Tag Archives: Environment

Global election in global society

  By iip | October 14, 2011 - 3:27 pm | Earth
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Global society is urged to vote earth in the global election in 28 March 2009. How to vote earth in the election is just simply turn the light off for one hour.  Leaving them on is a vote for global warming, says earth hour sites.

Earth Hour is one of NGO efforts in combating global warming. This effort meets better momentum in the booming of social networking technologies. This year, people are more connected by recent features, services of gadget. I wrote how environmetal NGO’s use facebook as their tools to interacts with people as well as promoting the missions.

Is this the first move to turn the lights off globally? Can the global society‘s action help addressing earth’ problem?

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Affordable food

  By iip | October 14, 2011 - 3:26 am | Energy
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I agree with argument on the development of biofuel threatening Indonesia food security. It happen mainly through land conversion. In the next decades, biofuel crops will dominate agricultural land and decreasing forest land.

Today I read a 2006 publication on agricultural land conversion. It says that the accelerating rate of conversion of agricultural lands in mainly caused by very low incentives to work in agriculture compared to industrial and service sectors. I try to link it with biofuel development. (more…)

Tips for conserving water

  By iip | October 6, 2011 - 3:27 am | Earth
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Did you know there are about 1.2 billion people live in river basins with absolute water scarcity? And a further 1.5 billion people suffer from inadequate access to water because of a lack of infrastructure. The numbers are taken from World Development Report 2008 published by the World Bank. Some areas face the greatest water shortages such Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

Because of climate change, there are more frequent droughts and increasing wa

ter scarcity throughout the world. People in developing countries

providing food from agriculture must deal with climate change. And what happen to people in more developed countries? Do they really aware on water issues?

If so, how they deal with water consumption? Alex leigh has tips to save water consumption as well as cut its bill. I summarized it for you:

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