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Reaching Carbon Balance Through Reduction

2009-03-04T19:27:00.005+09:00

One of the key things to realise about reducing carbon emissions is we need to be on the negative side of the emissions equation.

I.E. For balance we need to reach a

1-1=0.

To reduce the current glut of carbon in our atmosphere we need to reduce it below balance to say, 1-5=-5.

For example, by sequestering 5 times our normal carbon output we can reduce our carbon footprint to balance in about 15 years.

Are governments around the world going to do this?

On their current performance I would say "No!"

I would say we are going to have to be the ones who do it ourselves or convince them they are actually going to have to stop talking and get it done..

Applying The 80/20 Rule To World Hunger

2008-12-10T15:51:00.000+09:00

I did a reverse search on many of the topics involved in global warming and dealing with world hunger and found the number of searches for these items was incredibly low, when compared to "news" items.

I feel our news media has a solemn duty to properly keep these things in the public eye, so that people begin to understand the problem fully enough to change their behavours.

For example, many of the things we can do about global warming are, as simple as, turning out a light or offsetting our car usage; and if we add enough of them up, we can easily bring the world carbon emissions below that much talked about and little done 20% mark.

For some useful tools,

Build Your Own Solar Panels

Convert Your Car To Electric

Using Water As A Fuel

Applying The 80/20 Rule To Global Warming

2008-10-11T17:28:00.004+08:00

One of the most important things to do is decide what are going to be the quickest methodologys to reduce global warming now, not in three years now!

Each country will be different, each country will have different resources we can apply to this increasing environmental degradation.

We can do it. We only think we don't handle change well. However, when the earth is at breaking point, we must adapt quickly or perish.

Act Now

Do We Need More Action On Climate Change Or More Talking And Another Report

2008-07-16T18:55:00.005+08:00

Labor leader Kevin Rudd has called for an Australian version of the Stern Report to calculate the economic cost of climate change, following the release of the latest UN warning on climate change.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was released in Brussels last night, giving the most alarming forecast yet about the consequences of climate change for the world.

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What we actually need is some significant action from government, industry and the UN, which I believe has been remiss in it's duties given the Kyoto Protocol was some years ago now.

Just How Long Will Your Hybrid Battery Last?

2008-07-13T00:47:00.006+08:00

Battery lifespan may not be at the front of a hybrid buyer’s mind as they bask in eco-satisfaction and new car smell.

But for the person combing the Web for a deal on a second-hand hybrid — or the person whose hybrid is getting on in years — the question of battery life could be a pressing one.

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Beginning The Saltbush Salinity Solution

2008-06-08T13:06:00.004+08:00

It's one of the only plants in the world which can actually take salty water through its system, and it takes the salt out of the water and puts it into a couple of sacrifice leaves on the plant, and then the rest of the plant can use the pure water or cleaner water and it enables it to grow on.

As it uses lowers the water, the natural rainfall washes the salt back out of the soil, and hence improves the land dramatically.

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We need to grow this plant across the world to help reduce salinity everywhere it occurs.

Don't Think They Were Meant To Let This Little Space Shuttle Secret Slip Through Just Yet.

2008-05-30T20:45:00.007+08:00

It's amazing what you can recycle in a closed system isn't it.

"Water-recycling technology has not been installed on the ISS because the shuttle visits the ISS regularly. The shuttle creates water during flight because it uses fuel cells that "burn" hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity.

Fuel cells are a very cool technology that's just starting to reach the point where it's feasible to think about having one in the basement to provide clean and reliable electricity for your house without an electricity network. They have been used on the shuttle for nearly 20 years.

Anyhow, as a result, when the shuttle docks it has bags and bags of pure water. This is water is de-ionised and taken to the ISS, where it is stored in great big balloons. I think there can be several tons of water in the station at any given time. As a result, the ISS isn't yet as aggressive about recycling urine as Mir was.

I think the plan calls for urine recycling to come on stream at a future date, when the crew will be expanded and the shuttle visits might not bring enough water. Also, if we are going to get to Mars and beyond, we need to be able to recycle 100% of the food and water, which means both solid and liquid waste, and the ISS may well get to test drive some of those systems in the future. " -Mark Shuttleworth

And it might have just gone out with the sh-t and that was 2002.

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Water For Fuel Interim Ways To Save Our Planet No 1

2008-05-16T23:47:00.005+08:00

Because this water for fuel system can cause you to use as much as 50% less petrol, I believe it can dramatically change the amount of CO2 going into our atmosphere.

Not to mention the savings to household budgets, plus when petrol went up so dramatically before it caused an inflation to blow out. If every Australian had one, what effect do you think it might have?

So go to this Water For Fuel Site and decide for yourself.

Sustainability Education

2008-05-16T23:00:00.004+08:00

Sustainability education develops skills, knowledge and values that promote behaviour in support of a sustainable environment. It is not confined to formal schooling.

It also occurs in a wide range of non-formal education settings at work and at home.

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How To Feed A Billion People And Be Able To Pay For It Part 1

2008-05-16T11:50:00.000+08:00

A simple process is available to over a few years to feed a billion people using the same simple maths used by network marketers. Some aid agencys are starting to move in this direction, this article is designed to simply make the whole process happen more quickly and systematically.

Certain strategies need to be in place to impliment this process robustly.

Firstly, a solid base.

You need to create an ongoing food creation centre to feed baseline village systems. For simplicity, I've used villiages of 100 people which we will feed until they are operational, with an operational date of 3 months from starting ( the village is self sufficently abled to feed itself). Obviously, these figures will vary on a case by case basis, though we do need to establish clear baselines to work with and in some cases we will need to buy villages more land.

Now the part that makes it really pump.

Graham Stoate

The Maths Of Feeding One Billion People Pt 2

2008-05-16T11:47:00.001+08:00

Ok, so let's get right to it.

Firstly, we will assume a feeding centre that can feed 20 villages of 100 people has been established. This will also provide all the seedlings and tree stock for each villiage. Spreading the baseline here, makes the whole country move far more quickly towards sustainability.

So the Maths.

With 20 villages producing enough food to support 4 more 100 people villages at an arbitary 3 months to self sufficiency. That's 80 villages or 8,000 people self sufficient.

So 20 produces 80;
In the next 3 months produces 320;
In the next 3 months produces 1280;
In the next 3 months produces 5120, so after one year 512 thousand people are fed;
In the next 3months produces 20480;
In the next 3months produces 81920;
In the next 3months produces 327,680;
In the next 3months produces 1310720, after 2 yrs thats 131 million fed and sustainable;
In the next 3months produces 5,242,880;
In the next 3months produces 10485760; that's over one billion people to sustainability in less than 3 yrs.

Before you question this, Ask yourself this

"Can we afford to not do this now?" Again!

-Graham Stoate

How Do We Make Each 100 Person Village Self Suffucient Pt 3

2008-05-15T20:40:00.000+08:00

Firstly, We need to have water and a place to store it. So the first thing you need is a windmill that pumps water. That water is pumped into an above ground swimming pool liner held inside four walls of earth. This allows gravity feeding to be used in irrigating an extensive garden.

The reasons for doing this are two fold:

1. To fuel four more villages out of poverty, and this should be seen as payment for all the infrastructure we provide. So they did it, we didn't do it for them.

2. They continue to over produce so they can sell excess product to larger towns and citys.

3. By planting a diverse array of trees near by ( ie fruit, timber, native, bamboo, paper).

This sets us up for the next part "How to make the west willingly pay for it ."

How To Pay For It And Mitigate The Greedy Half The World's Greenhouse Gases In The Process Part 4

2008-05-15T20:04:00.000+08:00

Many countries in the west are struggling with inflation and rising interest rates.

Plus we have the added burden of trying to reduce our greenhouse emissions by quite extreme levels in a very short period of time.

By selling the offsets from the trees in the west, with a maintenance strategy in place, we can assure that three things:

1. We sell the offsets at western rates.

2. This means excess monies can be put into electricity generation from renewable energy sources IE solar and wind.

3. As the money is leaving these countries, with the offsets as a return, shouldn't this reduce
inflation and thus interest rates?

This must be seen as only an interim measure to get global warming and climate change under control. This is only a small space for us to catch our collective breath.

Find Out How You Can Help Save The Cocobolo Rainforest

2008-05-07T09:21:00.010+08:00

In August, Miles and Benedict Noel are taking 4 weeks to cycle around Iceland for adventure and to raise money for the charity CREA (Conservation through Research, Education and Action).

Our goal is to raise enough money to purchase at least 100 acres of the Cocobolo rainforest (3900 USD) in Panama. Prior to the cycling trip we will be spending 3 months exploring Central America firsthand.

For The Full Story

http://www.crea-panama.org/

What can I say support these guys have got it right, while it is still important to continue to plant trees for all those unsustainably cut down, every acre of rainforest we save, continues to do it even better. Let's see if we can make it a thousand acres.

Renewables A Real Difference To Our Global Warming Future

2008-05-04T21:27:00.004+08:00

Non-renewable fuels depend on resources that will eventually run out. Renewable resources, in contrast, are constantly replenished and will never run out. Biomass is one type of renewable resource, which includes plants and organic wastes.

Biomass Program researchers are studying how to convert biomass into liquid fuels for transportation, called biofuels. The use of biofuels will reduce pollution and reduce the United States' dependence on non-renewable oil.

For More Information On Feedstocks And Production

A Carbon Neutral Bio Mass Plant

2008-05-04T21:20:00.000+08:00

A local biomass debris reclamation site takes limbs and grinds them up on site and turns them into wood fuel for wood-fired boilers for power production.

"It's basically carbon neutral," Ed Buford with the Angelina Fuels LLC said. "With fossil fuels you are adding carbon to the atmosphere when you burn it. With biomass, the carbon is already there, so you are not adding any new carbon to the atmosphere. It's better than coal-fired plants by far."(Link)

For More Detail on This Proposal

One Environment Minister Shows The Way.

2008-04-17T23:15:00.005+08:00

Australia's environment ministers have failed to agree on a national scheme to rid the country of the billions of plastic bags used each year.

South Australian Environment Minister Gail Gago said she was "deeply disappointed" with Thursday's outcome.

"But South Australia can hold its head high. We've announced that as of today we will ... bring about a ban on plastic bags in South Australia, commencing January 2009," she said.( For More)

Every Australian needs more effective leadership like this from politicians, not the usual lets create a harsher law and pretend the problem doesn't exist. Bravo.

Can Our World Really Wait Any Longer For Clean Hydrogen Fuel Systems

2008-04-07T14:21:00.000+08:00

The book advocates hydrogen fuel as the best long-term alternative to fossil fuels and as a way to stop polluting the air and subsidizing terrorists. Shows how to generate hydrogen by electrolysis, how to convert an internal combustion engine to hydrogen, and how hydrogen can be used in home appliances.

Fuel from Water

Global Warming Is Simple To Understand, No Water No Drinking, No Oxygen No Breathing, Water Above Our Heads Drowning, Simple.

2008-04-06T01:21:00.000+08:00

Global warming isn’t opinion. It’s a scientific reality. And the science tells us that human activity has made enormous impacts to our planet that affect our well-being and even our survival as a species.

The world’s leading science journals report that glaciers are melting ten times faster than previously thought, that atmospheric greenhouse gases have reached levels not seen for millions of years, and that species are vanishing as a result of climate change. They also report of extreme weather events, long-term droughts, and rising sea levels.

For People Actually Doing Something On Climate Change

Matrin Luther King How big Would His Dream For Our Environment Have Been.

2008-04-05T14:41:00.003+08:00

Martin was someone who dreamed big, we need people who dream this big to connect the answers to our global position.

In a way, that makes it possible for all of us to live in a sustainable way . To not stop the initiatives that are so important, but to support them properly in better applying the solutions for a positive future, as Martin Luther King did to solving the problems of rascism.

We need to show that much courage again.

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View The Reality Of Global Deforestation For Yourself

2008-03-31T08:34:00.005+08:00

Satellite photos have recently detected as many as 70,000 fires burning simultaneously in the Amazon River rain forest.

To see more ( if you dare) of the devastation of rainforests. Click Here

To do something about your own global impact.

Offset Your Carbon Footprint
Use the Carbon Friendly footprint calculator to offset your carbon footprint.

Burying Our CO2 Deep

2008-03-29T02:22:00.002+09:00

Kurt Zenz House isn't the first scientist to suggest sequestering carbon dioxide in the ocean. But he is the first to come up with a solution that might actually work.

The key is depth. Whereas other plans to sequester carbon in the ocean were plagued by fears that the CO2 would escape, House advocates going much deeper—at least three thousand meters, or two miles below sea level into the seabed.

At that depth, House hypothesizes that the extreme water pressure and low temperature will turn the carbon into a liquid denser than the surrounding water, forming a layer that will prevent it from rising back up into the ocean.

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The Water Purifying Pollution Magnet. A Work Of Sheer Genius

2008-03-29T01:57:00.007+09:00

Eighty-two thousand people die from cancer in Bangladesh every year, many due to arsenic poisoning.

But building upon her discovery of a way to get rust nanoparticles to bind to arsenic, Vicki Colvin has invented a new, astonishingly easy way to clean the water supply:

Sauté a teaspoon of rust in a mixture of oil and lye, which breaks down the rust into nano-sized pieces. Retrieve the rust particles with a household magnet. Then immerse the rust-covered magnet into a pot of contaminated water. Pull out the arsenic.

The system is up to a hundred times more efficient than existing methods, and requires no electricity or manufacturing infrastructure, so even the poorest of villagers can use it.

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Smashing Pumkins Herald Environment Minister Peter Garret

2008-03-28T15:41:00.002+09:00

When alternative rockers The Smashing Pumpkins played in Sydney last night, skirt-wearing frontman Billy Corgan gave a special acknowledgment to the Member for Kingsford Smith.

“So you’ve got the guy from Midnight Oil running stuff over here,” Corgan told the crowd at the Hordern Pavilion.

“He should come and fix things up in the US.”

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Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment

2008-03-28T15:00:00.000+09:00

For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems.

Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum. The insidious explosion of human impact today is creating a shockwave that will threaten global ecosystems and their ability to support us for decades-possibly centuries.

Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment