Eco Friendly Products and (outdoor pets) its Significance
No commentsBy paul_thomas
Todays technology has changed peoples life style around the world to a great extent and people have almost forgotten about the ecology around them that keep them alive. In todays satiation we are in a compulsive state to explain about the importance of Eco friendly products at least to the future generation. Being eco friendly must start from every home. Children must be taught about using only Eco friendly products in the future so that the damages made by their ancestors are rectified at least in their generation slowly but surely. We have been using harmful chemicals to fertilize the soil and pray the crops with pesticides to make the field yield more but do we ever realize how harmful is it to the biological cycle and ecology to have such harmful no degradable chemicals to be dumped in excess that will make the fertile fields barren in 10- 15 years.
What are we going to do when fertile rich lands that yielded food crops to us turning completely barren one fine day and when every one of us in the world are left without food for consumption? In spite of a lot of awareness programs being conducted about using biological methods and degradable methods of fertilization and pest control, a lot of lethargic people are still going for excessive usage of chemicals thinking that they are making their land yield more. But, the sad truth is that it is a much that will lead to permanent loss and unhealthy damage to the human race and other living organisms.
Every one of are in fact bound to tell about the significance of the Eco friendly products to the younger generation so that they will boost the growth of Eco friendly products in their time. Weather it is small or big but even a small change will impact and is surely a way out from this era of global warming, green house effects and natural calamities that are resulting due to the green house gases.
Eco friendly products are nothing but products that are being manufactured with the thought that the procedure of producing as well as distributing those products are not having any kind of negative impacts or harm to the environment or ecology. A lot of leaned people are against harmful chemicals and are encouraging the use and production of Eco friendly products. Its high time that we support and stand for such Green Movements and idea that brings out the conscious of the public about using only Eco friendly products in the future if they want to stop great disasters from happening. One of the ways to promote eco friendly products is by going for products like eco-friendly printers or green printers. Business card printing, color printing services, full color digital printing, printing brochures, printing postcards and all other services must follow the FSC Rules to be good eco friendly products. When you choose a good eco friendly product you naturally save the greenery around you.
On the other hand, you not just protect the environment and your future generation form harm but also protect the rights of individuals to carry out a fair trade policy. Eco friendly products are something that will be giving a bester tomorrow and a decently safe working environment for people work in manufacturing industries. Industries will have to plant more trees, overhaul and use power wisely without wasting to save energy, must use organic stuffs for the production, packing, selling and distribution of their finished products.
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Environmental Issue Surveys: What Are They Telling Us?
By Eric Eckl
A fresh environmental issue survey from CNN/Opinion Research finds that a majority of Americans believe that the economy should take precedence over the environment. It wasnt by a huge number a little more than half (51%) picked economy: and slightly less than half (45%) picked “environment.” The margin of error was 3%.
Pollsters love this question and they’ve been asking variations of it for decades. Here is how the question was worded this time around, in this particular environmental issues survey:
“With which one of these statements about the environment and the economy do you most agree protection of the environment should be given priority, even at the risk of curbing economic growth, or economic growth should be given priority, even if the environment suffers to some extent?”
Until recently, majorities of Americans have consistently responded that the environment takes precedence. Sometimes a large majority, sometimes a small one, but always a majority. It was that way for decades. Its only now, during this brutal, grinding recession, that the economy has inched ahead. And its not just this survey, its others.
These poll results are disturbing, sure, but I think they are misleading, too. Theres plenty of evidence out there that everyday citizens actually reject the basic premise of that question. When I sift through my extensive collection of environmental issue surveys, I find plenty of poll questions that explore Americans attitudes towards the environment and their wallets in more depth.
I think you can summarize the American publics general attitude towards the environment and their wallets in three statements:
#1) “Environmental regulations and protection dont burden the economy much”
As a general matter, when pollsters ask Americans if they believe that environmental regulation hurts the economy, the answer is usually “no.” Heres one example: In a 2005 study conducted by Yale University, more than 3/4 of those who responded agreed with this statement: “You dont have to sacrifice environmental protection to get economic growth. The choice between jobs and environment is a false one: we can have both.”
Remember, most Americans work in various service industries now. Only a few of us work in mining, agriculture, commercial fishing, forestry, or other industries where environmental compliance is a daily hassle or expense. The businesses that feel the pinch directly are often very outspoken about it but that is a minority view.
Statement #2: “Environmental regulations hurt some companies sometimes, but they can be good for the economy, too”
When EPA announced last week that it was cracking down on mountain top removal mining, West Virginia mining interests and politicians thumped the table, squealing about lost jobs and economic ruin. So you might be surprised that just a few years ago, almost half of West Virginians told pollsters they believed environmental protection are often good for the economy, and another quarter said they generally dont have much impact. Only one in 5 reported that environmental protections were generally bad for the economy and thats in coal mining, tree cutting West Virginia.
I think most Americans instinctively understand that people and businesses avoid highly polluted areas, that medical costs associated with pollution-related illnesses are a drag on their families economic well-being, and that wasteful, polluting businesses are less competitive in the modern economy.
Statement #3: “Environmental regulations and protections may cause higher taxes”
Americans generally see that protecting the environment is a legitimate responsibility of government, and recognize that this costs money their money. In a study conducted for Duke Universitys Nicholas Institute a few years back, researchers found that voters were much more likely to believe that new environmental regulations and protections would lead to tax increases than to lost jobs.
So if everyday citizens are skeptical of the basic premise of the “environment vs. economy” poll questions, what do their their answers to those questions tell us? Honestly, Im not sure. And if everyday citizens are skeptical of the basic premise of this question, why do pollsters keep asking it this way, anyway? Again, Im not sure.
But I think Im on safe ground here: The economy is a disaster and few of us have escaped it completely. Everyday citizens want to see our nations leaders focusing their attention on getting the economy fired up and moving forward. But there is no evidence whatsoever that voters blame environmental protections for this recession or that they believe that cutting existing environmental regulations will produce much economic stimulus, either.
Water Words That Work, LLC helps nature protection and pollution control organizations modernize their communications. The company has curated the web’s largest collection of environmental issue surveys and environmental polls.
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Refrigerant Leak Detection Regulations
By Carla Jack
Far-reaching International Standards and Regulations requiring Refrigerant leak Detection Still Not Generally Known
A high proportion of the users of refrigeration and air-conditioning worldwide are still simply unaware of the wide-ranging implications of prevailing Standards and the same could be said even of a surprising number of professionals in the equipment and service sectors. This was the challenging assertion by Dr Lorcan J. Maher, Managing Director of MURCO, one of Europes leading manufacturers of advanced refrigerant leak detection equipment.
Invariably the key point of these Standards is all-embracing and applies to all refrigeration and air conditioning installations, said Dr Maher. Most Standards state unambiguously that at all times, care should be taken to minimize the discharge of refrigerant to the atmosphere.
The seriousness of leaking systems was until recently if not still of comparatively little concern to the industry. Most plant operators found it easier to top up leaking systems with refrigerant, rather than to find leaks and operate tight systems. In fact historically some 70% of refrigerant has been used simply for topping up leaks.
This started to change with the Montreal Protocol in 1987, which formalized a response to the damage being caused to the ozone layer by ozone depleting substances. With the subsequent international phase-out programme for CFCs and HCFCs the replacement cost of refrigerant leaks started to become of concern but even still few operators took the positive step of installing gas leak monitors.
The ISO Standard 5149: 1993 was the response to the Montreal Protocol and updated the previous Standard and incorporated the requirement to use Leak Detectors. It applies in all member countries of the International Standards Organization in Europe, USA, and includes such major Asian countries as China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, India and Pakistan. Some countries, including the USA, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa responded to the Protocol by introducing their own supplementary regulations or standards requiring the installation of fixed leak monitors in refrigeration and air conditioning machinery rooms based on the ISO 5149 Standard.
Europe
The European Community and CEN countries responded in 2000 by introducing Regulation 2037/2000 requiring that action be taken to prevent leakage and the new European Standard EN378 Refrigerating Systems and Heat Pumps Safety and Environmental Requirements based on ISO 5149. This requires the installation of fixed refrigerant leak monitors in all refrigeration and air-conditioning machinery rooms. Dr Maher points out that since the end of 2000 it supersedes all national standards in EC countries.
USA
ASHRAE 15-1994 and Unified Mechanical Code 1994 were introduced and again both require the installation of fixed refrigerant leak monitors in all refrigeration and airconditioning machinery rooms.
Australia / New Zealand
Introduced AS/NZ 1677.2
S.Africa
Introduced SABS 0147:1995
As well as the common requirement to fit leak detectors in all machinery rooms and to take special precautions with comfort air conditioning, each standard has particular requirements and should be reviewed independently. Brief summaries, reflecting our view, on EN378, ASHRAE 15, Unified Mechanical Code, SABS 0147, and AS/NZ 1677.2 are available on request.
As specified in the above Standards and also in the International Mechanical Code 2003, most countries in the world require the use of fixed leak detectors in all refrigeration and air conditioning machinery rooms. In addition most issue strong warnings on the dangers of refrigerant leaks into occupied spaces with direct air-conditioning systems such as VRV / VRF and they limit the charge of refrigerant allowed. Some require special precautions to be taken, including the use of fixed leak detectors. Generally if leak detectors are fitted extra refrigerant charge in the system is possible.
The major manufacturers of such systems including Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Daikin and others have identified the danger of leaks with direct systems and refer to the Standards with appropriate warnings in their technical manuals. They generally recommend extra ventilation and / or the use of leak detectors.
Safety at Work Legislation
There is also in most countries a volume of safety legislation covering occupational exposure that requires that workers not be exposed to harmful gases, including refrigerants, above the recommended limits. This should be complied with, in the interests of worker safety. But in fact failure to do so could expose the operator to compensation claims. Gas leak monitors would show compliance and minimize this risk.
Climate Change Taxes Add Motivation
Worldwide, countries are committed to honouring their obligations to minimising global warming.
The European Community and CEN countries are committed to introducing regulations to implement their commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and these may serve as a model to other countries. The present draft Regulation is likely to be adopted in early 2004. This will be immediately legally binding and will require Owners of stationary refrigeration, air-conditioning, heat-pump equipment and fire protection systems containing 300kg or more of fluorinated gases to install leakage detection systems.
Within the EC, Denmark has implemented massive taxes on refrigerant at the point of purchase and the UK has implemented reward/punishment taxation measures that are more likely to serve as the European model.
The new UK Climate Change Levy on energy consumption adds an additional and very real cost motivation to install detectors. This is a measure aimed at ensuring the achievement of the UKs target reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Inefficient refrigeration plant, often caused by refrigerant leaks, also consumes excessive energy, typically up to 40%, and this will result in a substantial tax penalty for the operator. The balancing incentives include the Enhanced Capital Allowance Scheme under which an operator can claim the full cost of an investment in specified qualifying technologies, including Murco Leak Detectors, against taxable income, i.e. 100% in the first year.
Article Submitted by Inspiration Marketing on Behalf of Murco Gas Detection, which supplies Gas Leak detection systems to UK and Europe Clients
Cowboys, (outdoor pets) Conservationists, and the Hopeful Herd
No commentsBy Eric Eckl
When we are trying to make something happen, conservationists sometimes think like cowboys. We break out the rhetorical cattle prod and try to shock the public out of complacency and into action with a stiff jolt of bad news. There’s a time and place for that — but to motivate people to actually do something, you have to mix the bad news with a more positive environmental message.
Here are some examples of cattle prod messages that have crossed my desk recently: Giant corporations will spend billions to control our elections, Massive portions of the ocean blighted by plastic trash, methane entering the atmosphere threatens to accelerate global warming crisis. Yikes! Sometimes the content of my morning inbox makes me want to just go back to bed and pull the covers over my head.
Of course, these messages are true. And you have to tell the public about a problem to make the case for your solution. But if you just jolt them repeatedly with the bad news cattle prod, you might demoralize and desensitize your audience. Sure, they might agree with you but they wont do anything.
To give you a flavor for what I mean, I recently ran some conservation outreach materials past a test panel of everyday citizens. Here are some reactions to the shock messages:
Shock Messages About Bad Environmental Habits:
There was so much garbage shown and the damage was so big that it gave me pause. Would what I could do really help stop all that horrible waste?
The actions of one person alone do not really add up to much.
Shock Messages About Financial Need:
My action/donation would only be effective only if I am one of MANY who donate. Land is not cheap
I wouldnt be certain my small donation would really make a difference
Shock Messages About Government Inaction:
Being only one voice, my single opinion can hardly effect political manueverings
I realize that state representatives receive hundreds, if not thousands, of complaints and suggestions everyday. Unless this action is taken on a large scale, I am doubtful it would hold a significant impact on government policies
Not exactly the words of people poised to spring into action to save the day, are they? These quotes underscore the urgency of mixing in some encouragement and words of success. Thats what author John W. Gardner meant when he wrote, the first and last task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
So listen up, cowboy you might get a few cows moving with your trusty cattle prod, but its the herd mentality that moves society. People find hope and courage in that herd. Read how our test panel reacted to some conservation messages that evoked the sense of strength in numbers:
When Told Others Are Working Together to Change Bad Habits:
one persons acts multiplied by many thousands of like minded people can have a profound impact on the problem.
When Told Others Have Already Done Their Part to Give:
having donations matched makes my action seem like it would have a bigger impact.
When Told Others Have Made a Difference by Signing a Petition to Officials:
“a widely distributed petition can have some influence on the various representatives of the petitioning constituencies.”
So, next time you find yourself sitting at the computer to concoct an environmental message that you want to motivate your some audience to some action, remember the importance of the hopeful herd.
Moo!
Eric Eckl writes the water blog about how to raise environmental awareness and promote conservation action. His company has developed the Due Diligence Test Panel, a service that nature protection and pollution control organizations can use to pre-test their environmental message materials prior to publication.
Religion and environmental accountability
By William Diaz
Hindu religion places much emphasis on reverence toward nature and preservation of natural materials. Like American Indians who regarded the land and animals as sacred and Islam that teaches peace towards all animals, Hindus have a morally based respect for the land and consider wastefulness and destruction of resources ethically erroneous. Trees, rivers and animals are not to be taken advantage of and should be treated with reverence and frugality.
America has bred a different religion toward the use of natural resources. The nation of abundance, consumerism and capitalistic greed has led to abuse of the environment, wastefulness of natural resources and complete ignorance in areas of preservation and respect. It is a country that thrives on more of everything and profusion of materials. Americans use the most electricity, constructed a society based on the need for an automobile and turn on water taps as if there is unlimited availability of this precious resource. No where else in the world is such waste produced and so little done to alleviate the consequences of energy use, air pollution and lack of recycling.
Only now have measures been taken to help reduce the erroneous effects of environmental neglect and abuse. Governments have begun to focus their efforts to alternative energy sources and ways of urging individuals to go green on their own by offering incentives. But because America is the country of religious freedom, it is difficult for a religion to hold its followers morally accountable for environmental damage. Religions would argue that it is only up to God to impose such regulations and that holding followers morally responsible is not the churchs jurisdiction. Indeed this would make little difference in America where the population of atheists and agnostics is larger than in other countries and most citizens who claim a religious affiliation never practice it anyway.
The Catholic church has recently taken actions into their own hands and in early March the Vatican officially announced that environmental pollution is on the list of the Seven Sins of the Modern Era. Feeling that the Biblical sins outlined and made popular by works of literature such as Dantes Inferno are outdated and irrelevant to important ethical issues at hand today, the Vatican made several changes to the moral sins that are punishable. Among them included engaging in research pertaining to genetic engineering, accumulation of obscene riches and surprisingly, environmental pollution. Although not explicitly a strong belief of Catholicism and certainly not one practiced in Biblical times, pollution is now considered a moral sin and a part of the Catholic repertoire of belief.
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Things to Know About Full Color Printing (garden creatures)
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Printing a full-color image is surely a complex procedure that involves a lot of step by step processing. A fundamental awareness is very much necessary for printers and also significant for designers who are into planning as well as giving out the best possible layouts. Its true that print buyers must always be aware of a few issues that they come across when they purchase a color work.
What is Full Color Printing? This is in fact an interesting thing to answer; in short, a Full color printing is a method by which printing photographs and other type of paper works in full spectrum of color. Its notable to mention here that, full color printing has changed and improved a lot as times change and as technology keeps traveling towards advancement in every stage. In actual fact, we can say that the techniques that are being used these days are very much sophisticated as well as highly developed that it is highly practical to create copies that look so much identical to the original photos or any documents and paper works that we desire to reproduce.
Reproduction of color travels on something called and known to be as the three-color vision theory that is told based on the way the how a human eye sees the color. We all know that the white light that has the full wavelengths of visible light has three primary colors, which are red, green, and blue. These colors are most usually known to be as the RGB among professional printers. RGB is known to be the additive primaries as lights of them generate white light whenever they are being added together and this is the fundamental logic on which the concept of color printing is built upon.
Now that we know about the reproduction of colors, lets know about the process of color separation. The process by which colors are separated happens just like how the process of seeing happens. What happens is that, the image that is to be reproduced is observed using filters and they are totally three in number. Each one of the filter is kept parallel to each of the additive primaries. In simpler words you can say that it happens like how humans basically see things in layers. The process of distinguishing the colors happens in separate colors but they are all at the same time together actually.
When you know the process of photography works, then you will know the process used in full color printing as well. One can find a red filter that is normally placed over a camera or sometimes will be having a full color printing lens for producing a negative of the red light. One can even observe that blue and green areas left behind when a positive print is created and this gives cyan color. Same way when the green filter gives a positive of red and blue, it gives out magenta color. Then the blue filter leaves behind the red and green color to give out yellow.
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Religion and (wildlife creatures) environmental accountability
No commentsBy William Diaz
Hindu religion places much emphasis on reverence toward nature and preservation of natural materials. Like American Indians who regarded the land and animals as sacred and Islam that teaches peace towards all animals, Hindus have a morally based respect for the land and consider wastefulness and destruction of resources ethically erroneous. Trees, rivers and animals are not to be taken advantage of and should be treated with reverence and frugality.
America has bred a different religion toward the use of natural resources. The nation of abundance, consumerism and capitalistic greed has led to abuse of the environment, wastefulness of natural resources and complete ignorance in areas of preservation and respect. It is a country that thrives on more of everything and profusion of materials. Americans use the most electricity, constructed a society based on the need for an automobile and turn on water taps as if there is unlimited availability of this precious resource. No where else in the world is such waste produced and so little done to alleviate the consequences of energy use, air pollution and lack of recycling.
Only now have measures been taken to help reduce the erroneous effects of environmental neglect and abuse. Governments have begun to focus their efforts to alternative energy sources and ways of urging individuals to go green on their own by offering incentives. But because America is the country of religious freedom, it is difficult for a religion to hold its followers morally accountable for environmental damage. Religions would argue that it is only up to God to impose such regulations and that holding followers morally responsible is not the churchs jurisdiction. Indeed this would make little difference in America where the population of atheists and agnostics is larger than in other countries and most citizens who claim a religious affiliation never practice it anyway.
The Catholic church has recently taken actions into their own hands and in early March the Vatican officially announced that environmental pollution is on the list of the Seven Sins of the Modern Era. Feeling that the Biblical sins outlined and made popular by works of literature such as Dantes Inferno are outdated and irrelevant to important ethical issues at hand today, the Vatican made several changes to the moral sins that are punishable. Among them included engaging in research pertaining to genetic engineering, accumulation of obscene riches and surprisingly, environmental pollution. Although not explicitly a strong belief of Catholicism and certainly not one practiced in Biblical times, pollution is now considered a moral sin and a part of the Catholic repertoire of belief.
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Environmental Funerals - Go Green after Death
By lee101
Death is a part of life and so are funeral services. But did you know how much damage we do to the earth even after we have stopped living? Did you know that 60 million trees are axed every year to build coffins? Gases released during cremation account for 16 percent of the mercury emissions in U.K. Construction of vaults for burials lead to the introduction of about 1.6 million tons of concrete in the soil. The number of people who die each year is about 56 million now and this figure is expected to increase twofold by 2040, so things will only get worse.
We don’t really stop to think of the materials that are used to manufacture items like caskets that are used in traditional funeral services. According to recent research, the quantity of metal used to make the caskets used in North America is equal to the amount of metal used to manufacture the Golden Gate Bridge. Some funeral service rituals sometimes require embalming. Since these embalming fluids are supposed to retard the process of decomposition of the body by inhibiting the growth of bacteria, they also inhibit the growth of bacteria and other important enzymes in the soil.
To prevent all this damage to the environment, we can now choose to opt for greener funeral services.
Green burial tips
One way of ensuring that a funeral is environmentally friendly is to use a biodegradable casket. If you use a coffin made of used paper, buried in a place where there are trees and shrubs, the body will slowly become a part of the environment.
Another method is to cremate the body before it needs to be embalmed. If the body is embalmed, cremating it leads to air pollution because of the toxic gases released during the cremation.
Headstones also lead to pollution because they obstruct the growth of trees. Thus you may choose to have a living memorial for yourself or your loved one in the form of a tree. If this becomes a practice then it will be easier for the survivors of the decedent to cope with the loss because they will have a living substitute for the person who is no more and also lead to the planting of millions of trees. There are more than two hundred environment-friendly burial sites in England, so you can choose the one that is close to your home.
Another novel environment-friendly option is to get your ashes mixed with reef material. This material is then placed in an ocean. Eventually it becomes a new reef. This promotes the growth of organisms that grow on reefs and restores the ecological balance of the planet.
With so many options, it is now much easier to plan a funeral service and burial that will not harm the environment.
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