Social networks foster sustainable development

September 26th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Internet - (1 Comments)

My attention on internet development finds new perspective related to sustainable development. I thought there’s a complex relation between internet and sustainable development.  People who develop internet are engineers and people who engage with sustainable development issues mostly decision makers, NGO activism and social scientists.  I guess there are limited collaboration researches  joining  both internet and sustainable development.

Then I have chance to explore Jeffery D Sachs newest book of Common Wealth: Economics for a crowded planet (2008). Sachs, according to Edward o Wilson in its foreword, has written a state of the world report of immediate and enormous practical value.

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Why we need to recycle our used cellphone

August 20th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Earth - (0 Comments)

The booming of Blackberry and android recently have forced some of us to idle the old cellphone.

EPA launched national program on cellphone recycling as part of Earth Day 2009 celebration. This program enable you to power more houses with used cellphone!

Collaborate with  some big cellphone manufactures, EPA Plug-In To eCycling provides consumers more opportunities to donate or recycle their used electronics . Two years ago, with the similar projects more than 47 million pounds of electronics, mostly computers and televisions has been collected and recycled.

Here some reasons why used cellphone need to be recycled:

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Climate change effect on drought

August 19th, 2009 | Posted by iip in Earth - (1 Comments)

A recent prove of climate change effect has been revealed by experts, who explaining a link connecting rising level of greenhouse gases with a decline in rainfall.  It has confirmed that the drought is not just a natural dry stretch but a shift related to climate change. How did experts prove the link? Sunday Morning Herald writes:

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