Monthly Archives: February 2010

Top 20 cleanest countries by 2010 EPI

  By iip | February 27, 2010 - 11:36 am | Earth
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An index addressing 25 performance indicators covering both environmental public health and ecosystem, has been periodically released.  The index, called Environmental Performance Index (EPI), ranks 163 countries throughout the world, developed and developing countries, south and north.

2010 EPI provides national government level scale of how close countries are to develop environmental policy goals.  Within index, we may compare various health and environmental issues, from access to sanitation to greenhouse gas emissions per capita, or forest national covers change (I note the indicator can be seen as deforestation rate or reforestation).

Compare to the last year list, 2010 EPI puts some countries in higher level while some countries still listed in the top 20. Here the complete list of top 20 clenest countries, according to 2010 EPI:

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Interesting facts of wood pellet

  By iip | February 24, 2010 - 4:39 pm | Energy
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Indonesia, a country with largest rainforest in Asia, is engaging cooperation with Korea Forest Service to develop wood pellet as energy source from wood-processing industries. In 2007, Indonesia produced wood pellet about 40K tonnes each year, a tinny number from global wood pellet production, 10 million tonnes.

It seems Indonesia turns wood product industry into new direction, despite growing campaign on rainforest deforestation. Indonesia is experiencing a sunset era of wood product industry as the decline of its wood product exports.  Wood pellet might be potential product to raise Indonesia’s wood-based industry.

Here some interesting facts about wood pellet Europe and US:

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How chinese hackers earn money

  By iip | February 4, 2010 - 11:43 am | Internet
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While chinese products are flooding more and more countries, chinese hackers also flood internet with trojan horse. One of the victims was Google, whose some pages were hijacked. The attack was originated in China, resulted in the “theft of intellectual property from Google”. Users who open the pages will infected with the trojan horse, thus the virus spread quickly throughout the world.

This way make Google reluctant to continue its business with China? Looking at the size of potential users in China, I think Google should consider the decision again. Google should improve its security system employing new approach, thus make chinese internet user more convinient rather than leaving it.  Chinese internet-literate community also need to be addressed and facilitated in certain way without breaking the law.

Hackers activity mostly motivated by money rather than leasure. At first they interested with the challanges, then realize that they can  yearn a lot of bucks using easy activities. NYTimes publishes a portray of the daily life of a chinese hacker and reveals how the hackers earn money. Here the ways:

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