if you’re not Al Gore, you can still go green for low green, travel being no exception.
That includes you backpackers and families, regardless of whether it’s a day trip to Mount Rushmore or a month going around Southeast Asia. Here are some seedlings for environm
The message behind the advert might be an old one, and for some of you it might cause you to sigh in despair of being faced with another environmental message.
But, for me at least, there is always something exciting about watching a Discovery Channel advert. I am by no means an environmentally friendly campaigner, don't get me wrong, I'm not campaigning against environmentally friendly behaviour! But I am always captivated by adverts from reputable environmental brands such as Discovery Channel and WWF.
The production quality of their adverts is incredible and really makes us appreciate the world we live in, even if it is only for those few moments during the ad and briefly after.
The way they are able to capture our attention, even with the simplicity of this advert, is remarkable. And at the end of it all I do feel a slight bit of guilt for not appreciating our world as much as I should. Damn you Discovery...yet another thing on my mind!
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It all starts when you become a parent. Maybe it is your first child or maybe it is you second or third. Whatever the case may be it is always a special moment and it is something that you would like to remember forever. Today we have lots and lots of different digital equipment like cameras and camcorders and that is all great. But it can never become as personal as creating a baby footprint.
You don’t have to wait for your baby to become 1, 2 or 3 years old in order to create a footprint. As soon as you child is old enough he or she will naturally want to be part of the creation process and that can truly be a blast for both child and parent. Lots of fun and laughter! But why wait? Creating a baby footprint is not a difficult task and if you buy the footprint kits that are available at most major supermarkets you can easily do it yourself.
Most people will only create one baby footprint and that is it. Personally I have a footprint from when I was two years old but not once bef
It all starts when you become a parent. Maybe it is your first child or maybe it is you second or third. Whatever the case may be it is always a special moment and it is something that you would like to remember forever. Today we have lots and lots of different digital equipment like [...]
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Reliance Exploration and Production (REP) DMCC has signed the Production sharing Agreement (PSA) for two Exploration Blocks in Yemen on November 20, 2007.
The exploration block numbered 34 & 37 are located in Jeza basin of eastern Yemen. The work program consists of conducting seismic survey & drilling of exploratory wells based on comprehensive geological and geophysical studies. In both the blocks Hood Energy partners RIL with 30% participating interest.
RIL is already present in Yemen since 2001 when it was allocated block no 9, where substantial reserves of hydrocarbon has already been established and one of the discovery has been put on early production. In this block exploration is also continuing with a number of identified hydrocarbon prospects. RIL and Hood Energy hold 25% each in this block and Calvalley Petroleum Inc. with 50% are the partners in this Joint Venture.
Recently RIL Reliance had
I would like to do a quick plug for my friend’s company clear-offset.com. Clear is a one-stop shop to help you tackle climate change. Measure your carbon footprint, get advice on how to reduce it, and then find out how offsetting can create further reductions elsewhere.
Clear only uses Certified Emission Reduction certificates (CERs) authenticated by the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism. This is the method currently endorsed by the UK government and ensures that every tonne of emissions reduction is actually achieved.
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Enjoy the Perfect Picture of a Baby Footprint
Following this simple 4 step guide you can’t go completely wrong. You can easily have a good photo of baby footprint in a simple way and still have brilliant results.
If you are doing an invitation and you need a picture of a baby footprint but you don’t know how to get it then follow this simple 4 step guide and you’ll see that it is easy to get great results in just a few minutes.
STEP 1
The first thing that you will need to consider is whether the photo of baby footprint has to be of your own baby’s footprint or whether a random footprint would be good enough.
If you go for the unique photo of your own baby’s footprint then this will need a little more work on your part. If you feel that a random picture would work just fine then please go to step 4.
STEP 2
If you would like to create a unique picture of a baby footprint then I will definitely suggest that you consider getting The Ultimate Keepsakes Guide. This will help yo
Enjoy the Perfect Picture of a Baby Footprint
Following this simple 4 step guide you can’t go completely wrong. You can easily have a good photo of baby footprint in a simple way and still have brilliant results.
If you are doing an invitation and you need a picture of a baby footprint but you don’t know [...]
As a new parent or as family or a friend to a new parent you might be thinking about making a baby keepsake. Whether this is for fun or because you are really dedicated to creating a unique baby memory that you and the baby will be able to look back on in the years to come, there are several things that you will need to decide.
Babies are not just babies anymore. They have (for most parents) become the center of the universe and are therefore treated like there is no one else but them. This means that a lot of time and money are spent to please them, to give them the finest things the world can offer and to make sure that their baby years are memorable.
A perfect way to keep baby memories is by creating a baby keepsake and one of the most common are the baby keepsake footprint. This is not only a unique way to keep a memory but it is also fairly easy to do and it can be a lot of fun too.
Baby keepsake footprint – step-by-step guide
I’ve have tried to create a small step-by-step gui
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Is this the world first T Rex Footprint.
A dinosaur hunter has discovered what he hopes is the world’s first Tyrannosaurus rex footprint.
Dr Phil Manning, from the University of Manchester, found a metre-square print in Montana, USA.
T-rex was one of the last dinosaurs to exist before the entire species was wiped out in a mass extinction.
It was a flesh-eating giant, standing 20ft tall, 40ft long and weighing in at about seven tons.
Only about 50 partial skeletons have been recovered since fossil hunters started looking for what was one of the largest carnivores to live on earth. All of the remains have been found in the Hell Creek area of America.
Dr Manning found the footprint last year and has returned to make a detailed study.
“People have been trying to find T-rex tracks for a hundred years,” said Dr Manning. “Unless you come across an animal dead in its tracks you can’t say for definite what left them. However with information availa
There are many ways that you can use a baby footprint and there are just as many ways that people (both parents and others) decide to put together a unique baby footprint. One of the more popular items that are constantly being created is the baby keepsake. Again this can come in many different colors, forms and sizes but they all have the same thing in common and that is to create a baby memento that will last for many years to come.
A baby footprint is used almost as often as a baby handprint. Both prints are fairly easy to create and you can do it from the comfort of your home if you choose to use some of the basic materials that are available through baby keepsake kits and similar all-in-a-box solutions. Now don’t get me wrong here because there is definitely nothing wrong with the do-it-yourself baby footprint solutions. They can be both unique, beautiful and worth having around for many years to come.
To find a solution like this you have several options available to you. You c
Residents and owners of summer houses on the Trøndelag coast in Norway will be the first to benefit from Telenor’s investment in WiMAX radio-based broadband technology. Telenor is adopting this technology to provide a service to areas that cannot be covered by traditional ADSL.
Who said that the penetration of WiMax will only be in developing countries? I guess the improvised versions of Mobile WiMax solutions will enable seamless mobility and hand-offs while traveling between cities and states. We’ll be hooked on to the Internet ‘Anywhere-anytime’ !!!
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Each of us has at some point done a google search of our name, curious about what sort of information is out there to be found about each of us. Taking this process one step further is a new site in beta called Pipl. Enter the first and last name, and home city of a person. This service then does a search of what it calls the “deep web”, including social networks such as myspace.com, blog networks such as blogcatalog.com and more otherwise unindexed media. Depending on the uniqueness of your name, it can turn up a lot of interesting stuff you didn’t know was out there.
Peopledata.com supplements the information on Pipl, with current and previous addresses and phone numbers. All this info on the internets…
We tend to focus on emissions associated with running machines and ignore those associated with building them. The EU energy label for white goods, for example, tells you how much electricity the product consumes but nothing about its manufacture.
Emerging methodologies for calculating ‘footprints’ have similar problems. Defra’s calculator for personal emissions – which was designed to set a standard for such calculators – only considers the fuel used during your journeys by aeroplane, car or public transport (not the emissions generating during manufacture and disposal of the vehicles) and the electricity and gas used by your home appliances (not the energy involved in making them). The WRI’s GHG Protocol, a de facto international standard for reporting corporate emissions, follows similar principles in only recommending that companies consider the greenhouse gases generated by their operating activities.
The significance of this is greater than getting the size of footpri
So, what’s your carbon footprint? How much are you contributing to greenhouse gas emissions? Would you trade with others to stay carbon-neutral? Would buy-offs ease your guilt?
It’s early times, but there is a new trend to becoming a zero-sum contributor of greenhouse gases (”carbon neutral”). That means when you exceed your personal target you purchase carbon off-sets, you invest in any project that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, thus the zero sum.
This editorial in the Christian Science Monitor entitled Guilt relief in global warming is a useful start in understanding the concept.
Interestingly, the Christian of the Science Monitor takes on ‘guilt’ as a principal motivator and likens it to earlier times:
Using offsets has been criticized as an easy way to relieve “carbon guilt” without making changes in one’s daily use of fossil fuels that would reduce emissions directly. Offsets are likened to indulgences the Roman Catholic c
You would have thought not, but according to research, there are 19 billion liters of tap water used everyday in the UK alone, so you can just imagine what the world figure is.
Its not the actual water, but the processing that causes the problems. In the UK the processing and distribution of tap water uses around two to three per cent of all of the electricity in the UK and at the same time creates around half a per cent of all UK carbon emissions.
So you see, tap water is not as green (or clear!) as we may of thought.
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I was watching Jay Leno the other day and John Travolta was on talking about his sleeping habits. He stated that he goes to bed at 5 am and sleeps through until 12pm in the morning.So not content with owning a 747 which he flies around for fun, he stays up presumably with all lights blazing. The most inefficent lifestyle energy wise I can imagine. Why? Because he can I guess. Leaving the rest of us plebs to choke on his fumes. In this era of global warming we all need to stand up and take responsiblity for our energy usage and realise that it is having a detrimental effect on the planet. But with guys like Travolta, living lives like Roman emperor's, we have our work cut out telling the Chinese to stop building coal fired powerstations, because John Travola has presumably got one in his back garden for his Barbecues.On another note, I was curious to see what Jay Leno's wife looked like. So I googled and found this radiant picture of the woman herself. Isn't she a doll?
O documentário Human Footprint dá o retrato de nossa existência e mostra visualmente estatísticas como "a quantidade de roupas que usamos em toda a nossa vida" ou "quantos metros de cabelo produzimos". Para chamar atenção para a sua estreia, a proposta do documentário foi levada para a rua. Foram colocadas 74.802 chávenas de chá em plena trafalgar Square o que corresponde a quantidade que um britânico consome em média durante toda a sua vida.The documentary Human Footprint gives an visual statistics overall of human existence in terms of "the quantity of clothes we wear in our life"or"how many meters of hair we produce". In order to communicate the documentary 74. 802 cups of tea were placed in Trafalgar Square the quantity of tea a british consumes during his life.
I’m not special. I happen to be just one of the six billion people that live on this planet. Whether your religious or not, the way I see it, we are all part of the human family, one great big, interconnected, multi-generational, inter-cultural, spread out, and fairly dysfunctional family. But, I’m not special, I’m just one more member of the family. It’s only fair that I share equally with the rest of the family, this great big planet that we live on. Above is a picture of my ecological footprint. It’s an improvement from how I was living last year, but still double what I’d like it to be.
I know it’s not right to make laws about things like this, but I don’t see why we as people aren’t a little more shameful of the way that we live? I mean if I took the 4.5 acres that were for my brother and hogged his plus mine, and a little of my sisters land all to myself, just so I could eat as I please and travel as I wanted to. People wo
For each WordPress plugin you install, you are adding to the bandwidth overhead of your site. Some plugins are relatively small in size, but some can weigh in at about 50-100 kilobytes a piece. Add in enough of those, and your website will slow considerably.
As a plugin author, there are some simple steps to take to reduce the footprint of your plugin, even if your plugin still requires a lot of code.
Break Out Admin Panels Into Separate Files
Even for simple plugins, adding admin panels can easily balloon a plugin’s file size. A simple, yet effective technique, is to copy the code used for the admin panel to a separate file and simply provide an include in the function that loads the admin panel.
For example, say you load in your admin panel using this code:
add_options_page('Plugin Name', 'Plugin Name', 10, basename(__FILE__), 'printAdminPage');
The function printAdminPage is going to be the function that loads the admin panel. Within this function you could ha
I had long lost track of this site, but found it once again! From EarthDay is a carbon footprint calculator. They call it the "Earth Day Footprint Quiz". You answer a bunch of questions and it tells you, based on how you live your life, how many planets we would need to support everyone to live like you do.
I remember taking this quiz a long time ago, and its a shame I didn't keep the results
Pink Birth Baby Footprint Announcement Keepsake Kit
$22.99
Everthing for assembly is included:
- 10 cards and envelopes
- 1 no-mess print applicator with protective case
- 12 footprint cards
- 2 perforated name tab sheets
- CD with easy-to-use name tab program
- Easy-to-follow instructions
Blue Birth Baby Footprint Announcement Keepsake Kit
$22.99
Everthing for assembly is included:
- 10 cards and envelopes
- 1 no-mess print applicator with protective case
- 12 footprint cards
- 2 perforated name tab sheets
- CD with easy-to-use name tab program
- Easy-to-follow instructions
I have been really waiting for Nokia to cover the countries that matter to me. Thankfully, they have now included India in their maps software.
I am downloading them and plan to write more after giving them a test run.
Till then, heres a screenshot of the download..
Each of us have a carbon footprint that we implant on the world. The amount of Carbon footprint each individual amass depends on how much you consume. How much you consume in electricity, gas, and so forth. All this can be calculated by a Carbon Footprint Calculator. So what exactly is Carbon Footprint? According to the Carbon Footprint Website:Carbon Footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.Almost anything we do in this post-modern society seems to expend a lot of energy and also harm the environment. However there are steps you can take to offset your Carbon Footprint and also reduce it down to Zero. Here are some simple things you can do to help the environment.Plant trees: For an average family; to balance your Carbon Footprint to Zero; you would have to plant about 30 trees. Now you don't have to plant 30. You can start with
Today, Toronto’s mayor announced The Zerofootprint Toronto project, during the C40 Summit in New York. The Zerofootprint tool lets users chart their environmental impact through activities like transportation, their eating habits, their recreational and work activities and habits and their waste habits. The tool lets you compare your scores to your friends and neighbors to see how you measure up.
“Climate change is the issue of our time and it’s up to all of us to do our part to minimize the impact of day-to-day activities,” Toronto Mayor David Miller explained at the conference. “Zerofootprint Toronto is going to help make my city not only one of the greenest on the planet, but one of the most innovative, as well.”
All Torontoians will be encouraged to set up an online profile and the information collected will be used to help Toronto and other cities develop and modify environmental plans, programs and policies.
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The Ecological Footprint is a great invention. It’s a tool that lets you calculate what the land mass is needed to sustain your current lifestyle. It was developed by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees of the University of British Columbia. While their version is long and complicated and requires pages and pages of Excel Spreadsheets, here’s an internet based one that is quick and easy to use! Not only does it tell you how much land you need, it gives you tips and tricks as to how to reduce your impact.
Because, what’s the point of yelling at someone if you aren’t going to give them a way to make it better?
What are you waiting for? Go take the test now! Then come back here and share your results as well as your plans to reduce your impact!
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We have all heard about global warming. Even our movies are talking about it, Happy Feet, The Day after Tomorrow, and An Inconvenient Truth all warn us about the serious dangers of global warming. So...
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Eureka! Offset your emissions.
The other day I received an email from Rod “CEO” Cuthbert about an article he came across in the UK’s Guardian Unlimited. When I went to the website I found that the second article on the page (between Iran’s suspension of a sailor’s release plans and the new MC Rove) was about the UK’s carbon emissions. The article talked about the rise in carbon emissions in the UK and that the 1.25% increase was “worrying and that the figures underlined the importance of efforts to tackle climate change both from government and wider society”.
Rod’s point was simple: Carbon emissions are headline news. This is typical now, it’s a topic that’s rarely off the front pages of the major dailies.
Climate change, or global warming, is the changing of our global climate due to the build up of carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Is it happening? Yes. For example:
2005 was the hott
I just opened my newspaper today to discover that Krystal Place has passed away. Krystal was one of the first artists to display in our shop. She was truly a free spirit and her work was really varied. Krystal was one of the regions outsider artists. I have posted a few of her pieces in today's blog and I hope you enjoy her work. Several of her pieces are for sell to help settle her estate so if you find something you like let me know and I will see if I can find out the information on how to get them.
We wish we had known of this fridge when we did the kitchen. That had saved us a lot of space problems. This corner fridge from Norcool (in English) will accommodate no less than 1,200 liters (about as much as 3 or 4 ordinary refrigerators) and only takes a little more floor space (Compare the outline of the corner fridge (black solid line) and an ordinary 60x60 cm fridge (red solid line). Placing the fridge in a corner gives lots of extra space and, as a bonus, plenty of room for the required ventilation. The only draw-back is that there is no version with a fridge/freezer combo. That would have been the optimal solution. Who's going to be the first with a combo like that?
Via Treehugger but originating (and containing a complete breakdown) at Jamais Cascio's new site: Open the Future. Jamais was the former managing editor over at Worldchanging, one of my favorite eco-chic ass-kicking sites...anyway, he... "recently got to wondering: with all the recent hubbub surrounding carbon footprints, credits and offsets, what do everyday, common items contribute to our warming globe? He started with an American institution: the cheeseburger, and, after a little digging and number-crunching he came up with 6.3 to 6.8 pounds (2.85 to 3.1 kg) of carbon emissions per burger. This includes a myriad of factors, from growing the feed for the cattle for the beef and cheese, growing the produce, storing and transporting the components, as well as cooking them all, and he appears to have done a fairly thorough job. So, why choose burgers? The average American eats three burgers per week, or about 150 burgers per year; that's a lot of beef, cheese, shipping and grilling, a
