That has been the question of the past week and here are the results:
Surprisingly a rather large part of our visitors (voters) are already hosted on a green web host. That makes us happy. But what makes us happier is that 33% will soon go green. It’s good to see that things are moving and people are realising that you can green every aspect of your life.
Who is to be blamed for climate change? The male population of the human race, of course. Sure we are all equal in our actions but if you consider climate change with a gender perspective a strong pattern reveals itself.
The (wealthy) men consume and pollute the most on our planet. And because of the fact that it’s often the same men that has the power in our communities and daily life they will continue to permit themselves to consume and pollute in the same extreme way.
Ulla Jacobsen film “The Plastic Battle” has won Friends of the Earth’s Best One-minute green film award.
The judges, David Sproxton, Dilly Gent and Andrew Macdonald, gave the one minute film praises from “Good concept” to “Brilliant film. Perfect! The best!”
Ulla Jacobsen says that “over-packaging of children’s toys takes on absurb dimensions.” And I can only agree with her.
So, have you talked about the environment today? Cause today it’s the 15th October and it’s Blog Action Day. What did you write about? What kind of effect did it have on your daily readers? Please share your thoughts by making a comment, posting in our forum or send me an email.
To tell you the truth I haven’t been able to blog about the environment today (besides this post). I am sitting here with an awful cold. It has everything, from a soaring throat, headaches, and fever to a stomach that doesn’t seem to like any kind of food today. So please understand why I’ll save my posts until later this week when I get better.
But there is an upside. You haven’t read this post in vain. I will let the award winning (and hopefully soon-to-be-president) environment activist Al Gore speak for me in his documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Almost all of human activities are connected with the environmental destruction. Food consumption is one of the most major factors and surprisingly, it mostly affects the sea and marine life.
Fish is proved to be a healthy meal which provides humans with considerable needed substances and nutritions. This,along with many other reasons,have led to the mass consumption of most kinds of marine life worldwide. Even species we don’t consume are in danger, mainly due to the methods used to fish the others. Bottom trawling is the recent most destructive way of catching fish. All fish not wanted are thrown dead back into the sea. Not to mention the complete destruction of coral reefs and sea bed.
The famous climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, said they had been chosen “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”.
This is a strong and important political statement against the naysayers and deniers that is very much needed.
The spokeswoman Carola Traverso Saibante from IPCC said “we [they] would have been happy even if he [Al Gore] had received it alone because it is a recognition of the importance of this issue.”
Tim Flannery, a well known and respected climate change scientist, has released information about the coming IPCC-report. According to Tim Flannery, this is important so read carefully, the amount of greenhouse gas emissions in our atmosphere already now is up in 455 ppm (parts per million). This is a number that the scientist thought we wouldn’t reach until year 2017.
“We thought we’d be at that threshold within about a decade,” Flannery told Australian television late on Monday.
“We thought we had that much time. But the new data indicates that in about mid-2005 we crossed that threshold,” he said.
“What the report establishes is that the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is already above the threshold that could potentially cause dangerous climate change.”
In the times we live, it’s almost impossible not be aware of the environmental problems that the earth is facing. The number of species that become extinct every day is so big that some will be extinct before we even discover them.
Recently some leading scientists said that the global warming consequences are very unlikely to be avoided; this means that even if we stopped CO2 emissions today we would almost certainly suffer the consequences of global warming anyway. And this is only our fault; we are the ones that deserve to be punished. Now it’s time to change our lifestyle, change the way we think. It’s very easy to help the planet, just start doing little things like recycling, change your normal light bulbs to energy saving bulbs, start using public transports when ever you can, use a bike or just walk instead of using a car.
The Earth is our home and we won’t live else where.
Today, 6th October, have we as humans consumed as many resources as our earth can produce under a whole year. If we, according to WWF, continue in the same speed as we do today we will need another earth in less than 40 years.
The so called “Overshoot Day” when our earth’s renewable resources are depleted takes place today. That means that during the rest of this year we will need to live on the remaining “capital” as our “interest” (that’s bank language) has come to a dead end.
Here’s some fun Friday reading for everyone interested in Sonys recycling program (and of course I firmly believe you want to read about recycling on a Friday evening..). The interview “victim” is Rick Clancy, the senior Vice President of Corporate Communications at Sony Electronics Inc.
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