“Humans are so disgusting. Look at all this waste!”
After an encounter with a fishing trawler (which is being used to clean up the trash-strewn bottom of the harbour), Ponyo ends up stuck in a bottle. She drifts to the shore of a small fishing town and is found and rescued by a small boy named Sosuke. More about this film »
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Sustainable production through innovation. Waste-free recycling. Technology prepared by a Polish consists of an innovative way to recycle all the protein-rich waste containing heavy metals. It includes selective removal of all contaminants and transforming them into products.
Bacterial biomass from municipal sewage sludge and hydrolysed protein from a sloughterhouse sewage sludge, after a thorough purification are key ingredients of a series of mixed organic/mineral fertilising compositions. Together they form slow-release products, which prevent eutrophication of midland water reservoirs and provide soil with N, P and K bound to organic matter. Highly polluted wastewater bound to tannery sludge as a hydrating shell undergoes purification to the extent, which allows either a legal discharge into surface waters or a direct use to prepare solutions applied in the technological cycle.
Liquid/liquid extraction process employing phase-transfer catalyst is used here. It removes simultaneously metallic species together with excessive chlorides, replacing all of them by sulphates, hence this is the only method, which can reduce quickly high salinity of effluents. All the inorganic salts, removed or recovered, become commercial products after purification.
Article and image from Spin Project
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Before we develop further the realities and consequences of the plastic-covered beaches, seafloor and plastic-instilled seawater, it is necessary to present simple facts about plastic itself.
Only in 1997, with Captain Charles Moore’s discovery, was the plastic waste pollution in the ocean widely brought to media light and finally began to receive more serious attention from the public and the scientific world, stepping the way to more exhaustive research about plastic and its consequences and effects when entering marine life.
Of the 260 million tons of plastic the world produces each year, about 10 percent ends up in the Ocean, according to a Greenpeace report (Plastic Debris in the World’s Oceans, 2006). Seventy percent of the mass eventually sinks, damaging life on the seabed. The rest floats in open seas, often ending up in gyres, circular motion of currents, forming conglomerations of swirling plastic trash called garbage patches, or ultimately ending up washed ashore on someone’s beach.
But the washed up or floating plastic pollution is a lot more than an eyesore or a choking/entanglement hazard for marine animals or birds. Once plastic debris enters the water, it becomes one of the most pervasive problems because of plastic’s inherent properties: buoyancy, durability (slow photo degradation), propensity to absorb waterborne pollutants, its ability to get fragmented in microscopic pieces, and more importantly, its proven possibility to decompose, leaching toxic Bisphenol A (BPA) and other toxins in the seawater.
“Plastics are a contaminant that goes beyond the visual”, says Bill Henry of the Long Marine Laboratory, UCSC.
The World Heritage Committee, currently meeting for its annual session in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, has been tasked with determining if the Great Barrier Reef is in trouble.
UNESCO raised concerns about the level of development along the Queensland coast and its impact on the World Heritage site, including water quality and the loss of coral.
The committee was considering whether to adopt UNESCOs recommendations to stop new approvals for port developments along the Queensland coast.
Kimberley Dripps from the federal Environment Department told the hearing that progress was being made to address their concerns and stated that Australia was committed to protecting the site. Read more »
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Avram Noam Chomsky, sometimes described as the “father of modern linguistics”, speaks on Capitalism and Climate Change.
Media reports commonly present a controversy between two sides on climate change.
One side consists of the overwhelming majority of scientists, the world’s major national academies of science, the professional science journals and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
They agree that global warming is taking place, that there is a substantial human component, that the situation is serious and perhaps dire, and that very soon, maybe within decades, the world might reach a tipping point where the process will escalate sharply and will be irreversible, with severe social and economic effects. It is rare to find such consensus on complex scientific issues.
The other side consists of skeptics, including a few respected scientists who caution that much is unknown — which means that things might not be as bad as thought, or they might be worse.
The term “capitalism” is commonly used to refer to the U.S. economic system, with substantial state intervention ranging from subsidies for creative innovation to the “too-big-to-fail” government insurance policy for banks.
The system is highly monopolised. “Capitalism” is a term now commonly used to describe systems in which there are no capitalists.
There have been serious debates over the years about whether capitalism is compatible with democracy. If we keep to really existing capitalist democracy — RECD for short — the question is effectively answered: They are radically incompatible.
It seems to me unlikely that civilization can survive RECD and the sharply attenuated democracy that goes along with it. But could functioning democracy make a difference?
Container homes are often cheaper and more affordable than traditional homes. They are suited for any person who desires to have a stylish, affordable and eco conscious home.
This is one side of the cargo house that has a footbridge from the second level to where the hillside leads up to the parking area, in Felton, on Thursday, May 10, 2012. The DeWitt/Kasravi family have a “green” two-story, 1,200 sq. ft. home made of 3.5 cargo containers that were cut into six pieces for the home, in the hills in Felton.
Visit the Shipping Container Homes Australia website will be the biggest and most comprehensive website on Shipping Container Homes in Australia. The site contains:
Architecturally drawn plans for over 50 Shipping Container Houses.
Detailed costings and instructions on how to build your house quickly and without making costly mistakes.
Where to get the best building products for the best price.
Instructions will be available in a written, spoken and video format.
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Satellite Earth observation provides objective coverage across both space and time. Sensors can gather data from sites across the world, including places too remote or otherwise inaccessible for ground-based data acquisition.
An improved understanding of the Earth and its systems – such as weather, climate, oceans, land, geology, ecosystems, and natural and human-induced hazards – is essential if we are to effectively manage our planet and its resources. Satellite Earth observation data, and the information derived from it, are essential to this understanding.
Prior to the space age, mankind couldn’t develop a global view of the world we lived in. Fifty years later, planet Earth has been redefined through the systematic collection and analysis of vast amounts of information collected by satellites, and we can see our world as never before.
Satellite Earth observation images show the world through a wide-enough frame that large-scale phenomena can be observed to an accuracy and entirety it would take an army of ground-level observers to match. A single satellite image has the potential to show the spread of air pollution across Australia, the precise damage done by an earthquake or forest fire, or the entire span of a 500-km cyclone from the calmness of its eye to its outermost storm fronts.
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Acid rain gases begin in urban areas but they can drift hundreds of miles away wreak havoc on forests and lakes.
Acid rain may not have quite as much prominence in public discourse as it did years ago, but that doesn’t mean that the problem has gone away. Acid rain effects can be devastating, particularly to forests and aquatic ecosystems, making waters toxic and depriving the soil of essential nutrients.
When fossil fuels like coal and oil are burned by power companies and other industries, sulfur is released into the air, which combines with oxygen to form sulfur dioxide. This compound, along with the nitric acid that forms due to car exhaust, dissolves into the water vapor in the air, which then pours down in the form of acid rain. While acid rain gases originate in urban areas, they can drift hundreds of miles into rural areas to wreak havoc on forests and lakes.
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), these effects are most dramatic in water environments like streams, lakes and marshes. Most bodies of fresh water have a pH between 6 and 8, meaning they are on the alkaline, or ‘base’ side of the pH scale. As acid rain falls into the water, it lowers this pH, and the surrounding soil is often unable to buffer it. The acidic water leaches aluminum from the soil, which is highly toxic to many species of aquatic organisms.
Surfrider shows us the majesty of the ocean and the tragedy of our plastic crap. Almost 90% of all material floating in the ocean is plastic, and every square mile of ocean contains 46,000 pieces of the stuff. These are scary statistics, especially because most of this pollution exists in international waters, so no one’s taking responsibility for it. The Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit that works to protect oceans and beaches, is launching a new print campaign aimed at drawing attention to the problem.
The images are meant to emulate surf beauty shots with the subtle addition of plastic pollution. The bottles and bags are actual photos of ocean trash, which have been transposed onto the waves. The campaign was conceived by Arnold Worldwide’s Australia Office, Arnold Furnace.
Water shortages and water pollution in China are such a problem that the World Bank warns of “catastrophic consequences for future generations.” Half of China’s population lacks safe drinking water. Nearly two thirds of China’s rural population – more than 500 million people – use water contaminated by human and industrial waste.
Water consumed by people in China contains dangerous levels of arsenic, fluorine and sulfates. An estimated 980 million of China’s 1.3 billion people drink water every day that is partly polluted.
In summer of 2011, the China government reported 43 percent of state-monitored rivers are so polluted, they’re unsuitable for human contact. By one estimate one sixth of China’s population is threatened by seriously polluted water.
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