Do you know how clean our beaches and oceans are? The best people to ask is surely the Surfrider Foundation, a non-profit environmental organization whose main focus is the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches for all people through conservation, activism, research and education. The organization was founded in 1984 [...]
Advocates of climate change who have seen the use of motored or engine run vehicles as one of the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, a simple solution has emerged: get people to ride a bicycle, they not only help conserve energy but they also help themselves to be fit and healthy.
Air pollution in Wyo. community rivals that of big cities
By BOB MOEN, Associated Press WriterThu May 8, 12:24 PM ET
There isn’t anything metropolitan about this tiny unincorporated town in southwest Wyoming, where a few single-family homes and a volunteer fire station stand against a skyline of snowcapped mountains.
But Boulder, with a population of just 75 [...]
The journal Nature published the findings of a group of scientists consisting of Dr Peter Doran and his colleagues at the University of Illinois, the researchers took temperature readings and found temperatures in the Antarctic have been getting slightly colder for the last 30 years and guess why….. Air pollution. An atmospheric scientist professor Don Collins from NASA proposed after years of study that limited amount of aerosol pollutants in the air could partially counteract global warming, "As the atmosphere becomes more polluted by man's activities, more sunlight may be reflected back into space, leading to a cooling effect on Earth's climate, Although this cooling won't be enough to offset global warming over the entire Earth, it will compete with warming effects on a small scal
Most people when they think about air duct cleaning always think about hiring a company. However, homeowners are able to find the duct cleaning supplies necessary to do the job themselves.
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You might have been looking for a method to expand your gardening hobby; maybe you love the look of a greenhouse in your garden.
In a greenhouse, you can grow whatever type of plants, flowers or vegetables you want to.
How to reduce pollution?
You can reduce pollution in our environment by decreasing greenhouse gas [...]
Studies link pervasive 'obesogens' to weight gain in frogs, mice In the United States, the percentage of adults who are obese — defined by the National Institutes of Health as a body-mass index exceeding 30 — has doubled since 1990, climbing from 12 percent to a whopping 24 percent in 2005, closely tracking Oregon figures, according to the Oregon Health Division. For the most part, the blame for the obesity epidemic has fallen on diet and exercise, with particular emphasis on familiar evils such as the proliferation of junk food, the advent of the remote control, trans fat, ever-longer commutes and even the disappearance of physical education in schools. But now some researchers have identified a new suspect: pollution. Attributing obesity to diet and exercise is "practica
High levels of pollution may have contributed to the deaths of thousands of people in England from pneumonia in recent years, a study suggests.A team at the University of Birmingham examined death rates from the disease and pollution levels in 352 local authorities between 1996 and 2004.Writing in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, they reported a "strong correlation" between the two.But the researchers conceded that social factors may also be at play.Calculations were made by looking at how many deaths there were in each locality in excess of the national average.These figures were then cross-checked with a range of pollutant levels, including engine exhaust emissions.Culprit carIn total, 386,374 people died of pneumonia during the eight years examined, but there were signi
At last from the Onion's point of view. . . heh
China Celebrates Its Status As World’s Number One Air Polluter
Sadly the facts are accurate. . .
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Westerners, as a whole, have a harder time understanding the impact pollution has on our environment. This is due to a combination of things (not really our education system in relation to elsewhere). One factor is that a lot of our jobs are based on resource extraction and agriculture. These jobs require heavy equipment with [...]
Progression in NOx and PM standards for switch locomotives (one of the regulated categories). Click to enlarge.EPA Finalizes Tier 3 and Tier 4 Standards for Locomotive and Marine Diesel Engines The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its Tier 3 and Tier 4 emissions standards for locomotives and marine diesel engines. Tier 3 emission standards will take effect in 2012, followed by Tier 4 in 2015. The final requirements will bring earlier and greater emission reductions of NOx and PM from the locomotive and marine sectors than the proposed program envisioned. This is accomplished by finalizing the first-ever national standards for remanufactured large commercial marine diesel engines (above 600kW) and starting Tier 4 NOx requirem
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Baltimore – (TFN): It’s hard to believe, but true. An environmental “dead zone” has killed off everything in a 7,000 square-mile radius.
Worse still, I’m not talking about some over-polluted region in Mongolia. This isn’t some far off Asian province packed with coal-fired power plants to… Read more »
A contender in the race to be the car of the future is in the hands of regular drivers
Like many of her neighbors, Maria Recchia-O’Neill has a sport utility vehicle sitting in her driveway in Rye Brook, just north of New York City. She drives it to work and around town to run errands. But although her vehicle looks like any other SUV, her Chevrolet Equinox gets excellent gas mileage—and it doesn’t emit any pollutants or climate change–promoting carbon dioxide. That is because it is a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle—one of 40 such automobiles that U.S. carmaker General Motors provided for motorists to road test.
“My average right now is 44.4 miles [71.5 kilometers] per kilogram [of compressed hydrogen gas], which is supposed to be the equivalent of a gallon of ga
Have you ever heard about Dark Sky Festival? If not then let me tell you something about it. Dark Sky Festival is celebrated annually at Harmony's Town Square in Harmony Florida. They celebrate the Night sky free in using the effects of excessive artificial lighting. Does it sound amazing? Well for me yes!!Dark Sky Festival is on the way to its 5th Annual celebration on April 5, 2008. It will be started at 7pm. And guess what? It will be a big party in Harmony Florida, cause you will surely enjoy it through sight seeing for viewing the stars in the sky with variety of telescopes. Ofcourse, there will be a lot of food, music and bands. Just like Motown Recording Artists, Rare Earth. There will be astronomers and scientist and so much more!!This Dark Sky Festival is intended for the pres
Christian Science Monitor: The emergence of China as a dominant economic power is an epochal event, occasioning the most massive and rapid redistribution of the earth's resources in human history. The country has also become a ravenous consumer. Its appetite for raw materials drives up international commodity prices and shipping rates while its middle class, projected to jump to 700 million by 2020, is learning the gratifications of consumerism. The catch is that China has become not just the world's ... Link
MADRID, Spain (AP, March 17): Haile Gebrselassie expects more athletes to follow his lead and drop out of some events at the Beijing Olympics because of the air pollution.The two-time Olympic 10,000-meter champion said Monday he was disappointed about not competing in the marathon, but that there was no way he would run the race at the games in August."My decision not to run (the marathon) in Beijing is definite. Now I have to decide whether to run the 10,000 meters," Gebrselassie told the Efe news agency. "I was in the city in August and I know what the extreme conditions of pollution, heat and humidity are. It's going to be the hardest marathon in history."The IOC's top medical officer, however, said Beijing's air quality is better than expected and that humidity might be a greater threa
From EPA yosemite.epa.gov (Washington, D.C. - March 14, 2008) New tough emissions standards will slash pollution from locomotive and marine diesel engines by up to 90 percent, helping Americans to breathe cleaner air as soon as this year. "Today EPA is fitting another important piece into the clean diesel puzzle by cleaning emissions from our trains and boats," said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. "As more and more goods flow through our ports and railways, EPA is cutting diesel emissions at their source keeping our nation on track toward a clean, healthy, productive tomorrow." When fully implemented, these new standards will reduce soot or particulate matter (PM) by 90 percent or 27,000 tons and reduce nitrogen oxides emissions (NOx) by 80 percent o
"Top federal health officials said Wednesday that they had asked the Institute of Medicine, the government's premier medical adviser, to referee a dispute over a report suggesting that pollution in the Great Lakes region may have serious health consequences for people who live there, including infant mortality and breast cancer. 'It's a good way to get a really high-quality and completely objective scientific review,' said Dr. Henry Falk, who oversees environmental health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Dr. Christopher T. De Rosa, a federal toxicology official who was a co-author of the report, said the Bush administration had suppressed it 'because it implies injury.' He bemoaned the decision to ask for a review from the Institute of Medicine, which is par
The Beijing Marathon - Pollution and PerformanceYesterday bought the sensational news that Haile Gebrselassie had made the "99% sure" decision to withdraw from the Olympic Marathon in Beijing and rather enter the 10,000m event.His reason? The pollution, combined with his asthma, the heat and the humidity in Beijing posed a risk to his health, and he did not wish to compromise his chances in the 2012 London Olympics, or his ambition to run a 2:03 Marathon in the future.Gebrselassie is a great athlete, maybe the greatest ever, but this story has a bizarre sound to it. For one thing, to make a decision now based on a race he hopes to run in four years' time, when there's even less chance of being competitive (he'll be 39, at the end of a career that has lasted 19 years!) does not seem a ver
We have advanced in environmental cleanup and management by banning or regulating chemicals that adversely influence the environment thus human health. However, corporations often replace banned chemicals with new chemicals. Today with technological advances there seems to be even more chemicals available. These corporations are often negligent in their use of certain chemicals. There is formula to proving the negligence and there is a big push for tort reform.Although I feel happy and healthy, sometimes I wonder how and what chemicals are influencing me negatively or if cancer is slowly eating away at my body. I am not a hypochondriac or paranoid but there seems to be more and more people getting cancer so naturally I worry about my own health and that of my loved ones.Nonetheless, und
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Concern about the impact of air pollution has led governments and local authorities across the world to regulate, among other things, the burning of fossil fuels, industrial effluence, cigarette smoke, and aerosols. This legislation has often followed dramatic findings about the impact of pollution on human health. At the same time there have been significant developments
Ecological economist Herman Daly talks about economic growth.clipped from www.adbusters.orgHerman Daly has been ostracized from the fraternity of economists because he doesn’t worship at the altar of unlimited growth. He believes that one of the main problems with his estranged colleagues is that “they think that the only way to solve environmental problems is to get richer and don’t consider for a minute that growth may cost more than it’s worth.” Daly began questioning neoclassical orthodoxy while studying under Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, famous for asserting that growth is limited by the economy’s biological foundations. Daly’s conversion was completed after he read the works of environmentalist Rachel Carson and spent time teaching economics in northeastern Brazil. There,
There is a lot of talk in recent years about the concept of a “sick building”. Obviously, buildings don’t get sick. What this term refers to is a buildings ability to make its residents sick. This can happen for a variety of reason, but generally it all boils down to indoor air pollution which some [...]
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Big-name multinationals are among those criticised for environmental misdemeanours in China
An Ethical Corporation pub quiz question for you all.
Q: What do Nestlé, Fosters, Pepsi and Panasonic have in common?
A: They have all just been found guilty of violating water pollution control guidelines in China by [...]
The use of an Air Conditioner (AC) device has become so common in our society. Not only offices, even at home it has become one of the major supporting devices to drive out hot air and present fresher air in return. One thing to remember though, you are not just a user but you are [...]
Mold, mildew, bacteria, fungus, smoke, pet odors and dust… These are some of the things that linger in the air that we breathe. Not outdoors, but in the comfort of our homes and where our children attend school. What can we do about it?
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Most people don’t know this, but former President Bill Clinton wore a hearing aid. Clinton was the 2nd youngest president ever elected to office, and a member of the “baby boomer generation” born between 1945 and 1964. At the age of only 51, halfway through his two terms as US President, Clinton sometimes wore a [...]
(HealthDay News) -- The tiniest bits of air pollution from your vehicle's exhaust may be the most dangerous to your heart's health, suggests a new U.S. study.
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OK, so you have your CSA/EPA certified wood stove, and have properly prepared, seasoned and stored your wood for maximum burning efficiency (see previous posts…) Here are some burning tips to help you get the most enjoyment and efficiency out of your stove: Starting the FireAlways start the fire with small pieces of wood or kindling lit with crumpled newspaper. Completely open the air supply vent. When the fire from the kindling subsides, add several small pieces of firewood. Gradually increase the size of the wood as the coals build up. Stack wood loosely in your firebox, so plenty of air circulates around it. Your fire will burn hot and efficiently rather than smoulder and generate wood smoke. Maintaining the FireKeep the flame bright and lively. Your fire should
Wood smoke contains over 100 pollutants -- these pollutants not only negatively impact the environment but are also linked to a wide range of health problems. According to Environment Canada, residential wood combustion is a major contributor to winter smog. However, by choosing a wood stove that has been certified for low emissions by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US or the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), you can significantly reduce the wood smoke emissions you produce. Another way to reduce the amount of pollutants coming from your wood heating appliance is to only burn properly prepared and seasoned firewood. Here are some important tips to consider: Wood Condition & Seasoning Firewood needs to be dry. Obtain your firewood in earl
Here's a piece of news which should inspire other nations... Germany is set to ban cars which cause excessive air pollution from running in city centres and central places. There would be labels on the cars which show the amount of damage they do... from light to excessive and based on that it'll be decided as to whether cars would be allowed to run or not. Initially, this policy is to be implemented in Berlin, Cologne and one other city... in due course, it will be implemented in other cities too. Thumbs up to Germany for that!
A district court in Indonesia Tuesday cleared PT Newmont Minahasa Raya of any wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed by an environmental group earlier this year. "The witnesses for the prosecution cannot be certain that (the alleged environmental damage) was caused by tailings from Newmont," Ketut Manika, the leading judge in the case, told the court. Manika said prosecution witnesses had cited murkiness of the water in a bay, declining numbers of fish and fewer species of marine life as evidence of environmental wrongdoing. Witnesses for the defense, however, had testified that fish numbers hadn't declined, nor had the variety of species diminished, and said that murkiness in the water could be the result of overflow into the bay of dirty water from flooding inland.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
Al Gore proposed to tax who produce CO2 proportionally to the amount of gas ejected in the atmosphere.
Who is Al Gore?
According to The Concord Monitor, “Gore was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases. [...]
In this article we develop some ideas taken from “The Corporation” by Michael Moore, we thank him for his contribution.
What are the damages caused by corporations to individuals and the nature?
The petrochemical industry begun when they found out that they could synthesize any material that meet certain characteristics from the molecular breakdown of oil… One [...]
Air pollution can make asthma symptoms worse and trigger attacks. If you or your child has asthma, have you ever noticed symptoms get worse when the air is polluted?
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Most of us really want to live luxuriously and comfortably. Consumers dream of having their own means of transportation and while cars are within their reach, there is another issue that needs to be addressed…pollution and greenhouse gases.
The air we breathe right now is contaminated. We can smell it and that awkward and different smell is the participation of pollution in the usually clean air we breathe. While people are more concerned of living better lives with good transportation, their health may be in jeopardy.
The increase in the number of motor vehicles, industrial and commercial activities, coupled with the rise in construction work in and around the city, is translating into a lot of air and noise pollution for the residents.
Almost every part of the city suffers on account of air and noise pollution, much of it caused by automobiles. The city’s ambient air quality on several parameters leaves much to be desired, with the levels of pollution above the permissible li
The insanity of the current global trend of people constantly buying bottled spring water, and then throwing the plastic bottle out after a single use is becoming the attention of increasing media focus, and some people are re-thinking their bottled water buying habits. Lets hope this counter-trend gains some momentum over the coming summer months in Sydney and around Australia.1,000 years to breakdown, $16 billion p.a. sales, 40 million per day—are not recycledWater Bottles Everywhere, Calculating the environmental costs of bottled water.BY JEFF GOLDEN` Jennifer Aniston Wouldn't Hurt the Planet, Would She?Yes, those bottles of water are cute and convenient. Yes, you look cool when you down one after yoga class. They even lend an air of sophistication when the waiter opens one at your table and pours it for you. And, yes, Jennifer Aniston is hawking a certain brand these days.However, bottled water is one of the most frivolous ways we contribute to one of the most significant crisis
Too bad “correctness” is not a political value: we would not have to have this stupid discussion…again and again. This is written specifically for those folks who STILL believe all the government nonsense about “pot”.
As I continue my efforts to damage the thick blanket of ignorance that smothers many otherwise intelligent people when it comes [...]
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The start of all pollution problems can surely be detected. Many would disregard the unlikely odors they smell, treating them as only temporary at times. However, when the odor starts to become stagnant and becomes irritable as the days go by, all roads lead to the start of a potentially polluted region, something to which may reach uncontrollable proportions.
Rubbertown neighbors for one have noticed this occurrence and have repeatedly sought the aid to address the issue before it would go out of hand. But since it has been over a month, further follow-ups and clamor may be needed to avoid another polluted region in the form of the western Louisville region.
Source: Rubbertown neighbors complain of odor response
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are once again debating whether to extend a soon-to-expire ban on taxing consumer access to the Internet. Proponents of such a ban say they want to keep the Internet free from the shackles of regulation, and that the lack of said regulation is what has helped the Web grow [...]
This article explains how Hitachi is focusing on a hard drive technology that will allow them to store and read data in areas 2,000 times smaller than the width of a single strand of hair. This "new" technology is really a spin on an old version of hard drive tech that was abandoned due to size limitations. But the replacement has limitations of its own, which, when reached, will force major data storage companies back to the "new" take on an "old" technology.Giant Magnetoresistance, or GMR, uses a disc that spins with an arm over it, like a record player. At the tip of the arm is an electromagnetic head which reads magnetic variations on the surface of the disc. GMR hit a ceiling a few years ago and new technology was the alternative. Now Hitachi has developed a way to use GMR at an incredibly small scale, which will change the way we talk about our iPods.Today it's all about the Gigs - Gigabytes. But in 2009, we'll all be talking Terabytes.If they can develop tiny hard drive
There is a government body called Delhi Pollution control committee existing in Delhi called DPCC basically established for controlling pollution in this national capital region (DELHI). I being an environment friendly citizen applied for a unit in prime industrial area of New Delhi only after installing and successfully running the required systems for controlling pollution [...]
Factory related pollution is the number one source of pollution in the United States. Factory pollution accounts for more than half the volume of all water pollution, as well as for the most deadly of pollutants. More than 365,000 manufacturing factories consume vast quantities of fresh water to carry away wastes of several different types.This waste water from industrial factories is discharged into lakes, oceans and streams, which eventually disperse the polluting effluent substances. The United States Environmental Protection Agency stated in 1996 to Congress that about 40% of the country’s surveyed rivers, estuaries and lakes were too polluted for such elementary uses as swimming, fishing and drinking water supply.Common factory-emitted water pollutants include phosphates, asbestos, mercury, nitrates, grit, caustic soda and other sodium compounds, sulfuric acid, sulfur, oils and petrochemicals.Additionally, many manufacturing factories discharge undiluted poisons, corrosives and
Pollution may be a good solution to help people control the growing concern of population control these days. Some may like it but the thing is, it is quite unorthodox considering that it is an unhealthy way of keeping up lives.
Surely, pollution is one of the most-hated topics we have these days and surely it will be something that will always hinder personal health and development if people are not careful.
Hardly hit are the children, the young ones who find themselves without a choice of having to adjust and succumb to the various effects of pollution. Their fate is left upon the hands of most people today placed in various parts of the world to help maintain a sense of health awareness needed to live properly today.
Source: Pollution Cuts Life Expectancy, Threatens Child Development In Europe
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Today on a cloudless night in NYC an amateur astronomer can see far less of the nightime sky than Galileo could see when he first began studying the stars. The reason is light pollution. Light pollution is measured on the Bortle Dark Sky Scale, and Galileo's night sky would have been classified as a 1 or the darkest on the scale while the sky above New York is currently considered a brightly lit, 9. In fact in the US there are no longer any class 1 locations and even class 2 areas are under seige from the omnipresent glow of outdoor lighting, a threat that grows increasingly more powerful each year. In 1988 a non-profit group called the International Dark Sky Association began trying to do something about light pollution. The group's efforts include targeting poorly designed and bad light fixtures, reducing the wattage of individual outdoor lights and working to diminish the overall level of nighttime lighting. Light pollution comes in many forms, but one glaring offender is the unt
A team of researchers led by Nobel prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen discovered that biofuels emit up to 70% more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels. They calculated emissions released by the growth or burning of such crops as maize and sugar cane to produce biofuels releases twice as much nitrous oxide(N20) as previously thought. They estimate 3%-5% of nitrogen in fertilizer is converted and emitted rather than previously thought 2%. Professor Keith Smith of the University of Edinburgh commented: “One wants rational decisions rather than simply jumping on the bandwagon because superficially something appears to reduce emissions.”There is also the factor as corn is turned into fuel prices rise causing poor people to suffer. We have to continue investigating ways to reduce greenhouse emissions without using biofuels.
BANGKOK, Sept 22 (TNA) - Over 1,200 bicyclists Saturday joined in festivities organised by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) as part of its campaign to observe 'Car Free Day', aimed at saving energy and reducing air pollution, Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin said Saturday.Wearing yellow shirts to signify and celebrate His Majesty the King's birthday (the monarch was born on a Monday, and yellow is the colour associated with Monday for Thai people) 1,221 bicyclists rode in a pattern of the map of Thailand, sang the national anthem at the Supachalasai National Stadium and then rode to Bangkok City Hall as enthusiastic people watched on both sides of their route.More than 2,000 people, including movie stars, also joined the event, presided over by Mr. Apirak who said that the campaign was held simultaneously in every major city worldwide. The campaign was organised in an attempt to reduce global warming and activities would continue to be held throughout this year and ne
For most manufacturing companies, pollution is one thing that they are sure to encounter. Whether this be waste or air pollution, their social duties to keep these things at a minimum should always be observed.
Drug companies are known to be the running resort of most people for medicines and drugs that they offer as prescribed by physicians. Some may call it ironic, but the truth is, if you want to help upkeep lives, then it starts by leading by example and controlling their trash.
Source: Drug units told to maintain zero pollution levels
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The Caspian is the world`s most easily accessible major oil region yet to be fully developed. Both Western nations and former Soviet republics are rushing to exploit its vast hydrocarbon wealth. Environmental issues are increasingly moving to the forefront of this exploitation. While nations bordering the Caspian piously insist that environmental worries top their list of concerns, cynics maintain that environmental issues are a facade for the nations to rewrite what they have come to regard as increasingly exploitative production-sharing agreements signed in the heady days following the implosion of the Soviet empire. The truth is probably somewhere in between. The Caspian is the world`s largest enclosed body of water, with a surface area of 143,244 square miles. Its pollution comes from three sources: inflowing rivers bringing contaminants from their watershed area, offshore oil production platforms and the rising Caspian tanker trade. As for riverine pollutants, the bulk comes from
The Airports of Thailand (AoT) which manages Bangkok's new international airport plans to hold talks with representatives of local residents currently living in the neighborhood of Suvarnabhumi airport who are being seriously affected by air traffic-related noise pollution.AoT spokesman Chirmsak Pinthong said the state firm will negotiate with several representatives of residents around Suvarnabhumi airport by the end of this month so that compensation can be offered.The AoT may respond to the damage caused by noise pollution either by buying the victims' houses or paying for home repairs, he said.Only those who have lived in the area prior to 2001 will be considered for planned compensation, which is yet to be approved by the cabinet. If approved, all compensation would be provided next month.Airlines and passengers may be charged an extra fee for causing noise pollution, as was done in Japan and Australia, he said, adding that the AoT is considering collecting the special fee to co
The side effect of the last year's rapid economic growth of China is the high pollution level of this country. Factories and cars are the two most important causes of pollution. Pollution there is touching almost every aspect of the environment over there: air pollution, water pollution and land pollution. It is easy to see how polluted the country can be on this picture. Just compare the two pictures taken on the same spot and you'll see the difference.The first one has been taken on a rainy day and the other on a sunny day. Can you see the difference?Here are two links that you should check. The first outline the pollution level in China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_of_China) and the second one outline the fact that the polluting agent of China has been found in the U.S (www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/03/31/archive/main178697.shtml).
41- Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of what the hands of people have earned, He thus lets them taste the consequences of their works that they may return.30-The Romans, 41Man has been paying the cost of damages he has inflicted on his surroundings and nature throughout centuries. Passion for more money, sloth and irresponsibility have made man blind to the fact that he is part of his natural environment and that the damage he causes it will unavoidably affect him. The development of environmental consciousness in man, who has suffered from damages of his own doing, is a recent event. Environmental awareness only received special emphasis in the world after 1970.In a century and place where environmental awareness cannot be said to have existed, the reference made in the Quran to this fact, that is to the corruption caused in the land and the sea on account of that which men’s hands have wrought, is a lesson of great scope. We translate the Arabic word “bahr” as
Dawn (6 am) at the Jumeirah Open Beach finds the area still packed with people and littered with rubbish.This article and photo is courtesy of the Gulf News in Dubai. http://www.gulfnews.com/I have highlighted this paragraph from the article for the imagery it evokes for me;`The fine white sand is polka-dotted with water bottles while empty drinks cartons bob around in the shallow surf, food wrappers of all kinds have been chucked aside and chip packets roll like tumbleweed along the shoreline which is covered in a confetti of cigarette butts.'How could we let this happen?By Emmanuelle Landais, Staff Reporter Published: August 20, 2007, 23:37Dubai: It might be 6am on a Friday morning on the Open Beach in Jumeirah but it looks more like the aftermath of a 48-hour music festival with people camped out on beach towels stirring themselves awake, groups of friends having a morning dip, while others gaze together as dawn breaks.But how do you enjoy the sunrise when all around you is wastela
While Africa has not been known to have a serious problem with pollution, they are taking advanced steps and preventive maintenance measures to avoid falling into the same trap that has plagued countries such as China.
The indicators are there for Africa and while it is still early, groups and organizations concerned with the said pollution problem are underlying the necessary steps to avoid this problem from getting out of hand.
“The economic consequences of air pollution (e.g. increased expenses of health services, damaged ecosystems that sustain the economy and reduced productivity from workers with pollution-related illnesses) makes it clear that it is cost-effective to timely redress the air pollution problems,” said a University of Zimbabwe environmental researcher.
Source: Africa: Continent Must Urgently Address Air Pollution
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Traffic-related air pollution increases asthma risk among children with genetic variants that affect the lungs’ ability to clear toxins, researchers found.
Traffic-related air pollution increases asthma risk among children with genetic variants that affect the lungs’ ability to clear toxins, researchers found.
The researchers correlated pollution exposure to genes for two enzymes [...]
August 5, 2007 - Thimphu: Pray for more industries and pollution elsewhere. Bhutan may reap the benefits of global warming in hard cash.
If qualified as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project, Punatsangchu-1 and the upcoming Dagachu projects could earn Bhutan Nu 24 billion a year from carbon trade.
In simple terms, carbon trade is turning the harmful greenhouse gases into commodities like gold, salt or chilies that can be traded in the market.
CDM is a program under the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N.-brokered agreement that set limits for carbon and other harmful emissions by companies in industrialized nations. Under the treaty, nations that emit less than their quota of greenhouse gases will be able to sell carbon credits to polluting nations. The mechanism is created to help finance environmentally sustainable development projects in the developing countries as well as to allow the developed countries to partly fulfill their commitment on the reduction of carbon emissions. [So
Paris Hilton attends an anniversary party for BPM Magazine and talks about her hybrid vehicle, which she arrived in to the party. She also talks about how if everyone does a little bit for the environment, it can make a big difference. I’m not a big fan of Paris (who is) i think she is just jumping on a bandwagon, but atleast it’s a green one.
Paris Hilton & Ron Jeremy Go Green
Also on the video is porn star Ron Jeremy, who talks about how he has been donating to GreenPeace for years, and also he says, that although he does not have a hybrid, he plans on buying one. He is still making headlines for his generosity.
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Ontario has launched a second official complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying rule changes for American coal-fired power plants will spew even more harmful pollution across the border. The province filed comments Tuesday arguing the U.S. plans will only relax the rules, allowing out-dated plants to operate longer hours without installing modern pollution controls. “Air pollution from the U.S. coal-fired power plants continues to harm the health, environment and economy of Ontario,” said Environment Minister Laurel Broten.
We thought the once-a-year air pollution from Indonesia open burning was bad in Kuala Lumpur.
We complaint of health problems (specifically respiratory related) during this time of the year, every year, due to the haze issue.
On Monday, standing in front of the Beijing office’s windows, I looked out…
I couldn’t see anything beyond 500m. I only saw haze. It is summer now and the weather is hot. It is definitely not fog.
Indeed, the haze is so bad that, arriving less than 5 hours, I am already suffering all the symptoms described for haze hazardous level.
Seriously, back home in Malaysia, I’m sure this level would be classified as DANGEROUS. But here, people don’t care, even after I mentioned.
I guess they are numbed already. Nobody seems to even notice. Nobody seems to care that they don’t get to see the blue skies…
So sad.
P/s: Someone told me just now, apparently this is not the worst. On some days, they can’t see anything at all outside the windows!
"We have serious environmental resource problems of water, land and energy, and these are now coming to bear on food production, malnutrition and the incidence of diseases," said Pimentel. Of the world population of about 6.5 billion, 57 percent is malnourished, compared with 20 percent of a world population of 2.5 billion in 1950, said Pimentel. Malnutrition is not only the direct cause of 6 million children's deaths each year but also makes millions of people much more susceptible to such killers as acute respiratory infections, malaria and a host of other life-threatening diseases, according to the research.
Pollution has been evidently present ever since the day we were born. It is the tireless efforts that have been put together that have tried to combat this dreaded occurrence.
While pollution is a key culprit that has made the world a critical place to live in today, simply looking back at such commercials will surely teach us how to be socially responsible and start making our contributions towards green efforts of environmental safety today.
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Everyone wants fresh air to breath. Air pollution caused by negligent individuals is something that has been a factor towards the growing problem that most have been experiencing against the rise of global warming and climate change today.
While this commercial advertisement may be taken from the 70’s, it is public service advertisements like these that maintain the essence of how it is to keep track of our environmental duties to the world today.
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This map tracks pollution! Using Google maps and data from the EPA, you can enter in any zip code and it will search everything within 10 miles that the EPA tracks!
This includes facilities like Superfund, Toxics Release Inventory Program, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, Treatment, Storage, Disposal Facilities and National Environmental Performance Track.Just type the Zip Code in the bottom and off you go!
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Story on Sky News are stating that upto 750,000 people in China are dying every year from heavy pollution due to its uncontrollable economic growth and its mass-neglect for its own environment.
The article also tells how former village fishermen turned environmentalists are afraid to speak out about the pollution as local government officials threaten to arrest them - and countries such as ours (UK) and other western countries are still clamouring to trade with China, unbelievable!!!
Villagers Poisoned By Pollution ~ Sky News
What you throw will eventually come back to you. This is the best description for pollution today in the form of reckless and negligent disposal of garbage and waste. Proper disposal in the right places can go a long way. People just have to add some extra effort or else, it will come back to haunt you, wherever you may be.
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Via “The Autoblog Green” - Xavier Navarro (Source: El Periodico)
l’eixample (Neighborhood in Barcelona) Originally uploaded by Fuxxión
In order to fight carbon emissions and get closer to the goals of the Kyoto Protocol, the Catalan Ministry of Environmental Protection (Spain) has enacted a decree that will reduce the maximum speed for cars in the Barcelona metropolitan area from 120 to 80 km/h (75 to 50 mph). The law also sets for a recommendation of a maximum speed of 90 km/h (55 mph) in the so-called “second road ring” of the city metropolitan area. In order to implement this law, all the administrations (national, regional and local) will have to change the road signs as well as tune the speed cameras and radars next fall.
This measure resembles the strict 55-mph limits that the US implemented after the 1973 Oil Crisis, but the focus of this bill is more centered in clean air than in savings. Current NOx and particullate EU standards ar
The various green movements that most people bank on today are indeed something to commend. But the children and teens who start making the awareness on pollution and other issues concerning climate change and green contradictions are highly laudable as well.
Teenagers should usually be worrying more about their future or enjoying their lives. But to the millions of teens that have dedicated a portion of their lives towards contributing to the cause of pollution and various global concerns today on waste is something more inspiring. Hopefully the older generation can listen and pick up some pointers from their joint efforts for a greener tomorrow for all.
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Most people of the world are not aware of the pollution problems that we have at the moment. Many even claim that it is not affecting their generation. But the truth of it all is that it is already affecting us in ways which we overlook. Our health and usual wonders have slowly been dilapidating and people just bank on word of mouth rather than doing their share to preserve the necessary of our environment.
Don’t wait for pollution to get out of hand and affect green living. It may be too late to save if we continue to ignore it.
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We all love to see living animals around, especially the rare ones like giraffes and bears. However we forget that most of the furnishings and clothings we have come from them. Ever wonder why the price is pegged high? Because they are rare to find these days and hard to hunt. The have become rare in the sense that their breeds are slowly decreasing in numbers. All thanks to our bratty needs and wants.
We also disregard the polluted waters which have been plaguing our seas today. Dumping waste and garbage is not helping. We can see that when we seek the resources that we need such as food. We are the victims of our own negligence.
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We all clamor for energy but at the same time want to reduce pollution. There is the wind turbine that can be used to help in providing the needed power that most of us need. But there are times when winds are not strong enough to help them circulate. Thus, people feel that they have to resort to the old school way of using the pollution causing energy groups. At least that is what most people think. Check out this video to see what alternative you can use through the use of renewable energy.
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A WASTE disposal firm has been fined £15,000 for failing to properly treat asbestos waste.Hills Minerals And Waste was fined for a serious breach of its pollution prevention and control permit.The firm was prosecuted at Swindon Magistrates' Court for offences committed in July and August 2005.They took place at its Chapel Farm asbestos-handling site near Blunsdon.On July 29 the Environment Agency conducted a routine site inspection that revealed a breach of the PPC permit.Asbestos material was not being properly covered.Environment Agency officers spoke to the assistant site manager about the breach and were assured that site operators would operate in accordance with the permit.But a second inspection on August 11 revealed two lorries were tipping waste containing asbestos into a storage cell at the same time.One of the site diggers was also seen driving over the deposited pile of asbestos before it had been covered with suitable inert waste.This caused clouds of dust containing asb
Man has made the steps to make the world an unhealthy place to live in and ironically, it is man as well who is suffering from it. Technically, it is not man directly but the innocent bystanders who are simply trying to live normal lives but are falling prey towards the toxic wastes and pollution that has become evident today.
The problem is, practically all the natural resources we have today have become something to be worried about. Air, water and the natural environmental resources have become dangerous to some extent, needing caution at all times for people to be assured of good lives to live. Machineries that are man-made are usually the prime suspects but if man would not take the initiative in making all of these technology and inventions, man him will not grow.
Perhaps this is the price to pay for leading demanding lives. People just find themselves asking for more to live comfortably but at the same time dangerously.
Here is a good breakdown on the Social Structures of Pollut
Unknown to many, China has been dealing with potential risks and hazzards to its community and a lot has to do with affecting their environment. Many have forecasted it would grow better by 2010 but based on the reports gathered this seems highly unlikely. Here is a video to sum it all up.
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Thousands of residents suffering the effects of noise pollution created by Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday gathered at the airport demanding Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont show up and provide urgent assistance.Dressed in black, the protesters blocked gates 2-4 of the passenger terminal and vowed not to disperse until the premier arrived to talk to them. Prachob Muangin, leader of the protesters, said the residents wanted Surayud to determine compensation for their properties, which the Airports of Thailand (AOT) has to buy from them.A Cabinet resolution on November 21 last year ordered the AOT to compensate or buy the properties of people living close to the airport due to noise pollution. However, the residents and the AOT have not been able to agree on the level of compensation as the residents have sought amounts that would enable them to buy new properties in other areas, while the AOT has tried to bargain down the price.Surayud declined to meet the protesters, saying he had assig
by Dan Glaister
Members of an indigenous tribe from the Peruvian Amazon sued the oil giant Occidental Petroleum yesterday in California's superior court, alleging that the company knowingly put the health of the Achuar people at risk and damaged their habitat.
The claim alleges that over the course of three decades Oxy, as it is known, engaged in "irresponsible, reckless, immortal and illegal
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Members of an indigenous tribe from the Peruvian Amazon sued the oil giant Occidental Petroleum yesterday in California's superior court, alleging that the company knowingly put the health of the Achuar people at risk and damaged their habitat.
The claim alleges that over the course of three decades Oxy, as it is known, engaged in "irresponsible, reckless, immortal and illegal
The implementation of sanctions over industry that produce pollution will be more effective than a moratorium of new vehicle manufacturing. Industrial pollution, said former Coordinating Minister for the Economy Rizal Ramli, was one the causes of the green-house effect that affects global warming.“There must be a financial sanction such as tax so that they reduce pollution gradually,” he said at the break of a discussion, “Settlement and Rehabilitation of Ecological Justice” yesterday (04/19). He responded to the plan of Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar's proposal of moratorium of new vehicle production if air pollution could not be reduced.Earlier: Indonesia minister proposes new-car ban
I can already hear the libs whining that this is a single voice speaking out against so many of the global warning alarmists. What I find disturbing is the way Algore and all the others Chicken Littles go on and on about therevbeing a "consensus" amongst scientists concerning global warming? A consensus?! Since when is science and research ran by consensus or committee? Liberals love committee decisions and consensus for a number of reasons. Chielf amongst them is 1) they have no faith in the individual and 2) a committee decision relieves the individual of personal responsibility for any dumb ass decisions made. And as we all know personal responsibility is anathema to libs. Their standard MO would be to make personal ad hominem attacks against the scientist in question rather than fodcus on the facts rationally. Liberalism is all about emotions and feeling all good about yourself. Results are secondary to "good intentions". 'He meant well". How many ti
Various factors in the environment and outside of your home can be important triggers that cause asthma and asthma attacks.
While there is no evidence on asthma and air pollution, it can trigger attacks in people who have asthma.
Some air pollutants can cause asthma and worsen asthma symptoms.
As asthma and air pollution go [...]
Light pollution is generally seen as a conservation issue. Mainstream environmentalists are now concerned with threats to the human habitat rather than preservation of natural beauty, and findings published today by the British Astronomical Society are unlikely cause more than a ripple. The research showed that fewer than half of us can see 10 stars in Orion (on a clear night you should be able to see 50).
The green lobby pipes up from time to time about light pollution. Southampton City Council’s plans for a ‘Laser Gateway’, four high power lasers on the Clock Tower designed to brand the port, for example, were of course criticised by the local Campaign for Rural England and Friends of the Earth. But with greenhouse gas emissions on the agenda, most activists have bigger fish to fry.
There is an interesting trend here. While we are quickly waking up to the fact that we have ecological footprints, we are not becoming more aware of Earth’s natural rhythms - nor do we want to. Th
Proving that there is no greater impetus for environmental protection than human need, China announced a raft of aggressive new measures to help reverse the ecological damage occurring alongside the nation's unprecedented economic growth.New policies include an extensive water-saving plan to cut the nation’s water use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 20 percent within five years, a new climate change plan aimed chiefly at mitigating future water supply shortages, and a policy to make provincial officials directly responsible for environmental harm.Food security, global warming related water shortages and rising pollution levels were all cited as key concerns in bringing forward the new measures.Now if we could get North Americans to similarly see the connection between environment and human health we'd really be on to something.
Whether you agree that human activity on earth is polluting the atmosphere and triggering a warming of the globe, the facts are in - cattle rearing contributes more to global atmospheric, water and land pollution than automobiles.After first publishing this news last week, thousands of people have read this article on the Internet and dozens have written to me asking that I offer more evidence of the claim.I appreciate the feedback, and so I have collected some more facts about cattle pollution from a number of sources on the web.- Global meat production is projected to more than double from 229 million tons in 1999/2001 to 465 million tons in 2050, while milk output is set to climb from 580 to 1043 million tons. [source: United Nations report, Dec., 2006]- When emissions from land use (such as production of feedcrops and grazing land) and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9% of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share o
Check out this amazing quote from an amazing writer:
This is why the problem of mind pollution is so critical. Now when I speak of mind pollution, I am not only thinking of "bad" books, movies, and so forth, but of the mediocre ones as well. You see, unless we set before ourselves an "habitual vision of greatness", we will surely degenerate. This is why it is ruinous that so much of our Christian literature is of such poor literary quality. The sad fact of the modern world is that, in the main, men do not read at all, and many women are captives to the escape romance novel, which is of such poor quality that it should not even be considered literature. We simply must raise our sights.
- From Richard J. Foster's Study Guide for Celebration of Discipline
While Foster's quote about romance novels may sound a tad harsh, men aren't off the hook either. At the Dan Allender conference I recently attended, he referred to watching sports on TV as "a form of pornography". The main p
From Financial Times
China has recorded double-digit growth for the fourth year in succession, according to the country's top economic planner, amid rising tension between the push for continued fast development and the environment.
Ma Kai, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, said on the agency's website on Friday that the economy had grown by 10.5 per cent in 2006 "according to initial calculations".
The figure, released by Mr Ma ahead of the official announcement of growth figures due on January 25, records an economy slowing slightly from the blistering growth of more than 11 per cent recorded during the first quarter of last year.
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Teddy's Opinion: In my personal experience, the pollution problem is very serious in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau but I don't think it will affect the amount of foreign investment because of the strong economic growth.
From Dhimmi Watch:"Women Asked to Leave Seminar" by Raid Qusti for Arab News: RIYADH, 22 November 2006 — A presenter from King Saud University at an international medical seminar at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center caused a stir yesterday when he insisted that all women — including medical and media professionals — leave the room before he would enter the room to give his presentation. Initially some women expressed consternation at the request, but later relented and left the room so the doctor and orthodox man could give his presentation about Islam and the ethics of organ donation and end-of-life issues. Prior to the presentation by Dr. Yousef Al-Ahmed, the audience was informed that the doctor would not be in the same room with women when he spoke about medical ethics. "We had to ask the female medical staff to leave the hall based on the sheikh's request," said a member of the organizing committee who preferred to remain anonymous. "This
Want to stop E. Coli? Get rid of animals. Half of the bacteria in the wild comes from animals. In the Potomac and Anacostia rivers only 16% and 24% respectively comes from humans.
Look for environmentalists to start protesting against animals real soon.
