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Zo Nicholas

Have you been watching  the Olympics?

2008 Beijing Olympics goes green

The past couple of weeks have been amazing. First of all the Opening Ceremony was just riveting, a real spectacle! and every day the different events have kept me glued to my seat watching the feats, commiserating with the losers and applauding the winners.

China received its own Gold medal, when U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson presented Chinese officials with a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold award for the 2008 Olympic village. 80hectares, total building floor area of 470,000square meters, accommodating over 17,000 athletes together with a 760hectare ‘forest park’, providing safe and comfortable facilities for all participants. The world-class sustainable development boasts a variety of features including solar panels, green roofs, and an extensive rainwater recycling system.

While China’s pollution problems and their growing carbon footprint are a major global concern (China is now the largest greenhouse gas emitter by volume), the country made strides in an effort to “green” and clean up the city of Beijing for the Games, spending 17.6 billion dollars to reduce pollution and emissions. Let’s hope the short-term successes in support of the Olympics provide a model for China’s future, and the country vigorously addresses its significant contribution to global warming.

Congratulations to China for such an extra-ordinary spectacular!

Trying to make it a better place,
Zo Nicholas

100 percent renewable and truly clean electricity within 10 years

Is this goal realistic?

If we change our reliance from carbon based fuels,  the answer is yes. There is enough solar enegy, wind energy and geo thermal power if we decide to make this change. The goal is achievable, but it takes the power of the people to push the governments to do so, it takes you and me.

If Goverments world wide took a long deep look at their policies they would see  how they destroy the planet. Our current policy here in the U.K. only feathers the nest of those who have a vested interest. Isn’t it time to make the change and use the renewable energy sources, create a new industrial revolution based on sustainable ‘alternative’ resources. Not just change lightbulbs, as Al Gore said. I remember over twenty years ago Jonathon Porritt of ‘Friends of the Earth’ urging us to make changes to what was then called the ‘alternative’ lifestyle. Not just  recycling, the ‘hippie’ way, but real changes in the way we live. With hindsight, he  was right, way ahead of government thinking.

Change must come from the top!

Listen and read Al Gores challenge and join the action.

The world is a mess, the weather is a mess, our meddling footprint is everywhere to be seen.
 

Zo Nicholas

Global warming - just another global agenda?

Fact or Big hoax

The weather, a topic we all discuss daily.
Whats the weather like? What will the weather be like tomorrow, next week, next month? We plan parts of our lives around the weather, our holidays, our days out, barbeques, beach parties. Wouldn’t it be nice if the weather was ‘nice’ when we wanted it!

If we look back say, even just 50 years most of us will admit that the daily weather is not like it used to be. Here in the U.K  where I live, summers were summers, long and hot, and winters were cold with snow. And now.. summers seem to come earlier, unpredictable, and a non event.  Winters are milder and longer. Plants are flowering earlier in the spring. Rainfall or drought more intense, more violent. Real extremes of temperature. So is the earth going through a change? Did we create this climate change with all our interfering in the earths atmosphere and crust. Is this the footprint we leave behind?

The climate is changing and quite rapidly, changes can be seen daily especially if we look at the polar ice caps that are melting, and the mountain glaciers that are retreating. We can easily measure the differences. Aerial photgraphs clearly show the changes. The question here arises, is this man made or the earths natural cycle like with the ice ages or is it all due to the ‘ toxic chemical atmosphere’ that we create every day in our industrialised world? Toxic ‘greenhouses gases’ are created daily  by the earths natural emissions like volcanoes, around long before the car, or have we just helped to unbalance the natural balance the earth maintains.

Wandering through a city and observing the old archictecture, the rapid erosion of old buildings is clearly seen, the masonary pitted and decaying due to the toxic atmosphere. Would this be happening if there were no car emmissions and fumes? Are all these emmissions causing the rise in the earths temperature?

If we look around in our environment we see so many instances of changes happening right before our eyes, natural earth cycle or man made? The hoax supporters suggest that this has all happened before and part of the earths evolution. Science agrees with the man made theory, providing evidence to support it.

Dwindling resources, weather changes, over popluation: a good excuse to reflect how we live and make some changes ourselves.

Zo Nicholas

Soon there will be posts here about global warming, what global warming is, the cause of global warming, the effects of global warming and the consequences of global warming and how it effects us all. Our footprint is everywhere to be seen.

Trying to make it a better place, Zo Nicholas