Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part nineteen)

Principle seven:Opportunity matrix

Principle of Intelligent Urbanism envisions city as an environment for personal development, social and economic development.

Access to health care, human resource development and shelter should be crucial.

PIU targets increasing safety and hygiene.

For urban citizens city is also an engine for economic growth. From their point of view important is the urban balance of trade and also the sustained employment.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part eighteen)

Human Scale

PIU thinks that urban chaos can or could be avoided if pedestrian circulation would be developed.

Shopping possibilities, other amenities, basic social services must be developed around public transporting. The main task is the integration of public spaces into residential and commercial areas.

Social activities should orient towards open public spaces.
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Principle of Intelligent Urbanism(part seventeen)

Principle six:human scale

PIU encourages formation of walkable, pedestrian oriented urban villages.

All this concept is a consequence of an urban planning and politics, aiming friendly and free meeting of people.

PIU concept is the promotion of pedestrian circulation as opposed to the car-traffic.

Intelligent Urbanism aiming removing artificial barriers and helps face-to-face contact.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part sixteen)

Social facilities and public services are also part of PIU. These services are delivered cost per unit to citizens.

Balance should be found between over-capitalized mega systems and low-density individual systems.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part fifteen)

Intelligent Urbanism takes efficiency promotion in cost effective manner.

In this point of view efficiency relies also on positive and good city planning. This planning promotes some alternative transports, opposed to a dependence on personal vehicles. It means the promotion of public transport, accessible to anyone.

PIU helps complementary social amenities, convenience shopping, recreation, public services in compact.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part fourteen)

The fifth principle of Intelligent Urbanism is efficiency.

Efficiency seeks the balance between everyday consumption and everyday resources such as energy or fiscal resources and time management. This principle encouraging sharing of public beholds, like public land, facilities or services.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part thirteen)

1.4.City domain places(part one)

One principle of Intelligent Urbanism is the calling for city domains.

All these public places are plazas, parks, promenades, and so on.

These places are social places, accessible to anyone. Some social places places are free, but museums, for example are accessible for a fee. Public places are regulated by human behavior.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part twelve)

1.3. Community places

The concept of PIU is to design dense, walkable zones in which habitants can recognize each other. The aim for them is also to share facilities and their resources, too.

Community places are opportunities to meet new people, make friendships, and to be active in management services.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part eleven)

1.2. Community places

Rural villages and social bonds are merely similar, founded for security, for finding social spaces, common resources.

According to Urban Villages, common resources must be managed by the community.

As PIU defines, Urban Villages are the bases of municipalities.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part ten)

1.1:Community places

Next principle of Intelligent Urbanism is the community level.

Historical background of communities goes back to tribes sharing social and cultural behavioral patterns.

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism calles modern communities Urban Villages.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part nine)

Intelligent Urbanism helps social groups to live peacefully with one another.

The place for the neighbourhood is a place for social contract and social relations amongst large social groups. Neighbouring communities should maintain and care about main infrastructure, preventive health.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part eight)

PIU is a place for householders, too. Places for householders are places for homes, for intimate companions, for young workmates.

In these domestic places families and other groups carry out their daily lives.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part seven)

Intelligent Urbanism aims to target forming places for friendships also.

The philosophy is that these places are not natural. All these places must be designed conscientiously in urban environs.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part six)

The fourth principle,conviviality, is the philosophic axiom of PIU theory. This basic principle derives from fact that PIU creates places of solitudes for the individual.

These places can be forests in towns, urban hills, public gardens. Here are the "dialog places with rational minds",reminding to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Although Intelligent Urbanism helps individuals to mature and grow through self-analysis and self-realization.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part five)

Appropriate technology is another principle of Intelligent Urbanism. It's aim is to promote local infrastructure related to regionality.

Here the context of appropriate technology should fit. "Small is beautiful", according to Appropriate Technology. (to be continued)

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part four)

Another important basic of PIU is a Balance with Tradition.

Balance with Tradition has for aim to integrate urban planning with cultural heritage and tradition.

Balance with Tradition respects cultural assests of urbanism.

This axiom seeks wisdom to accord planning with human settlements.

Balance with Tradition promotes architecture related to cultural values.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part three)

Nowdays deforestations, desertifications, erosions, fires accelerate.

This process is the result of breaking of a fragile point which is crossed.

When the border is crossed there is a point of no return when eco-system loses its ability to restore itself. So at that point degradation accelerates.

PIU theory supposes and proposes the reserve of these fragile eco-systems, so PIU theory is that urbanization must be in balance with natural environs.

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part two)

The first and one of most important philosophy of Intelligent Urbanism is the balance with nature and surrounds.

This balance with nature emphasizes the utilization of resources and the distinction of exploiting resources.

The principle of "balance with nature" axiom is first of all to identify fragile environmental surrounds,threatened ecosystems and help their conservation.

This philosophy promotes also the life cycle building energy consumption and analysis of pollution.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part one)

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(PIU) is related to urban planning and a theory, aiming to guide the formulation of city planning and urban design.

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism include heritage conservation,environmental sustainability,infrastructure efficiency, regional integration, "Social Access", etc, etc.

The term PIU was created by Prof. Christopher Charles Benninger.

PIU has arised from city planning guide formulated by the International Congress of Modern Architecture(CIAM).

Wildlife Preserves-Part Thirteen

There are also voles living in this nature. These animals are small creatures, like mouses.

They live in their tunnels, built through grass.

source:www.suite101.com/suiteu

Wildlife Preserves-Part Twelve

Arctic foxes live their lives as monogamous pairs, although breeding their puppies. Reaching the age of six months puppies learn to live somehow adult life. Although reaching the age of one, lot of them perish.

Older adult foxes hide food for the lean season.

Another species of Wildlife Preserves of that era are birds, called Ptarmigans. They spend most of their lives on ground.
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Wildlife Preserves-Part Eleven

Arctic Foxes coat in summer becomes brown or bluish-gray, in winter the coat changes to snowy-white.

Thus their coat protects and camouflages them from hunting polar beers.

The color of Arctic Foxes coat allows them to catch and be the predator of small birds.

The fur of their coat on feet allows them to run lightly on snow, on the top of snow.

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Wildlife Preserves-Part Ten

Adult muskoxens have massive horns.

To protect themselves from hungry predators, they form circles. In this case even wolves think twice to attack them.

Arctic foxes are members of the canid family. They are small animals changing their coat twice a year.

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Wildlife Preserves-Part Nine

Muskoxens are less numerous in Arctic Wildlife Refuge than caribous.

They live in tundra. Tundra is covered with shrubs and ground is permanently frozen. Muskoxen heavy coat protects them from wind and heavy cold weather.

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Wildlife Preserves-Part Eight

An important animal of Arctic Wildlife is caribou. Caribou is part of cervid(deer) family and bands in herds.

Caribou is tough animal, stocky, able to trek thousands of miles.

Caribous lives are threatened by weather and food shortage.

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Wildlife Preserves-part seven

It is a fact that Arctic Refuge is a beautiful and amazing place.

The Official Website lists all animals living here. Some animals listed are muskoxen, caribou, artic foxes, ptarmigan.

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Wildlife Preserves-Part Six

The tundra is an important place of habitat for lot of animals, too. Tundra is composed of shrubs, lichen, and some underneathes.

Muskoxen lives in tundra all year, caribous spend springtime in tundra region. Brooks Range is the home of Dall sheep and rodents of small size. Boreal Forest is the home of hundreds of small animals, but wolves, too.

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Wildlife Preserves-Part Five

It is essential to accentuate the main role of habitats relating to Wildlife Preserves.

These habitats include Beaufort Sea Ice Pack(north coast of Refuge), the arctic tundra at the south coast of Refuge, Brooks Range Mountains and boreal forests where polar beers are living their lives.

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Wildlife Preserves-part four

The renaming Act of Wildlife Refuge enlarged National Wildlife Refuge and permits oil and gas leasing in case of fitting and compatibility of extraction and resource purposes.

For leasing, US Congress authorization is necessary.

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Wildlife Preserves-part three

The Arctic Refuge with its territory, over 18 million acres is one of the largest territory.

This territory is managed under the surveillance of US Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior Department.

Artic Refuge is also the land of fight between politicans, hungry of oil profits and protecting environmental activists.

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Wildlife Preserves-part two

The blogpost goes on with Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was founded in 1960, expanded in 1980.

This is US largest wildlife system.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is placed in Northeastern Alaska.

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wildlife preserves-part one

The series of this posts are entaming the problem of how to protect US wildlife habitats, other aim will be to pick your curiousity about wildlife, preserving wildlife, give and expand your wildlife and national park vocabulary.

The blogposts will also give you resource book list.

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environmental psychology-part twelve

This post concludes the item. To conclude, we can emphasize the role of  Journal of Environmental Psychology, Canter has edited for 20 years.

Recently he finished his work related to Environmental Psychology and his attention turned towards the field of Criminology.

source:en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_psychology

environmental psychology-part eleven

Another Environmental Psychology derivation has developed out at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in 1960's.

The beginning of this development can be traced back to David Canter, who founded the Performance Research Unit. It is at that time that ergonomics has broadened.

After that time ergonomics was kean to include environmental issues, too.

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environmental psychology-part ten

GC-Cuny was the first American Academic Institution to offer an Environmental Psychology Phd.

Main problems detailed in this Phd degree are the experiences of recent homeless people, privatization of public space, socio-spatial conflicts, design of specialized environments(eg:museums, gardens, zoos).

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environmental psychology-part nine

There is a Masters Program at Prescott College. Sub-fields include environmental studies, environmental education, resource policy, ecology, botany.

Interested students can also take Environmental Psychology Phd Program at The Graduate Center.

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environmental psychology-part eight

There is another University offering Master Degree in this field, this is the Arizona State University.

You can acquire Master and/or Doctorate Degree in Environmental Psychology in Brigham Young University.

Degree Programs offer intensive ecology, conservation biology, botany, geography, environmental law and other subject studies.

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environmental psychology-part seven

Other environmental psychology courses are offered in UK universities.

There is a Master of Science Degree in Natural Resources and Environment in Michigan University. The program concentrates on "Behavior, Education and Communication". The main focus is on environmentally-related consumer decisions, also. Other interesting branch is the affectation of people's mental and physical health by "nearby nature".

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environmental psychology-part six

EPRG has the mission to make and gain better understanding of environmental and psychological space, excluding the space size. Social sciences, methodologies and psychology help this understanding.

Research happening in the above categories:

-sustainable development
-environmental risk
-architectural assesment
-environmental design
-environmental education
-environmental interpretation
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environmental psychology-part five

Nowdays environmental psychology is involved in media, architecture, design, advertisement.

There are some universities, mainly in America and United Kingdom, offering Environmental Psychology courses.

The University of Surrey offers architectural psychology courses since 1973. There are 250 graduates from 25 countries from that course.

Environmental Psychology Group(EPRG) of Surrey University has led research activities for more than thirty years. Master students in Environmental Psychology are automatically involved in this work.

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environmental psychology-part four

At the end of Second World War the demand for social psychology raised. This demand raising happened particularly in areas of small-group process, attitude change, intergroup conflict.

Consequently psychologists began to apply social psychology to war, peace, prejudice. Studies were lead in laboratories. Although some doubts appeared, so professionals continued their studies outside of laboratories.

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environmental psychology-part three

The historical background of environmental psychology is not known.

The person who first mentioned this term was Willy Helpach.

The book entitled Geopsyche, discusses how the sun and moon can influence human activity, color, and form effects, etc.

Other scientists of this field were Kurt Lewin, Jakob Von Uexküll, Egon Brunswik.

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environmental psychology-part three

With such a reasonable human model, adequate environment models can be restored. These models are favorable to model reasonable behavior, predict outcomes in case of non-realization of favorable conditions.

It is also important to analyze and diagnose problems.

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environmental psychology-part two

Environmental psychology was created to solve certain problems related between humans and environment.

During the solution of these problems, implication of a human model is necessary to predict environmental conditions in which human beings will behave.

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environmental pshychology-part one

The definition of environmental psychology is that this field is an interdisciplinary field, targeting interactions between humans and the surroundings.

In this case the term environment is broadly defined, including social, natural, built, learning and informational environments.

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Crime prevention through environmental design(part three)

Defensible Space Approach was revised and additional built environment approches were added to that concept, supported by CPTED.

source:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design

Crime prevention through environmental design(part two)

Founder and inventor of CPETD system was criminologist C.Ray Jeffrey.

An architect Oscar Newman developed the approach "Defensible Space".

Previously Schlomo Angel, Elizabeth Wood, Jane Jacobs worked previously on that subject.

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Crime prevention through environmental design(part one)

Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is a multy-disciplinary approach for the deterioration of delinquency and criminal behavior through environmental design.

Strategically CPTED tends to be able to influence malicious decisions before criminal act is committed. From 2004, CPTED acts occur within built environment.
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Green Building and Eco-Friendly Homes in United Kingdom(part three)

Governement is pushing sustainable building practices because of the ignorance of officials and the presence of traditional buildings.

Private Councils such as United Kingdom Green Building Council are seeking for funds. Big companies are penetrating UK Green Building market also.

source:green-uk

Green Building and Eco-Friendly Homes in United Kingdom(part two)

Green Building construction is able to resolve landfilling waste disposal problems, for the reason to use recyclable and also sustanaible materials.

As a logic consequence, UK governement has introduced landfill taxes and encouraged recyclable material use in construction.

The main advantage of Green Building is to avoid waste material production, but Green Building is also a profitable business, too.

There is a data to emphasize green construction. In UK public buildings it was found that carbon dioxide emission in case of these buildings was much more than all of Kenya.

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Green Building and Eco-Friendly Homes in United Kingdom(part one)

United Kingdom is the country, leading the world of construction, concerning green house building.

The main reason for this is the alarming rate of construction industry waste in this country. The alarming percentage is already 36%.

In case, this rate of wasting landfills continues, there will be serious waste disposal problems.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part six)

The main purpose of environmental affairs and management is to study and train within a framework of wide range of academic disciplines.

For the effective establishment and maintain of an environmentally safe, efficient and cost-effective environment, managers and decision makers need tools and knowledge to establish environmental programs and policies which cope with eco-issues.

source:suite101.com/lesson.cfm/17295/646

environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part five)

Sustanaible development indicators incorporate broader categories, like Economy, Society/Culture, Environment, Governement/Politics, Education, Health, etc.

Namibia is a fine example for the use of sustanaible development indicators to monitor environmental trends and developments.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part four)

Effective environmental indicators help managers or communities to determine actual statement, to define clear goals of future, and how far it is from defined statements.

In case of measuring integration or efficiency, numerous indicators are required.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part three)

Sustainable development indication must be accomplished, based on following indicators:

1. pressure of society on environment(pollution and resource depletion)

2. resulting state of the environment(incurred changes) compared to sustainable statement.

3. response of human activity, especially by political and societal forms, measures, policies.

As known, indicators are important environmental management tools. Indicators should clear complex systems, thus making them perceptible and understandable.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part four)

Sustainable development indicators measure mainly the sustainability or the performance of sustainability.

In most of cases, environmental indicators have sustainable development framework. Sustainable development framework include environmental, economic, social indicators.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part two)

There is another, international definition on sustanaible development, too.

"Development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".

We know, that there are some indicators to measure sustanaible tourism. These indicators indicate the clarification of concept, measurement, monitoring, benchmarking.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101 free online course(part one)

Here begin the series of blogposts, about environmental affairs and management, based on free environmental tutorial.

Defining sustainable development is not easy. There are descriptions, or definitions, coming from United Nations and OECD, but apart this, individual organizations can adopt their own definitions.

Simple definition of sustainable development can be to ensure a better quality of life for everyone and for future generations.

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Sustainable Tourism(part three)

There is a definition of United Nations World Tourism Organization, concerning Sustainable Tourism.

According to that definition, sustainable tourism is a form of tourism, meeting present tourists needs and host regions needs, also. At the same time sustainable tourism protects and enhances future.

The main goal of sustainable tourism is to hold back economic and social advantages of tourism development.

source:gdrc.org/uem/eco-tour/st-whatis.html

Sustainable Tourism(part two)

As it is known, sustainability refers to environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects of tourism. For the long term purpose, balance must be established.

The tasks of sustainable tourism:

1.helping to preserve natural heritage, biodiversity. make optimal use of environmental resources.
2. respect socio-cultural  environment of host communities, conserve their built and living cultural heritage.
3. to assure viable, long-term, economic options, including basic, stable employment and income earning opportunities.
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Sustanaible Tourism(part one)

Sustanaible Tourism definition is that this is an industry making low impact on environment and local culture.

Although sustanaible tourism helps to generate income,conserving local ecosystems, raising employment. Sustanaible tourism is responsible, ecologically and culturally sensitive.

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eco-terrorism in United States of America(part four)

The common person of ELF is their 28 years old spokesman, living in Oregon, Craigh Rosebraugh, who is the believer of Gandhi-movement, the movement of non-violence.

Rosebraugh is a public relation spokesman, who keeps contact with media agencies, communicating them Earth Liberation Front Press Releases.

In case you are interested, please consult the hungarian language source: greenfo.hu/hirek_item.php?hir=21

eco-terrorism in United States of America(part three)

The problem with Earth Liberation Front is that agreeing to FBI Director, Louis Freeh, it is hard to arrest ELF.

The cause is in fact of several members of cells of this organization.

According to police, the members of ELF cells are non criminal members, avoiding public appearance.

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eco-terrorism in United States of America(part two)

Earth Liberation Front has burned  three building territories in  december 2001.

Their press release tells that they burned two vans of a building company in January. Their terrorist actions are protests against suburbs, entering nature.

FBI's special group has successfully investigated against Earth Liberation Front, because in February 2001 four teenagers were pladed guilty in vandalism.

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eco-terrorism in United States of America(part one)

The burning of agricultural houses and lands in United States, at the eastern part, has come out Ecoterrorist Organization, Earth Liberation Front.

Earth Liberation Front Members are extrem environmental activists, grouped in small cells, and organizing terrorist actions. Their targets are globe explorators and the animal world explorators, notably companies.

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Dutch solar electricity generating path(part two)

The system consists of thick concrete blocks. These blocks are covered of silicon solar cells, protected by toughed glasses. This system is a modular system.

This solar system is expected to generate 50kWh per square meter per year. This electricity can be used to enlight streets, for household use, or traffic systems.

Solar innovations show raising wave. Governements and businesses are claming their pie in this story.

sources:springwise.com/eco_sustainability/, tno.nl/solaroad, contact:infodesk@tno.nl

Dutch solar electricity generating path(part one)

Sustainable energy development has seen solar panels embedded in everything. The new project of North Holland municipality is to install solar panel on a cycle path near Krommenie, near Amsterdam.

The name of project is Solaroad,developed by TNO Research Institute, OOms Avenhorn Group and Imtech. The design is expected to be installed in 2012, but concept was already unveiled.

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eco-minded designer wall stickers(part two)

Pricing of wall-stickers starts GBP 12.90 per stickers.

HU2 products are available for online shipping worldwide. These products are made of PVC-free vinyl and eco-friendly packaged shipping is assured.

source:www.hu2.com, contact:hello@hu2.com, www.springwise.com/eco_sustainability/

eco-minded designer wall stickers

UK produced wall sticker, HU2, makes users remind to unplug, shut down, turn off.

HU2 produces certain wall-stickers to remind buyers to their eco-responsibilities. One example is to unplug laptops after it has been charged.
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Marketplace for upcycled, recycled and reused goods(part two)

As sustainability, inexpensive materials can be also enjoyed by upcycled and recycled product creators. Some success stories can be shared with consumers on this marketplace.

source:yiuco.com, contact:hello@yiuco.com, springwise.com/eco_sustainability

Marketplace for upcycled, recycled and reused goods

Greek storefront, Yiuco only allows upcycled, reused and recycled items to be listed. Eco-minded entrepreneurs can create individual storefronts, and list their sellable products.

Such product examples are rings featuring individual computer keyboards, or a pillow created from upcycled materials.

Store creation on Yiuco is free, there are no transaction or listing fees until spring 2011.

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Renewable Energy(part five):Renewable Energy=Domestic Energy

Future predictions are that with the fraction of our current oil investment, it will be possible to create infrastructures and technologies to replace our current fossil fuel infrastructure with renewable energy infrastructures.

All these future renewable energy infrastructures will create new economies, and will create new jobs for millions and millions of people.

The main source for renewable energy is the sun. The sun energy will not last forever. According to scientist predictions, sun will last around our globe and universe for 5 billion years.

source:SOlar Energy International
           renewable energy education for a sustainable future

Renewable Energy(part five):More Reasons for Renewable Energy

Why to cut down natural gas, coal, oil use? Because pollution and climate change became excessive.

Such an example of fussil fuel use is the raising of traditional cars in last years. Past years about 50 million cars run on using fossil fuels. But we could mention hot water heaters or airplanes.

We already know, that energy sources are on way to run out. Oil sources are approaching their peak production. So consequently oil sources run out, oil prices will raise.

Gasoline prices will raise high, too and gas fueled cars will stay parked.

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Renewable Energy(part four):Distributed vs. Centralized Energy

Centralized generation system is a system, where electricity is generated centrally in large amounts and sent out through power lines to houses and businesses.

Distributed system is different:this system is called distributed generation. Such an example for that could be a neighborhood, serie of buildings covered with solar panels. These solar panels continue in small power plants. These power plants are capable to help neighbors, habitants of these buildings appartments to get some extra electricity. Distributed generation is one of advantages of renewable energy on domestic scale.

Another advantage of renewable energy is its flexibility, because renewable energy can work on small systems for distributed generations, or on massive installations for centralized generation.
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Renewable Energy(part three)

The main solution to global energy problems is the upcoming and development of renewable energy, energy which can be renewed again and again.

Renewable energy is avalaible in sun, in water and in wind. It is avalaible in running water and some natural ressources. Renewable energy can be collected  using current technologies and can be also harvested.

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Renewable Energy (part two)

Energy, our energy comes mainly from fossil fuels like natural gas, coal, oil. All these fuels are the results of millions and millions of years of creation. All these animals and plants puerished, decayed and compressed under their own weight. Huge amount of energies were stored and captured in the process.

The process is the following:once humans dig up fossil fuels, properly called hydrocarbons, we, the humans burn these hydrocarbons. We call this process oxydizing. The energy resulting from this process is transformed to power cars, or any other machines.

In the main process, Carbon atoms latch on to two Oxygen atoms(O).

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Renewable Energy(part one)

Energy use is connected to climate change. Changes, indicated by humans cause the climate warming through greenhouse effect.

The problem is the spewing of big quantities of greenhouse gases into the sky. Gases stop the heating coming from the sun.
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Green Infrastructure(part 4)

Geographic Information Systems(GIS) and the growing use of these systems evolves the necessity of their development in Green Infrastructure systems and plans.

These plans are based on GIS layer analysis of geographic informations.

source:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Infrastructure

Green Infrastructure(part 3)

An example for Green Infrastructure is an urban edge river flood plain, providing repository for flood waters. This infrastructure should function as a recreational green space, also.

United Kingdom is a leading country in Europe to largely recognise Green Infrastructure. In this country this infrastructure is an approach for spatial planning, established in national, regional, local levels, too.

2009 is  an important date for Green Infrastructure. At that year a Guide on Green Infrastructure Planning was published by Natural England, accessible on Internet, too. The essential of this Guide is to promote "green infrastructure place-making", which means for example  to maintain and perceive particular locations, where new plannings are in statement.
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Green Infrastructure(part 2)

The main aim of Green Infrastructure conception is to analyze natural environment in its function.

This term "Green Infrastructure" is sometimes called "multifunctional" Green Infrastructure.

In this context, the definition "multifunctional" means the interaction and integration of different functions or activities on the same piece of land.
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Green Infrastructure

The concept "Green Infrastructure" goes back to United States, to the mid 1990's.

This concept emphasizes the main role of natural environment in land use planning.

The concept in particular accentuates "life support", provided by natural ecosystem networks. This system takes the accent on the support of long-term sustanaibility.
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Association of Hungarian Environment Protectors and Association of Earth Friendship Hungary(part 3)

One of main task of this Association is the environmental education of children in schools. Their philosophy and strategy is to educate young children to like and protect our environment.

In Klímaőrjárat, which is a competition concerning the protection of our global climate, organized in hungarian elementary schools, more and more students participate.

source:Brochure of Magyar Természetvédők Szövetsége-Föld Barátai Magyarország

Association of Hungarian Environment Protectors and Association of Earth Friendship(part 2)

In collaboration with International Organizations, especially with Network of Earth Friendship, MTVSZ emphasizes the collaboration of environmental association in world.

MTVSZ is a radical organization:the main goal of this Organization is to focus on environmental disorder indicators. Niches are the politicans, citizens, leaders in all levels. MTVSZ undertakes actions, organizes events, edits environmental studies, takes lobbiing activities.

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Third Climate Summit in Hungary

At the 19th of January, 2011-today-Szentendre, Hungary, will host the Third Climate Summit, organized by Climate Club of Hungary, Budapest.

This conference is the continuation of past Cancun Summit. The aim of this Summit is to accentuate and emphasize the change of our globe climate, this dangerous  problem and its impacts to our environment and to our human lives.

Yesterday, at 18th of January, Climate Club organized demonstration, related to today conference.

source:http://minap.hu

Association of Hungarian Environment Protectors and Association of Earth Friendship

The Association of Hungarian Environment Protectors(MTVSZ) is an Association of more than 100 Hungarian Environmental and Nature Non-Profit Organizations.

The Aim of MTVSZ is the defense of our global nature and helping the sustainable development.

The members of Association are actively fighting in Hungary for the protection of our country's  environment and nature.
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volunteers in hungarian environmentalism

Agreed to a round table discussion, including Hungarian non-profit organizations, happened last week in Budapest, the number of volunteers coming and working in Hungarian non-profit organizations grown evidently in past 5-6 years.

Volunteer motivation can be different, but there are some main reasons:
-single women searching contacts and love relationship(85 percent of cases)
-high school students are spending their  compulsory volunteer work period(since 60 hrs of volunteer work is compulsory for them, agreed to a new governement decision)
-university and college students, eager to  gather professional experiences and later on become employees of these organizations
-leisure time spending

Volunteering in non-profit ecological organizations is more accentuated, than elsewhere. In environmentalism and ecology, action and participation are very important, and hereby the role of volunteers is enormus.

source:Round table discussion, Európai Önkéntesség Éve Rendezvény, Millenáris Park Budapest, 2011.Január 14.

Crowd-Power Boost to Clean Energy Startups

Green ideas raise between the needs of tomorrow and technologies of today.

It is mainly true in global energy economy. This gap can be filled by the sector of Private Industry, part of innovation.

In GE Ecomagination Program 70.000 people from 150 countries came forward to show on their 4000 enumerated ideas. These are promising breakthroughs for energy management, energy storage, utility security.

source:huffingtonpost.com/beth-comstock/ge-ecomagination-challeng_b_80584...

GE Energy Display

GE displays its products, related to home energy in Las Vegas. The forum for this is Consumer Electronics Show.

In the third quarter of 2011 will be developed the GE energy display. The main concept of energy display will be to connect it to a smart meter, to control the real-time or over-time energy consumption. This machine will also provide the alert of consumers on events, such as critical time energy periods, when electricity will be more expensive.

GE Energy Treasure Hunt Program

It is possible to use excess cash in organizations.

According to General Electric, this excess cash can be invested into GE Treasure Hunt Program, launched in collaboration with EDF, Environmental Defense Fund.

This Program has been organized to find energy savings within organizations, companies, universities, schools.

According to process preparation, Treasure Hunt Teams are trained and prepared by General Electric Experts and their work is to find energy savings and survey facilities.

source:fastcompany.com/1675765/ges-treasure-hunt-program-saves-21-million-i...

GE ecomagination challenge, phase II:"Powering Your Home"

The Company General Electric and its venture partners communicate second phase of 200 million dollars Ecomagination Challenge. This Challenge, entitled "Powering Your Home" begins at the 18th of January. The aim is to find innovative ideas on how to manage and use home energy.

Powering Your Home Challenge is an open action for companies, entrepreneurs, innovators. The end of Challenge is the 1st of March 2011.

Interested organizations, entrepreneurs, inventors can submit ideas on clicking at www.ecomagination.com/challenge.

source:ecomagination.com

Green Wall of Sahara

Nowdays African countries fight against sand in Sahara.

Last summer 11 African countries held a meeting in theme "how to construct the Green Wall in Sahara". The main goal was the stopping of Sahara spreading. Action would be important because there is a real danger that in 2025 Sahara will overwhelm agricultural lands.

The main concept of such a green wall would be the establishment of 15 km forest to stop sand hurricanes.

source:Heti Világgazdaság, 10th of July, 2010.(hungarian newspaper, based in Budapest)