We are the saviors

Have separate bins to recycle batteries

[[aaron alexander]] — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:57:36 +0000

Slim is also green

[[aaron alexander]] — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:56:38 +0000

Pay for Plastic Bags

[[aaron alexander]] — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:55:46 +0000

Climate change can affect your health

[[aaron alexander]] — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:54:07 +0000

Earth Hour

[[aaron alexander]] — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:53:06 +0000

Recycling gets a colourful boost

[[aaron alexander]] — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:45:12 +0000

Ford – The revolutionary dashboard

[[aaron alexander]] — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:33:21 +0000

I believe it was Al Gore in his book Earth in the Balance who said that an ordinary car is one of the greatest threats to the environment. Clearly, all automotive companies need to be thinking about Mother Earth the next time they roll their next model off the assembly line.

I suppose this is why Ford has come up with a new dashboard that literally shows you how earth-safe your driving is. Part of it has to do with measuring your fuel efficiency, which is not gauged by a meter or a number, but a picture of a vine.

Apparently, if your driving is fuel-efficient, the vine will start budding and blooming until it is healthy. However, if you are wasting gas, you will be forced to watch that vine shrivel up and die. Yes, it is odd to have a visual cue instead of an exact scientific reading, but I guess we consumers have been trained to react to pictures instead of raw data.

Good practices!

[[aaron alexander]] — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:25:52 +0000

It came to me as a big issue when I saw what some of my blog readers were requesting to know when searching my blog and I though.. Hey! Of all the negative impacts I’ve talked about Global Warming, I didn’t mention HOW we can curb it.
Basically I think these rules are already what we know yet we didn’t really make tham a practice.
• Switching off electrical appliances when not in use
• Use energy efficient appliances
• Use energy efficient lightbulbs
• Turn down air-con’s temp higher when room is cooled
• 3R’s
In Singapore, we are always reminded about the 3R’s Reuse, Reduce and Recycle. However how many percent of the people really put it to good practice? I know of people changing handbags so often, and almost everyone taking plastic bags for granted! I personally hate to take plastic bags when out shopping and always keep afew in my bag to be used when the need arises. Why then can’t people adopt this habit of carrying bags rather then taking them and wasting them?

Australian woes!

[[aaron alexander]] — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:53:02 +0000

I guess many would know that Australia is facing the longest period of drought of the century for the past eight years or so. Hence they know pretty well the disastrous consequences of Global Warming to take this big step.

It was published in the news that Australia is going to impose a fee on plastic bags and this is in an aim reduce the number of plastic bags of up to 1.1 billion plastic bags in Victoria alone.
I’m really glad that Australia is making this move as this would deter consumers to accept free plastic bags that is one of the damaging harm to the environment. I wonder when would such a ban be imposed worldwide. Just consider this: 1 plastic bag takes 50 years to decompose. Just imagine 6.9 billion of them.

Opposing moments

[[aaron alexander]] — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:51:06 +0000

With a great economy comes a great price..

As climate change talks in Bali comes to wraps, tension is rising as US and Japan plus several other governments would not be willing to accept the proposed reduction of 25~40% of greenhouse gases by 2020. This has growing concerns as one of the aim of this talk is to set targets before the Kyoto protocol expires by 2012.

US, the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has played a defensive role since talks started and still maintains that this is just the beginning of such discussions and there are more room for setting targets later. However environmentalist have made no room for further decisions and stands firm to its decision to get this done once and for all.

As both sides are at-loggerheads, we’ll only have to see which side would be willing to give in.

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