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Sejatinya Hari Habitat Dunia diperingati pada Senin pekan pertama bulan Oktober setiap tahunnya. Namun untuk kali ini saya tak menemukan apapun yang istimewa, selain berita yang saya baca saat saya singgah ke berita online di Reuters dan The Strait Times. Jakarta adalah salahsatu kota yang paling cepat berkembang menjadi "megacity" di Asia. Namun diperkirakan nasib buruk akan menimpa ibukota Indonesia ini pada tahun 2025 menjadi kota dibawah air.?! Wah..berita yang amat menakutkan dan sungguh membuat saya berpikir..saat itu masihkah saya tinggal di Jakarta. Dan apa yang akan dilakukan pemerintah DKI bergandengan dengan masyarakatnya untuk menjaga agar Jakarta tidak tenggelam. Ngomong-ngomong, apa sih penyebabnya? Eksplorasi air tanah yang tak berkesudahan. Setidaknya itu yang dipaparkan Almud Weitz, regional team leader of the World Bank's water and sanitation programme,dalam wawancaranya dengan Reuter. "Jika masyarakat dibiarkan menggali dan menggali terus maka kota...

Cathy Zoi CEO dari www.wecansolveit.org baru saja menyirimi saya e-mail yang menceritakan bahwa TV ABC menolak untuk menayangkan iklan yang berbunyi seperti di bawah ini : The solution to our climate crisis seems simple. Repower America with wind and solar. End our dependence on foreign oil . A stronger economy. So why are we still stuck with dirty and expensive energy? Because big oil spends hundreds of millions of dollars to block clean energy. Lobbyists , ads, even scandals. All to increase their profits, while America suffers. Breaking big oil's lock on our government ... Now that's change. We're the American people and we approve this message. kiriman e-mail dari Cathy sekaligus meminta saya mendukung untuk mengirim petisi ke pihak TV ABC agar mau menayangkan iklan Repower America Jumat pekan ini. Apa pasal sampai terjadi penolakan semacam itu? Tahukah Anda jaringan TV yang sudah kondang di AS itu ternyata di bekingi oleh para raja minyak. Lihat saja TVABC oleh Ch...

Selama ini masyarakat dunia mengenal Indonesia lebih banyak melalui kesenian atau pulau Bali. seolah-olah tak ada yang teristimewa selain kesenian yang berasal dari Bali saja. Padahal candi Borobudur, candi Prambanan, Sangiran yang menjadi obyek wisata di tanah Jawa tak kurang menariknya untuk menarik turis asing datang berkunjung. Setiap wilayah ataupun propinsi di Indonesia memiliki khasanah budaya sendiri-sendiri yang memiliki keunikannya masing-masing. sayang jika semua ini kurang mendapat perhatian ataupun dukungan dari masyarakatnya.

I seldom read National Geographic Magazine or watch the Imax documenter films ..make me more aware about how being "greener".. ...and...beginning just beyond the window, and extending past the boundaries of your town or city across the Earth's surface, an amazing variety of habitats awaits—along with the plants and animals that live in them. Get outside! Check out a wildlife refuge near you.... (see more)

Beginning just beyond the window, and extending past the boundaries of your town or city across the Earth's surface, an amazing variety of habitats awaits—along with the plants and animals that live in them. Get outside! Check out a wildlife refuge near you.

Brazilian president says speculators, not biofuels, to blame for soaring food prices The Star Sat, 12 Jul 2008 5:58 AM PDT JAKARTA , Indonesia (AP): Biofuel production is not to blame for soaring global food costs, Brazil's president said Saturday, calling for incentives for developing countries to grow food crops as a way out of the crisis. Indonesia, Brazil say to cooperate on biofuel AlertNet Sat, 12 Jul 2008 5:18 AM PDT Source: Reuters By Telly Nathalia JAKARTA , (Reuters) - The leaders of Indonesia and Brazil agreed on Saturday that their developing nations, home to much of the world's remaining tropical forest, would ..

An 11-story building in Beijing is one of the few places in China where you'll hear people speak fondly of Japan. Inside are the offices of the Sino-Japan Friendship Center for Environmental Protection, where experts study how Japan became one of the world's most energy-efficient countries, with the aim of applying those lessons and methods to China. The center, which monitors pollution levels and researches environmental technologies, is partially funded by the Japanese government. Even the office building was built with a $100 million grant from Tokyo. "Japan, on an international level, is a responsible country," says the center's vice director, Xia Guang. "We recognize that Japan's work promoting environmental protection in China has real seriousness and we thank the government and people of Japan." (more...)

From a distance the bizarre structures sprouting from the high Alentejo plain in eastern Portugal resemble a field of mechanical sunflowers. Each of the 2,520 giant solar panels is the size of a house and they are as technically sophisticated as a car. Their reflective heads tilt to the sky at a permanent 45 degrees as they track the sun through 240 degrees every day. The world's largest solar photovoltaic farm, generating electricity straight from sunlight, is taking shape near Moura, a small town in a thinly populated and impoverished region which boasts the most sunshine per square metre a year in Europe. When fully commissioned later this year, the £250m farm set on abandoned state-owned land will be twice the size of any other similar project in the world, covering an area nearly twice the size of London's Hyde park. It is expected to supply 45MW of electricity each year, enough to power 30,000 homes. Portugal, without its own oil, coal or gas and with no expertise in nucl...

ABC News' Mary Bruce Reports: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., spoke out against President Bush this morning attacking his administration for its failure to counter global warming emissions. "This administration did not believe in global warming," Schwarzenegger told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview that will air Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "They just didn't believe in it or they didn't believe that they should do anything about it, since China is not doing anything about it and since India is not willing to do the same thing, so why should we do the same thing?" Schwarzenegger said. (more.....)

Natural Bamboo is one of the world's most prolific and fastest-growing plants, and is able to reach maturity in about four years, compared to the typical 25 to 70 years for commercial tree species in the U.S. Bamboo is nature's most sustainable resource. It is grown without pesticides or chemicals, is 100% biodegradeable, and is naturally regenerative. Bamboo is actually a tropical grass with an extensive root system that sends out an average of four to six new shoots per year, naturally replenishing itself and growing to heights of 60 feet or more. Some bamboo species grow up to 4 feet per day and can be harvested every 3 to 4 years. In Asia, bamboo has been used in the traditional hand-made production of paper for centuries. Now, through modern manufacturing processes, bamboo pulp is capable of producing bamboo fiber for use in yarn and fabric. Bamboo is planted and grown on family-owned farms that have been in agricultural use for generations. None of the fiber comes from...

Baby Green Bean -- Bamboo Baby Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Babies are more easily affected by pollutants than adults. Pound-for-pound, babies absorb more toxic elements and inhale more polluted air than adults. Children's organs and systems are still rapidly developing and are thus more vulnerable to damage from chemical exposure. One of the basic needs of humans, especially babies, is clothing. Clothing directly comes in contact with our bodies, and the manufacturing of certain fabrics negatively affect our earth. Synthetic fibers are created in large vats and are made entirely from chemicals, including the petroleum-based fibers such as nylon and polyester. Some synthetic fibers also include “green” PET fabrics (PolyEthylene Terephthalate) such as EcoSpun which is made out of recycled plast...