Archive for December, 2011

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Dec

Water Pollution in Eastern United States

Water pollution is a major problem in the United States. All over the world, water pollution is increasingly becoming a major public health concern as statistics shows rising level of pollution in major waterways.  Since sustenance of life on earth depends on water, water pollution is a major threat to life on earth.  As more waterways become polluted, the amount of clean water available for domestic use is decreasing at an alarming rate.  Most source of pollution emanates from human effort to make their lives better, but animal, on land and in ocean, becomes the major culprit of the rising level of water pollution. For example, recent studies have revealed that whales have a higher concentration of carcinogenic chemicals which are endangering their lives.  Water pollution is particularly dangerous because all these chemical pollutants may end up in our bodies, which will come with devastating health consequences.

Lead is one of the common and dangerous water pollutants. Lead pollution is made worse by the fact that it may be difficult to monitor as the sources cannot be easily detected.  It cannot be detected unless complex laboratory testing is carried out, since it cannot be smelt or tasted. In most countries, lead pollution is major problem that is affecting the quality of drinking water.

18
Dec

16 Climate Change Solutions – The Built Environment

Government could be a force for progress in finding Climate Change solutions. The problem simply has to be solved. Time is showing that there is no escape from this reality. Politics aside, the governance mechanisms need to be in the public interest, free from sectarian or industrial lobby group interference.

It is my educated opinion that a rational point for debate is that we need a review of governance systems in relation to energy use and power sources and a new 21st Century response that will benefit Australia in the long run.

The opinions and points made in this document are based on my 40-year professional and academic career and long-term experience. This includes many successes in the built environment as an architect, project manager, builder and developer, as well as teacher, researcher and innovator. This experience covers not only what has gone right but also, what has gone wrong or not worked to plan. The errors or miscalculations are actually where the best lessons are learned.

17
Dec

Energy Crisis and Green Energy Solution

Green energy includes natural energetic processes that can be harnessed with little pollution. There are many possible choice energy solutions out in the disclose. All of them are worth pursuing. Nonetheless, most of these green energy alternatives are out of reach for the every day men and women like you and me. All energy sources require energy and contribute rise to a little amount pollution from manufacture of the technology.

In several countries with community carrier arrangements, electricity retailing accord make it possible for clients to obtain green electricity (reutilizable electricity) from either their utility or a green power supplier. We will argue more about this on my next essay.

By agreeing in a green energy affairs a consumer may be having an impact on the energy sources applied and fundamentally might be helping to advance and intensify the adoption of green energy. They are also making a comment to policy makers that they are agreeable to pay a price dividend to support renewable energy. Green energy consumers either obligate the utility companies to augment the amount of green energy that they shop for from the pool (so decreasing the amount of non-green energy they buy), or directly provide money for the green energy through a green power supplier. If insufficient green energy sources are obtainable, the utility must acquire new ones or contract with a tertiary party energy supplier to supply green energy, responsible for more to be built.