Environment - Part 2

Charity : Water

20 September, 2011 By abi Leave a Comment

Imagine not having water for a day, imagine getting up in the morning and ready to go to work to discover that there isnt water, frustrating isn’t it? Now imagine this problem, multiplied by a MILLION. You had to travel miles for clean water, or paid a premium water.

Charity : Water was establish to help solve this problem by providing clean drinking water to places around the world where people, like you and me had to struggle to just get water. Charity Water is barely 5 years old but has made impacts many lives of those who dont get water, they have dont spectacularly well in this by raising funds and effectively using the money to solve this problem.

Its their 5th year anniversary and they have come up with this VERY POWERFUL video calling for help for them to achive this goal of solving the water problem.

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Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: 5th anniversary, africa, Charity, Environment, Help, ngo, social, water, World

What Does The Forest Mean To You?

14 September, 2011 By abi Leave a Comment

What does the forest mean to you?

WWF-Malaysia went to the streets of Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu to get the views of urbanites of what the forest meant to them and this powerful video gives the diverse opinion about what people think. Not surprisingly the opinions are very different. Some aware some not so aware and some have pretty much no clue but that is the pulse of the streets.

2011 has been declared International Year of Forests (IYoF) by the United Nations to raise awareness on conservation, sustainable development and management of all types of forests

For me the forest is our life line, our source of clean water, our source of the air we breath, food we eat and the list goes on. It’s vital that we conserve our forest as I think that it is as important as the great oceans. Not enough is being done to conserve, not enough is being done to educate. With education more people will have the need to put pressure to ensure that we do not lose our forest to development.

We can co-exist, neither one needs to be compromised if we can put greed aside for the betterment of our planet.

There is a short opinion poll that you can participate in HERE , so please do take part if you can.

Check out the video! Trust me, its awesome! [Read more...]

Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: forest, Forests and Me, International Year of Forests, interview, IYoF, opinion poll, Street, to you, united nations, what it means, wwf-malaysia

Hazy KL

13 September, 2011 By abi Leave a Comment

So while many parts of the world countries have different weather season’s, in Malaysia we have the Haze as part of our weather calendar. It comes a few times a year and in different intensities. We right now are experiencing some massive haze due to as usual, fire’s from Sumatera.

The haze that envelops the Klang Valley, the northern states in the peninsula, Melaka and Negeri Sembilan is caused by trans-border smoke pollution from the fires in Sumatra, Indonesia.

- Bernama

According to the Department of Environment , 22 stations with 44 per cent good API readings and 28 stations with 56 per cent moderate air quality readings. The reading is considered unhealthy when it goes above 100.

Its becoming a bit of a pain in my opinion that it’s happening in loops now and nothing is being done to stop this for happening. I sure hope the governments are looking into the matter, while there are massive environmental issues, there are massive health issues as well!

I sure can’t stand the haze season!

Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: burning, Environment, haze, health, Indonesia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, open, poor, sumatera, weather

Gordan Ramsay : Shark Bait

7 September, 2011 By abi Leave a Comment

This is something that i think everyone should watch, Chef and TV Star Gordon Ramsay when around the world to document the consumption of Sharksfin and tries to stop people from eating shark fin soup by showing them where the fins come from and the damage it is doing to the shark population.

The video has images of how the sharks are caught, the fins are chopped off and the shark is thrown back to sea. Its crazy, it will give you a presective of what really happens and i hope that you do not consume sharks fin and please share this with as many people as you can.

When the demand stops, the supply stops!

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Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: anti, bait, China, endangered, fin, fishing, Food, gordan ramsay kitchen, illegal, restaurants, shark, taiwan

U.S. Carbon Emissions Exploded in 2010

6 September, 2011 By abi Leave a Comment

In 2010, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the United States saw their largest absolute and percentage increase – 213 million metric tons or 3.9% – since 1988 when they rose by 218 metric tons or 4.6%, according to data released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration

The world economy is the first example. Spending more than you have kills you and pulls pretty much everyone else around you since you are a super power. Now this? Well America, i sure hope you become more sensitive to the rest of the world , we share this planet and if you decide to destroy it, we go down with you as well.

World leaders better pay attention to these details, intangible but its the outcome can be detrimental

Source : Forbes

Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: 213 million metric, America, carbon, carbon dioxide, emission, Environment, high, record, usa, World

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