Saving Earth

Good news isn’t always easy to come by when it comes to issues related to health, the economy, or the environment in developing nations. However, there are a host of new technologies trying to ensure that changes. Here are five green tech projects, the big and the small, taking place in the developing world, doing their part to make this world a better place.


Solar Photovoltaic Farms- Portugal:
Portugal produces 1/3 of its energy from renewable sources. In having to quickly respond to a shortage of oil, coal and gas, Portugal is now an EU leader in the clean tech revolution. In less than three years, Portugal has trebled its hydropower capacity, quadrupled its wind power, and is investing in more photovoltaic plants. What is to be the world’s largest solar photovoltaic farm is taking shape near Moura, generating electricity straight from sunlight . It is expected to supply 45MW of electricity each year, enough to power 30,000 homes.

Located at the heart of mumbai is Dharavi-one of the Asia’s largest slums,surrounded by luxurious skyscrapers.Spread over 525 acres Dharavi is home to more than a million people.Yet It is a thriving business centre propelled by thousands of micro-entrepreneurs who have created an invaluable industry – as many as 4500 to 5000 small scale industries exist and function within the Dharavi most of which recycle the discarded waste of Mumbai’s 19 million citizens.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Tuesday signed a law requiring that Brazil cut greenhouse gas emissions by 39 percent by 2020, meeting a commitment made at the Copenhagen climate change summit.
The new law, however, is subject to several decrees setting out responsibilities and regulations for the farming, industrial, energy and environmental sectors.
Lula [...]

Did you know that termite damage to wood power poles(other things not included) in Australia  alone costs around $20 million each year!!
But everything about termites is not bad.The tiny microbes that live inside termites may one day help cure the world’s energy woes, according to scientists.Probably the most efficient digester of cellulose in the world is [...]

Copenhagen: UN climate talks avoided a total collapse on Saturday by skirting bitter opposition from several nations to a deal championed by the US President Barack Obama and five emerging economies including China.“Finally we sealed a deal,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. “The ‘Copenhagen Accord’ may not be everything everyone had hoped for, but this [...]

European Union leaders have agreed to offer around €7.2 billion to help developing countries deal with the effects of climate change over the next three years.
After a hard push by the Swedish presidency of the EU at a summit of the bloc’s premiers and presidents in Brussels on Friday to get every single member state [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google on Thursday unveiled a tool that lets scientists and defenders of the environment use the Internet to keep an eye on what is left of the Earth’s forests.
“We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world’s rapidly-disappearing forests,” Rebecca Moore and Amy Luers of the US Internet [...]

16,500… people will fly in to attend the summit.
75… heads of state and other VIPs are expected to turn up, including Barack Obama.
200,000… cups of (organic) coffee will be served to delegates.
2,500… meetings will be held during the two week conference, across 38 rooms at the Bella Center.
192… lines are included in [...]

The Copenhagen climate change summit kicks off today in what will be a two-week marathon set of negotiations involving 15,000 delegates from 192 nations. The run-up to the talks saw a series of announcements by several of the world’s largest polluters pledging all sorts of commitments to reducing carbon emissions, but it has been China [...]

DURING crunch talks in Copenhagen next week, Mexico will propose to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 so long as it receives international aid, officials have said.
The second-largest economy in Latin America after Brazil also aims to reduce emissions from the heat-trapping gases by six to seven per cent [...]