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)