Archive for the ‘enviroment’ Category

Vietnamese Beauty Salon Lady — FUNNY!!!!

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Hope you like standup comedy because this video is just too good not to be shown here.

The girl in the video is really good and funny I jot loved seeing her performance.

The main thing in her performance is imitating a Vietnamese beauty salon lady. This girl excels herself in the video.

In the other hand if you need some beauty treatment yourself you better head to the best acne treatment.


The world’s rarest rhinos captured on video

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

There are less than 60 Javan rhinos left in the wild. The last populations of critically endangered rhinos live in the jungles of Indonesia. This video was made in order to help understand the rhino’s habits so that entities can help preserve this endangered animal.

Check it out:

Retracted green light on GM crops feeds suspicions

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
English:Image via Wikipedia

Like if we haven’t learned enough with the past from playing God men still wants to do it in the search of high profits.

Seems like we haven’t learned enough from our previous experience from playing God. Now we play with food modifying its genetic structure in order to obtain higher profits. Just now we start detecting problems like unstable proliferation of some crops and destruction of the natural genetic structure of the old ones through cross polinization. Also, GM crops can result in people and animals developing resistance to certain types of antibiotics which are used to treat diseases.

Worlds leaders are starting to take more attention into the matter because of thousands of complains and petitions made by Greenpeace supporters and negative observations from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Institute Pasteur and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Lately the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has had a remarkable action when it retracted the green light for a new type of GM potato and two types of GM maize to be grown. Though it was a good step in denying the previous given green light to the new GM crops of potato and maize how do we know that EFSA didn’t made the same mistake before and we are producing crops that harm the human being and the environment? The European commission has ordered a second investigation on these crops but shouldn’t a second investigation be done to all GM crops since EFSA got it wrong this time?

These crops may deliver health problems that might only be noticeable a few generations after, isn’t this a cause for concern too?

Another fact is that most probably the GM crops that produce their own insecticides and other GM crops may have a negative impact on the environment and because of that the EFSA should have rejected the crops right away since we know so little about the future problems that it may bring us.

SocialSpark has gone live

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Probably you have eared about IZEA’s SocialSpark which is a social site were you can write reviews for other blogs, meet other bloggers and have the opportunity to do paid posts.
At SocialSpark you’ll be a part of a big community were you’ll be able to make new friends and find out about other peoples interests.
If you sign in to this social site you’ll be able to know what the best bloggers in the net are doing and also get new ideas for your blog.
I also belong to SocialSpark and you can find me here: http://socialspark.com/bloggers/pyderi. Take a look into my profile just to have an idea about how it works.
Now SocialSpark has gone live and this is more one reason for you to sign in and make your own profile.
Besides making friends you’ll also find panels were you can exchange links if you have a blog and are interested in having a higher Google page rank with strong back links. Also, you can pick up offers to post about something and earn money for it, could it be any better?
As you can see this is a very complete social site were you‘ll find many ways to positively entertain yourself.
Don’t even waste another minute and sing in right away!

This is a paid post done for www.payperpost.com

Choose your diapers carefully

Monday, May 5th, 2008

This post intention is to make you choose cloth diapers instead of the disposable plastic ones because besides looking after your baby you will also be looking after his future.

When I was a baby people used cloth diapers and those diapers were really underdeveloped comparing with the ones we can find today in the shops. I can assure you that the large number of babies that didn’t use disposable diapers don’t have any problems because of that and didn’t do the amount of damage to the environment that today’s parents do with the plastic ones. But not all parents can be blamed for using plastic diapers since nowadays we see more and more concerned parents buying cloth ones.

The reality is that per day the UK uses 9 million, Australia uses 2.2 millions and the US uses 49 million disposable diapers making an overall picture of 60 million disposable diapers used per day just in those 3 countries. Of those 60 millions 90 per cent goes to the landfills and take hundreds of years to decompose. Another problem is the untreated excrement that is flushed into the soil when it rains over the landfills.

When you buy cloth diapers you don’t run the risk of harming your baby due to chemicals used in the manufacture of the disposable ones, you do less 57 per cent harm to the environment due to the ecological footprint that they leave and you save around $1000 per baby.

The cotton diapers or biodegradable diapers are made of plant based plastics and cotton that under the right conditions will decompose quite quickly.

I hope this post has increased you knowledge about the subject and has made up your mind into buying disposable diapers which are the best for your baby and the environment.

Global warming is a reality!

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

EarthHuman activity since the industrial revolution has disturbed the million years ago sensitive balance that allowed the earth to absorb the carbon dioxide.

This fact was published by the journal Nature Geoscience and is based on bubbles of air found on Antarctic ice that dates back to 610,000 years ago.

This research comes to prove the hypothesis commonly accepted by some scientists for the last 25 years, relating the level of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with our planet’s temperature.

These findings came to solve all the doubts shared by the scientists that were skeptical about the influence of humans towards global warming.

Our planet seems to have very specific mechanisms to reduce the excess of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere that before human activity used to come from active volcanoes but in a much lower level than with humans.

Through the analysis of the air bubbles in the Antarctic ice scientists managed to find the level of carbon dioxide present in our atmosphere at ancient times. Scientists discovered that for about 600,000 years the level of carbon dioxide was low allowing the low temperatures experienced at the time and even the so called interglacial periods.

Over those 600,000 years the average change in the amount of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere was of 22 parts per million which means a variation of 22 molecules of carbon dioxide for every million molecules of air.

Since 200 years ago, because of the industrial revolution, that the amount of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere have risen to 100 parts per million. This means that human activities are delivering carbon dioxide into the atmosphere about 14,000 times as fast as natural processes do.

The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is still growing and the natural mechanism that will eventually absorb this gas is going to take a huge amount of time. The time that the natural processes will take to reestablish the level of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is hard to imagine.

All this damage to the equilibrium of our atmosphere has been made in the short period of the last 200 years but now imagine how much damage we deal to the atmosphere every day. People much realize that taking action into reducing their carbon footprint is extremely necessary! Also governments must take immediate action into reducing their countries greenhouse emissions.

Font : www.reuters.com

Need a car?

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

There are always those special occasions when you might need to rent a car.

If like me, you like to be prepared for every unexpected occasion you better know the best car rental company.

Active in many places around the US and the world you can find Advantage rent a car

At Advantage rent a car you can be sure that you’ll find the best rates on all the vehicles including brand new SUV. Imaging having a spacious SUV for only $34.99/day.

Advantage rent a car will always be my choice because besides having great prices it also has a big fleet of trucks and vans for those special occasions.


Advice for tea drinkers

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Here’s a bit of advice to all tea lovers.

I bet that some people just use one tea bag per cup, and if you do that you should consider checking this post and video which were made to remember you that you can do two or three cups of tea with one tea bag. Just put enough water in the in the teapot for three cups of tea or like me, because I’m lazy and don’t waste any water cleaning the teapot, refill your cup again with hot water.

With this advice you’ll be saving the nature from wasted paper, tea plants that drain the nutrients from the soil and also your money.

Hope you enjoy this educative video and remember to be smart being environment friendly!

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U.S. backs down on environmental responsibilities

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Sixteen countries which make part of the strongest economies in the world met in Paris last Thursday to discuss tactics to tackle the climate change at the III Major Emitters Meeting (MEM).

Since the first MEM on September of 2007 and the second at Hawaii attained mainly by experts on January of 2008 that it was common sense that by the third MEM countries should have developed projects and plans to reduce greenhouse gases emissions.

Unfortunately the Bush organization which initiated the MEM and that represents the country that most has contributed for greenhouse gases emission was the one that most failed at the talks.

Bush, having completely missed or forgotten the reports by the Noble Prize winning IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) that announced the need for reductions of the global emission within the next 10 years at the latest, made a useless speech stating that the US would only be able to start reducing their emission until 2025 which means that the most polluting country since ever will continue to damage the environment just the same way for the next 15 years.

On this very shameful speech Bush also said that the US may cut down emissions after 2025 if coal can be made clean and nuclear power is safe reflecting the lack of strategies or intentions to reduce greenhouse emissions even after 2025.

There’s still a chance for the US citizens to try to diminish the increasing damage made to the environment if McCain, Obama or Clinton is elected because they all support binding emissions reductions for the whole US economy. If the one of them gets elected and sticks to his word, there will be a chance to make things right at the next global climate agreement happening at Copenhagen on 2009.

Let’s hope that for the next MEM world leaders take into consideration the statement made by the Noble Peace Prize Laureate, Desmond Tutu were he reminds rich world leaders of their responsibility:

“Many rich world leaders have not, so far, responded to the climate crisis with the urgency required. Cushioned and cosseted, they have had the luxury of closing their minds to the real impact of what is happening in the fragile and precious atmosphere that surrounds the planet we live on.

“I wonder how much more anxious they might be, if they depended on the cycle of mother nature to feed their families. How much greater would their concerns be if they lived in slums and townships, in mud houses, or shelters made of plastic bags? In large parts of sub-Saharan Africa, this is a reality. The poor, the vulnerable and the hungry are exposed to the harsh edge of climate change every day of their lives. …

“At the Major Economies Meeting in Paris, developed countries must commit to immediate action against climate change. The United Nations need to deliver an action plan to save the planet at the climate change conference in 2009. There is no time to be distracted from the urgent task to deliver this global rescue plan. The world is watching, and those who are feeling the impacts of climate change today, are expecting decisive action - now.”

Actions must be taken at the next global climate agreement so that the most vulnerable and poor nations, that were the ones that less polluted the planet aren’t badly affected by the climate changes.

Let’s expect that the majority of the people realize the urgency for an increase of awareness on this subject and demand their leaders to have positive actions into decreasing global greenhouse gases emissions.

Photo: 29 January 2008
Washington, DC United States

Greenpeace activists project a message to US President George Bush on the Washington Monument.

Two extinct plants discovered in Australia

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Queensland cities, towns, settlements and road networkImage via Wikipedia

These days it’s amazing to ear about finding plants that are thought to be extinct since most of the news just report cases of disappearing species.
This time at Cape York, far northern Australia, two thought to be extinct plants were found. The Rhaphidospora cavernarum which is a one and a half meters high herb thought to be lost since 1873 and the Teucrium ajugaceum last seen in 1891.
These findings were made thanks to a report produced from research by more than 100 academic and government experts.
Besides the finding of the thought to be extinct plants the report also stated that in Queensland every year more than 50 new plants are reported to appear and that there are more than 12,000 native plant species known to science in the state making Queensland a “well of life”.