tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41319718529835965962024-03-05T20:10:26.930+05:30GreenEngerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338157570827302622noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131971852983596596.post-47185314961568182892012-10-18T15:23:00.002+05:302012-10-18T15:23:38.588+05:30Save OUR Earth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Without the Earth we have no where to live, along with many other organisms. If we don't save the Earth now maybe our children or grandchildren might not be able to see it for long. Our atmosphere is weakening and we have to do something about it fast. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We could plant more trees to create more oxygen to keep the bad air away from the atmosphere, or we could just stop cutting down the rainforest. We are living and we need the space but we aren't the only species on this earth. Saving the rainforest is not only good for us and the atmosphere but also good for the many different species that it homes.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We could try to get as many people as possible to switch to hybrids and other energy saving things to use less fossil fuel for energy and relying more on solar and wind energy. Fossil fuels are destroying our earth and we need to limit the use of it.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Recycling is a great and easy way to help our precious planet. Everyone can help, all they have to do is follow three simple rules; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The world is precious and we need to keep it that way.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338157570827302622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131971852983596596.post-15117461936800158412012-10-08T13:16:00.004+05:302012-10-08T13:20:10.403+05:30YOU CAN SAVE THE TIGER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By Darshita Pathak</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you think you are just one person and there isn't much you can do to save the tiger, you are wrong. There are plenty of ways you can help. For a start, you could join Kids for Tigers or one of the many tiger conservation organisations working on the issue. Here are some more ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the best things you could do to save the tiger is to spread the message. You could do this by taking part in, or starting your own rally. All you have to do is get a few of your friends who love tigers to get a few of their friends who love tigers and gather together at a public place. With posters and pamphlets in support of the tiger, you'd be amazed at how much interest you will generate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Start a Signature Campaign</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you know that there are tigers in a forest near your hometown, start a petition to declare the area a tiger reserve. Create awareness about the area and gather as many signatures as you can. Make sure your local government hears you loud and clear. Taking your signature scroll to a tiger conservation organisation will add to their efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Start your Own 'NGO' or Nature Club</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Get your tiger-loving friends together. Educate your families and neighbours, your teachers and school friends. Organise 'zero-cost' activities like nature walks and birdwatching trips with your friends and family. 'Notice Nature' and your understanding and respect for the natural world will deepen. If you really understand the issues, access images from a tiger conservation group and organise an audio-visual in your school.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Write Letters to the Prime Minister and to Newspapers</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Make a written appeal to the Prime Minister or the Chief Minister of your state asking them to make tigers a priority. Tell them that you want your country's natural wealth protected. It is, after all, their job. If you see an environmental offence taking place near where you live, report it to your local newspaper.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Raise Money for Tiger Conservation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Think up creative ways to raise money for tiger conservation. You could sell Diwali cards. If you are a great chef, bake cakes and cookies or make lemonade for sale during a fair or a sports day. Organise a "Tiger Run" and get people to sponsor every participant that finishes a race. Once you have collected a sum, send it to your favourite tiger conservation organisation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Be a Good Earthling</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse. Turn off the tap while you brush, turn out the light when you leave a room, use less paper. Don't use plastic bags unnecessarily. Use glass over styrofoam and don't buy stuff you don't really need. These seem like small things but they aren't. When you save the earth's resources, you are saving tigers.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338157570827302622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131971852983596596.post-65403549656905356232012-10-08T13:14:00.000+05:302012-10-08T13:14:03.481+05:30How is Wildlife Affected by Global Warming? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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that even small changes in temperature are enough to send hundreds if not
thousands of already struggling species into extinction unless we can stem the
tide of global warming. And time may be of the essence: A 2003 study published
in the journal Nature concluded that 80 percent of some 1,500 wildlife species
sampled are already showing signs of stress from climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The key impact of global warming on wildlife is habitat displacement, whereby
ecosystems that animals have spent millions of years adapting to shift quickly.
Ice giving way to water in polar bear habitat is just one example of this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another, according to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Washington Post</i>, is the possibility
that warmer spring temperatures could dry up critical breeding habitat for
waterfowl in the prairie pothole region, a stretch of land between northern
Iowa and central Alberta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Affected
wildlife populations can sometimes move into new spaces and continue to thrive.
But concurrent human population growth means that many land areas that might be
suitable for such “refugee wildlife” are already taken and cluttered with
residential and industrial development. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Beyond habitat displacement, many scientists agree that global warming is
causing a shift in the timing of various natural cyclical events in the lives
of animals. Many birds have altered the timing of long-held migratory and
reproductive routines to better sync up with a warming climate. And some
hibernating animals are ending their slumbers earlier each year, perhaps due to
warmer spring temperatures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To make matters worse, recent
research contradicts the long-held hypothesis that different species coexisting
in a particular ecosystem respond to global warming as a single entity.
Instead, different species sharing like habitat are responding in dissimilar
ways, tearing apart ecological communities millennia in the making.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Animals Affect People Too</b><br />
As wildlife species go their separate
ways, humans can also feel the impact. A World Wildlife Fund study found that a
northern exodus from the United States to Canada by some types of warblers led
to a spread of mountain pine beetles that destroy economically productive
balsam fir trees. Similarly, a northward migration of caterpillars in the
Netherlands has eroded some forests there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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According to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Defenders of Wildlife,
some of the wildlife species hardest hit so far by global warming include
caribou (reindeer), arctic foxes, toads, polar bears, penguins, gray wolves,
tree swallows, painted turtles and salmon. The group fears that unless we take
decisive steps to reverse global warming, more and more species will join the
list of wildlife populations pushed to the brink of extinction by a changing
climate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338157570827302622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131971852983596596.post-38362263044287196592012-10-08T13:12:00.000+05:302012-10-08T13:12:08.147+05:30Endangered Stripes <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Chinese mythology, the white tiger was
appointed the guardian of the country’s west. Legend had it that if a tiger
ever survived to its 500th birthday, its tail would turn white. Consequently,
white tigers would only appear to emperors who ruled virtuously: they were the
symbols of a peaceful reign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But while tigers might be revered creatures in
Chinese lore, the king of beasts now faces a tipping point in its existence.
According to the Chinese zodiac, this is the Year of the Tiger. Scientists and
wildlife advocates are hoping the year’s iconic importance will help in saving
the world’s last remaining wild tigers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The great cats have historically inspired
everyone from poets to warriors. They now also symbolize vanishing environments
that support both animals and humans. In India, there’s a saying that when the
tiger disappears, the forests will fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to the Save the Tiger Fund, wild
tiger numbers have slid from 100,000 as recently as a century ago to as low as
3200 last year. The threat of extinction looms for the Siberian tiger, the
world’s largest cat. A 2009 report by the Siberian Tiger Monitoring Programme,
co-ordinate by the Wildlife Conservation Society in association with Russian
government organizations among others, revealed that recent Siberian tiger
numbers have plummeted by 41% from their 12-year average.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“That came as a big shock,” says Judy Mills,
the co-coordinator for the International Tiger Coalition. She describes 2010 as
“the most important year in the history of tigers”, and believes it will be
absolutely critical for the tiger’s future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Tyger Tyger, burning
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">National and international leaders agree with Mills.
Late last year, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled a last ditch
effort to save the Siberian tiger. He plans to host an international summit
with the World Bank in Vladivostok this September, and has set the goal of
doubling wild tiger numbers worldwide to 6500 by the year 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Conservation organizations have planned a
series of workshops leading up to Putin’s tiger summit in Vladivostok. But
China’s decisions carry special weight that could either save or doom tigers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wildlife experts point back to 1993, which was
when the Chinese government banned the trade in tiger parts used for
traditional Chinese medicine. The move helped to curb consumer demand, which
has consistently driven poachers to hunt down wild tigers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338157570827302622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131971852983596596.post-39240275902987724412012-10-08T12:45:00.001+05:302012-10-08T12:45:07.857+05:30EXTINCT SPECIES : FOREST OWLETS <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Even as efforts are on to declare it the state
bird of Maharashtra, the critically endangered forest owlet’s habitat continues
to either vanish or degrade due to encroachment and inappropriate forest
management. Of the species that was thought to be extinct in 1884 only to be
sighted again in 1997, 113 years later, by a group of American ornithologists,
only 300 to 500 forest owlets remain. Now, experts feel its elevation to state
bird status may do more harm than good.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The bird, also known as Blewitt’s Owl, was first
spotted in December 1872 in the Bansa-Phuljar range in the eastern part of the
then Central Provinces, now Chhattisgarh, by a British bird collector, F R
Blewitt. The forest owlet is now critically endangered as per the International
Union for Conservation of Nature list and Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection
Act of India. “We were not able to find even one pair in and around the woods
in Chhattisgarh. Almost all those forests have been cut down and the land is
now used for farming by tribals,” says Girish Jathar, a wildlife researcher
working on forest owlets. He adds, “A habitat modelling study by our team has
suggested that there has been a 20 per cent decrease in the prime habitat of
the bird since 2004.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">In 1997, the bird was rediscovered by American
ornithologist Pamela Rasmussen in Toranmal in Nandurbar district of
Maharashtra. It is endemic to central India and is found in Melghat, Toranmal,
Taloda and some sites in Khandwa and Burhanpur districts in Madhya Pradesh. It
has been observed that the owlet is found in forests with a high density of
teak trees. “As a tiger finds its place at the top of the food chain in the
forests, the forest owlet, too, is at the top of the food chain and thus
indicates a healthy forest. Declaring it a state bird of Maharashtra will
attract a large number of amateur photographers and enthusiasts to the
fortunately-not-so-well-known sites. One can see what has happened to tiger
reserves,” says Dharmaraj Patil, who along with Jathar, was part of a detailed
study of the bird in central India.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">A method called ‘call replay’ is used to spot the
bird. Jathar says, “There is a danger that if tourists use this method
increasingly for sighting the bird, there may be adverse physiological and
behavioural effects. Birds have been seen destroying their own nests and
breaking their own eggs.” In their study, these researchers had recommended
that cattle grazing be banned in and around the identified sites and had also
asked the forest department not to take forest management measures like drawing
fire lines in March, which is the peak breeding season of the bird.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">In 2010, the Bombay Natural History Society
(BNHS) had recommended the bird for state bird status. The proposal will come
up for discussion when the Wildlife Board of Maharashtra state meets next. BNHS
director Asad Rahmani says, “The present state bird of Maharashtra, the
yellow-footed green pigeon, is found not only found in Maharashtra and India
but also in some of the neighbouring countries. The forest owlet, which is
found almost only in Maharashtra, is a suitable state bird. The status will
help as it did in the case of tigers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Madhav Gadgil, an environmentalist and natural
historian, says that in case of many animals, special status has not visibly
helped their conservation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The deterioration of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_(biophysical)" title="Environment (biophysical)"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">environment</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">through depletion of resources such as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air" title="Air"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">air</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water" title="Water"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">water</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil" title="Soil"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">soil</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> is the degradation of an
environment.Thus any type of imbalance in an environment is undesirable.But
humans are continously interrupting the cycle of nature for their own
comforts.PLASTICS, the non-biodegradable thing is used by everybody as it is
convenient and easy to use right from the vegetable vendor to a designer store.
But most of us are blissfully of the repurcussions that are occuring and will
take place in the future.This shows plastics have become an immense part of a
human life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One report says” The per
capita consumption of plastic in India doubled from 4 kg in 2006 to 8 kg in
2010, and would touch the global average of 27 kg per person by 2020. Among the
factors driving this growth are increasing use of plastics in packaging,
infrastructure, agriculture, automotives, healthcare and FMCG segments”Ashok
Goel, president, PlastIndia Foundation, an industry body, said the current size
of the plastics industry is Rs 85,000 crore, and would grow at an average of 10
percent a year over the next five years to reach Rs 1.33 lakh crore by 2015.He
said <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>60 percent of the plastics
consumed in India is recycled, but the plastic remnants in municipal waste
(accounting for 3 percent of the total waste) create a negative impression
around its use.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>60 percent of
the plastics consumed in India is recycled, but the plastic remnants in
municipal waste (accounting for 3 percent of the total waste) create a negative
impression around its use.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another report in
Business-Standard says” The per capita consumption of plastic in the country
stood at 6 kg now and is expected to go up to 12 kg by 2011. By 2012, India is
also projected to be the third largest consumer market for plastic goods with a
consumption of 12.5 million tonnes per annum, behind US and China. While the
consumption of plastics in US is projected at 38.9 million tonnes per annum,
China will be neck to neck with US at 38.8 million tonnes per annum."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now the question is why this
issue is critical? The following effects of use of plastics gives us the
answer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Litter the landscape:</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Once they are used, most bags go into landfill, or
rubbish tips. Each year more and more bags are ending up littering the
environment. Once they become litter, plastic bags find their way into our
waterways, parks, beaches, and streets. And, if they are burned, they infuse
the air with toxic fumes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kill animals: </span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">About 100,000 animals such as dolphins, turtles whales,
penguins are killed every year due to these bags. Many animals ingest plastic
bags, mistaking them for food, and therefore die. And worse, the ingested
plastic bag remains intact even after the death and decomposition of the
animal. Thus, it lies around in the landscape where another victim may ingest
it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Non-biodegradable:</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And one of the worst environmental effects is that they
are non-biodegradable. The decomposition takes about 400 years. No one will
live so long to witness decomposition of plastic. Thus, save the environment
for the future generation of humans as well as animals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Petroleum is required to produce plastic bags:</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> As it is, petroleum
products are diminishing and getting more expensive by the day, since we have
used this non-renewable resource increasingly. Petroleum is vital for our
modern way of life. It is necessary for our energy requirements - for our
factories, transport, heating, lighting, and so on. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So.the next thing to take
into account is ”What can be done about the Use of Plastic Bags?”Single-use
bags have become such a ubiquitous way of life that it seems as if we simply
cannot do without them. However, if we have the will, we can start reducing
their use in small ways.A ban on plastics is already levied but the ammendment
of the act is not seen up to the mark and the impact of the ban is not observed
for a long term.There must be a social awareness regarding the issue only after
which the scenario will change.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A tote bag can make a good
substitute for holding the shopping. You can keep the bag with the cashier, and
then put your purchases into it instead of the usual plastic bag.Recycling the
bags you already have is another good idea. These can come into use for various
purposes, like holding your garbage, instead of purchasing new ones.More and
more goods need to be packed within a recyclable plastic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While governments may be
working out ways to lessen the impact of plastic bags on the environment,
however, each of us should shoulder some of the responsibility for this
problem, which ultimately harms us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The influence of manmade global warming on
the climate system continues to grow, with human fingerprints identified in
more than two dozen climate “indicators” examined by an international research
team — from air temperatures to ocean acidity — for a comprehensive annual
“State of the Climate” report released Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In a related study also released on Tuesday,
climate researchers said manmade global warming is already shifting the
probability of many extreme weather and climate events, making heat waves,
droughts, and other events more likely to occur in some parts of the world. The
study found that manmade global warming made the devastating Texas drought and
heat wave of 2011, which was the most expensive drought in the Lone Star State's
history, at least 20 times more likely compared to years with similar
large-scale weather patterns in the 1960s. The report also tied other recent
extreme events worldwide to manmade warming.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Together, the two reports amount to a
comprehensive accounting of the present state of the climate system, over which
mankind is now exerting a greater impact than ever before.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> “Every weather event that happens now
takes place in the context of a changing global environment,” said deputy NOAA
administrator Kathryn D. Sullivan in a press release. The reports were released
during a time when extreme weather events have been making international
headlines, with the U.S. having just experienced an </span></b><a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/heat-wave-rivals-events-of-dust-bowl-era/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Fax","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">historic heat wave</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> that has withered
crops. Drought has expanded across the lower 48 states, affecting 56 percent of
the contiguous U.S., and Russia is burying the dead from </span></b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/world/europe/after-russian-floods-grief-rage-and-deep-mistrust.html?_r=1" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Fax","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">flash flooding that struck Krymsk</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;">, a small town near the
Black Sea. Through June, the U.S. has had its warmest 12-month period, warmest
year-to-date on record, and also saw a string of deadly wildfires.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The </span></b><a href="http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/article/2012/state-of-the-climate-in-2011-highlights"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Fax","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“State of the Climate 2011”</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> report, published by
the </span></b><a href="http://www.noaa.gov/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Fax","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (NOAA) and the American
Meteorological Society (AMS), presents a peer reviewed tour through the weather
and climate events of 2011. The overriding theme that emerges from the report
is that the effects of human activities are readily evident, be it in the form
of rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — global carbon
dioxide concentrations hit a new all-time high of 390 parts per million last
year, and will cross the 400 ppm threshold worldwide by 2016 — to the
inexorable increase in ocean heat content.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The report shows that a La Nina event,
characterized by cooler-than-average sea surfac e
temperatures, helped keep global average surface temperatures down compared to
2010, but it was one of the warmest La Nina years on record.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the Arctic, which has been warming at
twice the rate of the rest of the globe, 2011 had the second-lowest sea ice
extent on record. Barrow, Alaska, located above the Arctic Circle, experienced
a record 86 straight days when the temperature failed to drop below freezing. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="color: red; font-family: "Lucida Fax","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">The Impacts of global warming<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;">It's nearly impossible to overstate the threat of climate
change. Greenhouse gas emissions are rising more rapidly than predicted and the
world is warming more quickly in response.<br />
<br />
Global warming will
have </span></b><a href="http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/problems/"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Fax","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">catastrophic effects</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> such as accelerating sea level rise,
droughts, floods, storms and heat waves. These will impact some of the world's
poorest and most vulnerable people, disrupting food production, and threatening
vitally important species, habitats andecosystems.<br />
As we work to reduce emissions, we must simultaneously begin to adapt
to the increasing</span></b><a href="http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/problems/"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Fax","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> impacts of climate change</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are many causes of Global Warming. The destruction
and burning down of tropical forests , traffic clogging up the city streets ,
rapid growth of unplanned industries, the use of CFCs in packaging and
manufacturing products, the use of detergents etc. cause Global Warming.
Besides, overpopulation, deforestation are the causative factors of Global
Warming. The setting up of mills and factories in an unplanned way has a great
effect on environment. These mills and factories produce black smoke which gets
mixed with air and increases the amount of CO<sub>2</sub>.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Burning
of Gas such as Methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) and fuel also increase CO<sub>2</sub>
in the environment. Killing animals like birds, big cats, lions, tigers is also
a alarming cause of Global Warming.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The
effects of Global Warming is very dangerous for our existence and survival. The
sun’s scorching heat comes to earth in a direct way. Therefore, the earth’s
surface becomes seriously heated. Agriculture, forestry and fishery is
seriously be damaged. This can catastrophically reduce mankind’s ability to
grow foods, destroy wildlife. Global Warming also cause sea-water to swell up. All
species are important for maintaining ecological balance. If one is lost, the
whole natural environment changes. To prevent the dangerous effects of Global
Warming necessary steps should immediately be taken.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> People
should not be allowed to cut off trees which causes deforestation. Rather they
should be advised and suggested to plant more and more trees in accordance with
their capability and convenience. Forests also control the natural balance.
People should be made aware of it. Mills, factories, brick-fields should be set
up in a very good planned way. There should be well drainage system to pass
away waste materials, wastages and poisonous chemicals.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The alarming world’s
climate is very dangerous for mankind and ecological balance. Unless Global
Warming is not controlled, no men, animals will be able to live, grow and
thrive. So, we should try maintain the ecological balance to decrease the
effects of Global Warming</span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">10 Ways to <s>Go Green and
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">How can we live lightly on the Earth and save money at the same
time? Here I want to share ideas on how to GO GREEN and SAVE GREEN at home and
at work.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Awareness it’s now at fullest. It seems like everyone's
"going green." Let’s take some more Efforts So that our
grandchildren-and their children-will thank us for living more sustainably.
Let's start now.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) when your older incandescent bulbs burn
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appliances when you're not using them. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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drying rack or clothesline to save the energy otherwise used during machine
drying.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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shorter showers to reduce water use. This will lower your water and heating
bills too.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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solar water heater to have a warm and efficient bath<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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bicycle - This saves petrol/diesel costs while improving your cardiovascular
health and reducing your risk of obesity.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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your vehicles at stops<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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check up your vehicles to use fuel efficienty <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Eat smart.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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you oily food habit it cost more in cooking and as well as cause lots of harm
to environment<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Skip the bottled/packet water.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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all they just cost a lot Next the use lots of plastic and finally if you can
get free water around then why to pay<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Think before you buy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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things which are really necessary and avoid useless purchase as purchase
results to more production and more production result to more harm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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from libraries instead of buying personal books and movies. This saves money,
not to mention the ink and paper that goes into printing new books.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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clothes that don't need to be dry-cleaned. This saves money and cuts down on
toxic chemical use.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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in high-quality, long-lasting products. You might pay more now, but you'll be
happy when you don't have to replace items as frequently (and this means less
waste!).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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some amount of your property and plant some veggies, fruits which can help you
to get a clean non toxic food without paying anyone<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><u>10 SIMPLE THINGS WE CAN DO TO SAVE MOTHER EARTH</u></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><u>By Kevin Vasoya</u></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle : Do your part to reduce waste by choosing reusable products instead of disposables. Buying products with minimal packaging (including the economy size when that makes sense for you) will help to reduce waste. And whenever you can, recycle paper, plastic, newspaper, glass and aluminum cans. By recycling half of your household waste, you can save 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide annually.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Switch off lights and other appliances when not in use and don't forget to unplug appliances too. it saves your money and energy both.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Change a Light Bulb : Wherever practical, replace regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. Replacing just one 60-watt incandescent light bulb with a CFL will save many bucks over the life of the bulb. CFLs also last 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs, use two-thirds less energy, and give off 70 percent less heat.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Drive Less and Drive Smart: Less driving means fewer emissions. Besides saving gasoline, walking and biking are great forms of exercise. Explore your community mass transit system, and check out options for carpooling to work or school. When you do drive, make sure your car is running efficiently. For example, keeping your tires properly inflated can improve your gas mileage by more than 3 percent. Every gallon of gas you save not only helps your budget, it also keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.also drive slowly about 40-60km/h to have better mileage and reduce air resistance.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Buy Energy-Efficient Products : When it’s time to buy a new car, choose one that offers good gas mileage. Home appliances now come in a range of energy-efficient models, and compact florescent bulbs are designed to provide more natural-looking light while using far less energy than standard light bulbs. Avoid products that come with excess packaging, especially molded plastic and other packaging that can’t be recycled. If you reduce your household garbage by 10 percent, you can save 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide annually.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. save water :It’s also a good idea to turn off the water when you’re not using it. While brushing your teeth, shampooing the dog or washing your car, turn off the water until you actually need it for rinsing. You’ll reduce your water bill and help to conserve a vital resource. also utilise rain water harvesting technique.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. Plant a Tree : If you have the means to plant a tree, start digging. During photosynthesis, trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. They are an integral part of the natural atmospheric exchange cycle here on Earth, but there are too few of them to fully counter the increases in carbon dioxide caused by automobile traffic, manufacturing and other human activities. A single tree will absorb approximately one ton of carbon dioxide during its lifetime.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. pay your bills and do other bank transactions online. it will have to save paper and reduce use of chemicals for printing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. Encourage Others to Conserve : Share information about recycling and energy conservation with your friends, neighbors and co-workers, and take opportunities to encourage public officials to establish programs and policies that are good for the environment.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338157570827302622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131971852983596596.post-45739604095507233632012-10-08T12:27:00.003+05:302012-10-08T12:27:58.441+05:30Ozone Day 16th September<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ozone day.........(16th september)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hovering some 10 to 16 kilometres above the planet’s surface, the ozone layer filters out dangerous ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun, thus protecting life on Earth. Scientists believe that the ozone layer was formed about 400 million years ago, essentially remaining undisturbed for most of that time. In 1974, two chemists from the University of California startled the world community with the discovery that emissions of man-made chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a widely used group of industrial chemicals, might be threatening the ozone layer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The scientists, Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina, postulated that when CFCs reach the stratosphere, UV radiation from the sun causes these chemically-stable substances to decompose, leading to the release of chlorine atoms. Once freed from their bonds, the chlorine atoms initiate a chain reaction that destroys substantial amounts of ozone in the stratosphere. The scientists estimated that a single chlorine atom could destroy as many as 100,000 ozone molecules.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The theory of ozone depletion was confirmed by many scientists over the years. In 1985 ground-based measurements by the British Antarctic Survey recorded massive ozone loss (commonly known as the “ozone hole”) over the Antarctic, providing further confirmation of the discovery. These results were later confirmed by satellite measurements.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The discovery of the “ozone hole” alarmed the general public and governments and paved the way for the adoption in 1987 of the treaty now known as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Thanks to the Protocol’s rapid progress in phasing out the most dangerous ozone-depleting substances, the ozone layer is expected to return to its pre-1980s state by 2060–75, more than 70 years after the international community agreed to take action. The Montreal Protocol has been cited as “perhaps the single most successful international environmental agreement to date” and an example of how the international community can successfully cooperate to solve seemingly intractable global environmental challenges.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The extent of ozone depletion for any given period depends on complex interaction between chemical and climatic factors such as temperature and wind. The unusually high levels of depletion in 1988, 1993 and 2002 were due to early warming of the polar stratosphere caused by air disturbances originating in mid-latitudes, rather than by major changes in the amount of reactive chlorine and bromine in the Antarctic stratosphere.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The ozone layer over the Antarctic has been thinning steadily since the ozone loss predicted in the 1970s was first observed in 1985. The area of land below the ozone-depleted atmosphere increased steadily to encompass more than 20 million square kilometres in the early 1990s, and has varied between 20 and 29 million square kilometres since then. Despite progress achieved under the Montreal Protocol, the ozone “hole” over the Antarctic was larger than ever in September 2006. This was due to particularly cold temperatures in the stratosphere, but also to the chemical stability of ozone-depleting substances – it takes about 40 years for them to break down. While the problem is worst in the polar areas, particularly over the South Pole because of the extremely low atmospheric temperature and the presence of stratospheric clouds, the ozone layer is thinning all over the world outside of the tropics. During the Arctic spring the ozone layer over the North Pole has thinned by as much as 30 per cent. Depletion over Europe and other high latitudes has varied from 5 to 30 per cent.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338157570827302622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131971852983596596.post-3696343469618157242012-10-08T12:22:00.002+05:302012-10-08T12:22:41.191+05:30World's Largest Producers Of ALternative Energy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Most countries have set
high goals for the utilization of renewable energy by the middle of the
century, but present day usage of alternative sources of energy is dominated by
the developed nations such as the United States, Germany, Spain and Denmark, with
Brazil and China leading the developing nations. Hydroelectric power is the
dominant renewable energy due to its widespread use but wind energy and solar
power are fast growing forms of alternative sources of energy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Largest Producers of Hydroelectric Power<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to <i>BP
Statistical Review – Full Report 2009</i>, published by Beacon Press in June
2009, the Three Gorges Dam helped China become the largest producer of
hydroelectric power:</span></b><b><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">China has 171 gigawatts (GW) of
installed hydroelectric capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Canada has 90 GW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Russia has 45 GW.</span></b><b><span style="background: black; border: none black 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-border-alt: none black 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-width: 0%; padding: 0in;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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Norway is only ninth in installed capacity, it produces over 98% of all its
electricity from hydroelectric power, while China, at number one with 171 GW of
installed capacity produces just under 18% of its electricity needs from hydro.
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<b><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Largest Producers of Wind Energy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Figures from<i> IEA
Wind Energy Annual Report 2008</i>, published by the International Energy
Agency in June 2009 shows that, except for China and India, the developed world
dominates the top ten wind energy users:</span></b><b><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The United States has an installed
capacity of 25,369 Megawatts (MW).<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Germany, with 23,902 MW is in
second place.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">China has 12,200 MW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">India has 9645 MW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">France has 3,387 MW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The United Kingdom has 3,331 MW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<b><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Largest Producers of Nuclear Energy</span></b><b><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Many environmentalists
would question the inclusion of nuclear fuel as a renewable source of energy,
but there is no doubt that it is a virtually carbon free alternative to fossil
fuels. Figures from<i> Key World Energy Statistics, 2009</i>, published by
the International Energy Agency in December 2009 show that the countries with
the highest installed capacity, are: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The United States has 106
gigawatts (GW) installed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">France has 63 GW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Japan has 49 GW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Russia has 22 GW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Germany has 20 GW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">South Korea has 18 GW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ukraine has 13 GW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Britain has 11 GW.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In all, the world has 372
GW of installed nuclear capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Largest Producers of Biofuels<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Renewables
Global Status Report: 2009 Update</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, published in December
2009 by REN21 has the United States as the world’s largest producer of biofuels
in 2008:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The United States produced 36
billion liters of biofuels.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Brazil produced 28 billion liters.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">France produced 3 billion liters.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Germany produced 2.7 billion
liters.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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“Grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) continued to be the fastest growing
power generation technology, with a 70 percent increase in existing capacity to
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whether incandescent bulbs will go, but when. Compact Florescent Lights
(CFLs) are the future. CFLs cost more but are vastly cheaper over their
life span because it takes eight or more incandescent bulbs to match the
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batteries, the electric car can do 0 to 60 mph in four seconds,
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<td align="left">They complement biofuels, such
as ethanol and biodiesel, by helping limited supplies of homegrown
liquid fuel go further. What's more, since they use the existing grid to
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<td align="left">Conveyer belts of mixed
recycling materials can be swished through a series of smart sensors and
sorters. Magnets pull out steel and iron, blowers tease out bags and
paper, while shakers and centrifuges help separate other materials.</td>
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materials with components designed for easy recycling will dominate the
IT products landscape. Energy efficiency will be the hallmark of all
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solar energy systems. Lowering the cost of converting the sun's photons
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338157570827302622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131971852983596596.post-10669051815715042022012-09-28T16:00:00.001+05:302012-09-28T16:00:32.785+05:30Techfest Green Campus Challenge<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZHUpWwjU7S8?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338157570827302622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131971852983596596.post-51305988267505471452012-09-24T15:27:00.003+05:302012-10-04T23:30:01.115+05:30CNG Advatages and Disadvantage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Most of today we are preffering to out by using vehicles either on Car or by two-wheeler.In previous year most of the vehicles were using petrol as fuel resource to their vehicles and trucks and heavy loaded vehicles were using desiel as fuel option. But as the technology improved and new fuel which energy saving and less pollution free resource is CNG.Natural gas, a fossil fuel comprised mostly of methane, is one of the cleanest burning alternative fuels. It can be used in the form of compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel cars and trucks.<br />
Dedicated natural gas vehicles are designed to run on natural gas only, whiledual-fuel or bi-fuel vehicles can also run on gasoline or diesel. Dual-fuel vehicles allow users to take advantage of the wide-spread availability of gasoline or diesel but use a cleaner, more economical alternative when natural gas is available. Since natural gas is stored in high-pressure fuel tanks, dual-fuel vehicles require two separate fueling systems, which take up passenger/cargo space.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"> Green Computing is called as Green IT.It’s
environment friendly IT where the main Objective is to reduce the
hazardous materials and maximize the
energy efficiency.<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It means "the
study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of
computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers,
storage devices, and networking and communications systems — efficiently and
effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment." The goals of
green computing are similar to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">green chemistry; reduce the
use of hazardous materials, maximize<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>energy
efficiency<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>during the product's lifetime, and promote the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>recyclability<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>biodegradability<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of defunct products and factory waste.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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required due to following reasons:</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">-Computer consumes a lot of energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">-so, we must have to reduce the power consumption
and thus reduce the global warming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">-to reduce pollution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">-to reduce toxicity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">One cannot achieve a Sustainable Strategy with a product, it takes
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">-The corporate architect must realize that the impact corporations
make on the environment now is engrained in doing business:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> -Executives are allocating time,
energy and money to invest in environmental initiatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Governments are allocating
research and regulations, and laws are being written to address the efficiency of data centers
and other critical components of IT infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Consumer advocates, policy makers and influential industry
leaders are promoting IT organizations to significantly confront the impact
that computing and electronics make on the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">-This is a vastly different landscape than for other galvanizing
themes such as SOA, agile design, or Web 2.0 and SaaS. Those themes did not
elicit the same degree of regulatory, legal, and advocacy. Ten years from now,
those initiatives may not exist in their present incarnation, but commitments
to reduce environmental impact and power consumption will continue to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">-As
the commitment to reduce environmental impact and power consumption are
becoming increasingly important objectives for organizations, architecture
leaders are now proactively considering environmental resource constraints
along with more traditional IT business goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Rather
than viewing the environmentally sustainable data center as a product feature
checklist for a onetime win, serious IT architects are adopting a more
comprehensive sustainability plan in their data center system design. While new
technology from the industry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to drive efficiency into the IT infrastructure,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"> *
electric current to run CPU , motherboard, memory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"> *
Running the fan & Spinning the disk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"> *
Monitor(CRT consumes more power than
any other computer component.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"> *
Printers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #00b050; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Problems
and causes with computers on global warming<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Leaving the
computer when in not use..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">(Screen savers, CPU, Fan consumes more power)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">We are used
to printout our works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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via electronics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Manufacturing
techniques<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Packaging <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Disposals
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">There are
many toxic materials used in computers. But two materials are very toxic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Problems:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Cause
damage to nervous system , blood system , kidneys, and also cause negative
effects on child brain development<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">•<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Also has toxic effects on plants, animals and
microorganisms .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cause chronic brain damage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Keep PCs
turned off, when not in use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Disable screen saver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Don’t print until
it is necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Use LCDs
instead of CRTs as they are more power efficient.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Use hardware/software with “energy star” label. It is the “seal of
approval” by Energy Star Organization of the government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Set low power “Sleep” mode.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">-can still download and perform other routines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Stand By<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">-it is energy conserving because switches to a “low
power state.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Hibernate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">-It writes an image of what you are currently working
on your file/hard drive and then shutts your
PC almost completely off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Use Email to reduce paper work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Add: “*Please Consider the environment: Do U
really need to print this mail?*”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"> (put
entire message in Subject line.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Place Information web-page, wikis instead of
making paper copies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">(online resource consume 90% less energy and produce
85% fewer co2 emissions.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Recycling E-waste:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Developed countries have now facility of recycling
e-waste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Greener Google
Browsing: Blackle.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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