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Ceramic Water Filter

A ceramic water filter is a small yet effective tool for filtering dirty and unsafe drinking water. Commercial versions are often used by hikers, outdoorsmen, sports enthusiasts and others. These are personal-sized ceramic water filters.

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It is Obvious to Me That Some Nations Have No Intention on Curbing Pollution

Now I’m not a global warming alarmist by any means, but it is obvious to me that the global warming climate change group which met in Cancun Mexico was a complete disaster from a diplomatic negotiation standpoint. In fact, not one nation wished to ratify the proposed agreement which was drawn up. Despite this catastrophic diplomatic failure, China stepped up to the plate and said it, everyone should follow the original Kyoto treaty.

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Scrap Copper Value

Scrap copper is one of the most valuable junk in the planet. This is because copper is very difficult to acquire and you cannot acquire it in large quantities in one location. It is very important to us because it is used in every machine and other mechanical device. The mining process is also a tedious task, not to mention dangerous and difficult. This is the reason why the copper price has greatly increased and its industry is one of the largest selling industries in the planet and it surely has taken its seat amongst the prominent industries in the global market.

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Clean Air With Gasification Technologies

Clean air is something every human and every living being desire. It revitalizes one’s body as if breathing new life into it. It is like a gift from heaven to restore life energy. But unfortunately, today clean air is in scarcity. There are only a few regions where there is truly fresh air. A few generations later, these regions may no longer exist. Polluted air has seemingly devoured most of the clean air. Our children may very well face a grim future where the air is no longer suitable for breathing.

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Why We Should Only Use Biodegradable Products

BIO DEGRADATION
Biodegradation is the chemical breakdown of materials. The term is often used in relation to ecology, waste management and environmental remediation. Organic material can be degraded aerobically with oxygen, or anaerobically, without oxygen. As on date the most reliable strategy is biodegradation by eco-friendly microbes, which is generally accepted as an environmentally sound and economically feasible protocol for the treatment of hazardous waste and effluents. Microbes are the tribute for clean environment.
Methods of measuring bio degradation

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Water Cooling Towers – Saving Our Planet From Carbon Prints

Water cooling towers are the heat rejection plants, which are primarily used to circulate cold water in industrial facilities. The low temperature circulating water absorbs the heat simply by cooling and/or condensing the hot chambers. When this hot water reaches to cooling towers, its much reduced heat is released in to the atmosphere. Fan cylinders help in increasing the efficiency of water cooling towers. The later are commonly used in petroleum refineries, natural gas plants, petrochemical / chemical plants, nuclear power plants and fossil-fuel power plants etc.

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Ethics and Global Climate Change

The global climate change debate has a lopsided empirical basis – in the economy of nature but not political economy – and this has contributed to a peculiar moralising trajectory. I have three main concerns with this:

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Know the Solar Energy Advantages

Solar energy is the energy produced by the sun which we can use to generate electricity for our homes. This is an alternative source of energy to the power we get from electric power companies who charge us high electricity bills. With solar energy, you can install solar panels, also called photovoltaic cells on your roof and these panels will gather energy from the sun which you can even store and use at night through a net metering. Each solar panel can generate up to 24 volts DC depending on where you set the solar panel. It is best to position solar panels on parts of your roof with no trees that will cover and interfere with the gathering of energy.

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Going Green Saves You 30% on Solar Powered Gates

There is a lot of buzz regarding ozone layer depletion and global warming, which are currently circling the news worlds. A lot has been done and a lot needs to be done in this regard. This is also the reason why a number of manufacturing companies have come up with interesting additions within their products to make them viable. Solar power gates are one way of going green for the benefit of the society.

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4 Kinds of Sustainability

The word ‘sustainability’ is flung about a lot these days – as in ‘sustainable development’ or ‘sustainable economy’. But what does it really mean and is it really a good thing? Sustainability concerns the relationship between humans and their natural environment over time. But there are various understandings of that relationship with quite different implications. Two popular definitions actually repudiate human interdependence with nature by either making human interests completely subservient to a sacred nature, or by making nature completely subservient to human interests. Gro Brundtland’s famous definition points in the right direction by focussing on the goal of sustainably meeting humanitarian needs, but his picture of human interests seems too narrow and technocratic. What we need is a definition that is humanistic without being human centred.

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More Water Shortages Are Looming: Lake Chad Is Drying Up

Following recent reports that the country of Yemen could experience a devastating shortage of fresh water within the next 15 years, there are new warnings about water shortages coming from Nigeria. The news is that the main source of fresh water for Nigerians, Lake Chad, may dry up within the next few years.

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Green Investing and the US Military

The green investments market has recently seen a number of factors come together which act as a strong buy signal. Many green stocks have rallied, and an ever increasing number of investors are looking into the green markets. The tipping point for green investing has arrived, and there can be no doubt that it is no longer a ‘fad’ sector (as it was considered by many just a few short years back), but in fact the sector of the future: there was the gold rush, the oil rush, and now we are all set for the green rush.

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Melbourne City Council – 1200 Building Program

Melbourne City council released the long awaited details for the funding of retrofits for premises involved in the 1200 buildings program. The program aims to retrofit 1200 buildings in the city of Melbourne by 2020 to reduce energy consumption and improve the buildings NABERS rating.

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Remember Those Reusable Bags

Most of us know right from wrong, but sometimes it’s hard to do right simply because we forget. Take the dilemma of the reusable shopping bag. You buy one or two from your local grocery store, get home, unpack the groceries, and stuff the reusable bags into the pantry or the trunk of your car thinking you’ll remember them next time you run to the store. Next thing you know you’re in the store without your reusable bags. There doesn’t seem to be an easy answer, and you certainly don’t want those bulky, unappealing bags hanging from your center console.

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Protect the Earth by Recycling

Although most people are aware that recycling keeps an overwhelming amount of trash out of precious landfill space, few know the extent of the materials that can be recycled. Most municipal recycling programs still accept only glass, certain plastics, paper, and cardboard, but recycling is now a big business in the United States with more people employed in various forms of recycling than in the auto industry. Take a look, and be surprised at what is in demand in the recycling industry.

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Attention Taiji, The Dolphin Slaughter Will Be Stopped

Pressure mounts in Taiji as efforts rapidly increase to stop the annual killing of more than 26,000 dolphins.

Thousands of dolphins are captured every year in Taiji, Japan. The strongest and healthiest are shipped off to aquariums and marine parks around the world and the rest are simply slaughtered for their meat.

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Global Warming And The Sea Level

The ice age was caused by five degrees Celsius over a period of thousands of years so what can happen if the earth’s temperature should increase just a few degrees over a few hundred years? We do not have a clear answer to that question. Weather is complex and when we attempt to predict future climate, all we can come up with is an educated guess based on historic climate changes.

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Roundup Immune Weeds Present Environmental Threat

When the particular weed killer Roundup had been introduced in the seventies, it demonstrated it could eliminate almost any plant yet still be safer than many other herbicides, plus it helped farmers to quit harsher chemicals and lower tilling which could promote erosion. But 24 years later, a few sturdy species of weed resistant to Roundup have evolved, forcing farmers to go back to some of the less environmentally safe practices they abandoned many years ago.

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Oil Carrying Vessels – Marine Pollution at its Best

For the first ever commercial oil spill that one can recall is the incident when the tanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off Cornwall on March 18, 1967 in the United Kingdom spilling 80,000 tones (119,000 barrels) of crude. Though this oil spill happened way back in 1967 the scenario today is also pretty much the same. Though the recent , Gulf oil spill and the Singapore tanker oil spill may not entirely be caused by the vessels, it just calls our attention to the very notable fact, pollution from vessels.

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Tips on Homemade Solar Panels

With the use of photovoltaic cells it is easy to take the rays from the sun and convert that into solar energy. This is one of the stimulating scientific discoveries for quite some time. The use of solar power creates less harm to the environment than using fossil fuels. Then by using these photovoltaic cells we make use of solar power which then helps us keep our planet clean. Since the sun is a very dominant renewable energy source, solar energy has been mentioned around the world to be the most reliable and significant form of energy. At the present time it has become very easy for all of us to make use of solar energy with the help of guides to make solar panels. The importance of it is that you can make your own homemade solar panels.

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