Do you delete your email regularly? Or are you one who just leaves hundreds and thousands of emails in your inbox unread just because you're too lazy to? Who really bothers nowadays? Email space is up by at least a few hundred times from the period where Hotmail only offered a meagre 2 megabytes of storage space.
Have you ever wondered though at what cost you are getting all this generous email space? Here's why you should clear that inbox once in a while.
Well instead of the usual article posts, check out this video on a teenager from Malawi who brought wind power to his village. This guy built from scratch a windmill (that works) out of parts and pieces of junk, and used it to generate electricity for his own house. He does not have any formal training or in fact much education. Yet this amazing guy manages to figure out on his own a way to make his windmill dream a reality with some help from library books. A truly inspiring story. Enjoy.
A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change. Click on "Watch" to view the trailer.
Fight Climate Change with Diet Change The most effective action an individual can do to cut emissions
Every day, we make ethical and responsible choices for the environment by cutting down our carbon emissions. We recycle, reduce and reuse because we know that resources are precious. We use more energy efficient appliances so as to conserve energy. However, there remains one powerful choice that sometimes gets overlooked – changing our diet, something which scientists believe is the best thing we can do in terms of individual action.
Rajendra Pachauri is the U.N.'s top climate scientist. He leads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which every five years produces the authoritative assessment of climate science. Their last report, in 2007, helped set the target of 450 ppm (parts per million of CO2) that many environmental groups and national governments have adopted as their goal for Copenhagen. As you all know, that number is out of date. When Jim Hansen and other scientists looked at phenomenon like the Arctic ice melt of the last two summers, they produced new data demonstrating that 350 is the bottom line for the planet.
Do you delete your email regularly? Or are you one who just leaves hundreds and thousands of emails in your inbox unread just because you're too lazy to? Who really bothers nowadays? Email space is up by at least a few hundred times from the period where Hotmail only offered a meagre 2 megabytes of storage space.
Fight Climate Change with Diet Change