Env-Friendly Technology

Nowsaday, everyone is talking about global warming…the effects that bring in by global warming. Hotter sun …flood.

More country have shown their concern on this issues and starts to focus on its prevention by banning plastic bag usage. Can you imagine the usage of 3 billion plastic bag in ONE DAY, within one country???

I personally do think that this is necessary. Every one do their bit…and help to save the earth together.

So have your got your Tesco reuseable plastic bag???

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One of my uncles (a taxi driver) in KL is trying to persuade me to change my car to run on Autogas.
For those who are not clear about this term, Autogas is an alternative to fuels (potential to reduce harmful exhaust emissions from traffic), it is the most important and accepted alternative fuel in the automotive sector.

Photo taken from Caltex

According to him (my uncle), most taxi in KL already converted to run on Autogas to reduce their expenses on keep on increasing fuel price; which will also increase their earning in the order words. It saves more then 60% of their expenses on fuel itself.

Converting your car to Autogas will easily cast you around RM 2-3k. Take myself for an example, my fuel expenses is around RM 200 per month. If I would able to save 60% of it, means I just spend  RM 80 per month for my fuel expenses.

I would be able to save RM 120 per month (200-80=120) on fuel itself. Let’s say I convert my car to Autogas for RM2500, it will take me 1.7 years (2500/120/12 month per year) to recover from my converting cost.

I think that it’s a wise choice for the conversion, but what worried me is that will our car price depreciate tremendously if we convert our car into Autogas?

More information will need to gather before the move…for instances, if you have any doubts on Autogas, I personally think that this self-explain information from Shell will help a lot. For your reading pleasure…   

Technorati Tags:  autogas, green, global warming

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Have your heard of bidegradable garbage bag?

I just come across this kind of environmental friendly garbage bag last week when i was doing my household shopping. The prices is a little expensive then the normal garbage bag we seen in the super market.

Above photo taken from http://www.thinkingfountain.org/ 

Thinking that i normally have a bag of gargage daily, will it be better to change it to this type of biodegradable garbage bag? May be i will give it a try next during my next purchase… 

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Just a short notes, do you know how much waste we produce daily in our country? 25,600 tonnes, as reported on today’s newpaper!

I have been telling myself to stop waste but everyday i (i means by family) still produce a BIG bag of rubbish!…hahaa, more effords needed.

What I’m doing now is that i will have a seperate dustbin for those recycleble items like bottles, cans and papers. So that i can so collect them easily for the BIG recycle bin beside our appartment’s lobby.  

Remember to help those in hunger, ok? 

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There is another easy for us to save to earth and be more environmental friendly. Enroll for electronic statement for your credit cards.

I did noticed about this until i received by credit card statement for month of October. There is a promotion by Citibank to encourage its users based to be more environmental friendly, that’s to use electronic statement and being paperless.

As what quoted in their promotion, "You’ll help save trees while reducing the energy consumption and waste by-products involved in paper production.". During this promotion you will get 888 rewards points. It’s really a great initiavite to create the awareness to save the environment, print less and only when it’s necessary!

So, if you are a Citibank credit card users, enroll now and you got nothing to less…let’s play some part in saving our earth!

Technorati Tags:  environmental friendly, paperless, global warming

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I will normally discard my used car batteries or give away FREE to mechanics. However, the situation might be the order way now!!! Months ago there was a price increases for car batteries caused by the increasing price of battery lead. As the prices of lead increases, now you can even sell your used car battery for a good price between RM30 to RM300 (RM 300 is for those lorry’s battery).

I do think that this will be some good news to consumers and it saves us some money on our car battery replacement as we can now tread in our used car battery for a better price, and it saves our environment as well!

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I would think that year end is the most waited season for most employee. Why? Simple because it’s holiday season again. Today is public holiday for Deevapali and coming up we have Christmas, New Year and then Chinese New Year in Feb of 2008.

Photo taken from HolidayLEDs

There are going to have many decoration across the streets with LED lights. I always recommend people to use energy saving bulbs but i just got to know from HolidayLEDs that there are actually energy saving LED lights as well. Not sure about the price for this types of LED lights, but I’m sure it will save our government a lot of $$$ from this energy saving LED ligths.

It claimed to comsume 90% less energy, 50000 hour bulb life and some more with Lifetime warranty…wow…. 

Technorati Tags:global warming, energy saving  

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Where do you throw your old CFL bulbs?

Honestly, i will throw it direct into dustbin. I have been talking on changing to energy saving light bulbs and carry own reusable bag at IKea Singapore and now, Ikea even reclycles old CFL bulbs for FREE!!!

It’s really a great move to save our environment from its mercury content. 

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Do you like to eat fish? I’m. There are numerous methods for delicious fish cooking. Asian people would like to have their fish steamed or deep fried; and yes…we like Sashimi as well.

With current technology, they are using giant ships, using state-of-the-art equipment, can pinpoint schools of fish quickly and accurately. Which caused Overfishing; it’s exceeded the ocean’s ecological limits.

With the effects of global warming, sea water temperatures increases, some species simple cannot survive in the changed conditions.

If we didn’t control overfishing, one day we shall not have fresh fishes or even Sashimi for our dishes. Who knows we will can only buy the frozen fish fillets and no more fresh fishes from the market.

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Some simple steps daily will make a big different…and every single steps is start from us… do you remember to

   1.  Use compact fluorescent light bulbs. - I’m using all energy saving fluorescent light bulbs in my house
   2. Adjust your thermostat by 2 degrees. - My aircons are always at 24 degrees and i preset it to turn off after 2-3 hours
   3. Carpool to work once a week. - This is the difficult part for me…my colleagues live in different area with me; but i try my best to car pool with my friends when we go out…

Read More from Yahoo! Green 

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It has been quite sometime i did’t shop for my grocery at Tesco. I did my usual grocery shooping in Tesco with my wife last weekend and i found that Tesco is now encouraging people to use recycle shopping bags.

You can get this reusable plastic bag at Tesco for RM1.00. I got myself one and it can be reuse until it’s broken. The nice part is, once it’s broken, Tesco will give you back a replacement plastic bag with your broken one. Means that you just need to spend RM1.00 and  keep on using this bag for your grocery shopping in Tesco. Reduce the usage on plastic bag to save our environment from Global Warming…as what i mentioned in the title recycle can always start from a simple step.

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Would like the shall this trailer with all my readers, An Inconvenient Truth…

What can we do to stop this? Here are the "10 thing to do" taken from the website.

1. change a light.
2. drive less.
3. recycle more.
4. check your tires.
5. use less hot water.
6. avoid products with a lot of packaging.
7. Adjust your thermostat.
8. plan a tree.
9. turn off electronic devices.
10. Spread the word!

Let’s do something before it’s too late!!! 

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There are two methods that i normally practice to get rid of my used computer.

If the computer is still usable and in good condition, i will donate it to charity society. If the computer already broken, i will then try to disassemble it into individual parts like hard disks, RAM, graphic cards, CD or DVD ROM. I will use back the component if it’s compatible with my new purchase of hardware, if it’s too old or incompatible with my new hardware, i will them give it out to my friends or family who need it as a spare or replacement. The rest of the item i will sell it to the local shop for some cheap (really so cheap) price.

Now it seems that we have more options to choose from for unused computer. HP environmental: Product Return and Recycling program will help to manage your unused computer environmental friendly. You can either choose to trade in, return for cash, recycle or donate it. Which is a better practice that save the environment rather then you throw it into the dustbin.

You can trade in your old computer and upgrade it to new HP technology; Recycle HP inkjet and LaserJet cartridges for free or even you can choose to donate you used computer equipment.

Everyone shall make a small changes that will contribute to be a big changes to save our environment.

Visit HP Environment for more details.

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We are always told to reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink before we do any purchase in order to save our earth from Global Warming.

We can reduce the usage of our electricity by or set timer or increase our air conditional temperature to 24 degree or more; we reuse our own food container to reduce the usage of plastic or PVC food container; we rethink before we buy any new electronic products or electronic accessories, but have you ever think of that we shall reuse the sewage water as our drinking water?

I came across an interesting article from Asia News Network that Singapore converts its waste water into crystal-clear liquid that look and tastes like any other bottled water. This crystal-clear drinking water is produces by Singapore’s NEWater Centre.

You dare to drink it? I’m amazed with their technology and according to the informations provided in NEWater’s website, this is a high grade water purified using a 3-step process involving advanced membrane technologies like Micro filtration, Reverse Osmosis and the final disinfection of the product water using ultraviolet light. With these technologies, they claimed that NEWater is cleaner then PUB Water. It’s very clear and sparkling.

As we all know, Singapore is short of natural resources compared to Malaysia and Indonesia, but the growing of its population and economy has pushed there but their technologies in to the next level. They have been more advance in this area compared what we have in our country.

Mindset and attitudes is the most important factor to success. Will that means that only country with less or even no natural resources will be more appreciate to what they have and take the initiative to preserve them? As a country that full with natural resources like water, gas and petroleum, we really need to start look for other alternatives not only to improve or maintain our economy competitiveness against Asian country but also to preserve our natural resources before it’s too late.  

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One week of school holidays was just over in Malaysia. Do you ever think of to do a little “GREEN” shopping before for your children?

Some suggestions given by The Daily Green that your can actually try to buy Recycled paper notebook for your children and buy backpack made of recycled rubber, or natural fibres like hemp.

I do think that the most important idea here is to give a good example to our children on the important of preserving our environment and reduce global warming. Still remember? Children See Children Do…

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