A green earth blog: 2009

Mar 18, 2009

Reciclado de PCs, productos de computación y celulares:

HP, en México, para recibir y reciclar equipos de cómputo cobran una tarifa.
www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/
Dell ofrece en México reciclado gratuito de todos los productos de su marca. Para participar el usuario sólo tiene que llenar una forma en el portal de reciclaje de su sitio web. No tiene costo, pero si el usuario cancela hay una penalización www.dell.com/recycle.
Motorola cuenta una campaña permanente de acopio y recepción de pilas y equipos de cualesquier fabricante. Para depositar sus equipos los usuarios deben acudir a cualquiera de los 31 Centros "Moto Assist", ubicados en todo el país www.motorola.com/content.jsp?globalObjectId=7753-10967
Nokia, a partir del 09 inició en México su campaña de acopio y reciclaje de equipos.
El servicio es gratuito para los usuarios y pueden dejar, el los centros autorizados, equipos de cualesquier marca y modelo, así como pilas. http://www.nokia.com.mx/
Cartuchos de Tinta
En las tiendas Office Max hay depósitos para dejar los cartuchos de impresora usados.

Presentación / Intro

La intención de este blog es promover información acerca del calentamiento global, y principalmente, modos para contrarrestarlo, asi como ser una unión con varias fuentes de información. Tendrá publicaciones en inglés y español, dependiendo de la fuente, pues no tengo tiempo para traducir. Es un blog de acción, pues se enfoca en cosas que hacer, más que en información pasiva. No dejes pasar más tiempo, es ahora, no tendremos otra oportunidad, sólo tenemos unos cuantos años, la Tierra es nuestra casa.
This blog´s intention is to promote information about global warming, and mainly, ways to counteract it, as well as to be a link to various sources of information. It will display posts in english and spanish, depending on their source, since I don´t have time to translate. It is an action blog, since it focuses on things to do, rather than passive information. Don't let more time pass, this is it, we won´t have another chance, we only have a few years, the Earth is our house.

Calcula tus emisiones de Co2 y dona árboles / Calculate your Co2 emissions and donate trees

www.mycarbonfootprint.eu

http://www.botany.org/PlantTalkingPoints/CO2andTrees.php

http://www.treesforthefuture.org/donate/

Todo lo que hacemos implica de alguna forma emisiones de Co2, bioxido de carbono, el principal causante del calentamiento global. Debemos tratar de reducirlas al máximo, si se puede, neutralizarlas, o incluso contrarrestar más de lo que producimos. Las dos primeras ligas nos permiten calcular nuestras emisiones. La tercera es un sitio donde podemos donar para plantar árboles, una forma de combatir el Co2. Cada arbol cuesta 10c de dolar, asi que con 100-150 dolares podemos compensar las emisiones de Co2 de toda tu vida!! Según mi cálculo, yo produzco entre 14 y 15 toneladas de Co2 al año. Aproximadamente, un árbol maduro absorbe una tonelada de Co2 en toda su vida. Esto quiere decir que yo tendría que plantar 15 árboles cada año. Pero tomando en cuenta los años que no he plantado, que después de los 60+ , no voy a plantar más, y los que no crezcan, entonces el número asciende a 20 árboles que debo plantar por año; 2 por mes. Aqui esta una solución. No muy difícil. Para ser realmente responsables, plantemos árboles. Hay suficiente espacio en todas partes.

Everything we do involves in some way Co2 (carbon dioxide) emissions, the main cause for global warming. We have to try to reduce them at maximum, if possible neutralize them, or even counteract more than we produce. The first two links let us calculate our emissions. The third is a site where we can donate to plant trees, a way of fighting Co2. Each tree costs 10us cents, so with a 100-150 dollars you can compensate your life's Co2 emissions!! According to my calculation, I produce between 14 and 15 tons of Co2 per year. Aproximately, a mature tree absorves 1 ton of Co2 in all its lifetime. This means that I would have to plant 15 trees every year. But taking into account the years that I have not planted, that after 60+ I am not going to plant anymore, and the ones that won't grow, then the number rises to 20 trees that I have to plant per year; 2 per month. Here is a solution. Not too difficult. To be trully responsible, let's plant trees. There is enough space everywhere.

Native American wisdom

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts, also happens to man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the children of the earth.
Seathl, Duwamish chief

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the great spirit make them all for the use of his children?
Tecumseh, Shawnee chief

Look at me friend!
I come to ask for your dress
Since there is nothing you cannot be used for.
I come to beg you for this,
Long-life maker.
Kwakiutl, prayer to a cedar tree

Our land, our religion and our life are one
Hopi creed

I have been to the end of the earth.
I have been to the end of the waters.
I have been to the end of the sky.
I have been to the end of the mountains.
I have found none that are not my friends.
Navajo proverb

When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
Arapaho proverb

Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as the sun shines, and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals. We cannot sell the lives of men and animals. It was put here for us by the Great Dpirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.
Crowfoot, Blackfoot

Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food.
Arapaho proverb

Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will the white man understand that money cannot be eaten
Cree Indian Prophecy

Famous people's thoughts

“It’s hard to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair, film: ‘An inconvenient truth’

“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.”
—Rachel Carson

“If we grew most of our food close to home, we’d use far less energy in the process, helping ward off climate change.”
—Bill McKibben, Deep Economy

“We must strive to become good ancestors.”
—Ralph Nader

“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.”
—Theodore Roosevelt

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, one finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
—John Muir

“The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.”
—Pope John Paul II

“In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.”
—Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist
“We have to deal with greenhouse gases. . . . The debate is over. When 98 percent of scientists agree, who [can] say, ‘Let’s debate the science?’ ”
—John Hofmeister, president, Shell Oil Company

“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.”
—Jean Paul Richter, German novelist

“A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.”
—John Sawhill, former president and CEO of the Nature Conservancy

“Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”
—Edward O. Wilson

“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
—Joseph Wood Krutch

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
—E. B. White

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
—Albert Einstein

“Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.”
—Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”
—Carl Sagan

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.”
—Luther Burbank

“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains.”
—Walt Whitman

“If we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves.”
—Terry Tempest Williams

“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”
—Zeno

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man is related to all nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What we think, we become.”
—The Buddha

“The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.”
—Peter Drucker

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
—Mohandas Gandhi
“Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.”
—The Talmud

“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”
—Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day founder

“May we speak in all human councils on behalf of the animals, plants, and landscapes of the earth.”
—John Seed

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.”
—Wallace Stegner

“When the planet herself sings to us in our dreams, will we be able to wake ourselves, and act?”
—Gary Lawless

“Let the trees be consulted before you take any action.”
—John Wright

“Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains, your authority returns to you.”
—Alfonso Ortiz

“It matters if you just don’t give up.”
—Stephen Hawking

“God bless America. Let’s try to save some of it.”
—Edward Abbey

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
—Edmund Burke

“The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.”
—Chinese Proverb

“Let us permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.”
—Michel de Montaigne

“Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.”
—René Dubos

“When we destroy nature, we diminish ourselves and impoverish our children.”
—Robert Kennedy Jr.

“Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.”
—Carl Stokes

“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.”
—Earl Nightingale

“Earth will grow worse till men redeem it.”
—G. K. Chesterton

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
—William Blake

“A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky—these are man’s most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.”
—Lyndon B. Johnson

“Breaking America’s oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.”
—Colman McCarthy

“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
—Richard Wagner

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
—Aristotle

“Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.”
—Barry Commoner

“We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.”
—Walt Kelly

Autos Eléctricos

Sorpresivamente en unas semanas las compañías líderes en producción de automóviles cambiaron radicalmente y anunciaron el inicio de la era de auto eléctrico por encima de los híbridos que se habían anunciado el año pasado.
Primero fue GM, que en el aniversario de los 100 años de la compañía anunció la construcción en serie del Chevy Volt, modelo eléctrico para venderse en 2010.
Y es que con el alza de la gasolina, el cambio climático a causa de la quema de combustibles fósiles, y la crisis financiera, las compañías que registraron pérdidas todo el año, ahora cambian sus estrategias.
Los tres autos eléctricos presentados por Chrysler son el Dodge EV, el Jeep EV y el Chrysler EV.
El Dodge EV es un deportivo de tracción trasera y capacidad para dos personas con un motor eléctrico de 200 kilovatios (con 268 hp) y una batería avanzada de litio-ion. Tendrá una velocidad superior a los 190 kilómetros por hora. El Jeep EV tiene un motor eléctrico y el sistema de baterías de litio-ion con un motor de gasolina que recargará las baterías.
Falta aún la reacción de las firmas europeas y japonesas, que no se quedarán atrás.
Lo mejor de todo es que pronto circularán los autos eléctricos en Estados Unidos y seguramente en México. No serán de bajo costo, pero contaminan menos y como la electricidad es más económica que la gasolina, con el tiempo se recupera la inversión. http://www.milenio.com/node/85767
Alejandro Gonzales

La gran diferencia entre el proyecto de GM y el de las demas armadoras como Dodge, Toyota, Honda y otras es que estas empresas estan produciendo autos hybridos paralelo, donde el auto es impulsado por energia electrica cuando vas a baja velocidad y por combustion de gasolina cuando aumentas la velocidad o despues de cierto tiempo. El auto que GM esta ya produciendo es el primer auto verdaderamente electrico donde todas las llantas son impulsados por motores electricos, el auto todavia se le llama hybrido, pero en serie, porque la diminuta maquina de combustion de gasolina que tiene en su interior no impulsa ni mueve ninguna llanta, solamente se utiliza para generar mas electricidad cuando las baterias del auto llegen a niveles bajos. Supuestamente el auto electrico Volt de GM nos permite viajar mas de 60 km sin gastar una sola gota de gasolina y continua despues generando su propia electricidad a partir de un motor de gasolina.
Por otro lado, alguna gente se esta llevando la idea equivocada de que los autos electricos van a ser super carisimos, debido a que el Volt de la GM va a tener un precio en el rango de 30 a 40 mil dolares. Si bien es un auto caro, no lo es tanto porque sea electrico sino por todas las demas cosas que el auto en si incluye, claramente GM ni ninguna otra armadora cometerian el error de introducir un auto con tanta tecnologia en un concepto generico y barato. GM comenzara a producir autos mas economicos y accesibles utilizando el mismo motor E-Flex que impulsa al Volt.
José Angel Flores

A green earth blog

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Película 'No Impact Man' de Oscilloscope Releases

Directorio Ecológico

Zero Trash

Co2 y el Calentamiento Global, causas y consecuencias

www.pintalelaraya.org

Platicas / Conferences

Presentación / Intro

Calcula tus emisiones de Co2 y dona árboles / Calculate your Co2 emissions and donate trees

Construir casas con basura

Terracycle.com

10 Principios para la movilidad sustentable

The Economist's green view

Ligas / Links

Sobre mi / About Me

Archivo Blog / Blog Archive

Planeta Tierra / Planet Earth

Native American wisdom

How the present system works/Como funciona el sistema actual

www.activebe.com

Famous people's thoughts

Autos Eléctricos

Home, by Jan Arhus Bertrand

Estudio de Caso sobre el agua de Water.org

Bolsas de plastico -prohibidas en México

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A green earth blog

Mar 18, 2009

Película 'No Impact Man' de Oscilloscope Releases

Directorio Ecológico

Zero Trash

Co2 y el Calentamiento Global, causas y consecuencias

www.pintalelaraya.org

Platicas / Conferences

Presentación / Intro

Calcula tus emisiones de Co2 y dona árboles / Calculate your Co2 emissions and donate trees

Construir casas con basura

Terracycle.com

10 Principios para la movilidad sustentable

The Economist's green view

Ligas / Links

Sobre mi / About Me

Archivo Blog / Blog Archive

Subscribete / Subscribe

Planeta Tierra / Planet Earth

Native American wisdom

How the present system works/Como funciona el sistema actual

www.activebe.com

Famous people's thoughts

Autos Eléctricos

Home, by Jan Arhus Bertrand

Estudio de Caso sobre el agua de Water.org

Bolsas de plastico -prohibidas en México

Translate

Contact Form

Stream flow music from Trascendentmind