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Age of Stupid ,a new cinema documentary starring Oscar nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in 2055, a world devastated and watching an archive footage of 2008 and wondering why we did not stop climate change while we had the chance?

The movie focuses on climate change, oil, war politics, consumerism and human stupidity. The budget of this movie has been raised by crowd-funding and the fund-raising started on November 2004. This movie will have its Global Premiere on September 21, the Global Wake-Up Call, so start getting your tickets now.

With three months left for the Copenhagen summit, the Danish Government has decided that it will promote more cycling. I did not know this till now that most Copenhageners uses bicycles to move around. In fact it is more common and a habit to put it in simple terms. So in order to make more people cycle, the Danish capital has a vision that by 2015, it will become a dream city for cyclists. Best of luck with that!

The Great Coral Triangle shared between Indonesia and five other South-East Asian countries is said to dying out. Already 40% of the coral reefs present within this Coral triangle has been lost and the rest is feared to be lost very quickly if something is not done about it. Its presence can be compared with the Amazon rain-forest biodiversity. It plays a major role in providing biodiversity in the oceans. Read the article published by the BBC.

Last month the entire world watched one of the most powerful person in the world take an oath to serve his country, Barack Obama, the president of United States of America. He will be remembered in the history books and those who witnessed his oath will never forget. After more than two weeks in office he has taken some stern decisions about the current global crisis, however his take on the environment has given hope for the future. Policies like the Kyoto Protocol and advising car manufacturers to reduce the carbon exhaust, introducing greener solutions has given many possibilities. Well introducing greener solutions will introduce more jobs where the current job market is very dull and may boost the economy.

Although time is the factor, it looks like America finally realizes that the environment is also a major crisis like the economy and something must be done about it. Good Luck to the current Obama administration!

Governments, environmentalists, scientists and politicians(including George W. Bush) are finally admitting that climate change is happening and that human intervention is causing it. As the window of doing something narrows down, quick decisions must be taken to start solving this major crisis and it must be done united as we are united in this, our only home. To read more visit here.

Toyota Motor Corp. will be introducing cars where you will be able to plug your car to an electric socket and charge your vehicle. Neat wont it be. It likes charging your Ipod or other such devices. The cars introduced will have lithium-ion batteries so it will be like all the other portable devices will carry around nowadays.

Toyota says that these vehicles will be much cleaner than the other hybrid cars around. They will be going in joint venture with Matsushita Electric Industrial to produce these batteries. To know more visit the source.

The organizing committee for the 2012 London Olympics and the National grid are planning to make the games carbon neutral. How will the committee will do this? Well basically they are deciding on using bio-fuels which will be home-grown. There are also looking whether a single wind turbine could be added to the scheme. As for bio-fuels I doubt it will work cause this will affect other important crops in the UK and would lead to a downfall in the UK economy. Anyways to know more visit the source.

An American School in Abu Dhabi, UAE has now a “Green Team” in their school campuses to monitor the amount of plastics and other wastes that can be recycled. The students realizing that there was no initiative in proper recycling techniques in the campus decided to take the challenge to themselves are now are having regular meeting. To know more visit the source.

As companies and governments are heading towards renewable energy and eco-friendly products even building construction is heading that way. New buildings are constructed with a new name termed “Green Buildings”. It looks like steel and concrete could become old news as they could be replaced by bamboo. Bamboo is now being used to construct buildings like luxury homes to churches and many more. In Bangladesh, bamboo is used for reinforcing buildings while construction, that is before steel rods or concrete is poured, so its quite strong.

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Electronic waste is a growing problem to the environment and started when the sudden boom of technology occurred. It is considered to be one of the largest toxic waste problem compared to nuclear waste. Like big tech companies Intel and Sony who have gone green, HP has taken that path. They plan to make ink cartridges out of recycled plastic. It seems small, but think about it, how much ink cartridges do you buy in a month? Imagine corporate companies who print thousands of document per day. They buy cartridges in large quantities.

To know more visit the article here.

Save the environment, Save the world