I recommand for all of you to “shut down” your house and take a walk outside. :) For those who cannot do that, please make an effort to close all your electric devices between 20:00-21:00 hours on 29 March. I believe in small individual efforts that make a huge change if it’s done by all of us 
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Are you ready to switch on to water-powered calculators? I am not joking. It’s a fact. The research has been completed and water-run calculators will soon be ruling the roost here. But, how? It is certainly amazing that the calculators and other electric devices that you have been so far keeping away from water will actually run on it.
Human curiosity has led to the finding in which your very own calculator that solves your digging mathematical problems will run on nothing else but water. All you need is to store the water in the battery for 3 months, just like you do with your invertors, but here you don’t need to charge it with electricity. The cathode and anode rods will do the rest.
Your very own house, floating in water. Seems an exciting prospect doesnt’it. Well, the factors causing it can be dangerous.
Global warming and its harmful effects are evident all around the world. One cannot undo the fury of nature now, but to deal with it effectively, that art still lies with man. To deal with rising water levels, because of faster melting snowcaps that have become a threat to people and their homes, an architectural firm Waterstudio, have started designing houses that can float on water in times of such crisis, but still keep the families safe in their homes.
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Hey what’s wrong with the world today? Talk about a thing and the corresponding answer is ‘scarce’. What’s not scarce is the growing pollution, global-warming and off course how can I forget corruption. You will find these things in abundance while the rest is scarce. I’ve started hating this word, but the show (life) must go on. Now here is a product that may help ‘our’ cause, but only and only if we implement it in our day to day lives. The scarcity I am referring here is pertaining to water. It’s a $3 product from Envirosax, a shower timer that sticks to a shower wall with a suction cup. Its blue, pink, green, or gray sands take 4 minutes to pass through the hourglass. In short, you get 4 minutes to clean yourself up. This may look like just another product but mind my words – a little effort from everyone can make a huge difference, a difference that the future generation can uphold, and live until eternity.
Via: Crave
Australian scientists’ vision to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle’s and sheep’s in a bid to cut emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. There is a certain kind of bacteria found in the gas of Kangaroos that is not harmful to the environment, as compared to sheep’s and cattle’s, thus making them ‘eco-friendly’. Scientists are experimenting and even thinking of transferring such bacteria’s to other animals, so that their contribution to the gas pollution also minimizes when they fart. According to researchers, Methane, a gas produced by livestock’s traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide.
Seattle, WA - “It only takes one good rainstorm when the soil is bare to lose a century’s worth of dirt.” “It’s more of a conceptual shift than anything else, but it’s a conceptual shift that conserves the soil.” Seattle, Washington - Throughout history civilizations expanded as they sought new soil to feed their populations, then ultimately fell as they wore out or lost the dirt they depended upon. When that happened, people moved on to fertile new ground and formed new civilizations.
That process is being repeated today, but in a new book a University of Washington geomorphologist argues the results could be far more disastrous for humans because there are very few places left with fertile soil to feed large populations, and farming practices still trigger large losses of rich dirt.
“We’re doing the same things today that past societies have done, and at the same rate,” said David Montgomery, a UW professor of Earth and space sciences who studies the evolution and structure of the various aspects of the Earth’s surface. In essence, he said, we are slowly removing our planet’s life-giving skin.
Montgomery is the author of “Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations,” in which he examines how soil is slowly created over time, the vital role it has played in the rise and fall of civilizations from Mesopotamia to Rome, and how it shaped where and how we live today. The 295-page book, published by the University of California Press, is a popular review of scientific literature on soil and farming practices.
In the past, as soil was depleted in a particular region — the American South during the height of tobacco plantations, for example, or the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s — people moved to new areas that could support their crops. But Montgomery argues that their primary farming method — plowing under any crop residue and leaving the surface exposed to wind and water erosion for long periods — was a major cause of the conditions that drove them from the land.
Flat lands and areas with thicker, richer soil tend to have less natural erosion, while steeper areas have greater erosion from both wind and water. Removing vegetative cover just worsens the problem, Montgomery said.
“If you take sloping land and strip the plants away, it leaves the soil bare and exposed. There will be a huge impact the next time it rains or when the wind blows,” he said. “Plow-based agriculture can change the erosion rate of even a flat place like Kansas into the erosion rate of a place like the Himalayas. Basically that type of farming is remaking the surface of the planet.”
When the Earth’s population was smaller people could move from one place to another and give soil a chance to regenerate. But now, with more than 6 billion people on the planet, that option no longer exists, Montgomery said.
“We’re farming about as much land as we can on a sustainable basis, but the world’s population is still growing,” he said. “We have to learn to farm without losing the soil.”
He advocates a wholesale change in farming practices, moving to no-till agriculture, which he says would reduce erosion closer to its natural rate. That method would eliminate plowing and instead crop stubble would remain in the field, to be mixed with the very top layer of the soil using a method called disking. Farmers might need more herbicides to control weeds, but it would take fewer passes of farm machinery — and thus less fuel — to tend crops.
Currently about 5 percent of the world’s farmers engage in no-till agriculture, the vast majority of them in the United States and Latin America, Montgomery said.
“We don’t have to farm the way we do. It’s as much a matter of culture and habit as it is of economics, and our habitual ways of farming have gotten people into a lot of trouble through the years,” Montgomery said.
the source: enn.com
Great idea for improving climate change.
Why can’t we grow new energy ?