How To Develop Green Concept in the World?

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How To Develop Green Concept in the World? 

 

Green Builders 

Structural builders focused solely on Green practices have emerged today as greener living becomes a critical focus across the world. From taking small steps to reduce waste, to more efficiently using earth’s resources, green builders are tasked with selecting building materials and creating structures that serve to reduce the overall impact on the environment. Green builders focus on more conscious use of natural resources and green practices from the design, construction, operation and overall life of the structures they build.

 

Renewable energy

Renewable energy is an important topic today as environmental concerns and the need to drive down costs increases. Resources from nature that are "naturally replenished" are used to create energy sources including wind, solar, bio fuel and others. These renewable energy forms are growing in use globally and provide utilities with the ability to offer energy for far less costs. New research by Boston Consulting Group finds that renewable energy and green technologies will make their presence felt within the next few years and take on fossil fuel-based energy as a better alternative.

Solar Power

The use of sunlight to create electricity is becoming increasingly popular as more and more people look to cut costs and become environmentally aware. Solar power converts sunlight into electricity and is used to power small devices as well as entire homes today. Solar power can be created through photovoltaics (PV) – a method that converts solar radiation into electricity using solar panels. U.S. utilities are becoming a key driver of future growth. According to a new study on Solar Power by GTM Research, Utility PV in the U.S., a $1 billion market in 2010, is projected to reach $8 billion by 2015. Concentrated solar power (CSP) can also create electricity by using lenses or mirrors to focus a beam of sunlight and create heat to a source that’s also connected to a power generator.

Wind Power

The natural element of Wind is important today as we look for alternative energy sources. Wind power is created when the wind energy converts to other forms of energy like electricity, fuel, and power. Wind power can be created using wind turbines, wind mills, wind pumps, wind farms. The U.S. Department of Energy’s recent study on Wind Power found that the U.S. market for wind power additions had a record breaking year in 2009 with $21 billion in investments in new wind power projects “and enough capacity to power the equivalent of 2.4 million homes.” 

Green Economy

The conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity is the foundation of a sustainable economy. Water, food, shelter and energy are the building blocks upon which life and economic systems are built. The resilience of the global economy is intricately linked to the state of the environment.
Business also affects, and needs, biodiversity. Billions of people work in the private sector, and business is a key driver of social and economic development. Some are beginning to see the value of biodiversity, the need to protect it, and the need to invest in it. In the current global recession, with huge stimulus investments coming from governments, now, more than ever, we should be investing in nature to drive sustainable economic and social growth.

Some facts

• Each year, we are losing ecosystem services worth an estimated EUR 50 billion from land-based ecosystems alone
   
• The world’s commercial fisheries are likely to collapse in less than 50 years unless current trends are reversed
   
• While 35% of the Earth’s surface is already dedicated to agriculture, irrigated crop production will need to increase by 80% by 2030 to match rising demand
   
• In the Caribbean, the direct result of coral reef destruction has resulted in a 20% decline in tourism revenues (equal to approximately US$ 300 million per year)
   
• Hundreds of medicinal plant species, whose naturally occurring chemicals make up the basis of all prescription drugs, are threatened with extinction.
   
• New ‘green markets’ for organic agriculture, certified food and timber products are growing three times faster than the average, and could reach US$60 billion by 2010
   
• Around the world, it is estimated that protected areas could produce benefits, goods and ecosystem services worth between US$4,400 and US$5,200 billion a year.
   
• The overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing up to 20% of global GDP each year, while the costs of action now can be limited to around 1% of global GDP each year

The global economic crisis, which is still having far-reaching consequences, has put pressure on world leaders to rethink their economic policies. In many cases, public and private investments are not in line with broader objectives of sustainability. Consequently, they often result in an over-exploitation of natural resources that compromises the long-term viability of the enterprise. The decline of the world’s fish stocks is a clear example of how misaligned policies can undermine an entire industry and the economy it supports.
A closer alignment of our economic and environment systems is an imperative that society can no longer afford to ignore. Critical steps in the necessary transition to a greener economy include:
• Achieve a fuller integration of biodiversity and ecosystem values into economic policy, finance and markets

• Strengthen the biodiversity business case through the generation of knowledge and awareness on the different forms and contributions of biodiversity and ecosystem values.
• Enhance the capacity of decision-makers to adequately account and manage for biodiversity and ecosystem values.
• Help governments identify opportunities for generating employment and business opportunities through more sustainable policy planning and implementation.

• Empower private sector companies to lead the way to the development of more sustainable business models and practices

• Develop best-practice guidance and standards for advancing sustainability in key industry sectors, such as agriculture, extractives, and tourism.
• Explore and test alternative approaches for enhancing corporate sustainability, such as through full life-cycle analysis and innovating offsetting schemes.

• Make greater and smarter investments in nature-based markets and enterprises

• Provide new channels for sustainable financing opportunities, such as through the development of a green development mechanism.
• Encourage the establishment and growth of innovative markets for public environmental goods and services, such as trading in carbon credits and banking of wetlands.
• Support the development of sustainable enterprises in areas such as renewable energy, organic agriculture and ecotourism.
• Encourage the enhanced appreciation of the climate regulating functions of ecosystems; such as through REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation).

Green cars

Advances in science technology and design in the last 10 years have made cars — especially stereotypical gas-guzzlers like 4x4s — into green cars, greener than could have been imagined when they first launched just a few short years ago. Relentless research into improvements for efficiency has transformed the idea of driving a low emission electric or semi-electric (hybrid) vehicle. No longer imagined as the preserve of sandal-clad, preachy environmentalists, it is now possible for a car buyer to choose a car for its performance, look, stability and fuel economy as much as its green credentials – choosing design over ‘green’ in some cases. The low emission car has never been more fashionable.

Cutting CO2 pollution, fuel consumption per gallon and streamlining with lighter more aerodynamic vehicles, low emission cars are becoming less harmful to the environment, as well as to consumers’ wallets in an age of global austerity. Reducing drag and weight and boosting all around efficiency is also crucial for green cars, with conventional cars also upping the ante for improving green performance. 

If people were stubbornly looking to performance issues with driving rather than impact on the natural world outside of their car, they may want to consider this: money saving and environment saving are now both intrinsically entwined and are a combined result by the tweaks to the design and performance of low emission, hybrid and electric cars.

Hybrid cars remain the most popular in terms of converts and sales. They run with two engines, one petrol or diesel and one electric — the electric taking over at low speeds to save fuel and self-generating the power they need to charge their batteries through heat recapture when braking. Miles better than conventional cars, hybrids are leading the way for drivers to try out a more eco-friendly way of driving, and as the years advance design improves: performance, quality, speed and stability are all as good, if not better than previous cars of all sizes and performance levels on the road.

An added bonus of some hybrid cars (such as the Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4 and Lexus CT 200h Hybrid) that reach under the magical 100g Co2/km marker for a low emission vehicle is that UK drivers then pay zero road tax to the treasury. Drivers further benefit from not having to pay the London Congestion Charge — more incentive for consumers to swap their cars for new generation hybrids than ever before.

Leading the pack in the petrol and diesel hybrid field is Honda, who are about to unload a redesigned, sleeker and lower emission SUV vehicle than any previous models in their 160 country mass-reaching market. Boasting an aerodynamic rethink for a specifically European consumer base, this October, the brand new Honda CR-V will prove that a smaller, lighter, more efficient luxury 4×4 style vehicle is now more than possible.

Without sacrificing any space inside (in fact, managing to increase it) whilst building a smaller, lighter car, Honda’s utilisation and reworking of materials through scientific research has enabled this latest Hybrid to be the most honed yet — environmentally as well as in terms of efficiency. These advances have been made without skimping on high-end features that SUV drivers require.
Honda has also managed to devise engine refinements to cut CO2 emission measurements down a further 10 percent since the last CR-V model – an amazing achievement in such a short amount of time. The environment was a driving factor in the science behind the popular model’s redesign.

This improvement to the Honda CR-V’s fuel economy and reduction of CO2 emissions has been achieved without compromising any driving pleasure, according to the manufacturer. Even with “the power and torque outputs of the i-DTEC engine remaining at 150PS and 350Nm respectively, the CO2 emissions fall from 171g/km to 153g/km (10%) for the manual version, and from 195g/km to 175g/km for models equipped with the five-speed automatic transmission.”

With an improved Honda ECON mode and Eco Assist system, drivers will be even more aware of driving efficiently, be it for their wallets or the world. The end result is the same: we already know that the way we brake or accelerate and the speed we drive at all affect our fuel consumption. With the ECON button in the latest CR-V, the throttle response and air-conditioning will be automatically adjusted. The Eco Assist system display will show how driving style is impacting fuel economy by changing the colour of the dial edges from white to green when driving the vehicle at its optimum efficiency.

Small, simple details like this all make it easier for drivers to make a positive impact without having to over-think. Even small things help in the fight against high fuel usage and pollution to the environment with the added incentive that it saves money for consumers, too.

Obviously the ideal solution would be for everyone on planet Earth to give up driving; however, being practical, the development of green cars is an urgent priority for all global manufacturers. Low emission and lower fuel consumption vehicles have been developing and changing drastically, from hybrids to totally green, fuel-free Electric Vehicles (EVs) now coming packaged in all ways for all types of drivers: from the tiny city-practical Citroen C-Zero to the meaty expensive sportiness of the Californian Tesla Roadster, which by all accounts is like driving around as if on a real-life Scalextric track.

Winning awards for their green credits as well as for performance and usability, the latest generation of eco cars can suit most markets and types of owners. All of these realised visions of less eco-damaging cars available in 2012 were deemed mere fantasy 10 years ago, and this can only keep advancing to benefit individual drivers as well as the global environment. The green cars available now have never been so attractive and good for the eyes, the soul and the purse. Hip, green, lean and clean, the scientific and economic way to drive now and into a greener, more sustainable, less harmful future for the planet’s environment. 

 

Green citizens makes a green country  

Only green citizens makes a green country and make a green world.So we have to ensure first make green citizens then it is possible to develop the green concept in the world.