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Hey guys,
do you know how much carbon dioxide you're producing every year?
It is 6.7 tones!!!!
Do you know Carbon dioxide is the major gas that cause global warming??
If we want to save our earth, we need to start our low carbon life.
Town Gas has launched an activities "Town Gas Low Carbon Action"
It held different kinds of activities to encourage us to live a low carbon life.
For example, it had some activities to promote low carbon cooking.
Also, it had some recipe for us to learn how to cook in a low carbon way.
Why don't you just have a look on this page and see how much you can do to help protecting our earth?
If we can decrease the concentration of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,
global warming can be solved.
Every little step of ours, can help the earth survive!!
Please see the link below~ http://www.facebook.com/lowcarbonaction
During APPLE Steve Job is launching his new Operation System X Lion, the biggest competitor Mircosoft Bill Gates is seeking to change the lives of over 2.6 billion people in Africa, this time with a toilet concept – “Toilet 2.0.”
You know, UNICEF estimates that 1.1 billion people worldwide don't have access to any kind of toilet or ways of eliminating waste. That, in turn, fouls drinking wate and can cause diarrhea, which spreads quickly. Unfortunately, there are around 1.5 millions childrens die with there infections each year.
“‘Toilet 2.0’ – that’s right, innovations in sanitation have a big, positive impact for billions without access,” Gates said
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which works to help people lead healthy, productive lives, announced on Tuesday their initiative to help bring safe, clean sanitation services to millions of people in the developing world who don’t have access to safe, reliable toilets.
“No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet,” Sylvia Matthews Burwell, president of the foundation’s Global Development Program, stated at a sanitation and hygiene conference in Africa.
Brave New Toilet?
Unfortunately, the tried-and-true water closet of developed countries like Africa is too wasteful for poorer regions with limited sources of water. The Gates Foundation's Water, Sanitation & Hygiene department is working on two alternatives.
One low-tech solution supports the building of pit latrines in toilet-free areas. A second project gives grants to scientists who come with creative ways to dispose of wastes.
Some clever ideas for the "ultimate toilet" include:
Create dry toilets that don't use water to flush, and which separate Number #2 from Number #1 to dry the solids
Using bacteria to turn waste into compost
Build toilets that turn urine into drinking water
Use human urine to make nitrogenous fertilizer in powder form
Let's see how The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation use the different social media to deliver this productive concept and lead a effective fund-rising campaign.
Bill Gates has turned his attention to a very unglamorous and taboo, but critical aspect of human life- the toilet and is looking to give it a much-needed technological uplift. Why not? When everything around us is becoming smarter and multi-functional, why not the toilet?
Have you ever imagined that you can make use of the waste to produce something?
The video demonstrated how five million units of electronic waste being disposed of annually is simultaneously giving away HK$600 million worth of precious metals if it was all recycled in a sustainable manner. The Environment Bureau should be blamed for losing hold of the responsibility of appropriate e-waste treatment, letting exporters do the dirty job, as well as the loss of huge potential business opportunities arising from extracting precious metals such as gold, silver, copper, all going down the drain for years!
Why not making use of the waste, and turn them to gold!
The leading recycler, Multiresource Technology Inc introduced their best practice of recycling electronic waste and the “turn waste to gold” facilities and processing lines. It was revealed that recycling 20,000 computer units can produce 1kg of gold, 1.5 kgs of pure silver and 3,500 kgs of copper. One kilogram of gold is worth HK$0.28 million at current market rates, and the value of gold alone that the company gained through recycling amounted to over HK$100 million a year, showing the value in electronic waste.
This maybe be time intensive, it is not an easy task to convince people to recycle their waste, especially computers. Computers are quite heavy and is difficult for people to carry their own computers to the recycle station for recycle. The benefits of social media may not work out when people do not have any interest in the product or service. In this case, it is not successful as most of the people tend not to care much about the waste, where will they go after throwing them away, or what will they be after the recycling process.
Nike, Adidas and Li Ning have a joint promotion advertisement? It's true! It's what I saw on Youtube. But, They are always as a competitor! How come they have a joint promotion ad? Why??Why?? Why??
Let's see the video below to find the answer!
Oh~The ad from Green Peace!
In Hong Kong, I think everyone buy at least one stuff from Nike or Adidas, but who ever care how the product produce? To let more people know the effect of environment, Green Peace hold the road show on Causeway Bay. Three missions have been set for the event. First, collect citizen wish for a no pollution environment. Second, to send a message about the affect of water pollution to the citizen. Last but not lease, to force the industry leaders - Nike, Adidas and Li Ning making the commitment of reducing water pollution.
Make your wish to your favourite brand to force them be a responsible enterprise!Impossible is nothing!! Just to it!!
Click here to show your wish and share with your friends NOW!
A filming competition was held by Fuji Xerox in early 2011.
The theme of the competition is to about environmental protection.
The target of the competition is teenagers, it wants to show how teenagers look about environmental protection.
Fuji Xerox has made a fan page on Facebook to attract people to join the competition.
In this fan page, it provides the competition details.
Also, it provided some software to let you download for movie editing.
Although the competition is finished,
you can still go to their official website the see the winning video.
The video below is the winning video
If you really interested in it, you can go to their website to have a look!
