Be prepared: Global warming

The pciture says it all! I got it from a post on "I believe in Advertisement"

Creative benefits of protecting the environment

What is good of all this movement related to protecting our planet is that we are finding ways of making "money" out of helping our planet to be better.
Just imagine...

• using more bikes or going to work walking helps the environment and your health.
• avoiding to consume product that are transported from far far away can help local production, traditional products and improve touristic attractions to a small town or location.
• consumers, like you and me, are in constant search for more natural products of high quality. That is for sure a good business opportunity.

Now count it in worldwide level... I think we could make a much better place where to live. Less traffic please! More bikes please! More kids involved in the protection of our environment please!

Greener holidays

Today is Saturday and like most weekends I take the start of the day really slow.
I just finished watching a great program on a travels channel and I'm very impressed with a great concept: "Being environmentally responsible" while traveling. The program's name is "How to holiday greener"
The power of the idea is that communities can use their touristic natural attractions in oder to increase their local production of services, food and crafts. For example: A hotel offers a free tea and cookies for families that arrive using public transportation.
In the town where I live there is a time of the year when the gardens are producing more vegetables and fruits that what is possible to consume (for example apples). But at the same time the supermarkets are selling imported products (apples) that are not as good as local ones, and require a lot of energy for their transportation (airplanes, trucks, cars) generating much more pollution. At least here the tradition helps to preserve some of the excess of fresh products by creating marmalade, juices and other kind of long lasting products.
It makes a lot of sense to trigger the local development of farmers by helping them to produce creative services and add value to what they know to do. Even better if that is a way to make the supermarkets and others to learn to respect the environment and use that concept withing their processes.
You can visit a great Blog about the topic clicking here.

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Yahoo Green!

Yahoo green is one more great idea of Yahoo! There is a calculator that will tell you how much CO2 you are producing and it also helps you to plan how to reduce that. The only problem is that you need to choose a North American state, thats a problem if you live somewhere else...
There is really good information and facts and also a filter of the questions and answers from Yahoo Answers. Don't loose the take action section, there you can see creative ways making our planet better; I like the advise about cleaning chemicals based on petroleum.

Live Earth

This one is a link provided by Andrej. There you can find a lot of information about a "green lifestyle" and also about some concerts that will have place on the 07.07.2007

Inspired ideas for a sustainable future

I'm still having interesting moments while checking the TED videos I've posted about some days ago. This time is about "Inspired ideas for a sustainable future". I advise you to take the time to check it until the end...



You can visit his web site: www.Worldchanging.com

What's the big idea contest!

If you have some great idea to protect the environment now you have the chance to share it in video format to win an award.
Visit the web site of the competition for more information.
Good luck!

Wind Power explained

I found in National Geographic's web site a very interesting animation explaining about how the wind turbines work.
Did you know that is better to have the wind turbines in zero altitude to produce more electricity? Even in the high mountains there is a lot of wind, the air is lighter.
Learn more.

Going green

"Going green" is the title of a post made by Silke Fleischer about an initiative for using bikes to go to work and the importance of companies to include more environment friendly policies.
It is interesting specially because includes many useful links and because I see she also works on other projects, apart of her product management for Adobe Captivate, and I think that shows and proves that leaders always find time for all what they think is important.
I conclude then that helping the protection of our environment is a good opportunity to make good use of our time, apart of the daily work and responsibilities at home, showing interest on improving our quality of life is definitively a way of becoming community leaders.

How to save enrgy and use it later?

That is a question I have since some weeks ago. And like act of magic there is an answer about saving wind power for later usage! yes... how can someone store wind power and use it later?
Simple: compressing the air. Please read the article in News.com
There are a couple of places in the world where compressed air is being used for clean energy production: Iowa and in Germany.

Biking for saving

We all have some idea of the benefits of using a bike to go to work or just to move within the town. We know that is good exercise and that helps protecting the environment.
But checking a bit deeper I found some interesting facts:

1. If you ride a bike each day for 3 Km for 20 days a month you will save more than US$ 400 per year. Check the calculator.
2. You can burn 80 calories per day (The equivalent to one egg) if you ride a bike for 3KM and your weight is around 75 Kg. Check the calculator.
   
3. For 4.8 Km a car would need to consume 7 dozens of eggs, a loaded bus would require 2 dozens eggs per each person it carries, a walking person would require 3 eggs. In bike is only needed 1 egg and a half.
4. If you cycle 30 minutes every day, after a year you would have burnt around 44,000 calories or 550 eggs!
5. 61% of all car journeys are less than 8 kilometers.
   
6. Albert Einstein discovered the theory of relativity while bicycling.

Do you have more reasons? please share them with me.

Just imagine...what to do with all the fat from the fast food industry?

In the US the fast food industry uses 3.9 billion gallons of oil (1 gallon=3.8 litters aprox.). That is oil that after used is trashed. So... what to do with it? can we get something from that waste?
Yeeees! it looks like it is possible! we can get biodiesel! At least this is what BiOil Corporation answered.
Give a check on News.com article.

Green is in fashion!

Well I'm not an expert in fashion but I'm sure that our Planet is showing us that to think "green" is the right thing to do. The gooood thing here is that it is visible the effort of different industries in to comply to the urgent requirement to protect our environment.

• I just read an article about Ford, car manufacturer, latest model. Yes it is a "green" designed car. Read more.
• Boris just released his "green" Blog! (He is in the www industry!)
• There are more companies in the "flying energy generators"
• Green business = good business

By making more importance on this topic we will contribute on a more enviroment conscious planet. Talk about it with your friends... and find ideas. If you wish to share them, just write a comment.

Green dreams to all of you.

Skysails

According to an article in News.com this kind of kite is able to save in fuel costs at about US$ 1000 a day!
This one is a good new for the environment. In worldwide scale is definitely an innovation capable to change the way that industry works for ever.
"Turn wind into profit".. sounds great!