There is a lot of shrinking sea ice, glaciers and snow in the high regions and here water is seen to be frozen for some time. This is seen to affect the ecosystem in many ways. Scientists have seen how many animals like polar bears and penguins are reacting to the loss of habitat, but slowly the  effects of the cryosphere on organisms is being seen.

The way sea ice is disappearing is also decreasing the uptake of carbon di oxide in the sea from the air.

Snowpack changes and also alters the suitability of the plant species. The amount of carbon di oxide also is affected by the melting permafrost. The carbon di oxide is taken out by the plants and the microbes in the atmosphere.

So it is seen that decreasing snowfall in many regions actually threatens the animals which burrow, and also makes the roots of the plants totally susceptible to injury as the snow is a great insulator.

The microbes like diatoms live under the sea ice and are a major source of food for krill. The disappearing sea ice has led to a steady decline because they are abundantly found here and this has resulted in a great influence on the mammals and the sea birds that feed on krill.

Weather conditions are being changed by space dust.

Cosmic dust fills space and this is playing a major role in climate change. It is now being determined what amount of dust is entering the atmosphere in the Earth’s surface so that it could be found out how it affects the climate. The space is actually made up of tonnes of dust which have been caused by the process of collisions of asteroids. It is said that all material that is found between Jupiter and Sun and it is found compressed. It forms a moon stretching across 25 km. it is said that there is a correct estimate of how much dust is there and how it would help in understanding the amount  of particles that are transported through different atmospheric layers.

The main source of dust in the universe is because of the collision between materials and asteroids that evaporate away from the comets as they near the Sun. There are observations from satellite which reveal that around 100 to 300 tonnes of cosmic dust are seen to enter the air every day.

The orbit of the earth may cause hot spells.

It has been seen that release of carbon compound methane which is trapped in the marine sediments has been seen to have totally made the planet warm, and there is a new resarch that has shown that the cycles in the orbit of the earth could be blamed for the heat waves that are found here. has raised the temperature of the earth a great deal.

The results of these studies reveal that the renewable form of energy has the capacity to give around 40% of the electric energy of the U.S. this has also been shown by the Energy Information Administration or the EIA . When we reduce the EIA projection of electricity, by taking advantage of the energy efficiency measures, then renewables could actually give around 50% of the remaining U.S. electric need.

The 35th Annual national Solar Energy Conference took upon itself to take care of global warming, which is the most important challenge of present day. The Renewable Energy theme is thus a way of describing the amount of effect global warming is having today and the reason why we need to focus on this issue.

There was a conference here and the key feature was a number of presentations that were made by experts in energy efficiency and also in renewable energy that had all the details for the way technologies could be used for a perfect changing climate condition. The conference also took upon the issues of carbon emissions in U.S and how this could reduce by the years 2015 and 2030. These are presentations that cover the energy efficiency in industry, buildings, and also transportation. Since the time of the conference the studies had a lot of subjects to cover and were revised for the publication of the ASES report.

Hansen the NASA scientist and the top climate researches said we need to reduce the additional world temperature rise caused due to greenhouse gases to around  1 degree centigrade which is above the 2000 year level. If we happen to fail then we risk entering a kind of global warming that would be unprecedented and that would have disastrous consequences with a lot of rise in sea levels and with the species getting extinct. The temperatures would limit the carbon dioxide in the air.

Estimates have it that the emissions should be reduced by the industrialized counties and this emission should actually be 60% to 80% below the values today. It is believed that if we account for the economic growth and related increases in the emissions of carbon, then by 2030 we must be displacing around 1,100 and 1,300 million metric tons of carbon each year.

The SOLAR 2006 process defined the renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency processes to find out the amount of carbon required for reducing each. The renewable energy authors were told to describe the resource, develop the supply, discuss the future and expected costs and we have to develop carbon reduction curves and also supply for the years between 2015 and 2030.

The studies then focused on the way the renewable energy is used and the manner in which the transportation and electricity sectors as these are responsible for most of the three quarters of the U.S Carbon emission from fuels of fossils. The main goals for the renewables are normally referred to in manners of a percentage of national energy.

So the results of these studies show that the renewable energy has the capacity to provide around 40% of the U.S. electric energy which is needed to project for the year 2030 by the Energy Information Administration.

There are a lot of uncertain opinions that are linked with the values that are seen in the papers and these were mainly individual technology studies and is associated with combining them.

Lutz says that quality rules and all the consumers appreciate the bean counters give cars to save money. Styling is also equally important and it really matters to the auto enthusiasts. Lutz has the credit of knowing his subjects well. He gives the best theories on environment which he says are sure to make Sierra Club or the member of the NRDC stiff competition. He says that these would perhaps not make it to the Car Talk Plaza too.

Lutz is the perfect car gentleman and has been in the business since his first job with the General Motors Company, way back in the year 1962. He has always campaigned for good and exciting performances and has brought out well oriented cars always. He has helped to develop the first kind of 3 and 6 series car. He was the one who patronized the Ford Explorer and it was a great hit. He also patronized the Merkur which was Euro sourced.

Today Lutz also has his own fighter plane and has traveled a great deal. He also has a Chrysler and he has helped to deliver the most stylized cars and the absolutely beautiful dodge Intrepid and the Chrysler Concorde. He is the paragon of the fact that Americans love horsepower and that they cannot be separated from using the huge SUVs and also the pickups which look for them very macho.

Then Lutz joined Exide the battery maker and here he was the General Manager. He said that global warming is a crook and he became the main champion for the Chevrolet Volt and was also the cheerleader. Lutz champions electric cars as he says that he is anxious about the dependence on foreign oil and said that the trend is to have electric cars. The Car Guys book is a book which has shown that there are a generation of executives who have churned out cars which are totally based on spreadsheets in the business school.

There are people who vouch for what Lutz says. So there is this person who said that he works for Boeing and he said how they concentrated on making the best airplanes in the industry. Everyone was charged for it. But he never understood what it is about the auto business that people are always worried about the cost. So Lutz invented this new mentality at Ford saying that we have to take care of the investment and cost but mainly we have to make great automobiles than anything else.

Ford and Chrysler thus woke up to a new call and decided to change their strategies based on such principles. It was very rational to find faults with Japanese automobile makers. People used to feel that the cars look good and are also put up well.

They also give good economy. But they are not as nice now. Today is it s very foolish to buy something and everyone is going for the automobiles like how Lutz propagated.

Green auto thus goes into the realms of finding out what exactly makes customers purchase a certain kind of car and what makes them tick.

Earth’s biodiversity and its ecosystems, have created a lot of insecurity and uncertainly due to the current way of life and thus it cannot be ignored. All of us can help stop global warming. There are many tips that will help to prevent global warming and let us learn how best we could avoid such situations.

Sell the Car

Motor car fuel actually accounts for around 60% of the emissions of carbon in the air in the past 20 years. In the year 1999, the transportation sector overtook the Industry as the biggest producer of the emissions of carbon in the United States of America. The past 100 ears have seen a lot of personal travel in motor cars and people have got used to a very convenient and luxurious way of life. So all the unsustainable activity due to motor cars have had a direct effect. So people themselves are responsible for increasing the carbon emissions. So make sure you are able to control this. There are so many hidden benefits if there are lesser cares. There are zero insurance costs for the owners. There are lesser repair costs and there are fewer emissions in the public transport system. People would be much healthier by taking the bike or by walking.

Or make sure that you are a part of the car co-operative and reduce the impact that you could have on personal transportation. There are many car co-operatives which are found in the cities around the world. Or you could start your own car sharing co-operative and this would help you with global warming prevention.

Then there is another way of reducing emissions from using personal vehicles. One can argue that the public transit is the only way that people could commute but grouping cars is a better option to reduce the amount of emission. Transportation has a great deal to do with increasing the condition of global warming.

Make mileage efficiency a great factor and start working towards these changes. So it is best to get rid of the car as soon as possible if you find that it is giving lesser mileage.

Buy Local

The local markets provide a great opportunity to help to prevent global warming. They increase the local security and help to support your economy. The fact that you buy local ensures that you also support the local market and help in sustainable growth by ensuring that the farmers and the other primary producers are employed. So your money would help to increase the local economy and wouldn’t thus support the corporate investors. Thus the basic root cause of the problem of global warming would be avoided.

Shipment of food has a very serious cost both financially and also ecologically so the average meal has actually traveled great distance to reach you. So every calorie of food that you eat actually has had double or ten times more energy to be produced. This is an imbalance that has contributed greatly to global warming and increased the carbon content in the air. There are other greenhouse gases which are seen in the atmosphere at a greater rate than the vegetations and oceans.

So make sure you get your food from the local market to avoid so much energy wastage due to food shipment. When you make these changes, the emissions of greenhouse gases are reduced and the imported goods gradually have lesser value. So being a local consumer is the best way to improve the ill effects of global warming.

Local Government

One can help to shift the problem of global warming by influencing the local government to do work towards the problem. So this would ensure that the condition of global warming is prevented and is the ideal way social awareness could be increased.

There are many ways we can reduce global warming. It is in our hands to save the world and to give the world what it wants – pure air.

If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the Earth would be a better place and would be warmer by another degree. But what we do today makes a big difference. Scientists saw that the Earth could finally warm up by as less a figure as 2.5.

So the main aim is to stabilize GHG concentrations This is the point when many impacts of change in climate could be avoided. The concentrations now are around 380 ppm so not much time should be lost. It is said that we have to reduce GHG emissions by around 50% to 80% .

There are many governments and people who work hard to cut the greenhouse gases so every person can contribute.

So approaches like the stabilization wedges are undertaken which reduces the GHG emissions and holds the emissions at current levels for the next 50 years. So we are put on the path to stabilize around 500 ppm.

There are many wedges which are inclusive of efficiency of energy and also vehicle fuel economy which requires lesser energy to be produced and also increases the solar and wind power. The hydrogen that is produced from the renewable sources and nuclear power and also biofuels besides natural gas is beneficial. This h helps in also capturing the carbon dioxide that is released from the fossil fuels and they store it  below in a process called carbon sequestration.

Apart from reducing the gases, the amount of gases released in the atmosphere can be increased. Plants and trees are seen to taken in carbon dioxide and thus they help in sequestering carbon very naturally. If we increase the forestlands and also make necessary changes then we can farm and also increase the total amount of carbon we store.

There are many technologies that have a lot of drawbacks and many communities that have a lot of decisions about how to increase the quality of life and how to make it better. The good news is that there are many options that actually put us towards having a stable climate.

The year 2012, saw the two biggest creators of the biggest greenhouse gases in the entire world. these were the United States of America and China who were willing to only cut emissions. We are only light years away from avoiding a catastrophic climate change . WE are thus left with the options of comprehending problems like rising sea levels. The famines and extreme weather conditions also affect the greenhouse gases.

So the process of scrubbing Carbon di oxide from the air is being applied and it is a way we can actually prevent the accelerated rate of global warming.

This is an international day to celebrate freshwater and was recommended in the United Nations Conference held in the year 1992. This conference was held for the Development of the Environment and related matters. So the United Nations designated March 22 as the world water day and the first World Water Day was celebrated in the year 1993 on March 22.

Every year World Water Day shows the actual aspect of freshwater and this year in 2012, the theme of World Water Day is Water and Food Security. There is lot of good water available for drinking and other purposes. If there is enough water for the well being of mankind and animals and also for the ecosystem then the socio economic development of that region would be good. It is a fact that as years pass by, fresh water is going to become a scarcely available resource. If we do not have proper access to proper drinking water, then the burdens on the society are surely more as the mortality rates are directly affected. So it is important that the entire world should join and unite and provide fresh water and food for every citizen. This was the message that the Director General of the UNESCO Irina Bokova gave in her message last year in the year 2011 on March 22.

UNESCO has contributed a lot to the major contributions to the World Water Day on March 22 and this year too it has organized the UN World Water Development Report 2012, and also the International Traveling Painting Exhibition with WATER as the title. The task of every individual and animal living in the world getting water, the demand for water is on the rise and the water used for agriculture is the other major need for the use of freshwater.

So there are many ways we can ensure we protect water, such as improving water resource management and also increasing the access to proper drinking water. If we improve the basic sanitation and hygiene requirements of the society, the quality of life could be improved. Child mortality is reduced and the maternal health is also on the rise. Waterborne diseases are avoided with pure water and thus preserving and conserving water as well as maintaining it is the main focus on protecting water this year.

The UNESCO has many programs for Water Education and this includes the International Hydrological Programme, the UNESCO’s H2oooh! are all important water protection programmes in this part of the world. In fact, UNESCO is taking efforts to have new strategies, which would preserve water at the national region, local and international level.

This year in 2012, the UNESCO would also participate in the UN Conference on sustainable development, which would be held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and the main aim would be take care of the problem of the improper use of fresh water and also to provide a greater momentum to the management of freshwater resources.

World Water day has been celebrated every year since the year 1993, and the day has ever since been a major mainstay in the environmental arena. Thus this and many other activities related to this have surely contributed in lessening Global warming. So the World Water Day has resulted in efforts that have been made towards sustainable aquatic habitats, and also many other water resourceful situations.

So people will now have easy access to water for drinking, and also would be able to face the various challenges that the civilians would face in preserving water.

Green Auto  the main

Green Auto is a way of ensuring that there are sufficient details given to the environment friendly vehicles and the user of the vehicles about the possibility of making the automobile eco friendly. Made of various kinds of materials the vehicles need a lot of cleaning and also effective cleansing. Normally there are harsh chemicals that are used but they are not good either for the user or for the environment. Green auto detailing ensures that you are aware about the benefits that are normally associated with effective cleaning of the vehicles. Green auto is a way of removing tough stains and normally not much residue is left and there is not much fuss about it. There are plant based cleansers that are small molecules and these break very easily through the dirt and also remove all the stains. Green auto detailing products ensure that you have well oiled machines which also improve the efficiency.

Reusing the car

If you have an old car that you are planning to sell or dispose off then isn’t it good solution to recycle the spare parts? This is the best way you can contribute to the environment. There are many studies that have shown that when you recycle the spare auto parts then you are actually saving around 85 million barrels of oil each year. So you should make the right kinds of contribution towards the earth and make it green.

First of all inspect the car. Then check out the parts that are the ones that can be reused. If there is anything that you find in a broken condition then just discard it. Take the parts that are in good working condition and make sure that you have them well cleaned and without grease or dirt. You could also strike a deal in the spare auto parts shop. If the parts are made of aluminum or steel then you could also sell them. It is good that you can do this much for Mother Earth.

Solar energy cars

As global warming is increasing everyday it is difficult to have a safe environment. Solar energy cars are thus ways of giving the environment back what it has given us. The utility cars ensure a safe and also a green future. These solar cars are extremely efficient and also run at a higher speed.

These are all battery operated and the batteries get the entire power stored from the top panels of the car. The sunlight is converted to electricity and the cars have required gauges which help the smooth functioning of the cars. This ensures that the driver would be able to understand if the battery in the car is full or not.

Solar energy cars are also rechargeable when kept anywhere under the sun, so that the cost of petrol is eliminated. The biggest advantage of solar powered cars is that they are very ecofriendly and they don’t cause pollution like how diesel driven cars do.

Hybrid technology

Since the past ten years hybrid technology is being used. It has progressed greatly over the past few years and there are many mild hybrids, and also plug in hybrids. A constant tiff is there over the hybrids, the price and the technology. Hybrid cars come at a cost that is slightly on the higher side. But it is really worthwhile buying a hybrid car.

This is because these cares are most cost effective. They reduce fuel cost and also justify the value for money.

The other reason is that they are considered less toxic than the normal emissions that come out from the tail pipe. They do not burn any kind of fuel and so the environmental pollution is much less.

Thus it is very well seen how vehicles could be made eco friendly.

Sustainable architecture thus helps to reduce the negative effect of buildings on the environment by improving the efficiency and by moderating the utilization of energy, development space and materials. The whole concept of sustainability rests on the aim to ensure that the decisions taken today do not impediment the efforts of the future constructions. The actions that we take towards environment today are the results of tomorrow. So sustainable architecture is a term that is used to describe an approach that is ecologically conscious to the whole design of the environment.

There are many constructions here the sustainable features are seen by way of passive solar design, photovoltaic cells, recycled materials of sustainable value and rainwater collection of solar hot water. The whole idea is to have ultra low energy usage.

In the town of Greensburg in Kansas in the United States of America, there was a tornado in the year 2007. The tornado destroyed the town completly and it decided to rebuild to a very strong LEED Platinum standards of environmental protection. This construction combines solar panels and wind generators for the self sufficiency of energy.

So in sustainable architecture energy efficiency is the main target and architects used may kinds of methods to enhance energy reduction in the buildings and try to increase their basic ability to generate their own energy.

Another important element is the efficiency in ventilating and heating along with the air conditioning facility in the building. An efficient building has less heat generation and less power dissipation. But it is seen that it requires more ventilation and more capacity to let out the expelled air.

So lot of energy is expelled out of the buildings in the areas of water, air and compost. Recycling methods can only trap the energy that is got from stale air and hot water. They then transfer this energy into the streams of fresh cold water and also fresh air. This recapturing process is good for gardening from compost and also needs centralized anaerobic digesters.

The building design gives the buildings a chance to trap energy efficiently and harness it without using any solar mechanisms such as the photovoltaic cells or the solar hot water panels. So passive solar building constructions mainly used materials that have a greater thermal mass and materials that can retain the heat successfully. Strong insulation also prevents heat escape. There are low energy designs that need the utilization of solar shading. So awnings are p provided as also blinds and shutters so that the solar heat gain is less in summer and also it helps artificial cooling. The Ratio of surface area to volume in buildings with low energy is low so the heat loss is lesser. So huge multi storeyed building though look organic are best avoided for more centralized structures.

An American colonial saltbox designed building is a good model for increasing the central heat in a small building. Windows are provided to increase the intake of heat creating light. The loss of heat through glass is minimized if the windows are there as glass is not a good insulator. So you would find that in the northern hemisphere, a lot of south facing windows are installed, so that the direct sun is collected well and north facing windows are restricted.

Climatic conditions, structural design, placement of windows are all important in designing a building that is sustainable built with the factors of environmental impact being focused. Sustainable development and architecture is a way of amalgamating the principles leading to a sustainable construction.

The eighth most populated country of the world, Bangladesh has the highest population density and has around 65% of its demand for energy being met from biomass fuels that are available traditionally. The country has formed its first National Energy Policy where the rules helped to pave the way for the private sector involvement in the development of energy and also management. This gave the stimulation to achieve higher levels of efficiencies in energy and also helped in reducing the GHG emissions. The entire structure promised a sustainable energy future for the remaining energy lacking people of the country.

Today Bangladesh is the country which lacks electricity. Though there is a potential for a lot of renewable energy sources in the country, the amount they have contributed to the supply of electricity is very insignificant. Sustainable energy systems have renewable energy as a very important part as they are seen to emit very little greenhouse gas when we compare them to the fossil fuel related energy systems. But to improve these kinds of sustainable energy systems, it is required that we have proper settings and strategies for the entire world.

There have been efforts wherein the steps taken by Bangladesh to fulfill strategies for renewable development are observed. It is seen that the country could do better in sustainable energy strategies, by having a national sustainable energy strategy. In this matter, the Clean Development Mechanism falling under the Kyoto Protocol is very important as this could help in energy sustainability in the country.

The sustainable development process in Bangladesh is becoming difficult due to the mismanagement of natural resources and also the lack of a correct understanding of environmental issues. Thus the sustainable growth is not much in the country. So if the country focuses more on water issues, land degradation, climate change and the loss of biodiversity then the problems of actual sustainable development would be dealt with. The poor are very badly affected by the way environment is getting degraded and there is absolutely no proper access to natural resources and environment.

The Environment and Sustainable Development Cluster is actually playing an important part in facilitating main line sustainable development in the country. Thus it is integrating the concept of maintaining a balance in the environment as a major feature of policies and development planning. This aspect is maintained by focusing on the natural resource management, conservation of biodiversity, managing land and water, improving urban management and also governing the areas of sustainable development.

Sustainable development in Bangladesh is going to newer scales of late and it will not be long before Bangladesh is able to make a difference in this sector.

The consensus in security of water shows that the water resources in Africa are at great risk. In fact most countries in the world are stressed with a lot of water problems. Any person who takes any decision on water protection has to take into account the factors of rain variation, the dangers caused due to floods and droughts and the basic fact that there is lot of importance to rivers and lakes as they also demarcate the colonial borders.

It is important that the issue of the Illegal Unreported and Unregulated fishing should be firmly held in the spotlight. The World Wildlife Fund South Africa lately showed the dangerous future that the fishing sources for the littoral states of Africa face. There are many South Africa’s marine resources are being considered exploited and over used.

In many other parts of Africa, attention is being paid to the main resources of fish like the lakes, rivers, lakes etc. Thus a lot of importance is being placed on the regulation of fishing and also in monitoring co-operative existence. This would also increase the source of livelihood and protein thus increasing the dependency on fish. In fact Lake Victoria is a classic example of how these areas have to be really co-ordinated and controlled well. Another example is the Nile Perch where the development was encouraged by its introduction but the resultant effect was the fact that the ecology here changed due to past meddling.

Then there is the tiny island in Kenya Migingo in Lake Victoria which became a great point of disagreement between Kenya and Uganda. This difference came due to an uncertainty that existed in the borders and also due to the pressures that existed here due to the process of securing livelihood and food. The island was valued with its good location and the fact that it was on fishing grounds increased its value even more. This was around 500 m from the Uganda waters, so there were lot of allegations as regards poaching. Besides there were other resources which were sharing this region thus increasing the tension?

This shows how the lake was managed in the past and how it continues to have an effect on the condition today. It also meant that there was need for lot of prudence and other related strategies, which are important to avoid any condition of conflict and tension.

There are many people who don’t have safe water for drinking thus shortage of drinking water have resulted in people having a lot of diseases. The main objective of meeting the Millennium Development Goals is still a little tough to get the principle working across the countries in Africa.

There is another concern that is important for the future. Water and its availability. This is important as it is needed to know how water reduces and how water is so important. In fact there is a study that the UNEP or the United Nations Environmental Programme study of 2006 when it studied the lakes in Africa.