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Forget Mother Nature: This is a world of our making - environment - 14 June 2011 - New ... - 0 views

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  • Forget Mother Nature: This is a world of our making
  • Humans have transformed Earth beyond recovery – but rather than look back in despair we should look ahead to what we can achieve
  • Innovation Blues on 10 Aug 12
     
    A nice one to try and disperse the sure impact of Humans causing climate change. Limestone releases CO2 Antarctica once had palm trees growing. How sure are we that climate change is caused by humans. But really the point is how to deal with it and prepare for man made climate change or natural change.
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How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air - TED 2009 - GreenSpaces - 0 views

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  • How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air
  • With only three varieties of plants, we can “grow our own fresh air” indoors, to keep us healthy.
  • 1. Areca Palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens)Works well in the day timeGreat for living areasOne needs about 4 shoulder high plants/personNeeds to be put outdoors once every 3-4 monthsThe leaves of the plant need to be wiped everyday in Delhi and perhaps once a month in a cleaner cityThe soil used should be of vermi manure or use hydroponics
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  • 2. Mother-in-law’s Tongue (Sansevieria trifasciata)Converts CO2 into O2 at nightOne requires about 6-8 such waist high plants per person in the bedroomLeaves need to be wiped in the same way as the Areca PalmThe soil used should be of vermi manure or use hydroponics
  • 3. Money Plant (Epipremnum aureum)Excellent for removing Formaldehyde and other VOC’sBest grown using hydroponic
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Cloud computing can cut carbon emissions by half, report finds | Environment | guardian... - 0 views

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  • lue-chip companies could reduce their carbon emissions by 50% if they migrate their data storage operations to the cloud, a new study says.
  • Blue-chip companies could reduce their carbon emissions by 50% if they migrate their data storage operations to the cloud, a new study says.
  • The study conducted by the Carbon Disclosure Project in London focussed on large IT companies in France and the UK and found that they could achieve large cost savings and carbon reductions by 2020 if they moved their IT systems to shared data networks.
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  • For example by 2020, large UK companies that use cloud computing could achieve annual energy savings of £1.2 billion (€1.39 billion) and carbon reductions equivalent to the annual emissions of over 4 million passenger vehicles, the study says.
  • The Open Data Center Alliance, an umbrella group of more than 300 companies including global banks, released a statement last week saying they had planned to adopt cloud services much faster than thought.
  • In France, where nuclear plants generate the bulk of electricity, that figure was much lower.
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