caravia/environment

One of my favorite sites, Patty Moreno teach how to grow organically in the city, it don't need to be a big garden, you can grow nice veggies in a backyard or in a balcony.

Is Obama going to be a "green" president? We hope so!

"Domestically, Mr. Obama will have a number of factors on his side, beyond good working majorities in both houses. There is at least agreement that there is a problem -- for the past several years, the science has been beyond doubt, the data are in across many fields of study -- anthropogenic climate change is a fact. Doing nothing is simply too expensive. A good part of the Republican Party accepts this, as do major corporations, and even oil companies. The deniers are folding their tents -- and what was to deny? A molecule of CO2 absorbs the longer wave length of light, trapping radiant heat from the Earth. More CO2, more trapped warmth. If temperatures drift much beyond two degrees above pre-industrial levels, the human and economic consequences could be catastrophic. We have already seen what happens when a warmer Atlantic Ocean lends its energy to the hurricane season.

Thus the matter is passing from virtue, from idealism and somber invitations to self-denial, which government, markets and the electorate distrust, to self-interest and necessity, for which we all have respect. Oil production will soon decline, and alternatives must be found anyway; many oil-producing countries are grisly human constructs on which no one wants to depend; if the U.S. does not invest in renewable energy technologies now, it will have to buy them later from its competitors; Germany has created a quarter of a million jobs in renewable energy; it is beginning to be apparent that there is a vast amount of money to be made retooling and supplying a whole civilization with new energy sources."

A book about green activism and social responsability.

Great idea, to build bikes of bamboo and not of metal makes them affordable and ecologically clean to people in the Third World and in cities where you want invest in biosdegradable materials.