Global warming is a major threat to the world’s environment. It is everybody’s concern to avoid or reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Energy consumption throughout the world should be reduced. This starts in each and every household. Governments around the world are very alarmed about the need to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Collective measures of citizens and all government levels should be mobilized to achieve the global solution to our planet’s deteriorating atmosphere.
As part of environmentally sustainable projects, 100 green apartments will rise in Luton, UK. Backed by the UK government, it is an initiative to transform the city into an eco-friendly environment. The community will install solar and wind power generators, and will recycle waste materials to be used as energy to produce heat, reducing energy bills.
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Another way for the government to convey its firm stance in favor of greening the Earth is a program that rewards anyone who buys energy-efficient appliances such as washing machine and refrigerator. This is just like the “cash for clunkers” programs wherein consumers were encouraged to trade-in their old, oil-burning cars for new and more energy-efficient vehicles, but this time there will be no trade-ins.
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I recently found this nifty thing called the blog carnival. It’s basically a collection of posts from blogs all over the internet that are submitted, curated, and compiled into a directory post. The Smart Home Automation Guide was recently featured in the All Things Eco Blog Carnival.
The concept of a blog carnival is pretty interesting – the host gets great content on their site, and the submissions get links back to their posts. So I decided I wanted in, and set up my own carnival: the Green Sustainable Technology Carnival.
Do you have a blog where you’re writing about the technology of the sustainable future? Submit to the first blog carnival here – topics include but are not limited to smart living, smart homes, green living, the environment, and anything else that comes to mind. If you have interesting posts about how ecosystems work or, even, or better yet, how to preserve them, send them in – I’m a big dork and I love science.
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The key difference between solar thermal and photovoltaic solar power is that solar thermal uses an array of mirrors to heat something, which converts the energy to electricity. Photovoltaic cells directly absorb and convert sunlight into electricity.
The world’s largest (340 MW) solar thermal power plant is on the verge of its construction in Arizona to generate clean, renewable energy that would be purchased by California Nevada, Arizona and Colorado.
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I came across a really interesting editorial at Twilight Earth entitled “Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Things Green.” Author Adam Shake says:
The word “Green” has become a separatist adjective. A term used to separate something from the norm. Until products become Green by default, Green will always be an outsider…Until the day when all counter tops are made Eco Friendly by default and all hardwood floors are made from Sustainable material, and people quite tagging them as Eco and Sustainable, the whole shift is doomed to something other than normal.
I thought about it for a few moments, and I realized that he was right.
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