Green Consumer Day

September 28 Green Consumer Day
The problems of consumerism and its impact on the environment is an area of major concern in today’s world. Awareness building on the importance of reducing, reusing, & recycling should be taken up seriously.



Quote for the day:
The best way to be a green consumer is not to be a consumer at all!



It is easy to get excited about all the new green gadgets and organic products out there. These products may be green, but they will never be as green as the product that isn't made at all, and this is an important thing to keep in mind. The greenest path is to make do with what you have. If you do need something, consider buying used. Giving a product a second life is always a green way to go. When you buy something used, it prevents a new version of it from being made, and a perfectly good one from being wasted. If you simply must buy something new, then by all means, look for green or organic products. Develop a sharp eye for distinguishing legitimately green products from products that are simply "greenwashed."

Cited from : http://greenopolis.com/myopolis/blogs/liv-greene/be-a-green-consumer

I found what he/she said is interesting. Even though we may can't stop consuming but we can do it the "green" way. =]

Garbage Enzyme

Check out this video on the garbage enzyme.
I hope everyone tries it at home!

Facts from National Geographic Channel

State of the Earth
Earthquakes

• A 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China’s western province of Sichuan leaving 70,000 people dead and nearly 5 million of them homeless.
• Studies show that ground earthquakes may be a result of electrical charges in the atmosphere.
  The compression of rocks before an earthquake occurs acts like batteries and produce electricity.
  

Volcanoes

• Half a billion people live near the world’s 1,500 active volcanoes.
  Instead of a cone, super volcanoes have a circular caldera where magma and earth have been sucked inward during an explosion.
  

Typhoons, Cyclones, and Hurricanes

• On May 2, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar killing nearly 100,000 people.
  Hurricane Ike, the most damaging of the 2008 Atlantic hurricanes, reshaped the coast of Texas, obliterating small islands that once dotted the coastline.
  Experts have found that 90 percent of Atlantic hurricanes were preceded by lightning storms over the highland of East Africa.
  The changing weather that produces intense lightning in East Africa interrupts the path of trade winds, which may result in hurricanes.
  Part of the formation of hurricanes is caused by the rising sea temperature.
  

Coral Reefs

• An atoll is a ring of ancient coral reefs that are left behind when an island sinks back into the ocean.
  The process of making an atoll can take up to 30 million years, making coral atolls some of the most ancient and rare ecosystems on Earth.
  Coral reefs are home to a quarter of the plants and animals in the world’s ocean.
  

The Arctic

• Locked inside the eons-old permafrost in the Arctic is more carbon dioxide than already exists in the atmosphere.
  

Animal Extinction

• Researchers have found that one in four mammals is in danger of extinction--one in seven birds, one-third of amphibians, and 70 percent of plant life is threatened.
  In an isolated swamp of the Congo, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society located a previously unknown population of 125,000 western lowland gorillas, more than tripling the known population.

Read more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/earth-day/4246/Overview#tab-facts#ixzz0RHlixAPq

Hope all of you are aware of the situation at hand.
Thank you for reading.

reminder

I HOPE EVERYONE REMEMBERS OUR CLUB MEETING ON TUE AT D16 FROM 4pm ONWARDS.


SEE YOU GUYS THEN!