Thinking of green calling

January 16th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Earth - (Comments Off)

In coming weeks there are two events related to global warming: earth hour and earth day.  In the earth hour, people are advised to switch the lights off for sixty minutes.  This is not only global campaign of energy saving. People around the world are reminded about dirty energy of coal using in most power plants.

In the earth day, we are encouraged to take actions in making the earth cleaner and greener.   Taking action individually is important after we join groups or social networking that spread those environmental campaigns.

Some options may take when we are online:
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Financial crisis undermining biofuel market

January 15th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Forest - (Comments Off)

What happen to smallholder biodiesel-material producers when major biodiesel consumers are bumping into financial crisis? This is likely a drastic situation after biofuel (both ethanol and biodiesel) market came up in highest demand last year.

Did you know the predicted consumption of biofuels by 2030 is just over 140 millions tons of oil equivalents? A recent report of RRI says this prediction is based on the ‘with subsidy’ case, which, in a very conservative estimate would require an additional 35 million hectares of land. This prediction was taken before the financial crisis come out.

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Global eco-movements around the world

March 22nd, 2009 | Posted by iip in Earth - (5 Comments)

People in many countries will celebrate Earth Hour by switch the lights off for sixty minutes. This global eco-movement may become the biggest celebration involving millions people, thousands cities and hundreds of countries. They call the moment as global election which enabling people to vote earth for against global warming.

I note that switching off the lights for a certain period not only for energy saving reason. This is about how to raise global awareness of global warming as well as inspiring people to take simple action that matters in combating global warming.

However, there are many eco friendly simple actions campaigned by communities, groups or networks. I list it quickly:
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