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admin — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:13:39 +0000

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The benefit of roof garden

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:50:55 +0000

Building a park on the roof building is one of the innovative and effective ways to improve environmental quality while reducing the impact of global warming. Efforts infiltration green bags on the roofs of buildings and structures are commonly known as roof gardens, green space or roof garden roof.

The existence of roof garden will add economic value for residential buildings which are equipped with a roof garden would feel more comfortable and visually beautiful. Benefits roof garden especially extensive in improving air quality and enhance environmental quality including:

Absorption of heat in the building is reduced by 10%. This means you can economize up to 60% of energy consumption used to cool the air. Temperatures in space can come down at least 1-2 celcius degrees, depending on the area of the roof garden.

The existence of the forage, especially the plants with leaf surface rough or jagged edges, especially potent to reduce noise for residents in the building.

Dark color will absorb heat between 70-90% of the total solar radiation

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:13:05 +0000

One thing that you can consider to make your house more elegant is the color of your wall paint outdoors.

Wall of a dark color will absorb heat between 70-90% of the total solar radiation that hit the area. Some of this heat would go into the house by way of conduction in the wall that would lead to heat inside the house. This would increase the energy needed to cool the room up to 20%.

The bright colors will reflect most of the rays and heat away from your home. The color is not necessarily white, but a green or blue color is good that is more bright color.

Wall with vines can also protect the wall from the heat by putting blocks sunlight and reflected it in advance. Select vines that is easy to care.

Even the smallest contribution will continue to conserve our energy and improve the environment.

Don’t dispose the water from Air Conditioner

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 06:53:54 +0000

Do you have air conditioning at home or office? Have you ever thought where you dispose of the waste water from air conditioner condensation? Usually people make long pipe and discharged into waterways, or there is also dispose into the street which eventually spilling water everywhere and a pool of water. Though the water’s been increasingly difficult and we throw away the water that can still be used for watering plants, cleaning the floor, or other.

Actually we can make newly installed air conditioners in our home or office and put a bucket in each AC pipes to collect water so that can reused. Maybe we can make pipe that connects the office air conditioning to some large pot so it does not need too much in the flush anymore or even do not need watering again.

At home, just plug it into a bucket of water in the morning and you can be used for watering the plants. As much as possible we do not use a valuable ground water for our use only for watering the plants. Use the remaining water from the air conditioner and / or rain water that has been accommodated. AC pipes can be designed so as to not block views or exacerbate environmental aesthetics and looks to be a part. For the countries, where water is very critical, they must conserve water as much as possible and the city government just issuing regulations regarding the design for the building where the waste water from the AC must be stored in underground storage, and will be used as irrigation for the garden around the building.

The point is we should be able to find a way for all sorts of water is not wasted, and should be utilized. We can say it still floods hit everywhere but the problem is underground water that has less and less when it is used only after the water discharged into the street and river. This is cause of water crisis.

What’s more your idea? And what else is wasted water that we can use again? Let’s think together.

Solution to reduce plastic waste

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:36:02 +0000

That is one of the slogans of the trends that exist across the world. We can begin to reduce our plastic waste to not wear it but replace it.

1. Do not use plastic bags for shopping. Bring your own shopping bag that can always be used again.
2. Do not just throw away plastic bottle after drinking. Fill with water again and again, although not too many refill. Approximately 5 times disposable still okay. For the usual drink in the car, prepare a bottle is always fully charged.
3. It’s better to buy a drink bottles that can be refilled and do not always have to buy another bottle of mineral water.
4. In western countries many cafes like Starbucks have started to allow customers to bring their own mugs or better to fill a coffee Thermos. Plastic bags can still be used again. But if the plastic glass can only once.

Sometimes it is also difficult if not inserted with an incentive to the customer. Yet if we do not use plastic bags or plastic cup of cafe will also reduce their costs thereby increasing profits.

So in western countries have a lot of entrepreneurs who want to come help provide incentives such as supermarkets which offer a discount when not using their plastic bags such as Aldi or Albertsons. IKEA instead will force customers to pay for plastic bags. With this IKEA expects customers will reduce consumption of plastic bags which reach 70 million bags per year just for the United States.

Singapore began to assign a particular day as “Bring Your Own Bag” Day, where customers are required to bring their own pockets and who does not carry required to pay the 30 cents that will be used for environmental activities. Shopping bags that can be reused now a best seller in Singapore.

In fact we have to laugh at those who do not understand the importance of environment and lack of awareness to reduce waste. Now many shopping bags with unique and funky design as well so that young children do not feel inferior. Drink bottles also are getting cool so do not feel like a kindergartner who brought a bottle to drink.

Cleaning The Sea with Microbacteria

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:45:57 +0000

Using nature source to clean the nature is the most appropriate method. When the territorial sea of a country is often marred by the tanker-oil tanker carrying crude oil from some countries to other countries, micro bacteria who live freely in the sea could be used to extract the oil at sea more quickly.

Name of the bio remediation process, which means eliminating pollutants by biological processes. Bio degradation is the decomposition process of oil at sea with biological materials, one with bacteria. Within three years study, it is discovered 182 new species and 53 genera in three areas of the sea territorial which became the main route of tankers, namely the Malacca Strait, Sunda Strait, and the Lombok Strait.

Instead of thinking about materials with chemical substances to clean the sea and ended up re-contaminate, it’s better utilize the wealth of marine bacteria. Fumiyoshi Okazaki, one of the researchers from Japan Nite, presents the research, titled “Diversity and Functional Analysis of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacterial Communities in Coastal Zones of Indonesia.” The study centered on the Straits of Malacca and Lombok Straits mentions the role of Acinetobacter and Alcanivorax a very dominant role in bio degradation. Natural microbes that are responsible for remediation of oil. The population of bacteria are constantly working and levels of n-Alkanes in constantly also decreased after seven days incubation period.

Facebook contribution for CO2 emissions

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:39:03 +0000

Facebook, one of the major social networking site that is currently growing rapidly, a few time ago announced plans to build large data centers in Oregon, USA. What is interesting is that all servers using the servers efficient plan in terms of consumption of electric energy to serve the millions of people communicate with each other, one of them is you.

Though seen with the use of environmentally friendly energy-efficient servers, but not enough for a data center, including one who consumes large amounts of electricity for the servers, cooling systems, and backup power device to be environmentally friendly, because the resources and processes which occurs at power plants must also environmentally friendly.

For those of you who feel concerned with the environment, there is one thing you can possibly make use of considerations with your facebook account. Because, based on information from Greenpeace, Facebook will rely on electricity supply for its data center from power plants that burn coal and increase carbon emissions to join the millions of tons of CO2 that have been scattered in the atmosphere beforehand.

PacifiCorp, an electric company of choice for Facebook to electricity supply, is a company which amounted to 83% of the electricity it generates comes from burning coal, geothermal and natural gas.

It remains unclear what underlies Facebook also choose to add the CO2 released into the atmosphere by selecting PacifiCorp. Presumably because of the cost of the power plant provides the best option for Facebook to grow more quickly by investing a lightweight.

Environmentally friendly disposal of office clearance methods

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:51:57 +0000

Office clearance is the activities that is not easy and rather difficult problems in waste disposal. The purpose is to rid an area from the items that is too large and move easily with transport to the center. Office clearance can consist of many items such as furniture, electronic items, even computer desktop that are no longer used in order to clear space. The company hired to deal with office clearance company that registered by the proper waste disposal authority and also comply with the waste disposal standards. An office clearance company that run the standard or recycling and approved methods for office waste is a requirement for company which find an office clearance business.

It is essential to contact a professional office clearance company to help your company remove unused items and legally dispose of all of them in the most environmentally friendly method. Find the company that can give assurances and make sure the items will be recycled, resale or reused if it is possible. Specialist company like Clear Environment delivering office clearance services and provide the client with an emphasis on maximum efficient sustainability and reduction of waste output, carbon footprint and save the cost. Clear Environment has been approved by many legal environmental regulations and focus on corporate social responsibility that come with office clearance projects standard. They provide the best possible solution for their disposal needs for their client. They will help your office balance the needs of the environment with finance for your office clearance project.

Clear Environment removes the waste that is not use such as old furniture, electronic items, office appliances and general waste with a strict policy and a minimum of 80% recycling or re-use of furniture waste. Clear Environment also provide detailed cost of each project on an individual basis, dependant on which disposal methods are relevant with style, type, condition, and the item as well as timescales and operational constraints.

Easy to make compost using compost tumbler

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:51:23 +0000

One way to handle garbage is 3R, which is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. In order to use the organic waste as compost. How do I make compost? Can we make it at home? At first you have to separate the organic and inorganic waste, you know what is organic waste? yes rotting garbage, such as leaves, trash from the kitchen, or leftovers and shredded into small pieces.

The next step is mix the waste that has been shredded by active material. The active material is “microorganisms” that could be taken from the ground in a drain, or bacteria than sold on the market (called EM4) into a container that is always enough air supply.

Trash containers stored into some place that have enough air circulation and always turn around every 2-3 days. When this piece of garbage become warmer, it is a sign that the process of compost formation worked well. After 3 weeks you can take the waste that has a dark brown color from the pile and it can be use as fertilizer for crops and your gardening.

The easiest way is using compost bin. Today, compost tumblers have replaced the necessity of daily work to make compost. This compost tumbler is to automatically keep everything aerated. Air is very important for the process and without the air, you will have little or no fertilizer for your crops and garden.

It is very little mess and it will function without to many maintenance. Some of tumbler have a manual crank and driven by solar power or electricity. Choose the type that fit to your needs.

Grocery organic shopping list for your health

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:37:10 +0000

In this century, the availability of information through various media makes people more aware and understanding about health. One growing trend is a healthy food and organic. But Do we need to eat all organic foods and no longer to buy food or fruits that “ordinary”? Environmental Working Group answer this question by making a grocery shopping list to buy organic and not sufficiently comprehensive to fruits and vegetables which is often consumed. Short list you can see above this picture.

What would we have to reduce consumption of foods which contain pesticides. We also have to care because pesticides can interfere with our health, especially in children. Therefore, whenever possible buy organic foods in accordance with the list from the EWG, so no at all be organic. Some of organic that we do not have to buy in organic are onions, avocado, pineapples, mangoes, asparagus, bananas, kiwi, vegetable cabbage, broccoli and papaya.

In order to consume food that is clean and healthy, we should wash all fruits and vegetables before eating. Washing can decrease but not eliminate at all (information from the EWG). For a thin rind that you can rinse under the tap about 20-30 seconds. Fruit peel can reduce the content of pesticides but also sometimes even eliminate the essential nutrients contained in the fruit skin.