Passive Solar Energy
| Rich countries must pay for rainforests: UK report Rich countries should pay tropical nations billions of dollars a year to save their forests, using donor money and global carbon markets to foot the bill, said a UK-commissioned report on Tuesday.In the longer-term, by 2030, developing countries should also start paying to help create “carbon neutral” global forests through binding targets to slow deforestation and plant trees. |
| Passive Solar Energy Solar energy can be utilized in various ways - to provide electricity, mechanical power, heat and lighting. Passive solar heating and cooling can save substantial electricity bills. Design of a building is very important for tapping passive solar energy. The building and windows are designed in such a way that they carefully balance their [.] |
| Poisoning the Poor with eWaste in Ghana Green issues are sometimes complex. We need to recycle many things, like electronics, but we certainly don’t want to poison others in the process. Efforts to protect the environment and conserve valuable resources must be coupled with proper health and safety procedures. Unfortunately, just saying this doesn’t make it happen. Developing countries are becoming a dumping ground for much toxic waste and proper environmental health and safety is being ignored, both by local opportunists and suppliers of e-Waste from developed nations. |
| Cost of Deforestation is Vastly Greater than that of the Current Financial Crisis While your 401K smolders in ruins, take a gander at this BBC article and it might give you some perspective. Unfortunately, it’s not immediately an optimistic perspective: We are actually losing more money through deforestation than through the current financial meltdown. The reasoning behind this is clear when we start calculating the often overlooked value ofNatural Capital - resources provided by our environment including minerals, water, air, sunlight, heat, plants, animals, and other organic matter. |
| Peter Head: Hero of the environment. Peter Head, a director at Arup who leads the firm’s planning and integrated urbanism business, has ambitious plans for entire communities that will work better socially and economically even as they embrace environmentally sustainable principles. |
| China province looks abroad to clean up arsenic A Chinese province is searching at home and abroad for experts to clean a lake once famous for its hot springs but now contaminated by arsenic, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. |
| Environmental Consequences: Asbestos and Human Health When microscopic asbestos fibers are inhaled, they lodge themselves in the lining of lungs. This lays the groundwork for the deadly asbestos cancer, mesothelioma. Perhaps it should come as no coincidence then that rates of pleural cancer (mesothelioma) in oil refinery workers are among the highest of any occupation. |