Get a little from the earth
Published January 11, 2012 | 
Have you ever head about eco-friendly iPhone 4S cases? Hope you have. These cases have very beautiful modern look and made with vegetable-tanned Australian leather with the using only organic elements produced by PROUD Concept . There are many models (patterns) and colors you can choose from to pick the combination of pattern and color you like. So it’s perfect choice for all those who prefer environmentally-friendly style life.
Today’s so wide range of very stylish things by any styles and color helps you on the way to get a little from the earth but gives back in countless ways.
Powerful earthquake in Turkey
Published October 23, 2011 | It’s reported that today powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 struck eastern Turkey in an area near the Iranian border at 1:41 p.m., collapsed some buildings in the center of the city of Van and causing a number of deaths. Turkey is lying atop the North Anatolian fault, that is the cause of earthquakes frequently. Here is the list of the most powerful earthquakes that have ruptured the North Anatolian fault:
1939 December 26. Magnitude (MS) 7.9 – 8.0. 30,000 deaths. Fault length about 360 km. Initiated the eastward migration of significant earthquakes on the North Anatolian fault. (Termed the 1939 Erzincan earthquake)
1942 December 20. Magnitude (MS) 7.1. Fault length about 50 km. (Termed the 1942 Erbaa earthquake)
1943 November 26. Magnitude (MS) 7.6. Fault length about 280 km. (Termed the 1943 Tosya earthquake)
1944 February 01. Magnitude (MS) 7.3. Fault length about 165 km. (Termed the 1944 Bolu-Gerede earthquake)
1957 May 26. Magnitude (MS) about 7. Fault length about 30 km. (Termed the 1957 Abant earthquake)
1967 July 22. Magnitude (MS) 7.1. Fault length about 80 km. (Termed the 1967 Mudurnu Valley earthquake)
1999 August 17. Magnitude (MS) 7.8; MW 7.4-7.5)
2011 October 23. Magnitude (MS) 7.2
Climate Change Social Change 2011 Conference
Published October 13, 2011 | ?
The climate Change Social Change 2011 conference will be held at the Victoria Trades Hall, cnr of Victoria and Lygon Sts, Melbourne from September 30-October 3. Opening session is a free public lecture by the Marxist ecologist John Bellamy Foster top be held at the Sidney Myer Asia Centre at Melbourne University. See www.greenleft.org.au for more information.
What’s the greenest car ever made?
Published August 12, 2011 | So what’s the greenest car ever made? Well there may well be lots of cars and their manufactures that try to stake such a claim, of course.
But one car maker that deserves the accolade of having put together the greenest car of all is undoubtedly Honda.
“Why is that and what is the car in question” I hear you ask.
Easy; it’s the Honda Civic GX 4DR – and it is powered by natural gas.
But don’t think of this as some weird concept car that will never hit the showrooms. Not a bit of it in fact, for the Civic GX will be available from the Japanese manufacturer’s showrooms very soon across the United States.
The compressed natural gas powered Civic has already been market tested with governments, business fleets and a few test retail markets and Honda has clearly decided the world is now ready for this greener than green car.
And it’s been around for quite some time. In fact, when the Civic GX was awarded the accolade of the Greenest Car of 2011 by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, it was the eighth year in a row that the car had been awarded the top prize.
Honda still only makes a few thousand of the cars each year, so it may be a while before it’s voted the best family car – but it may also be the future of green motoring once compressed natural gas becomes more widely available.
The Civic GX’s U.S. retail launch scheduled for later in 2011 comes as President Barack Obama has asked for the wider adoption of low emission cars – and says that all federal cars will need to run on alternative, hybrid or electric power by 2015.
How You Can Save the Environment, Just By Walking
Published August 8, 2011 | The recent recession has caused an increase in the number of people holidaying within the country, aka ‘staycations’. Not only is this good for your wallet, but it is great for the environment. By not flying all around the world to the farthest reaches, you save tonnes on carbon emissions. A return flight from London to Barcelona alone causes 277 kilogrammes of CO2 per passenger so taking yourself out of the equation is a big step to reducing carbon emissions. A fantastic way to entertain yourself at home is by grabbing you Best Walking Boots and going on a walking holiday.
Some people believe that the only way to see spectacular sights is to go abroad and take in the city sights but it just isn’t true; there are so many places around your own country that go undiscovered. The cities take the major focus of most peoples’ attentions but the countryside can provide remarkable vistas of rolling hills and unending greenery. It is far more tranquil and natural that the hustle and bustle of city life, with pollution everywhere you look.
Take your car into the country and rent out a cottage or stay in a local bed & breakfast. Here you will be able to explore the local villages and meet the friendly people. Everything is at a slower pace so you will be able to walk everywhere and walking paths are all over to test your new boots from the Walking Boots Sale. Along the trails you will be able to spot the flora and fauna in their natural environment; there is nothing more rewarding than hearing the stillness and birdsong that echoes through the area. And there is a great satisfaction knowing that you are helping to preserve it all just by being there and not on a plane, spewing out pollution across the skies.
Using A Shredder To Help Save The Environment
Published July 21, 2011 | What happens to a company’s waste paper is rarely given a great deal of thought.
But for two specific reasons – security and environmental – it’s important to make the right choices.
The security implications of not taking proper steps to protect a company’s identity are obvious.
There are many unscrupulous people who would think nothing of taking an item of discarded stationery and copying it so they could send out official-looking letters purporting to be from that company.
Potentially, they could enter into business deals or make purchases with that company’s clients, and it could get the first company into legal and financial difficulties.
As far as the environment goes, thinking green means taking steps to recycle as much of the office’s waste as is possible.
Every company has an environmental footprint of some kind, and yet not every one has a set policy on recycling paper or cardboard.
It is still prevalent among businesses that employees screw up waste paper and toss it into a waste-basket. If this waste is combined with standard rubbish and simply thrown out to go to landfill, there is a big opportunity wasted for the company to recycle.
Using an office shredder means paper, and even heavier-duty items like cardboard packaging, can be combined and recycled. It can then be re-used by the company itself, sold on or used to help other companies who deal in animal bedding, packaging and so on.
Shredding does take time, compared to just screwing up waste paper and lobbing it into the bin. But the overall savings financially are quite significant, and the contribution to building a greener office cannot be measured.
A company can invest in paper shredders that have automatic paper feeds, to help minimise the time needed to operate them as well as free up some of the time of the person or persons who operate the machines.
Top Ten Tips For Greener Motoring
Published July 19, 2011 | There are many ways drivers can be more energy efficient, saving fuel and saving the planet into the bargain.
Here are our top ten tips for greener motoring;
1. Always drive smoothly drive smoothly. Smooth driving is the single most important factor in fuel efficient driving – and it’s safer. The better the driver is, the more s/he is able to anticipate road conditions and guide the car safely though situations whilst avoiding high revs and sharp braking; the two worst culprits working against energy efficient motoring.
2. Always drive off immediately even if the car is cold. This may go against your Dad’s advice from the old days, but modern cars are designed to work straight off the mark – so waiting for your car to warm up is pointless and wastes fuel.
3. Keep your revs down at all times. Change gear before 2,500rpm if your car is petrol driven, and 2,000rpm if it’s a diesel.
4. Drive more slowly. This needs no explanation – and it’s safer.
5. Step off the gas early. When slowing or driving downhill, stay in gear but take your foot off the accelerator earlier than you’re used to as this cuts the fuel flow to a negligible amount. If you have a hybrid car, let the electric power play its part in motoring uphill by keeping your revs to a minimum.
6. Traffic jams are here to stay – so if you’re in one, turn off the engine. Most modern cars use hardly any extra fuel when they are re-started without pressing the accelerator.
7. Keep your eye on your tyre pressure at all times. Under-inflated tyres can adversely affect fuel consumption to a remarkable degree.
8. Plan your journeys well – and the time you take them. Picking the best route and quietest times to drive has a huge effect on the amount of traffic you’ll encounter and, therefore, fuel consumption. And if you have children, you’ll minimise the “are we nearly there yet?” barrage of questions from the back seats of family cars!
9. Try not to take the car for short journeys. Cars are more fuel –efficient on longer journeys as engines have a chance to warm up and work to their optimum levels.
10. Keep your car as streamlined as possible by avoiding items which cause drag such as roof racks, bike carriers and the like.
The world’s greenest car
Published July 19, 2011 | Deciding exactly which is the world’s greenest car is debatable – but one car which certainly comes close is the T.27 designed by former Formula One Technical Director, Gordon Murray.
In June 2011, the car was introduced to the world at the Royal Automotive Club on London’s Pall Mall. Dubbed “The world’s most efficient electric car” the slightly strange looking goggle-eyed vehicle is just two and a half metres long.
The all electric T.27 can cover 100 miles on one charged battery and has a top speed of 65 miles an hour.
The T.27 will make its more formal debut at the Future Car Challenge in November 2011. The event isn’t a race, but a challenge to demonstrate low-energy impact over the route from Brighton to London – within minimum and maximum times.
The car has been specifically developed to be highly energy efficient throughout its life. Its predecessor sibling, the T.25, also designed by Murray, won two awards at the Future Car Challenge 2010 event – namely “Most Economic and Environment Friendly Small Passenger Vehicle” and for the “Most Economic Small Passenger Vehicle” – and the T.27 looks like it could repeat this success.
The T.25’s 25-kilowatt electric engine takes the car from 0-62 mph in under 15 seconds, whilst CO2 emission levels are a negligible 33g/km for the urban cycle and 43g/km overall.
Rather like Formula One itself, the Future Car Challenge is a competitive arena in which participants test their mettle against competitors at the absolute cutting edge of automotive technology; except, of course, that this is all about the environment.
In many ways, therefore, the kind of technology pitting its wits against the competition is more likely to find its way into the kind of production cars we’ll all be driving just a few years’ hence. For example, it is from such cutting-edge technology that hybrid cars are now becoming commonplace.
In turn, perhaps the hybrid car of today, will be the equivalent of the all battery-powered vehicle a decade or so from now – and all cars will be as green as the T.27 test car is today?
Where Does My Shredding Go?
Published July 18, 2011 | Not a question that many of us may have given much thought to, but as I was idly curious the other day when I used the shredder at work I thought I would have a look! Here are some of the obvious, and not so obvious, uses that I came across…
- Packing material for ornaments, crockery etc when moving house
- Animal bedding, imagine the hamster snuggled up in pink bits of the financial times!
- Donating to school for papier-mache modelling
- Insulating your walls or roof – yes really!
- Stuffing for scarecrows or the guy for your November 5th bonfire
- Kindling for starting a fire at home or in the garden
- Composting or a wormery – don’t really fancy that somehow…
- Packaging for sending parcels at Christmas and birthdays
- Make your own paper if you’re feeling arts and craftsy
- An alternative to cat litter, could get messy though…
Quite a strange list don’t you think but if any of those ideas appeal then put them into practice. Any materials which can be re-used have a positive impact on the environment so get your thinking cap on and come up with more ideas of your own. Paper shredders are an everyday item in most offices and generate an enormous amount of shreddings which can just be wasted. Anything we can do to make use of this bi-product of all our security measures then so much the better.
Asking yourself questions like ‘where does my shredding go?’ is one way to bring green thinking to work with you. Have a look round and see what else you can do to improve the environmental impact of your business. Do you waste energy? Throw out recyclables other than paper? You will probably be surprised at how a few small changes can make a big difference so take steps today and change the world around you.
Alaska earthquake
Published June 17, 2011 | It’s reported that a powerful earthquake, measured at magnitude 5.2, shakes state’s largest city in Alaska and other parts of the region on Thursday, June 16, 2011. According to seismologists at the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center The earthquake struck after 11 a.m. The quake occurred 30 miles below ground and its center is at about 50 miles southwest of Anchorage, according to Cindi Pressler, tsunami program manager. Reports said that the earthquake will not generate a tsunami.
I just want to remind that the most powerful earthquake was on On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m. ADT (03:36 3/28 UTC) occurred in Prince William Sound region of Alaska (magnitude 9.2). The epicenter was located at Lat. 61.04N, Lon. 147.73W, at a depth of approximately 25 km. This earthquake is the second largest earthquake ever recorded in the world. after a M9.5 earthquake in Chile in 1960. The duration of rupture lasted approximately 4 minutes (240 seconds).
here is 5 latest earthquakes which happend on the world only today, Friday, June 17, 2011
M 3.8, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Friday, June 17, 2011 04:18:41 UTC
Thursday, June 16, 2011 08:18:41 PM at epicenter
M 3.2, Dominican Republic region
Friday, June 17, 2011 04:03:27 UTC
Friday, June 17, 2011 12:03:27 AM at epicenter
M 5.2, New Britain region, Papua New Guinea
Friday, June 17, 2011 03:12:16 UTC
Friday, June 17, 2011 01:12:16 PM at epicenter
M 5.0, southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia
Friday, June 17, 2011 01:15:33 UTC
Friday, June 17, 2011 08:15:33 AM at epicenter
Depth: 35.20 km (21.87 mi)
M 4.9, central Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Thursday, June 16, 2011 22:17:27 UTC
Thursday, June 16, 2011 08:17:27 PM at epicenter