Monday, March 16, 2009

Summary 2: wanted: natural residents.

The people wanted to make Sweden’s Western Harbor to be perfect, by providing what children need. When you want to see outside you will find so many kinds of birds and also bats, and insects. The Western Harbor is designed to comfort the people, and make them satisfied. This is very spacious and contains more than 1000 apartments. Every developer must choose 10 out of 35 green options, to promote sustainability and biodiversity. The food is mostly organic and the young people must know how to preserve and save their own food. the developers are staring the importance of green criteria in their marketing, which is very encouraging.
1. The scheme of the Western Harbor is being adopted by Malmo in its city-wide environmental building programm.
2. It's very important that the children grow up understanding ecology and wanting to save the earth.
3. The developer chooses between 10 green features.
Opinion:
1. I think Malmo also wanted ecological themes to develop and it has also adopted the green points.
2. The harbor is the most beautiful place to visit with your family because of the sustainable facilities that it has.
3. The harbor project is a huge step that has been done. It is being extended throughout Malmo.
References: fry, Carolyn.Wanted: natural Residents."The Guardian 2 Jan. 2008. 5 Jan.2009

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Global warming (summarizing the movie)

An Inconvenient Truth focuses on Al Gore and his travels in support of his efforts to educate the public about the severity of the climate crisis. The sun heats the earth and then the earth reflects the radiation, but some of the radiation heats the earth, and makes the global warming. The cartoon shows that the ice cream melted because of the global warming because the sun beam heats the earth. There are lakes, rivers, mountains, and trading centers which suffer from global warming. Such as Lake Chad and, Kilimanjaro Mountain, the Manhattan local trading center, Colorado River. The higher population the country has, the more demand for food, and water. The smoking habit and cars ; emissions lead to the global warming. Japan, which is producing more environmentally friendly cars, is doing better selling cares than U.S. manufacturers. The global warming is not suitable for animals such as polar bears, penguins, and some insects like mosquitoes.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Global Warming

The global warming is the issue that almost all the world is suffering from. Initially, the global warming is happening when the Earth’s surface and lowest part of the atmosphere warmed up on average by about 0.6°C. Measurements of temperature taken by instruments all over the world, on land and at sea have revealed that during the 20th century. During this period, man-made emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased, largely as a result of the burning of fossil fuels for energy and transportation, and land use changes including deforestation for agriculture. That is to say, global warming is now considered most probably to be due to the increases in greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, we can say that the global warming involves a variety of issues such as ocean acidification. Increased atmospheric CO2 increases the amount of CO2 dissolved in the oceans. Finally, I can say that the global warming is a serious problem. It is affecting the animals such as polar pears, seals, and penguins.