Green Hope *

Measures of protection of the Nature

2008-12-01T22:48:00.001Z

Since the creation of this blogger has like principal objective, to wake the attention of the persons for the evil that we cause to our Environment and á our health. Not only it would stop postair the great problems which caused the degradation of way where we live but also to put measures of protection of our Nature. Then, so that there are qualities of life that does not put our health in risk, it is necessary that the environment there is devidamenbte protege of the aggressions done by the Man. So, it is necessary, between other measures:

To reduce the quantity of gases that are sent for the atmosphere;

To reduce to quantity of manure, pesticides that are used in the agriculture, which they pollute and contaminate the grounds and the water;

To protect the water, trying to treat the sewer pipes;

To clean the rivers and forests;

To avoid the waste of water;

To take care of the domestic garbages;

To recycle and to re-use the paper, the glass, using the production of other objects instead of depósitá-los in garbage cans.

Resonant pollution and bright Pollution

2008-12-01T22:40:00.001Z

We survive all gone of sounds of several types, persons who speak, music of discotheques and bars, noise of the motorcars, principally on days of traffic. The increase of noises in our environment provokes the new form of pollution - the Resonant Pollution.
Completely this it is factors that lead to the appearance of a stress. But the Resonant Pollution, behind with you another type of pollution, not so much known like others, but also equally important. This pollution that is designated by Bright Pollution.
It is o waste of nocturnal light. This pollution is provoked by the bad use of light in the cities. The sky is covered by a vast bright mantle that prevents us from seeing very often clearly the stars and that takes also á irritability of our eyes.

Eco fashion

2008-12-01T22:32:00.000Z

If you're concerned about making a minimal impact on the environment you can reduce your impact by using ecological clothing. As we take steps toward sustainable living, our awareness increases to include many areas and aspects of our lives from our entertainment choices to the type of socks we pick. As you shop for sustainable clothing, keep these things in mind:

Look for garments made with recycled material. It may seem strange, but some of the man-made materials are actually more commonly recycled because they are incredibly sturdy.

Avoid cotton material that isn't either recycled or organic. Cotton is not a very green crop if it isn't grown organically because of issues surrounding extensive pesticide use and fair trade labor practices.

Consider shopping for used clothing in high-end thrift shops—clothing that is already made doesn't waste resources.

There are a plenty of fashion labels that already acceded to "green" fashion like Pepe jeans , who as a ecological jeans line there are made with organic cotton, Nike as a ecological clothes and footwear line and Rip Curl make a collection of boardshorts, bags and t-shirts for the Rip Curl Planet line with the slogan: We RIP, We ROCK, We CARE.

Pollution of the air

2008-12-01T22:31:00.002Z

The pollution of the air, it can have different causes of contaminaçãol. These contaminations lead to the aggravation of the effect of stove. What does it do so that the Hole of the Ozono is every time bigger. It exists four great causes of contamination of the air:

The smoke provoked by the chimneys of the factories;

The smoke originating from the tubes of leak of the means of transport;

The burning of garbage;

The excessive use of sprays as, dsodorizantes, disinfectants of the environment.

This type of pollution makes our sick air. This one, headaches or an irritation provokes a lot of of the times á our throat what also group what the nossosolhos lay water.

Pollution of the Waters

2008-12-01T21:51:00.001Z

One of other great problems that put us in red alert is the Pollution of the Waters. These waters that maintain us living creatures, indespensável is ours she oversurvives. Because all our good to be (in all the nivéis) culminates around the water.

The water can be contaminated in many manners:

For the accumulation of garbages near fountains, wells and courses of water;

For the domestic sewer pipes that normally the great cities launch for the rivers or seas;

For the toxic residues that many factories deposit in the rivers;

For the fertilizers and manure chemist big whom part of the farmers use to lock the diseases of his is planted by you;

For the start of fuel of the boats;

For the nuclear radioactive residues deposited in the bottom of the sea;

For the accidents that lead to the hemorrhage of several tons of oil, taking with them the whole sort of sea life;

The pollution of the ground

2008-12-01T21:41:00.001Z

All of we know that our planet is entering in degradation much quicker than the predicted one. As such, is our duty to try to put the things right. Beginning then with the reduction of the Pollution of our world. Then, I begin with the caused pollution of the ground. Caused since we been human. The pollution of the ground is one of the great ones hamper for the desenvolvimentgo of our Nature. It is caused by the garbages that the persons leave in the ground. Both in the street, and in the garden, in the pine forest, in the beaches, in the berms of the roads and for the cars through the windows. This everything does so that we make not ours alone Nature. It is caused by the garbages that the persons leave in the ground. Both in the street, and in the garden, in the pine forest, in the beaches, in the berms of the roads and for the cars through the windows. This everything does with what let's make not our life alone in risk but the life of other persons also.

Green Furniture

2008-12-01T19:54:00.000Z

Eco-friendly stuff is the new trend even for furniture. The designs are very up to date, the materials are really good and they don´t cause environmental problems .If people looked for furniture pieces made with renewable resources they are already helping the planet , or maybe take a look at recycled furniture perhaps if you go to thrift stores and antique shops whom are filled with beautiful furniture. Those pieces are green simply because we don´t use any resources to make something that already exists. But if you don´t know how to shopping for green furniture here are the top tips for eco friendly furniture:

Certified sustainable wood: Whether a piece of furniture is made from wood, cloth, metal, plastic, or whatever else, there are earth-friendly options.
Furniture made with reclaimed materials: wood is taken care of, and sometimes even if it isn't, it can last a really, really long time. So shouldn't we be able to make good use of all the wood that's already out there? A lot of designers think so and are doing just that.
Choose bamboo furniture
Recycled/recyclable metal and plastic: Since both metal and plastic are recyclable, at least in theory, these can be considered eco-friendly materials for furniture.

silvia*

Air travelling

2008-12-01T18:31:00.000Z

Even though airlines are taking steps to green the air travel industry, the real culprit here is still the output of carbon-emitting fossil fuels that aircrafts rely on for energy.Aircraft manufacturers are demonstrating a commitment to solving this problem.Air travelling companies as Boeing and Airbus are interested in working with British carrier easyJet to produce a new design that has garnered the nickname "ecoJet." This design promotes maximum fuel-efficiency by minimal aerodynamic resistance and is similar to projects that Boeing and Airbus envision as the future of mass air travel.
Aerospace engineers are examining various technological innovations to accomplish these cleaner, greener flights:

Laminar flow control. The air that immediately surrounds the body of an airplane when it is flying suffers a great deal of disturbance. This increases friction between the plane and the surrounding air, which in turn leads to higher fuel consumption. The aim is to reduce the friction and thereby lessen the plane’s drag.

Uses of composite materials. Aerospace engineers are now looking at using composite materials to build aircraft. The logic is that using such materials will make for a lighter, and therefore more fuel efficient aircraft.

*silvia

Eco-friendly toys

2008-12-01T17:48:00.000Z

As people create an eco friendly lifestyle for their families,they should not leave their children out! And with the Christmas coming, the kids gifts, should also be eco-friendly. That newest toy that beeps and whistles until you want to scream does more than just drive you crazy. All that electronic wizardry has a bad effect on the environment (and potentially, the health of the children). As you go in search of green toys and gadgets that go easy on the planet and your kids, follow these guidelines:

Look for toys that do not require batteries. If you do opt for battery operated toys, buy one set of rechargeable batteries and simply switch them from one toy to another when your children want to play.
Avoid toys that will have a short play life. That newest movie character toy used a lot of unrenewable resources during the manufacturing process. Unfortunately, it will be old news as soon as your child sees a few commercials for the next great cartoon.
Choose toys that are well made. There are few toys that are greener than those that are so sturdy that they have been handed down through three generations.

*silvia

Ecorazzi - the latest in green gossip

2008-12-01T16:32:00.000Z

Celebrity gossip and news is a hot industry in today’s social market. Worldwide people are fascinated with their favorite celebrities: what they are doing, wearing, and driving and especially who they’re dating. So in August 2006 Michael d’Estries and Rebbeca Carter work together to transform the industry of celebrity gossip and news and to make people more informed about green lifestyle . How they made it ?
Creating a gossip site who is interested in what celebrities do for environment issues. This is like any other gossip blog. It’s full of pictures, it has a cool design and it´s very up to date. Ecorazzi team is pulling in video and in things from all over the web. And it’s just a cool new spin on celebrity gossip.
Ecorazzi exists to help celebrities further their good messages – and to offer the general public a way to follow their favorite celebrities and perhaps learn something at the same time. Ecorazzi cover environmental, humanitarian, animal rights, and vegetarian issues as they relate to those in the spotlight.

http://www.ecorazzi.com/

* silvia

2008-12-01T11:43:00.000Z

Another way to generate less waste (garbage) is reuse everything that can still be useful for something. Some ideas for reuse of materials that usually end up in the trash:

- Use the back of printouts to draft.

- Print both sides of the paper.

- Using the remains of vegetables and fruits to make fertilizer (composting).

- Spirals of notebooks used to make bloquinhos of annotations

- Some packages intended for purposes other than the trash.

Examples:

~ Packs of photographic film to store small things well;

~ Glass of mayonnaise or similar to store food;

~ Plastic boxes and door-I.;

~ Boxes of shoes as organizers;

~ Cans of chocolate or similar to pencil holder.

As long as you have desire, the rest is up to the imagination!

Tatiana *

Wind energy

2008-12-01T11:23:00.000Z

Wind energy has been used since antiquity to move the boats driven by candles or to operate the machinery of mills, to move their blades. In windmills in the wind energy was converted into mechanical energy is used in the milling of grain or to pump water. The windmills were used for the production of flour and also for drainage channels, in the Netherlands.
In actuality, is used in wind power to move aerogenerators - large turbines placed in positions of much wind. These turbines is in the form of a weathervane or a windmill. This movement, through a generator, producing electricity. They need to be grouped in wind farms, concentrations of aerogenerators, necessary for the production of energy becomes profitable, but can be used alone to feed remote locations and distant transmission system. You can still aerogenerators the use of low-voltage requirements in the case of limited electric power. Wind energy is today considered one of the most promising natural sources of energy, mainly because it is renewable, ie not be exhausted. Moreover, the wind turbines can be used both in connection with electrical networks in places such as isolated.

Tatiana *

Solar Energy

2008-12-01T11:08:00.000Z

Solar energy is the name given to any kind of abstraction of light and heat energy from the sun, and subsequent processing of that energy captured in some form usable by man, either directly for heating water or energy as electrical or mechanical. Advantages and disadvantages of solar energy:
Advantages:
- The solar power does not pollute during their use. The pollution caused by the manufacturing equipment needed for the construction of solar panels is fully controllable using the forms of checks currently available. The central require minimal maintenance. Solar panels are every day more powerful while its cost is declining. That makes it ever more solar energy a viable solution. Solar energy is excellent in places remote or difficult to access, since its installation on a small scale does not require a huge investment in transmission lines.
Disadvantages:
- There is variation in the quantities produced according to weather (rain, snow), and that at night there is some production, which requires that any means of storing energy during the day in places where the solar panels do not are connected to the transmission of energy. Sites in medium-and high latitudes (eg Finland, Iceland, New Zealand and southern Argentina and Chile) have a brisk drop in production during the winter months due to lower daily availability of solar energy. Places with frequent coverage of clouds (London), tend to have variations of daily production in accordance with the degree of cloudiness. The arrangements for storage of solar energy are inefficient when compared for example to fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas), the hydropower (water) and biomass (bagasse from sugar cane bagasse or the orange)

Tatiana *

Fossil Fuels

2008-12-01T11:02:00.000Z

The pollution generated in the cities of today's outcome, mainly the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil derivatives (petrol and diesel). The burning of these products has launched a large quantity of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide (carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere. Both fuels are responsible for the generation of energy that feeds the industrial sectors, electric and transportation of most of the economies in the world. So leave them aside today is extremely difficult.

Tatiana *

Energy

2008-12-01T10:35:00.000Z

Energy is the ability to do work. While energy surrounds us in all aspects of life, the ability to harness it and use it for constructive ends as enconomically as possible is the challenge before mankind. Alternative energy refers to energy sources which are not based on the burning of fossil fuels or the splitting of atoms. The renewed interest in this field of study comes from the undesirable effects of pollution (as witnessed today) both from burning fossil fuels and from nuclear waste byproducts. Fortunately there are many means of harnessing energy which have less damaging impacts on our environment. Here are some possible alternatives:
-Solar
-Wind Power
-Geothermal
-Tides
-Hydroelectric

Tatiana *

Ice Melting

2008-11-30T23:23:00.000Z

It’s the melting of ice and snow has a consequence of rising temperatures due to global warming. Large-scale ice melt would also raise sea levels and flood coastal areas, currently home to about half the world's. Some of the most dramatic reports come from the Polar Regions, which are warming faster than the planet as a whole and have lost large amounts of ice in recent decades. people.

Changes in the climate threaten life in the Arctic. The polar bear population is expected to decline by 30 percent in the next 35 to 50 years due to disappearing habitat induced by global warming. Warming induced changes in tundra vegetation and plant life threaten caribou and migratory bird populations. Loss of sea ice and wildlife also makes indigenous life in the Arctic increasingly difficult, endangering an entire way of life.

To talk about these subject I went to: https://www.worldwatch.org/

Global Warming

2008-11-30T19:50:00.000Z

Now I'm going to talk about global warming which is a huge problem currently in our world and its affecting our planet. Global warming as we know refers to rising temperatures of air and ocean caused by greenhouse effect. Many of the data's show that the rising temperature average is 0.5ºC during the last century. We must remember that the causes of this increase are mainly because of man, many people aren't really worried with what's happening to our planet and still doing inedaquate behaviours to the pollution. However many are done by Quioto Protocol
in a way which it warns people to change their behaviours but the truth is that the biggest polluter is the USA, they hasn't signed the deal.

How to teach recycle

2008-11-30T18:52:00.000Z

I think the best way of teach kids to what’s need to do is by music has The 3 R's by Jack Johnson because he is a famous singer and younger people love his style and these music stay’s in our head. It is a music that calls our attention because it's very current due to our alarming situation and tells us what to do to protect our planet and future generations in a simple way.

"The 3 r´s" by Jack Johnson

Three, it's a magic number
Yes it is, it's a magic number

Because two times three is six
three times six is eighteen

And the eighteenth letter in the alphabet is
"R"
We got three R's
We're gonna talk about today
We got learn to

Reduce, Re-use Recycle
Reduce, Re-use Recycle
Reduce, Re-use Recycle
Reduce, Re-use Recycle

If you're going to the market to buy some juice
You gotta bring your own bags
And you learn to reduce your waste
We gotta learn to reduce

And if your brothers or your sisters
Got some cool clothes
You can try them on
Before you buy some over those
Re-use
We gotta learn to re-use

And if the first two R's don't work out
And if you gotta make some trash
Well don't do it all
Recicle
We gotta learn to recicle

Because three, it's a magic number
Yes it is, it's a magic...

Number

three
three
three
three
six, nine, twelve, fifteen
three
eighteen, twenty one, twenty four, twenty seven
three
thirty, thirty three, thirty six
three
thirty three, thirty, twenty seven
three
twenty four, twenty one, eighteen
three
fifteen, twelve, nine, six and
three
it's a magic number

Pollution

2008-11-30T18:35:00.000Z

Pollution is the principal cause of our planet destruction because its due to it that global warming, human diseases and the disappearance of some ecosystems is happening has a consequence of human action, so we have air, water, sound pollution and other more. So it’s very important to continue teaching our kids to recycle because young people are our future, therefore they have to be conscious that our planet needs help. Kids show and insist to their parents that it’s very important to reduce, reuse and recycle because it’s what they start to learn at school, so they want to teach their parents too.

Endangered Species

2008-11-30T18:22:00.000Z

I think it’s very important to preserve our environment and their species, in that way I want to refer some institutions that are a mean to protect endangered species has a huge step to save our planet. Here we have a few links of some wildlife institutions to preserve endangerous animals.

http://www.janegoodall.org
http://www.wildlifeincrisis.com
http://wildlifedirect.org
http://www.wildlifetrust.org