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Plantora App

Peacock Plant Care: How To Grow These Tropical Houseplants - Plantora - 0 views

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  • Plantora App on 10 Sep 24
     
    Calathea makoyana, often known as the Peacock Plant, is a beautiful tropical indoor plant with vibrant leaf patterns that resemble peacock feathers. This plant, which belongs to Brazil's jungles, thrives in its natural moist, shady environment. The Peacock Plant's beautiful foliage and air-purifying capabilities appeal to both new and experienced houseplant enthusiasts. Furthermore, the reddish-maroon stem and dark-purple underside of the leaves make for an excellent accent to any indoor garden. Peacock plant care is quite long since you can match the plant's native habitat, which is low light and high humidity. And, given the right conditions, this attractive plant can enhance the overall appearance of your home garden. So, let's have a look at how to care for the Peacock plant.
Plantora App

13 Best Trees with White Flowers to Grow in Gardens - Plantora - 0 views

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  • Plantora App on 13 Feb 25
     
    Trees with white flowers can make an excellent addition to your outdoor garden. They provide structure and shape. Flowering trees are one of the nicest plants to grow in your garden. They enhance the attractiveness of any garden while also benefiting various fauna. Numerous flowering trees produce blooms of varying colors. However, trees with white blooms are the best option if you want to add beauty to your landscape. Their lovely white blossoms will provide a charming picture in any garden. White flowering trees are very easy to grow if you choose the proper variety. That is determined by your local environment, available space in your garden, and the basic plant requirements that you can meet.
Jack Travis

Renewable Energy Resources - 0 views

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shared by Jack Travis on 26 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Jack Travis on 26 Jun 13
     
    There are many energy conservation tips taken to have the green power in your surrounding region. Also the charges for the fossil fuels are increasing a lot and creates harm for the environment too.
Benno Hansen

Big business goes to Rio -- New Internationalist - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 18 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Harmless-sounding phrases like ‘green economy’ and ‘sustainable development’ have become grounds for bitter dispute, as different governments and business interests attempt to redefine these terms to meet their own agenda.
  • This row of well-meaning policy sandcastles have spent the past 20 years being eaten away by a rising tide of fundamentalist free-market economics, unfettered financial speculation, and consolidated corporate power.
  • any environmental and social gains from the first Rio summit look small next to the destruction wrought by a voracious corporate sector and by governments obsessed with growth in GDP before all else.
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  • A shift to a genuinely sustainable society will require us to challenge these negative forces, rein in the excesses of corporations and markets, and build an entirely different economy based on wellbeing for the many rather than profits for the few.
  • Silvia Ribeiro from the campaign group ETC Mexico points out: ‘Collapsing financial markets in Northern countries mean that banks and other investors are now looking desperately for new areas of expansion and speculation. We can see these desires leaving their mark on the Rio+20 process. The “Green Economy” now under discussion would unleash a wave of risky but lucrative new technologies such as synthetic biology, nanotechnology and climate technofixes. This isn’t about finding the best environmental solutions: it’s about creating profitable new investments.’
  • we cannot afford to live in a world where ecosystems are protected if, and only if, there is more profit to be made by protecting them than by trashing them.
  • Large polluting industries, business lobby groups and financial institutions are welcomed in as well-meaning ‘stakeholders’ – like mafia bosses invited to a meeting on reducing gang violence.
  • The businesses with the most wealth and power are those that have flourished in an economy based on the unrestricted use of natural resources and the exploitation of many of the world’s people. Those with the most to lose from a shift to true sustainability are therefore those with the most power to block that change.
  • the Stockholm Environment Institute calculated that the economic value of the oceans could be reduced by up to $2 trillion per year if climate change is left unchecked
  • Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of IEN, said: ‘Systems such as “payment for ecological services” and using forests in carbon offset markets do nothing but make Mother Earth into the World Trade Organization of nature.’
  • According to Lucia Ortiz of Friends of the Earth Brazil: ‘Trades Unions are getting very concerned about the “green economy” agenda, because it represents a deepening of neoliberal policies, and threatens to undermine the social rights already secured by past struggles. They are working in solidarity with environmentalists, indigenous peoples, farmers and women’s rights activists, calling instead for a transition to a sustainable and just society free from the exploitation of workers and of nature.’
Arabica Robusta

allAfrica.com: Africa: Continent Rejects New Climate Change Pact (Page 1 of 1) - 0 views

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  • Arabica Robusta on 28 Oct 09
     
    "Developed" countries should take responsibility for climate change mitigation.
  • nehasharma786 on 13 Aug 15
     
    nice news change climate environment
Benno Hansen

BBC News - Placing a value on Kenya's largest forest - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Prized as a "natural water tower", the forest has also been the target for aggressive clearance and timber logging in recent decades and its size has been cut by at least 40%.
  • Research by the Kenya Forest Research Institute (KEFRI) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates the economic benefit of the forest to be more than $1.3bn per year.
  • Bordering the trees are some of Kenya's largest tea plantations - tea is one of the country's key exports and the research calculates that it benefits from the forest to the tune of $163m a year.
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  • half of the country's power is driven by water
  • The study calculates that the Mau Forest's value to the electricity sector is $131.6m.
  • This blaze of lurid colour helps to make tourism one of Kenya's biggest earners, and the study reckons this industry receives $65 million in benefits from the forest.
  • Further services provided by the forest include an estimated $89million in storing carbon, $98million in controlling soil erosion and $21million in support for fisheries.
Joshua Sherk

Environment Working Group - 0 views

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Environment food

shared by Joshua Sherk on 30 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Joshua Sherk on 30 Oct 08
     
    Information on organic foods (focusing on pesticide controls and what's best for your money)
Benno Hansen

Americans must diet to save their economy - earth - 23 July 2008 - New Scientist Enviro... - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 27 Jul 08 - Cached
  • The average American consumes about 3747 kcal per day
  • accounts for about 19% of US total energy use
  • 6 kilograms of plant protein are needed to produce 1 kg of high quality animal protein
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      Benno Hansen on 27 Jul 08
       
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  • the average American consumes one third of their calories in junk food
  • the equivalent of 2100 kcal go into producing a can of diet soda which contains a maximum of 1 kcal. About 1600 kcal go into producing the aluminium can alone
  • food travels 2400 km on average to its consumer in the US. This requires 1.4 times the energy actually contained in the food
Mark Kabbbash

Industrial Nanotech to Present White Paper to Prominent Industry Leaders at Internation... - 0 views

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    Nansulate EPX is a water based epoxy system which has an industry high thermal insulation capability combined with exceptional fire resistance and excellent chemical and corrosion resistance. Nansulate EPX also provides the ability to be applied from one eighth inch thick to several inches thick, a rapid cure time, durability in severe service environments, and is a strong, very light weight, easy-to-apply material.
Benno Hansen

Reuters AlertNet - CLIMATE CHANGE BLOG: Does poverty equal vulnerability? - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 28 Oct 08 - Cached
  • 'poor people are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change'
  • But is it the state of being poor that makes people vulnerable to climate change, or the processes that lead to their impoverishment?
  • if you have access to a clean and healthy environment that provides for your needs - meaning you don't need two dollars a day (or perhaps even one) - then you aren't living in poverty!
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  • most of those who are poor and face the biggest threat from climate change are descended from people who had indigenous adaptation strategies to climatic and other environmental hazards which would - if they hadn't been colonised - have made them far less vulnerable than the 'rich' to the impacts of climate change.
  • If some of the worst-case climate change scenarios do come to pass, then the rich are also going to be extremely vulnerable and, if push comes to shove, I'd prefer to have knowledge of my land and how to grow food in inhospitable environments
  • the very wisdom that could help make us all less vulnerable to climate change is being lost as more and more people are sucked into a global economy that values only certain types of knowledge and beliefs.
Mark Kabbbash

ECOtality and eTec Congratulate Project Partners on Successful $100 Million Proposal fo... - 0 views

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 10 Aug 09
     
    "Our project partners were not only instrumental in helping ECOtality's eTec secure the $99.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, they will be instrumental in implementing the largest ever transportation electrification program," said Jonathan Read, President and CEO of ECOtality. "As strategic partners on this Proposal, Idaho National Laboratory, Nissan North America, GridPoint, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and BP America will play strong roles in helping eTec create dense charge environments, ensure a seamless transition for utilities and collect and analyze critical data that will ensure the immediate success of the electric vehicle."
Benno Hansen

Capitalism as a threat to the environment - The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 09, 2008 - 1 views

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  • "Today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that threatens the planet,"
  • current obsession with GDP growth at all costs must be abandoned
  • a shift to much more participative and popular forms of democracy
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  • a shift to a post-consumer society is needed
  • "tackling climate change is the pro-growth strategy for the longer term"
Maluvia Haseltine

Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming - Climate Change, Environment - The I... - 0 views

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  • Maluvia Haseltine on 06 Jul 09
     
    Examines what may be the most important, and least understood cause of global warminig
Benno Hansen

What are your top green books? - 0 views

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  • Benno Hansen on 13 Feb 10
     
    Top 50 books on sustainability according to Cambridge academics
Skeptical Debunker

Bloom Energy Promises Cheap, Emissions-Free Power From a Small Box | Popular Science - 0 views

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Google FedEx eBay Walmart Bloom Box energy usage 60 minutes

shared by Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • The Bloom Box idea came from K.R. Sridhar, a former NASA rocket scientist who once built a similar box device to generate oxygen on Mars for future colonists. Sridhar simply turned the concept on its head by pumping oxygen into the box, along with fuel. The oxygen and fuel combine within a new type of fuel cell to create the chemical reaction that makes electricity. There's also no need for power lines coming in from an outside source, and Sridhar envisions the box eventually providing energy wirelessly to homes and businesses. That could do away with traditional power plants and the power grid. Such transformative power may only come about if the Bloom Box fuel cells can work reliably and efficiently -- other fuel cell technologies have proven notoriously finicky. Sridhar makes his fuel cells based on cheap sand-based ceramics, coated with special green and black "inks" that allow for the chemical reaction which makes electricity. One of the simple disks can power a light bulb, and a stack of 64 disks with cheap metal plates in between them can supposedly power a Starbucks. And unlike fuel cells that require pure hydrogen, the Bloom Box can use fuels ranging from natural gas to bio-gas.
  • Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10
     
    A boxy power plant that could one day produce efficient, inexpensive, clean energy in every home might sound like a pipe dream, but it's the very real product of a Silicon Valley startup called Bloom Energy. Twenty large corporations that include Google, FedEx, Walmart and eBay have already purchased and begun testing the Bloom Boxes. 60 Minutes recently got a sneak peek at this possibly game-changing energy device.
  • Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10
     
    Here's SOME of the "rubs". How long will the device's last and what are the maintenance costs (if any)? What will the cost of the fuel be and how much is used? Will the manufacturing process "scale up nicely" (and easily) so that "economies of scale" will actually bring the price of a home-system down to around $3-5K? Will the price of the system, its maintenance, and fuel actually come out to be significantly less than the price of "grid delivered" electricity? Without "good enough" answers to such questions, this system may be more of a good remote generation facility than a grid replacement.
Skeptical Debunker

NYT: Many polluters escape prosecution - The New York Times- msnbc.com - 0 views

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Supreme Court EPA Clean Water Act

shared by Skeptical Debunker on 01 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Thousands of the nation’s largest water polluters are outside the Clean Water Act’s reach because the Supreme Court has left uncertain which waterways are protected by that law, according to interviews with regulators. As a result, some businesses are declaring that the law no longer applies to them. And pollution rates are rising. Companies that have spilled oil, carcinogens and dangerous bacteria into lakes, rivers and other waters are not being prosecuted, according to Environmental Protection Agency regulators working on those cases, who estimate that more than 1,500 major pollution investigations have been discontinued or shelved in the last four years. Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad heredap('&PG=NBCMSN&AP=1089','300','250');The Clean Water Act was intended to end dangerous water pollution by regulating every major polluter. But today, regulators may be unable to prosecute as many as half of the nation’s largest known polluters because officials lack jurisdiction or because proving jurisdiction would be overwhelmingly difficult or time consuming, according to midlevel officials.
  • Skeptical Debunker on 01 Mar 10
     
    The best "justice" money can buy via packing the Supreme Court with "conservatives" is bearing smelly, polluted fruit. Specifically, those "conservatives" are showing themselves to be "activist judges" in "watering down" conservation and public safety laws passed by Congress. Polluting "business" entities are apparently NOT to be considered to be within the oft-quoted and loved "conservative" limitation of the purview of the federal government to merely protect the populace from "enemies foreign and domestic". That this pollution kills and injures thousands (and poisons the environment for the countless of the "unborn") apparently doesn't matter (but if Al Qaeda was doing it, then complete suspension of all domestic rights would be justified to "fight" that!). Pictured: In 2007, a pipe maker was fined millions of dollars for dumping oil, lead and zinc into Avondale Creek in Alabama. A court ruled the waterway was exempt from the Clean Water Act. The firm eventually settled by agreeing to pay a smaller amount and submit to probation.
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