Clipmarks | Brimstone's 'environment' clips

Measure, how green are you?

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:27:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Being Green is all the rage these days. If only this took place in the sixties, then the little Greenmen and the Incredible Hulk would have never been victimised.

Clip Source: test.nationalgeographic.com

Answer these questions from the study, then go to Calculate, and we'll tell you what your own personal Greendex number is.

Tags: environment

Jatropha curcas may be the Bio-fuel answer

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:20:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We all heard the positive and negative of bio-fuel.

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Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

Many experts have also become concerned about biofuels' questionable green credentials.

However, some in the industry argue that there are biofuel crops that don't require agricultural land

Oxburgh stresses that jatropha—a hardy plant from which his company, D1 Oils, extracts oil to make biodiesel—will not compete with food for land, nutrients, or water

"Biofuels are getting a bad name because people are using food crops to produce them," said Oxburgh

"But jatropha grows on marginal or degraded land where not much else will really grow.

High oil prices and concerns about global warming have fueled demand for renewable energy sources such as biofuels

Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

Jatropha curcas, one of 175 different plants, shrubs, and trees in the Jatropha family, produces seeds containing up to 40 percent oil

The advantage of drought-resistant jatropha is that it can be grown primarily on nonagricultural or marginal land in Africa and

the plant grows along the rail line between Mumbai and Delhi

Tags: bio, fuel, environment

Rape games played at SA schools

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:22:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I am appalled to read this; one could look at this as an evolved form of cops and robbers.

Clip Source: www.mg.co.za

Games such as "hit me, hit me" and "rape me, rape me", where schoolchildren chase each other and then pretend to hit or rape each other, are being played at South African schools, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said in a report on school-based violence

"This game demonstrates the extent and level ... [that the] brutalisation of the youth has reached and how endemic sexual violence has become in South Africa

During public hearings, on which the report is based, the SAHRC heard from NGO Community Action toward a Safe Environment that games such as these indicate how violence has become part of children's identities.

"Just over two-fifths [41,1%] of the young people interviewed had been victims of some form of crime,"

The CJCP also found that toilets are an area of the school feared most by pupils.

"Research indicates that learners perceive school toilets as the least safe areas, as are grounds and playing fields,

These areas are a haven for bullies,

Tags: news, sex, education, school