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PG&E has “launched” a billboard which is in fact a power plant. It’s solar powered and furnishes about 3.4kW/day, the average consumption of a normal 4 persons family. Nice initiative! They also sustain a project in the Mojave desert, building the biggest solar power plant in the world at the moment. Click here to continue…
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Building and sustaining a house costs you money. Money you earn hard, of course. You go to work every day, eat all sort of bossy-style remarks from your bosses and come home to rest. My ideal place for living is not some fancy apartment, or some big house with concrete or brick walls. I don’t really care what it’s made of, if it does what it has to do: to protect me and my family and to last over the years. And… still protect the environment it’s built in.
It’s a two-bladed knife here, I might say. If you want a strong house, build it big, and use concrete and a lot of bricks. If you want a cheap house, use prefabricated materials. Anyway, here they are: Click here to continue…
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People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, etc. The water footprint of an individual, business or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual, business or nation.
The relation between consumption and water use
The water footprint of a nation shows the total volume of water that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of the nation. Since not all goods consumed in one particular country are produced in that country, the water footprint consists of two parts: use of domestic water resources and use of water outside the borders of the country. The water footprint includes both the water withdrawn from surface and groundwater and the use of soil water (in agricultural production). “- http://www.waterfootprint.org
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So, the more water we use in vain, the less grass will grow, the more polluted the environment will be . Animals won’t have enough food, we won’t have enough food.
Save water today and become respected by the whole nature! Don’t let it flow when you’re not using it, and don’t throw chemicals in it. Sooner or later, it’ll come back to you. And even if it’s clean then, the residues you put in it would have settled and spread in a vast area, maybe on planetary scale. Wind travels, and so do clouds. Rivers travel, and so do the fish. Nature is never only what’s under your feet. You must never be selfish. Think of nature as of your grandmother, if not as of your “co-”mother. Without all the environment around you, you couldn’t have been born, raised, educated, and you would have passed directly to the last step: death.
Protect the environment! Don’t cut off the branch you’re living on!
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My home is infested with phantoms and vampires! Yours most likely is, too. They suck electricity right from your outlets 24 hours a day, seven days a week and waste it, turning it very inefficiently into heat. I’m not referring to any supernatural phenomenon, but instead to so-called ‘phantom loads’ and ‘energy vampires’ - appliances that use power even when they are turned off. Click here to continue…
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Photos of the dirtiest cities of the world. Example of how people do not protect the surrounding nature
Chernobyl, Ukraine Chernobyl is famous for its long list of pollutants: uranium, plutonium, radioactive iodine, cesium-137, strontium and other heavy or radioactive metals. The amount of radiation leaked was 100 times the levels released in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Chernobyl’s 135,000 citizens have been evacuated, and there is a 19-mile exclusion zone where no one lives. It is hard to get dirtier that that. Click here to continue…
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Garbage. Americans produce more and more of it every year, when we need to be producing less.Even the most waste-conscious among us can feel overwhelmed by the amount of household waste that goes beyond what municipal recyclers and compost bins can handle.
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