2. Beer bottles, plastic cleared from Mt. Everest trail
3. In fact, I was reading an article "The Fate of the Ocean". But I was remembering the fate of Mt. Everest. Julia Whitty's powerful and adventures expression on the travelogue under aforementioned title, appealed me to go thorough a similar article written on Mt. Everest. I accelerated all search engine Google, Yahoo and so on. All efforts to get a testy and adventurous article went in vain. I just got pieces of small news related to plastic or bottle pollution in the Mt. Everest. Among them I have selected news 'Beer bottles, plastic cleared from Mt. Everest trail" for our weekly post.
I had some knowledge about pollution on Mt. Everest. Climbers well wishers and environmentalist are worried on such problem. This news-article pictures the seriousness of problem with some data. And also this news can disseminate the information that the efforts to clean the Mt. Everest. For my best surprise, article says that a group clered 17 tones bottle, plastic and cans.
Here, I want to share why I am being distracted from the Ocean article and attracted to this article. The Reason is that I had grown up nearby Mt. Everest. As a citizen of landlocked country Nepal, I did not get opportunity to experience Ocean on my childhood and also in the teenage. On the other; I had been taught to be proud having located Mt. Everest in Nepal.
There is an environmental problem on the top of the world, where few people can success to scale up. Also the extreme down of our earth, the Ocean also polluted. What a wonderful co-existence of thought on my mind as I was trying to compare two parts of the Earth; the top and the down. I wish if there is another scholar like Julia Witty, ready to climb Mt. Everest and make a similar travelogue like 'The Fate of Ocean. ---------------------------- Beer bottles, plastic cleared from Mt. Everest trail
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A Nepali airline cleared 17 tons of empty beer bottles and cans on Friday from around Lukla village, the main gateway for trekkers and climbers heading to Mount Everest base camp, a company official said. Thousands of trekkers and mountain climbers from around the world go to the scenic Khumbhu region every year, towered by the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) mountain.The trekkers scatter tons of empty beer bottles, plastic packets and cans in Lukla.On Friday, a private airline completed a huge clean up operation. "This is the last cargo in a series we began carrying in January," said Vinaya Shakya, a senior official of the Yeti Airlines, a private carrier which volunteered to do the clean up job.The bottles will be handed over to breweries for reuse, he added. The airline said they were hoping the campaign would create more awareness among both the tourists and the locals about preserving and improving the ecological balance in the high Himalayas. Foreign and Nepali climbers in the recent years have cleared many empty oxygen bottles, plastics, cans, ropes and broken ladders from the slopes of Everest.But the trekking trail from Lukla to the base camp was littered with garbage. Ang Tshiring Sherpa, a member of the Himalaya Club, a local environmental group in Lukla, explained that garbage like paper, plastic and aluminum cans was disposed of locally, but the bottles had to be brought to the capital."We ran short of space to bury empty bottles," Sherpa, who was involved in the drive said. Last month, Nepal named the trail from Lukla to the Everest base camp after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, who first climbed the Everest summit in 1953. A small airstrip constructed in Lukla in the 1960s with the help of Hillary has also been named after the pioneering mountaineers.Tenzing died in 1986 and Hillary passed away this year in New Zealand. (Editing by Bappa Majumdar and Sanjeev Miglani)
2.Great alternative water technology--air into water by solar enorgy
3.Many millions of people around the world face water shortages. To put it simply, water shortage is unbalance of supply and demand in the time of need. Though the amount of water on the earth never change, available water is decreasing due to many reasons. Urbanization is interrupting natural water cycle by increasing impervious cover, industralization is causing water pollution and global warming is causing excessive evaporation.
This article is about alternative water technology. Turning air into water using solar power is environmentally friendly idea and developing sustainable water technology is very important. Drought regularly afflicts some of the world’s poorest countries and water technology would be helpful in those regions.(The problem might caused from inequity of technology)
--- New Device Turns Air into Drinking Water All around the world, we're dealing with a severe water shortage. An entire continent, Australia, is so dry that cities have set up "water police" to rat out residents who use their garden hoses a single moment longer than they're meant to. For years, Israel, too, has been dealing with a tremendous drought; the water sources that still exist in the arid country are often so polluted that the water is undrinkable.
Luckily, there's one resource we've still got plenty of: Air.
And thanks to a new company, Houston, Texas-based Aquamaker, that air can now be converted into drinkable water. Much like a dehumidifier, the company's new technology works to capture humidity in the air and convert it into water. The system has filters in place to get rid of any pollutants in the air, ensuring that the resulting liquid is completely safe to drink.
"It's your own well, and it's clean," the CEO of Aquamaker's Israel branch, Eita Markovits, told The Jerusalem Post. "We believe that five to ten years from now, we will be part of how Israel supplies its citizens with water.
Aquamaker's machines are capable of producing up to 5,000 liters of water at a time, which would be enough to supply an entire village with fresh water, without draining an area's precious natural resources. When used in combination with a solar power generator, they provide an environmentally friendly alternative to bottled water for areas with a limited tap water supply.
Currently, the devices are sold in the US, Australia, Israel, and several other countries, and are available in both commercial and industrial sizes. We may not all need to pick up one of these machines just yet, but it's comforting to know that no matter what disasters global warming throws our way, we'll always have something to drink. -------------- http://www.enn.com/sci-tech/article/29026
2.U.S. activist circles globe to fight biotech crops
3.I was shocked when i heard of a news that big 4 companies of making food are going to import GMO corns from this May. In korea, we are importing GMO beans already and using them for making oil and so on. This GMO corns are going to be used for making beverages, sugars, and many kinds of ingredients of korean food. Scientists and the government is asserting that those GMO crops are 'SAFE', but i don't know what 'safe' means anymore. ----------------------- KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Jeffrey Smith is a man on a mission.
Each day, ever day for the last 12 years, the 49-year-old Smith has made it his personal calling to travel the world preaching against genetically modified crops.
From Poland to Brazil and California to Vermont, Smith has crisscrossed more than two dozen countries to preach to physician groups, regulators, political leaders, and consumer groups that gene-altered corn, soybeans, canola and other crops, when included in human food, can cause a range of serious health problems.
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"GMOs have been linked to thousands of toxic and allergic-type reactions, thousands of sick, sterile and dead livestock and damage to virtually every organ and system studied in lab animals," said Smith, who has authored two books on the topic.
The New York native, who worked as a marketing consultant before turning activist, sees what he calls small victories all around him, including recent moves by major dairy companies and retailers to shun products derived from cows given biotech supplements, efforts by various U.S. states and local governments to restrict biotech crops, and wholesale bans on biotech crops in several foreign countries.
This summer, Smith and a consortium of U.S. organic food company players who see him as a champion for their interests are rolling out a U.S. marketing strategy aimed at convincing consumers in this generally GMO-friendly country to shun foods containing genetically altered ingredients.
"Jeffrey is respected as a public educator on GMOs and a person who is interested in aggressively spreading the word," said Organic Consumers Association national director Ronnie Cummins.
Smith, who has replanted himself in Iowa, the largest U.S. corn-growing state, is discounted as misinformed and misleading by supporters of biotechnology who say the safety of genetically engineered crops and food is well established. Even some fellow biotech crop opponents question his strategies.
"The whole message that Jeffrey Smith has - that these crops are unsafe - there is no validity to that at all," said Mary Boote, executive director for pro-biotech Truth About Trade and Technology. "Jeffrey Smith is articulate and strong in his personal beliefs. But he has no science background at all."
But funded by speaking fees, book sales and donations to his institute, Smith plans to keep circling the globe. Data that shows increased plantings of biotech crops around the world won't deter him, he says.
"If we can get millions of people choosing non-GMO products then the food companies will see GM as a liability and remove them from their products," said Smith. "We're going for an industry-wide clean out of GMOs."
(Reporting by Carey Gillam; Editing by Marguerita Choy) -------- http://www.enn.com/agriculture/article/32495
A very down to earth* kind of guy. I'm an environmental sociologist interested in establishing material and organizational sustainability worldwide. I'm always looking for interesting materials/technologies, inspiring ideas, or institutional examples of sustainability to inspire others to recognize their choices now. To be fatalistic about an unsustainable world is a sign of a captive mind, given all our options.
*(If "earth" is defined in a planetary sense, concerning comparative historical knowledge and interest in the past 10,000 years or so anywhere...) See both blogs.
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1. Madhabi Bhatta
2. Beer bottles, plastic cleared from Mt. Everest trail
3. In fact, I was reading an article "The Fate of the Ocean". But I was remembering the fate of Mt. Everest. Julia Whitty's powerful and adventures expression on the travelogue under aforementioned title, appealed me to go thorough a similar article written on Mt. Everest. I accelerated all search engine Google, Yahoo and so on. All efforts to get a testy and adventurous article went in vain. I just got pieces of small news related to plastic or bottle pollution in the Mt. Everest. Among them I have selected news 'Beer bottles, plastic cleared from Mt. Everest trail" for our weekly post.
I had some knowledge about pollution on Mt. Everest. Climbers well wishers and environmentalist are worried on such problem. This news-article pictures the seriousness of problem with some data. And also this news can disseminate the information that the efforts to clean the Mt. Everest. For my best surprise, article says that a group clered 17 tones bottle, plastic and cans.
Here, I want to share why I am being distracted from the Ocean article and attracted to this article. The Reason is that I had grown up nearby Mt. Everest. As a citizen of landlocked country Nepal, I did not get opportunity to experience Ocean on my childhood and also in the teenage. On the other; I had been taught to be proud having located Mt. Everest in Nepal.
There is an environmental problem on the top of the world, where few people can success to scale up. Also the extreme down of our earth, the Ocean also polluted. What a wonderful co-existence of thought on my mind as I was trying to compare two parts of the Earth; the top and the down. I wish if there is another scholar like Julia Witty, ready to climb Mt. Everest and make a similar travelogue like 'The Fate of Ocean.
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Beer bottles, plastic cleared from Mt. Everest trail
By Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A Nepali airline cleared 17 tons of empty beer bottles and cans on Friday from around Lukla village, the main gateway for trekkers and climbers heading to Mount Everest base camp, a company official said.
Thousands of trekkers and mountain climbers from around the world go to the scenic Khumbhu region every year, towered by the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) mountain.The trekkers scatter tons of empty beer bottles, plastic packets and cans in Lukla.On Friday, a private airline completed a huge clean up operation.
"This is the last cargo in a series we began carrying in January," said Vinaya Shakya, a senior official of the Yeti Airlines, a private carrier which volunteered to do the clean up job.The bottles will be handed over to breweries for reuse, he added.
The airline said they were hoping the campaign would create more awareness among both the tourists and the locals about preserving and improving the ecological balance in the high Himalayas.
Foreign and Nepali climbers in the recent years have cleared many empty oxygen bottles, plastics, cans, ropes and broken ladders from the slopes of Everest.But the trekking trail from Lukla to the base camp was littered with garbage.
Ang Tshiring Sherpa, a member of the Himalaya Club, a local environmental group in Lukla, explained that garbage like paper, plastic and aluminum cans was disposed of locally, but the bottles had to be brought to the capital."We ran short of space to bury empty bottles," Sherpa, who was involved in the drive said.
Last month, Nepal named the trail from Lukla to the Everest base camp after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, who first climbed the Everest summit in 1953.
A small airstrip constructed in Lukla in the 1960s with the help of Hillary has also been named after the pioneering mountaineers.Tenzing died in 1986 and Hillary passed away this year in New Zealand.
(Editing by Bappa Majumdar and Sanjeev Miglani)
1. Yoonjung Kim
2.Great alternative water technology--air into water by solar enorgy
3.Many millions of people around the world face water shortages. To put it simply, water shortage is unbalance of supply and demand in the time of need. Though the amount of water on the earth never change, available water is decreasing due to many reasons. Urbanization is interrupting natural water cycle by increasing impervious cover, industralization is causing water pollution and global warming is causing excessive evaporation.
This article is about alternative water technology. Turning air into water using solar power is environmentally friendly idea and developing sustainable water technology is very important. Drought regularly afflicts some of the world’s poorest countries and water technology would be helpful in those regions.(The problem might caused from inequity of technology)
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New Device Turns Air into Drinking Water
All around the world, we're dealing with a severe water shortage. An entire continent, Australia, is so dry that cities have set up "water police" to rat out residents who use their garden hoses a single moment longer than they're meant to. For years, Israel, too, has been dealing with a tremendous drought; the water sources that still exist in the arid country are often so polluted that the water is undrinkable.
Luckily, there's one resource we've still got plenty of: Air.
And thanks to a new company, Houston, Texas-based Aquamaker, that air can now be converted into drinkable water. Much like a dehumidifier, the company's new technology works to capture humidity in the air and convert it into water. The system has filters in place to get rid of any pollutants in the air, ensuring that the resulting liquid is completely safe to drink.
"It's your own well, and it's clean," the CEO of Aquamaker's Israel branch, Eita Markovits, told The Jerusalem Post. "We believe that five to ten years from now, we will be part of how Israel supplies its citizens with water.
Aquamaker's machines are capable of producing up to 5,000 liters of water at a time, which would be enough to supply an entire village with fresh water, without draining an area's precious natural resources. When used in combination with a solar power generator, they provide an environmentally friendly alternative to bottled water for areas with a limited tap water supply.
Currently, the devices are sold in the US, Australia, Israel, and several other countries, and are available in both commercial and industrial sizes. We may not all need to pick up one of these machines just yet, but it's comforting to know that no matter what disasters global warming throws our way, we'll always have something to drink.
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http://www.enn.com/sci-tech/article/29026
1. se kyoung, jeoung
2.U.S. activist circles globe to fight biotech crops
3.I was shocked when i heard of a news that big 4 companies of making food are going to import GMO corns from this May. In korea, we are importing GMO beans already and using them for making oil and so on. This GMO corns are going to be used for making beverages, sugars, and many kinds of ingredients of korean food.
Scientists and the government is asserting that those GMO crops are 'SAFE', but i don't know what 'safe' means anymore.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Jeffrey Smith is a man on a mission.
Each day, ever day for the last 12 years, the 49-year-old Smith has made it his personal calling to travel the world preaching against genetically modified crops.
From Poland to Brazil and California to Vermont, Smith has crisscrossed more than two dozen countries to preach to physician groups, regulators, political leaders, and consumer groups that gene-altered corn, soybeans, canola and other crops, when included in human food, can cause a range of serious health problems.
ADVERTISEMENT
"GMOs have been linked to thousands of toxic and allergic-type reactions, thousands of sick, sterile and dead livestock and damage to virtually every organ and system studied in lab animals," said Smith, who has authored two books on the topic.
The New York native, who worked as a marketing consultant before turning activist, sees what he calls small victories all around him, including recent moves by major dairy companies and retailers to shun products derived from cows given biotech supplements, efforts by various U.S. states and local governments to restrict biotech crops, and wholesale bans on biotech crops in several foreign countries.
This summer, Smith and a consortium of U.S. organic food company players who see him as a champion for their interests are rolling out a U.S. marketing strategy aimed at convincing consumers in this generally GMO-friendly country to shun foods containing genetically altered ingredients.
"Jeffrey is respected as a public educator on GMOs and a person who is interested in aggressively spreading the word," said Organic Consumers Association national director Ronnie Cummins.
Smith, who has replanted himself in Iowa, the largest U.S. corn-growing state, is discounted as misinformed and misleading by supporters of biotechnology who say the safety of genetically engineered crops and food is well established. Even some fellow biotech crop opponents question his strategies.
"The whole message that Jeffrey Smith has - that these crops are unsafe - there is no validity to that at all," said Mary Boote, executive director for pro-biotech Truth About Trade and Technology. "Jeffrey Smith is articulate and strong in his personal beliefs. But he has no science background at all."
But funded by speaking fees, book sales and donations to his institute, Smith plans to keep circling the globe. Data that shows increased plantings of biotech crops around the world won't deter him, he says.
"If we can get millions of people choosing non-GMO products then the food companies will see GM as a liability and remove them from their products," said Smith. "We're going for an industry-wide clean out of GMOs."
(Reporting by Carey Gillam; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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http://www.enn.com/agriculture/article/32495
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