Sunday, March 28, 2010

Effects of Global Warming

Just watched a Chinese video sent by jiawei about Global warming. Feel like sharing with everyone else out there.

Title: 正負2度C紀錄片

Link to the rest of the videos http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B9480FBD9BB44AE4


GPGP

Have you ever wondered where all the garbage that we throw into the sea went to?
This is where all of them 'gathered' - Great Pacific Garbage Patch



Its not too late to save the world. There are a lot of efforts going on out there by various country.
  1. Lesotho - the poorest country, is proportionally the one that invest most in its people's education.
  2. Qatar - one of the richest states has opened up the best universities.
  3. Bangladesh - founded a bank that lends only to the poor. In 30 years, it has changed the lives of 150 million people.
  4. Antarctica - no country can claim - a natural reserve devoted to peace and science.
  5. Governments - have acted to protect nearly 2% of territorial waters (not much, but 2 times more than 10 years ago).
  6. South Korea - national reforestation program restored the forest destroyed during war.
  7. Costa Rice - disarmed military, resources devoted on land conservation, education, ecotourism and protection of primary forest.
  8. Gabon - enforces selective logging - not more than 1 tree every hectare.
  9. Germany (Freiburg) - 5000 people live in first eco-friendly district (with solar houses). 
  10. Mumbai - joined the eco-friendly concept.
  11. NZ, Iceland, Austria, Sweden - has made renewable resources their top priority.
  12. Denmark - prototype of coal-fired plant that release carbon into the soil.
  13. Iceland - Electricity plant powered by Earth's heat - Geothermal.
  14. Denmark - Wind power plant off coast - produces 20% of the country's electricity.
  15. USA, China, India, Germany, Spain - biggest investors in renewable energy.
  16. USA - Solar power plant at Mojave Desert 




Another environmental video on that. Just skip to 1:21:20 if you want to find out more about the efforts carried out so far.

http://www.youtube.com/user/homeproject#p/u/4/jqxENMKaeCU

more on renewable energy development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Sustainable_development

Its not too late to be a pessimist.

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