GIANT 70" satellite Dish conversion solar cooker
Super heated solar cooker can be made using a 70" satellite Dish antenna. Can disintegrate wood in matter of minutes. Not for use of children.
Direct TV Dish to Solar Cooker
Here is a good resource by which you can very easily create a parabolic solar cooker using a scrap dish antenna.
Why Water
This is a nice video from http://www.charitywater.org. Why water is important! There is a concern about water and no one is left alone by it.
Every Tree is Important
This pic actually has a different text. But I thought to change the text here to a more fitting one. What we do adversely affects the environment. Stop cutting trees.
Saving Thirty Hills
Saving Sumatra's tiger habitat
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently caught 12 Sumatran tigers on their video camera traps in the Sumatran rainforest in the Bukit Tigapuluh, or “Thirty Hills," landscape. This region has recently undergone rapid deforestation, leaving little area left for the tigers, orangutans and elephants that call it home.
The forest area is one of the globe's top 20 priority landscapes for the tiger's survival in the wild. At a global tiger summit in November 2010, the Indonesian government pledged to focus on the Bukit Tigapuluh landscape. Yet this forest is currently targeted for clearance by paper and rubber companies and illegal clearance by oil palm planters. If these practices continue, WWF researchers believe the local tiger population, as well as two local elephant herds, will swiftly vanish. The world’s only successfully reintroduced Sumatran orangutans, many of them previously rescued from illegal pet traders, would also lose their new home.
Together with David Tryse, WWF created a narrated tour in Google Earth of the plight of the Sumatran tigers and their orangutan and elephant neighbors. The tour's satellite imagery highlights the area that has already witnessed logging or extraction, and shows deforestation threats to these animals and indigenous people.
There are only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild and images of the cubs like those featured in the narrated tour are very rare. Together with the other five remaining tiger species (the Amur, Malayan, Bengal, Indochinese and South China tigers), global tiger populations are at 3,200, down from 100,000 a hundred years ago. Only 7% of their original habitat remains.
Highlighting the plight of these forests and their wildlife has allowed WWF to build political, financial and public support to save these habitats not only in Bukit Tigapuluh but across Sumatra. remaining tiger forests of not only Bukit Tigapuluh but also Sumatra. Google Earth will doubtless play an increasingly important role in this effort.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently caught 12 Sumatran tigers on their video camera traps in the Sumatran rainforest in the Bukit Tigapuluh, or “Thirty Hills," landscape. This region has recently undergone rapid deforestation, leaving little area left for the tigers, orangutans and elephants that call it home.
The forest area is one of the globe's top 20 priority landscapes for the tiger's survival in the wild. At a global tiger summit in November 2010, the Indonesian government pledged to focus on the Bukit Tigapuluh landscape. Yet this forest is currently targeted for clearance by paper and rubber companies and illegal clearance by oil palm planters. If these practices continue, WWF researchers believe the local tiger population, as well as two local elephant herds, will swiftly vanish. The world’s only successfully reintroduced Sumatran orangutans, many of them previously rescued from illegal pet traders, would also lose their new home.
Together with David Tryse, WWF created a narrated tour in Google Earth of the plight of the Sumatran tigers and their orangutan and elephant neighbors. The tour's satellite imagery highlights the area that has already witnessed logging or extraction, and shows deforestation threats to these animals and indigenous people.
There are only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild and images of the cubs like those featured in the narrated tour are very rare. Together with the other five remaining tiger species (the Amur, Malayan, Bengal, Indochinese and South China tigers), global tiger populations are at 3,200, down from 100,000 a hundred years ago. Only 7% of their original habitat remains.
Highlighting the plight of these forests and their wildlife has allowed WWF to build political, financial and public support to save these habitats not only in Bukit Tigapuluh but across Sumatra. remaining tiger forests of not only Bukit Tigapuluh but also Sumatra. Google Earth will doubtless play an increasingly important role in this effort.
Eco-Logic Foundation
Eco –Logic foundation is a young NGO founded in 2008 by group of professionals working for the cause of Environment for the benefit of society. They are involved in consultancy, training and awareness of Environmental management, disaster management, Hygiene Promotion and First aid. Their work also extends to sustainable built spaces, solid waste management, energy management and sustainable land development in urban and rural areas. Eco-Logic Foundation designs and conducts custom made training programs on environmental awareness and sustainable development.
These people conduct programs with schools on environmental awareness and hygiene promotion. They are are tying up with rural schools, assessing their requirements and designing programs for them
ELF provide
1. Environmental awareness – through stories, slide shows, drama and games
explaining the children importance of nature and environment, concepts of global
warming, greenhouse gas effect, pollution and depletion of natural resources.
2. Hygiene Promotion – importance of self cleanliness and clean surroundings, hand washing, safe defecation, clean drinking water, clean water and sanitation practices at home and in schools.
3. They carry out drawing competitions, Essay competitions, speech, debates etc for children on the above subjects
4. They ensure children enjoy learning with games and other fun activities interspersed with sessions. WORKS UNDERTAKEN BY ECO-LOGIC FOUNDATION
1. Sustainable School Design competition entry for ‘Architecture For Humanity’
2. Designing twin pit toilets for a NGO ‘Gram Bharti Mahila Mandal’ at Betul in Madhya Pradesh
3. Temporary shelters for residents of Tandulwadi, Chiplu
4. Environmental Management systems for School and Orphanage for Sumati Balbhavan, at Nimbalkarwadi.
5. A two day workshop in Sumati Balbhavan on Environmental issues
6. Constructing a farmpond by Shramdan for Sumati Balbhavan
7. A program on Hygiene Promtion in Grampanchyat school of Urawade.
8. A workshop on Environmental problems – causes of Global Warming in Zilla Parishad school of Shivnae.
9. Hygiene Promotion Program in school of Pirangut.
10. Environmental pledge in the school of Pirangut, on 15 August.
11. Hygiene Promotion Program in school of Verve
12. Swine Flu Vaccination Program in the school of Pirangut and Verve (Under the hygiene promotion program)
13. Disaster Risk Reduction Program in the Orbis school, at Keshavnagar, Pune.
14. In association with EcoSan had organized a water Walk on World Water day 22 March 2011
15. ELF also organizes many training programs for its members for building their capacity to serve others better.16. Tree plantation in an orphanage ‘Sumati Balbhavan’ on The ‘World Environment Day’
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Blanket of plastic bags
Blanket ban on plastic bags; violators to face 5-year jail
In a major environment-friendly move, the Delhi government will impose a blanket ban on usage and manufacturing of plastic bags in the next two months and those violating it could face imprisonment up to five years and fine of up to Rs 1 lakh or both...
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This article just came out on 2nd of October. Hope it works. It will be a sigh of relief if it truely works out!
In a major environment-friendly move, the Delhi government will impose a blanket ban on usage and manufacturing of plastic bags in the next two months and those violating it could face imprisonment up to five years and fine of up to Rs 1 lakh or both...
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This article just came out on 2nd of October. Hope it works. It will be a sigh of relief if it truely works out!
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