San Francisco is probably America’s most eco-friendly city. It currently recycles an amazing 72% of its waste and has a successful public transport system.
Now, the city hopes to increase that recycling rate to 90% with the introduction of mandatory composting.
The San Francisco Board Of Supervisors voted 9-2 to require residents and businesses to sort recyclables, general rubbish and recyclables for weekly collection. Those failing to comply with the new ordinances, which take effect in the autumn, will be hit with fines.
When I hear people discussing the demerits of wind turbines vis-a-vis climate change, I wonder if they have lost their collective marbles! It makes my blood curdle …are they absolute & *^&^ (pardon my French) to even discuss the disadvantages of wind turbines and its negative impact on climate change?
Once a week, if all of us skipped one meal of chicken and substituted it with veggies, what difference might it make to global warming?
Tons …do you know we would all be able to save so much carbon dioxide! Just like taking half a million autos off the roads!
Shocking fact – methane might be a bigger greenhouse villain than even CO2, or carbon dioxide!
Methane and methane emissions are, in fact, 20x times more dangerous than CO2 – traditionally painted black by environmentalists.
Where is Methane Hidden and What IS It?
Fortunately, or unfortunately, methane and its emissions are not as commonly or as openly found as carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is found in abundance all over the planet, especially in heavily populated cities. It is a known enemy and we have now been able to combat it in many different ways.
As you’re biting into that nice, juicy king-size burger, have you ever thought how much you’re contributing to global warming?
I hadn’t. Cattle, though, are a major problem for the environment. As cows are busy munching away in their pastures, their multiple stomachs are producing methane.
Methane is a particularly potent greenhouse gas, 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide for global warming. According to The Journal of Animal Science, livestock produce between 250 and 500 litres of methane every single day! At the top end of the estimate, that enough to fill 250 large bottles of Coke.
Bye-bye big thirsty V8s. President Obama has announced a major global warming measure with the first federal standards for fuel efficiency and exhaust emissions for America’s vehicles.
The new standards are due to take effect in 2012. They require that by 2016 most cars be able to achieve 39 miles per US gallon (47 miles per imperial gallon), up from 27.5 mpg at present. Light trucks will have to better today’s 23 mpg by 7mpg. Exhaust emissions will also have to be reduced by 30%.
Before the Industrial Revolution, life was straightforward. Most things people consumed were produced locally, on a small scale and there was no mass transportation. So they would know where and what they consumed had come from, and probably how it been made.
Fast forward to the 21st Century and the complex, interlinking, global nature of trade. Most of us have no idea how and where the products we consume are made.
Overweight people contribute more to global warming claim two British researchers. The study by Dr Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
The populations of the wealthy nations are getting larger. According to Dr Edwards, “UK health surveys estimate fatness has increased from an average body mass index (BMI) of 26 to 27 in the last ten years. That’s equivalent to about half a stone (7 lbs) for every person”. This is worrying as anyone who has a BMI above 25 is medically considered overweight, whilst over 30 is the medical definition of obese.
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