Green Infrastructure, Earth Day and Global Awareness
March 17, 2010 | Filled Under Environment
Spring 2010 is approaching and there’s a lot of buzz around topics like the economy, taxation, global poverty, restoration in Haiti/Chile, and lastly, green awareness. With spring, Earth Day also draws nearer (April 22nd); as individuals, we must remember and realize the importance of global warming and all of its implications. Subsequent topics discussed as of late include space travel/burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and green building. As nations like Haiti and Chile prepare for rebuilding and new construction, there are many things to consider when advancing. Moving towards cleaner, greener infrastructure is vital in ensuring a successful restoration campaign.
The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(3)(c) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everybody. It’s one of the many organizations playing its role in green progression. Heavy discussion lies on green topics, especially the more recent ones like space travel; others include deforestation, green crops, clothing, energy, and much more. It’s important that we as individuals/citizens stay up-to-date on important global topics like warming. As organizations like the CGI (Clinton Global Initiative), AFH (Architecture for Humanity), and the USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) conducts sustainability campaigns and enforce strict green constraints, our world will continue to become a better, cleaner place. Machines behind the CGI, Doug Band and Former President Clinton have been pursuing an emission reduction plan in the San Francisco Bay area. Meanwhile, CEO of GEC (Globetrotters Engineering Corporation), Niranjan Shah, is underway with green building projects in Chicago, IL. Despite these few national examples, green infrastructure, particularly in places like Haiti, has become an integral part of restoration and construction.
As polluters continue to buy their way out of Carbon Cuts globally, and large organizations continue to dump their waste into lakes, ponds and rivers, communities and must play their role in ensuring sustainability. Organizations like the CGI, AFH, and USGBC provide repercussion and policy change for acts such as. Most of the results from warming and climate change are miniscule and unnoticeable now, but our youth and earlier generations will experience firsthand the effects of pollutants and unsustainable efforts. Feel free to visit http://www.earthday.org/ to learn more about what you can do to support your world.
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As far as “individuals/citizens” are concerned we/they will respond to what is available to consume. If companies produce product that is a negative effect on our lives, both from an individual health and a global perspective then how do we expect consumers to respond? There is so much information available counteracting everything from what is healthy foods, though to our energy status. This is outrageous when you consider the knowledge and yet those with financial power continue to drive the world economy with abuse of the natural resources. We know that! What is to be done. I walk through my local super market and wonder! I search for a car! I wonder if I am buying right. I turn off my lights and my home is still lit by the street and town business.
I purchase furnishings claiming to be environmentally friendly only to read that the manufacturing process has cause more damage than the raw material. I have some wonderful area rugs and cushions, that were hand made and do you know although the dyes were probably washed into the local waterways, it is natural and will disperse without killing anything. Can we say the same about the recent oil spillage?