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	<title>Habitat Built &#187; Environmental Threats</title>
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		<title>Green solutions, green world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The approaching doom brought regarding by climate adjust has got humans worrying regarding the future. Will the world be habitable in 50 to 100 years? Will the following war be fought over depleting natural resources? These questions of survival have been playing in dissimilar media. Forget regarding terrorism and nuclear proliferation. It’s assumed that climate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The approaching doom brought regarding by climate adjust has got humans worrying regarding the future. Will the world be habitable in 50 to 100 years? Will the following war be fought over depleting natural resources? These questions of survival have been playing in dissimilar media. Forget regarding terrorism and nuclear proliferation. It’s assumed that climate adjust and its consequences are the grave issues governments around the world are going to be transaction with in the coming years.</p>
<p><strong>A mutual problem demands a mutual solution</strong></p>
<p>The industrial revolution is often times kept responsible for starting the problem of worldwide pollution as it’s understood today. The issue of development for a more desirable modus vivendi, driven by a consumerist outlook overlooked constituents of sustainable development. Indiscriminate development not only results in inequities in the social structure but likewise led to a rise in the risky industrial chemical discharges and untreated waste products. The steady and slow degradation of the environment has resulted in the perspective that the world is today.<br />
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Climate adjust is not a phenomenon that going to impact just you. It will have a huge effect on you, the person next to you and the one next to him also. The present eco-system is gravely threatened by the crisis. Unfortunately, humans have been living in denial of the reverse effects of unchecked development. Worldwide warming has already started and there is no way to reverse it. Yes, there are means to alleviate the impact of climate adjust by the adoption of green and accessible applied science. Already, developing as well as developed countries have taken initiatives in combating the problem and lowering dependence upon ghg (green house gases) emitting fossil fuel.</p>
<p><strong>Help from the web:</strong></p>
<p>* eco blogs have come up with practical psychological result of perception, learning and reasoning that allows humans to live a more eco-friendly modus vivendi without pinching the pocket or compromising on ease and comfortableness.<br />
* an environmental blog is dedicated to suggesting ideas and putting down opinions for a smarter and sustainable future.<br />
* innovations in applied science and futuristic solutions for tackling environmental adjust are laid down in the plethora of environmental blogs that are available in the virtual world today.<br />
* most of them cover subjects on green building, energy efficient interior design, emergent sources of renewable energy and sustainable product design.</p>
<p><strong>The civil society</strong>, aware of the dangers of an ignoring the problem have set up multiple forums in the virtual world. The blogs highlight the possible solutions. Writing regarding the difficultnesses is passé. The present importance is to find strong and sustainable solutions. These interactional forums help us realize what john f. Kennedy said years ago. “the supreme realness of our time is. . . The vulnerability of our planet. ”</p>
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		<title>The outcomes of global warming on our health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Threats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[normal physiological functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[our health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As flooding becomes more common due to global warming, the quality of our drinking water will likely decrease. This in itself could lead to a host of impairment of normal physiological functions propagating all-round the earth.
Underdeveloped countries will surely suffer from flooding or drought and this will necessarily affect their food supply. Lack of food [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As flooding becomes more common due to <strong>global warming</strong>, the quality of our drinking water will likely decrease. This in itself could lead to a host of impairment of normal physiological functions propagating all-round the earth.</p>
<p>Underdeveloped countries will surely suffer from flooding or drought and this will necessarily affect their food supply. Lack of food will weaken the population and lower their resistance to illness even farther.</p>
<p><strong>As land is taken over by flooding</strong>, even temporarily, then this will mean overcrowding in other areas and there will be an increase in the spread of illness. The fact that people will be living nearer to each other means that illness will be competent to spread at a somewhat rapid rate.<br />
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<strong>Air pollution, particularly in huge cities, will increase instances of asthma and other breathing affiliated problems.</strong></p>
<p>As the climate warms up it brings with it the problem of sustaining life as we know it. Surely we need the sun, but too much sun will mean more outstanding risk to our health. <strong>Cancers and other impairment </strong>of <strong>normal physiological functions </strong>will become more prevalent. Hot breezes will carry potentially fatal impairment of <strong>normal physiological functions</strong>.</p>
<p>We need water, but ceaseless flooding will ruin crops and make the land totally unlikely to cultivate. At the same time the flooding will carry venomous compounds into our rivers and harm the wild life therein, which is naturally another food source.</p>
<p>Without decent air to breathe, the ability to develop our food and save fresh clean water, illness could become rife resulting in a rapid decline in earth population. . . What a gloomy prospect!</p>
<p>It’s primary to comprehend that though all these things are possible, and few are happening in elements of the earth, it’s our responsibility to assure that we play a part in attempting to curb these events before they get wholly out of control. Each assistance had better be given to those areas of the earth already affected by climate alter.</p>
<p><strong>We are always hearing about our carbon footprint, but what does it actually mean?</strong></p>
<p>As people we ought to learn to esteem the planet, and if it’s in disturb we ought to do our best to aid to heal it. We’re competent to do this by remembering to turn off lights in rooms we’re not using, by not leaving the television on standby, by using our cars as little as possible, and so on. We’ve all heard this before i’m sure, but if we just sit back and ignore these simple suggestions then we’re adding to the problems the scientists tell us the earth is now facing.</p>
<p>Industry has a lot to answer for and ought to take responsibility for cleaning up their act. It ought to be part of their future plans to assure their gas emissions are cut back drastic. At last naturally it’s up to the politicians of the earth to assure that all these adjustments to life as we know it are carried out.</p>
<p>We must not be complacent as far as the future of the planet is concerned, as our health and in truth the very future of mankind, is depending on a balanced environment.</p>
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		<title>Waste water Recirculated to the Chiller Or Tower Loop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before executives started monitoring wastewater discharges and long prior to it being popular to be &#8220;green&#8221; in your process, a Swedish company named Wirsbo partnered with a Minnesota based water treatment company to unravel both a method wastewater problem and develop a system to recycle the method water.
Wirsbo, set up in 1694 in Sweden is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before executives started monitoring wastewater discharges and long prior to it being popular to be &#8220;green&#8221; in your process, a Swedish company named Wirsbo partnered with a Minnesota based water treatment company to unravel both a method wastewater problem and develop a system to recycle the method water.</p>
<p>Wirsbo, set up in 1694 in Sweden is most renowned for its world leading in floor glowing heat tubes. Wirsbo manufactures its tubes thru a robotic extrusion process, cooling the tubes in water troughs fed twenty-four / seven by the androids.</p>
<p>Due to the high temperature, and the open air trough, the cooling water in the trough was black and oily, with a burning odour. The trough itself had string algae 1-2&#8243; thick on the sides. Minnesota Water Treatment arrived with ionization and oxygenation technology in 1996 to design and develop a chemical free system.<br />
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Wirsbo has a fifty year guarantee on their tubes, the utilization of chlorine or other chemicals degrade the life of their product. Tests after cooling, in chemically treated water were employed and were the same. Chemicals weren&#8217;t an option! Minnesota Water Treatment not only solved the &#8220;black water&#8221; cooling trough issue, a recirculation system was eventually developed permitting water to recirculate thru sixty ton EVAPCO cooling towers and chiller bundles later on.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;In addition to the extraordinary black water on install, it was determined that fusaria and nematode infestations to the cooling trough water existed as loading dock doors authorized these common spores to go into the open trough water on each robotic process line.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Wirsbo implemented programmable controllers and an ionization test on each shift to stop reappearance of the microbes.</p>
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		<title>Changes In Residential Lifestyle Means That You Are Using 55% More Water Now Than We Did 25 Years Ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residential changes in lifestyle means we are paying 55% more water now than we did 25 years ago.
Taps;
Click Cartridge technology can save more than 5,000 liters of water per year at a family bathroom.
Click technology allows you to easily control the amount of water you want to use. The user lifts the lever until you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Residential changes in lifestyle means we are paying 55% more water now than we did 25 years ago.</p>
<p><strong>Taps;</strong><br />
Click Cartridge technology can save more than 5,000 liters of water per year at a family bathroom.</p>
<p>Click technology allows you to easily control the amount of water you want to use. The user lifts the lever until you feel that the properties of a simple resistance. This indicates that the facility is using 50% of its flow. The application of increased pressure results in a click give 100% of the flow.</p>
<p><strong>Ceramic disk cartridges;</strong><br />
Apart from making the trouble, a dripping faucet can waste a lot of water during a period of time. Water taps with ceramic cartridge disc to fight through impeccable authenticity. The ceramic disc is extremely durable and eliminates the waste of a dripping faucet. A dripping tap wastes that 1 liter of water per hour is the equivalent of losing completely empty WC 1460 a year.</p>
<p><strong>Helical flow;</strong><br />
Fitting a water restriction provides for controlling the total number of water from a faucet uses. Water consumption is unshaken by the water pressure and size of the valve in the faucet. So when you suffer from high blood pressure would be unnecessary predominantly a tap delivering many liters of water per minute. Our mixer tap restriction has kept on developed to make him get up to 6 liters of water per minute at a pressure of 3 bar. The restrictor is screwed into the tap output and has a nozzle Airat. This allows the user a great spray of water Airat &#8211; both without problems at hand and the raw speed with soap scum.<br />
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<strong>WCs;</strong></p>
<p>Using our banal color technology can save over 25% of water used against a standard 6-liter tank.</p>
<p>Wash twice, as on many occasions that do not motivate a full download every bit you go to the bathroom, all Ideal Standard and Armitage Shanks impel button sultry couples have dual flushing toilets standard color. These tanks have two buttons &#8211; the small button proposals 4 liters for a short flush, the big button features 6 liters for a color throughout. This saves 25% water compared to 6 liters tank. Agency ecological analysis means that the common household toilet uses 5 times a day, with 4 applications requiring a short color and 1 that requires widespread use of color. Reduction in Flushing water reservoir with a small reservoir is one of the most useful ways of reducing water. most contemporary water standards to encourage toilet color on up to 6 liters. However, within 60% of the toilets installed in the UK have inanimate flush tanks in 7.5, 9, 11 or even 13 liters. When installing a 6-liter toilet cistern can save from 20% to 50% of water per year. up-to-the-minute delay flushing water to ensure maximum savings that we hold developed late flushing water. This technology prevents the tank from filling in water before the download is complete, a good deal more ensuring the water is not wasted. This is the many appropriate in situations of high water pressure.</p>
<p><strong>Bathrooms and showers;</strong></p>
<p>Showering and bathing accounts for almost 20% of the water we use.</p>
<p><strong>Bathrooms low capacity;</strong></p>
<p>Bathrooms come in many shapes and sizes. Usually an median Ideal Standard 1700 x 700mm bath must adhesion between 175 and 210 liters of water to overflow. Reducing bathwater High teams only 149 liters of water to overflow. This saves 15-28% water. Of course, to maintain a bath of glory are only vital to fill the bath about 2 thirds below the overflow, which allows the movement of water average adult.<br />
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<strong>Showers;</strong></p>
<p>Where space is limited, are designed to give showers to take a shower and toilet in the same area. These have a dual benefit of impacting water. The opportunity to have an industry of water in the shower bath combination in a low capacity.</p>
<p><strong>Showering;</strong></p>
<p>Taking a shower often gets plant in contradiction of to a bathroom. Water consumption depends on the sort of log cabin (eg real estate opposed to. Power), wet pressure, the valve size and span of instance in the shower. Some showers habit an higher than regular sum of wet &#8211; everything founded on in order from 10 to more than 30 liters of wet for every infinitesimal. One way to save wet while maintaining the service of a shower is to fit a restrictor shower. Our deliberate limiter is to deliver up to 9 liters of wet for every small on a pressure of 3 bars (Please make a note of we require a smallest possible pressure of 0.3 prevent to focus 9 liters for every minute). The restriction is fitted connecting the shower valve and pipe complimentary. We put in a good word for using to facilitate isolated restriction or Ideal Standard Trevi showers and are not right and proper in lieu of habit in on Trevi Boost.</p>
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		<title>End of Blue Sky &#8211; Aircraft Contrails</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrails or vapour trails are visible trails of condensed water vapour made by the exhaust of aircraft engines. As the hot exhaust gases cool in the surrounding air they might precipitate a cloud of microscopic water droplets. If the air is cold enough, this trail will comprise tiny ice crystals.
The main products of hydrocarbon fuel [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Contrails or vapour trails are visible trails of condensed water vapour made by the exhaust of aircraft engines. As the hot exhaust gases cool in the surrounding air they might precipitate a cloud of microscopic water droplets. If the air is cold enough, this trail will comprise tiny ice crystals.<br />
The main products of hydrocarbon fuel burning are carbon dioxide and water vapour. At high altitudes this water vapour emerges into a cold environment, and the local increase in water vapour can push the water content of the air past saturation point. The vapour then condenses into tiny water droplets and/or deposits into ice. These millions of tiny water droplets and/or ice crystals form the vapour trail or contrails. <span id="more-6"></span><br />
The grounding of aircrafts for three days in the United States after September 11, 2001 provided a rare opportunity for scientists to analyse the effects of contrails on climate forcing. Measurements indicated that without contrails, the local diurnal temperature range (difference of round-the-clock temperatures) was nearly 1 degree Celsius higher than immediately before; however, it has also been advised that this was due to unusually clear weather during the period.</p>
<p>Vapour trails or contrails, by affecting the Earth&#8217;s radiation balance, act as a radiative forcing. Surveys have found that vapour trails or contrails trap outgoing longwave radiation emitted by the Earth and atmosphere (positive radiative forcing) at a greater rate than they reflect incoming solar radiation (negative radiative forcing).<br />
Dissipation of contrails with a powerful microwave beam aligned behind aircraft engines is being touted as a possible solution to help address air transport&#8217;s effects on the climate.<br />
It&#8217;s believed that ice particles could be prevented from forming, or be evaporated once formed, by remotely heating them, together with condensation nuclei such as soot in the exhaust plume.<br />
The remote heating of condensation nuclei could be attained by applying electromagnetic radiation, such as microwaves. Depending on assumptions made, calculation shows that the power required for such a device could be as little as 0.1% of the aircraft engine power.<br />
With theoretically low energy demands and associated weight penalty, existing aircraft maybe be retrofitted and new aircraft equipped with this technology.<br />
Could this be the end of blue skies, full of aircraft contrails? What do you think?</p>
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		<title>Environmental Threats to the Animals of Alaska</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Large variety of animal life could be found in Alaska. From the polar bear to the otter to the bowhead whale, Alaska is teeming with unique life in the animal kingdom. However, some of the wildlife in this Northern land is in danger. Environmental and human threats are providing for a grave outlook on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Large variety of animal life could be found in Alaska. From the polar bear to the otter to the bowhead whale, Alaska is teeming with unique life in the animal kingdom. However, some of the wildlife in this Northern land is in danger. Environmental and human threats are providing for a grave outlook on the future of this once rich and fascinating world. <span id="more-8"></span><br />
Brown bears once inhabited the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska in huge numbers. However, due to a decline in their quality of habitat the brown bear is on the list of endangered animals. The Kenai Peninsula is being formed by for residential, commercial and recreational uses and thus is cutting down the probabilities of survival for the brown bear of Alaska. Human development is pushing this sublime creature from its home and leaving it no alternatives for survival as they take over. It was once thought that Alaska would always be a sanctuary for these animals but it seems no place is to far for the destructive reach of humanity.</p>
<p>The American Peregrine Falcon is among the top predators in the food chain as they feed on other, smaller birds. The technique in which they hunt is brilliant as they swoop in at high speeds and at extreme angles. They&#8217;re powerful predators in Alaska. However, they&#8217;ve been less abundant not only in Alaska but in every location they inhabit from Mexico to Alaska due to pesticide ingestion. The most commonly known pesticide is DDT and though attempts have been made to decrease and hopefully eliminate the use of DDT the American Peregrine Falcon is decorating the skyline of Alaska much less.<br />
The Bowhead Whale has made it to both the Alaska endangered species list and the Federal endangered species list. Bowhead whales only live in and around Arctic waters. However, due to commercial whaling the Bowhead whale in around the waters of Alaska is a rare sight. The Bowhead whale was announced an endangered species in 1973 and since commercial whaling has ceased. However, the numbers are not yet reassuring.<br />
Sea otters, who live in the coastal waters of Alaska, were near extinction in the 18th and 19th century due to hunting. They made a valiant recovery only to be put back on both the Federal and Alaska list of endangered species in the 1990’s. However, there is some conflict as to how threatened they are, as they seem to be thriving in the Southeast areas of Alaska.<br />
The Stellar Sea Lion is listed as an Alaska species of special concern and a Federal threatened species. Stellar sea lions are a large seal. The cause of the decline of stellar sea lions is unknown though there has been talk of disease, environmental circumstances and more.<br />
It&#8217;s plain to see that Alaska as it once was is vanishing due to the destructive touch of humanity. There have been several organization put in place to aid in the restoration of species such as mentioned in this article, but the question is if it&#8217;s enough to stop the disappearance of this world before it&#8217;s too late.</p>
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