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Biofuels Food Environment | Energy Co2 | Allianz Knowledge
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Global Warming: What to Believe?
This winter some parts of the world are freezing in record cold conditions. Is this really what global warming looks like?
Global Warming: What to Believe?
This winter some parts of the world are freezing in record cold conditions. Is this really what global warming looks like?
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Basel III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basel III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "BASEL III (sometimes 'Basel 3') refers to a new update to the Basel Accords that is under development. The term appeared in the literature as early as 2005 [1] and is now in common usage[2][3] anticipating this next revision to the Basel Accords. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) itself began referring to this new international regulatory framework for banks as 'Basel III' in September 2010.
* The draft Basel III regulations include:
o 'tighter definitions of Tier 1 capital; banks must hold 4.5% by January 2015, then a further 2.5%, totalling 7%.[4]
o the introduction of a leverage ratio,
o a framework for counter-cyclical capital buffers,
o measures to limit counterparty credit risk,
o and short and medium-term quantitative liquidity ratios.'[5]
Professionals and officers with Basel II knowledge and experience will be required to lead the new Basel III projects, and they have started studying the differences from the Basel II framework [6]
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* The draft Basel III regulations include:
o 'tighter definitions of Tier 1 capital; banks must hold 4.5% by January 2015, then a further 2.5%, totalling 7%.[4]
o the introduction of a leverage ratio,
o a framework for counter-cyclical capital buffers,
o measures to limit counterparty credit risk,
o and short and medium-term quantitative liquidity ratios.'[5]
Professionals and officers with Basel II knowledge and experience will be required to lead the new Basel III projects, and they have started studying the differences from the Basel II framework [6]
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Mifos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mifos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Mifos is an initiative of the Grameen Foundation [1] and the financial software that it produces for the microfinance industry. The software provides key functionality for microfinance institutions: client management, portfolio management, loan repayment tracking, fee and savings transactions, and reporting [2]. (The name 'Mifos' originally came from an acronym ''Micro Finance Open Source', but is now used as the name, rather than an acronym.)
Mifos earns high ratings on CGAP Software Listings [3]
Mifos won Duke's Choice Award 2009 for 'Java Technology for the Open Source Community' [4]
Mifos participated in Google Summer Of Code 2009[5] and 2010 [6]
IBM Partners With Grameen Foundation to Expand Its Open Source Microfinance Banking Platform and Help Eradicate Poverty[7]
Grameen Foundation and ThoughtWorks Partner to Extend Microfinance Technology Platform to Global Communities[8]
Grameen Microfinance Open Source - Corporate Citizenship Report 2007[9]
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Mifos earns high ratings on CGAP Software Listings [3]
Mifos won Duke's Choice Award 2009 for 'Java Technology for the Open Source Community' [4]
Mifos participated in Google Summer Of Code 2009[5] and 2010 [6]
IBM Partners With Grameen Foundation to Expand Its Open Source Microfinance Banking Platform and Help Eradicate Poverty[7]
Grameen Foundation and ThoughtWorks Partner to Extend Microfinance Technology Platform to Global Communities[8]
Grameen Microfinance Open Source - Corporate Citizenship Report 2007[9]
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CGAP>Overview
CGAP>Overview: "The following software products have been reviewed by CGAP in 2009-2010. All reviews are available in English. Those with one * are also available in Spanish and those with ** are also available in French.
* Abacus by Fern Software
* ADBanking by Aquadev **
* Bankers Realm by Craft Silicon
* Cobis by CobisCorp *
* Conexus by AVMEI *
* Cubis by Fern Software
* Emortelle (CUMIS Plus v8) by MicroSoftware Designs
* Delphix by Sathguru / Basix
* Finance Solutions by Sigma Data & Computers **
* Kredits by Technical Development Solutions */**
* Loan Performer by Crystal Clear Software */**
* MBWin by FAO-GTZ MicroBanker Project *
* MFASYS by Snowwood
* MFResolve by Gradatim
* Microfina by MediaSoft **
* Mifos by Grameen * / **
* Octopus by OCTO Technology */**
* OMNIEnterprise by Infrasoft Technologies *
* Orbit by Neptune **
* Perfect by CAGECFI **
* SAF by SYSDE */**
* SIEM by MFSI */**
* SIM.Net by FUNDAMICRO *
* Southtech Ascend by Southtech Limited
* Topaz by Top Systems *
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* Abacus by Fern Software
* ADBanking by Aquadev **
* Bankers Realm by Craft Silicon
* Cobis by CobisCorp *
* Conexus by AVMEI *
* Cubis by Fern Software
* Emortelle (CUMIS Plus v8) by MicroSoftware Designs
* Delphix by Sathguru / Basix
* Finance Solutions by Sigma Data & Computers **
* Kredits by Technical Development Solutions */**
* Loan Performer by Crystal Clear Software */**
* MBWin by FAO-GTZ MicroBanker Project *
* MFASYS by Snowwood
* MFResolve by Gradatim
* Microfina by MediaSoft **
* Mifos by Grameen * / **
* Octopus by OCTO Technology */**
* OMNIEnterprise by Infrasoft Technologies *
* Orbit by Neptune **
* Perfect by CAGECFI **
* SAF by SYSDE */**
* SIEM by MFSI */**
* SIM.Net by FUNDAMICRO *
* Southtech Ascend by Southtech Limited
* Topaz by Top Systems *
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
ScienceBlogs : The ScienceBlogs Newsletter
ScienceBlogs : The ScienceBlogs Newsletter: "Synthetic Biology
Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order.
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Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Project 10 to the 100
Project 10 to the 100
We are pleased to announce the winners of Google’s Project 10100.
Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted over 150,000 ideas. From that group, we narrowed it to the final 16 ideas for public vote.
The following five ideas received the most votes and are the winners of Project 10100. Over the past 12 months, we have reviewed concrete proposals to tackle these ideas. We are pleased to give a total of $10 million to five inspiring organizations working on solutions to each of these global challenges:
We are pleased to announce the winners of Google’s Project 10100.
Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted over 150,000 ideas. From that group, we narrowed it to the final 16 ideas for public vote.
The following five ideas received the most votes and are the winners of Project 10100. Over the past 12 months, we have reviewed concrete proposals to tackle these ideas. We are pleased to give a total of $10 million to five inspiring organizations working on solutions to each of these global challenges:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The fourteenth session of the AWG-KP and the twelfth session of the AWG-LCA will take place from Monday, 4 to Saturday, 9 October 2010 at the Tianjin Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center (MJCEC), Tianjin, China.
The above-mentioned sessions will be preceded by preparatory meetings of the Group of 77 and China, the African Group, the small islands developing States and the least developed countries from Tuesday, 28 September to Sunday, 3 October 2010.
The fourteenth session of the AWG-KP and the twelfth session of the AWG-LCA will take place from Monday, 4 to Saturday, 9 October 2010 at the Tianjin Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center (MJCEC), Tianjin, China.
The above-mentioned sessions will be preceded by preparatory meetings of the Group of 77 and China, the African Group, the small islands developing States and the least developed countries from Tuesday, 28 September to Sunday, 3 October 2010.
Friday, September 24, 2010
National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com
National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com
Freshwater Crisis
By 2050 a third of the people on Earth may lack a clean, secure source of water. Learn more about challenges and solutions.
Freshwater Crisis
By 2050 a third of the people on Earth may lack a clean, secure source of water. Learn more about challenges and solutions.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Business - A journey of 1,300 km and 1.36 million trees for the Prius - INQUIRER.net
Business - A journey of 1,300 km and 1.36 million trees for the Prius - INQUIRER.net
A journey of 1,300 km and 1.36 million trees for the Prius
By Tessa Salazar
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 22:49:00 09/07/2010
Filed Under: Road Transport, Transport, Environmental Issues
CAN THE words “cars” and “environmentalism” coexist in one article?
We’ll sure give it a try. But we can’t blame the skeptics for raising their eyebrows on this, what with the accepted notion that cars—despite the modern conveniences they bring—have greatly contributed to the destruction of ecosystems. Hundreds of millions of these metal beasts in all forms, shapes and sizes, with their constant craving for fossil fuels and their climate change-inducing byproducts, have altered the complexion of this planet.
When the world’s number one carmaker registers a significant blip in the environment radar, right in this country, Inquirer Motoring can’t help but take notice; even if it happens way up in the far North in the Cagayan Valley.
It’s not just one blip. For the past three years, Toyota Motor Corp’s reforestation project in Peñablanca, on the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountain range in Cagayan Valley 24 kms from Tuguegarao City, has been slowly restoring the forest’s heartbeat.
The carmaker is now in the exact halfway point of the six-year, 2,500-hectare Philippine Peñablanca Sustainable Reforestation Project, which now enters the second phase of its $3 million project. The fund is the biggest an automotive company has invested in a reforestation project in the country, and Toyota’s second biggest reforestation project in the world after a similar project in Hebel Province in China.
The reforestation project has counted up to 1,360,000 trees planted in 1,772 hectares during phase 1 from September 2007 to July 2010. These trees-narra, molave, bignai, kalumpit, tindalo, dapdap, tuai, hauili, tibbig and alibangbang-are indigenous to the area.
For phase 2 of the project which runs from September 2010 to 2013, the project will target the rehabilitation of another 728 hectares of degraded lands through reforestation, enrichment planting and agro-forestry.
To make the project sustainable for the local communities, and to veer them away from their destructive slash-and-burn farming techniques that caused the deforestation in the first place, the reforestation has focused on planting 40,000 mango trees (which now stand at a robust 3.5 meters high) and over 12,000 assorted fruit trees like citrus, coffee, cacao, langka, and 300,000 fuel wood species like ipil-ipil, anchoan and kakawate. In time, the communities can already literally start harvesting the fruits of their labors.
Even before the harvest, the reforestation has bestowed considerable benefits on those communities actively involved in the project. In the second year of the project, the average income of the 725 project beneficiary families ranged from P23,530 to P113,600 depending on their participation in different activities such as plantation establishments, seedling production, paid labor in the nurseries, protection activities and fireline establishments.
And as what Conservation International Philippines, Toyota’s project implementing partner, showed, an additional P12,000 average annual income per household for mango harvests may be expected starting as early as the fifth year of the project.
It wouldn’t be a surprise why the Japanese chose Peñablanca as one of its biggest environmental projects. The Peñablanca forest is home for up to 178 species of flora and fauna (birds, reptiles, bats and owls), including the endangered Philippine Eagle, and is the site to numerous natural attractions such as the more than 200 caves (including the ancient Callao Caves where a chapel has been built inside its cavernous mouth) and pristine river systems. The Peñablanca forest occupies 102,782 hectares of the northern region of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range in Peñablanca town. One of the Philippines’ last remaining old growth and mossy forest stands, the forest is where the rivers, which supply potable water to Tuguegarao City and irrigation to local farmers, originate.
When we first visited the Peñablanca Sustainable Reforestation Project in September last year, Conservation International’s Ed Angadol, protected area associate of the Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor of Conservation International Philippines, explained that even at the early stages, the project’s young forest has helped absorb excess rainwater and trapped soil sediments, preventing soil runoff and erosion (the prerequisite to landslides).
In that visit, Inquirer Motoring brought along the Prius to Tuguegarao City.
The ‘surprised’ Japanese
Last weekend, at the kickoff of the second phase of the Peñablanca Sustainable Reforestation Project, Inquirer Motoring was again invited. Once more, the hybrid gasoline-electric Prius was called into service to transport us from Manila to Tuguegarao. This time, however, we decided that it was high time that the car that symbolizes the carmaker’s vision for a sustainable motoring future meet the “elements” first-hand-which meant a little off-roading for this city driving designed sedan from Tuguegarao to Sitio Lalongan, Barangay Sisim, Penablanca, Cagayan.
Needless to say, the Japanese executives who visited the site (who included Toyota Motor Corp’s Nobuyori Kodaira, senior managing director; Toshinori Ogure, general manager for Biotechnology and Afforestation Division; and Toyota Motor Philippines Corp’s president Michinobu Sugata) were delightfully surprised to see the Prius in attendance, along with other Innovas, Fortuners and Hi-Aces that shuttled select guests, local and Japanese media.
At the press conference in Makati Shangrila on Friday, Yukitoshi Funo, executive vice president of TMC in Japan, told local and Japanese press that the project was awarded a gold rating last December with a third-party validation from the Rainforest Alliance under the standards of project scheme and design set by the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Project Design Standards Alliance.
Difficult road for the Prius
We couldn’t help but compare our 1,300-km trip from Manila to Tuguegarao and back on a Prius with the conservation efforts of not only Toyota and Conservation International but of all the rest of those fighting for the sustainability of the ecology of the planet.
The route from Manila to Tuguegarao via Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya and Isabela provinces comprised of 500 kms and 17 hours of bad roads and stormy Friday night and Saturday dawn weather, which forced us to take the return trip to Manila via the longer but better paved route via the picturesque Cagayan and Ilocos Norte and Sur provinces along the western coast of northern Luzon—a good 800 kms and relatively brighter Sunday weather. The return trip, though longer, took only just as much time and was a virtual feast for the eyes. Along the way, we even passed another reforestation project in in Nassiping, Cagayan. While the Prius quietly negotiated the well-maintained winding roads hugging the northern coastal mountain passes of Ilocos Norte, we were awed by the lush vegetation along the Kalbario-Patapat Natural Park in Sta Praxedes in Ilocos Norte, with peaks touching 2000 feet above sea level. A grounded ship, gathering rust, lay seemingly an arm’s length away from the Patapat Bridge, which made us think, quite pensively, did the wreck leak some bunker fuel?
The heavy Prius held its own against the forces of momentum on the mostly zig-zag roads of the North, considering that it was designed not as a sports car. We actually asked a lot from the Prius this weekend—making it go off-road in Peñablanca when it actually had low ground clearance and unsuitable tires, and forcing it to hold on to its side of the road on relatively high-speed cornering on mountain passes. Admirably, the sedan did what it had to under the circumstances.
Interestingly, the route back to Manila provided us with a couple of environment-themed sights, such as the Bangui Wind Farm—which harnesses wind power to generate electricity using the 15 or so gigantic white windmills situated along the windy coast to selected communities in Bangui town in Ilocos Norte, and the Cape Bojeador lighthouse which uses solar power to charge its batteries during the day, which in turn powers the lighthouse at night.
On Power Mode (which we used for most of the trip), the Prius hauled metal like a 2.4-liter sedan in the body of a 1.8-liter Altis. Its seat cushion, scuff plates and other interior components are made of ecological plastic. Its dashboard is dominated by green indicators, the better to remind its occupants of its environmental leanings. The seamless interplay between the electric and gasoline engine is managed by the breakthrough Hybrid Synergy Drive and its intelligent energy management system. In terms of amenities, there are plenty of compartments: two glove compartments, another two compartments in the middle, six cupholders, four cubby holes and one huge trunk. Perhaps these spaces encourage Prius owners and occupants to keep their trash in the car instead of throwing them out somewhere.
The Prius, however, did what it was designed to do, save on fuel and help save the environment in the process. The gasoline-electric combination showed an interesting pattern in our thousand-kilometer trip: The more we actually went slower, the less fuel it consumed. The fuel consumption reading was 24 kilometers to a liter (combined highway and city) when we were running at an average speed of 38 kph. Then, when our average speed went up to 45 at the highways, the fuel consumption went down to 16 km/liter and 12.416 km/liter when we hit the 65 kph average.
Using the cruise controls along the 130-km stretch of SCTex (Tarlac to Mabalacat) and NLEX at a set speed of 100 kph and at Eco Mode, the fuel consumption improved to 18 km/liter.
Notwithstanding the rut Toyota’s battered image is in at its North American front, its Prius may as well represent a constant that guides it in its future as a carmaker, a future planned with some human warmth in this cold-hearted business of automobile manufacturing. Toyota, after all, is human. Its fate, like everyone else’s, begins and ends on the earth.
A journey of 1,300 km and 1.36 million trees for the Prius
By Tessa Salazar
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 22:49:00 09/07/2010
Filed Under: Road Transport, Transport, Environmental Issues
CAN THE words “cars” and “environmentalism” coexist in one article?
We’ll sure give it a try. But we can’t blame the skeptics for raising their eyebrows on this, what with the accepted notion that cars—despite the modern conveniences they bring—have greatly contributed to the destruction of ecosystems. Hundreds of millions of these metal beasts in all forms, shapes and sizes, with their constant craving for fossil fuels and their climate change-inducing byproducts, have altered the complexion of this planet.
When the world’s number one carmaker registers a significant blip in the environment radar, right in this country, Inquirer Motoring can’t help but take notice; even if it happens way up in the far North in the Cagayan Valley.
It’s not just one blip. For the past three years, Toyota Motor Corp’s reforestation project in Peñablanca, on the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountain range in Cagayan Valley 24 kms from Tuguegarao City, has been slowly restoring the forest’s heartbeat.
The carmaker is now in the exact halfway point of the six-year, 2,500-hectare Philippine Peñablanca Sustainable Reforestation Project, which now enters the second phase of its $3 million project. The fund is the biggest an automotive company has invested in a reforestation project in the country, and Toyota’s second biggest reforestation project in the world after a similar project in Hebel Province in China.
The reforestation project has counted up to 1,360,000 trees planted in 1,772 hectares during phase 1 from September 2007 to July 2010. These trees-narra, molave, bignai, kalumpit, tindalo, dapdap, tuai, hauili, tibbig and alibangbang-are indigenous to the area.
For phase 2 of the project which runs from September 2010 to 2013, the project will target the rehabilitation of another 728 hectares of degraded lands through reforestation, enrichment planting and agro-forestry.
To make the project sustainable for the local communities, and to veer them away from their destructive slash-and-burn farming techniques that caused the deforestation in the first place, the reforestation has focused on planting 40,000 mango trees (which now stand at a robust 3.5 meters high) and over 12,000 assorted fruit trees like citrus, coffee, cacao, langka, and 300,000 fuel wood species like ipil-ipil, anchoan and kakawate. In time, the communities can already literally start harvesting the fruits of their labors.
Even before the harvest, the reforestation has bestowed considerable benefits on those communities actively involved in the project. In the second year of the project, the average income of the 725 project beneficiary families ranged from P23,530 to P113,600 depending on their participation in different activities such as plantation establishments, seedling production, paid labor in the nurseries, protection activities and fireline establishments.
And as what Conservation International Philippines, Toyota’s project implementing partner, showed, an additional P12,000 average annual income per household for mango harvests may be expected starting as early as the fifth year of the project.
It wouldn’t be a surprise why the Japanese chose Peñablanca as one of its biggest environmental projects. The Peñablanca forest is home for up to 178 species of flora and fauna (birds, reptiles, bats and owls), including the endangered Philippine Eagle, and is the site to numerous natural attractions such as the more than 200 caves (including the ancient Callao Caves where a chapel has been built inside its cavernous mouth) and pristine river systems. The Peñablanca forest occupies 102,782 hectares of the northern region of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range in Peñablanca town. One of the Philippines’ last remaining old growth and mossy forest stands, the forest is where the rivers, which supply potable water to Tuguegarao City and irrigation to local farmers, originate.
When we first visited the Peñablanca Sustainable Reforestation Project in September last year, Conservation International’s Ed Angadol, protected area associate of the Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor of Conservation International Philippines, explained that even at the early stages, the project’s young forest has helped absorb excess rainwater and trapped soil sediments, preventing soil runoff and erosion (the prerequisite to landslides).
In that visit, Inquirer Motoring brought along the Prius to Tuguegarao City.
The ‘surprised’ Japanese
Last weekend, at the kickoff of the second phase of the Peñablanca Sustainable Reforestation Project, Inquirer Motoring was again invited. Once more, the hybrid gasoline-electric Prius was called into service to transport us from Manila to Tuguegarao. This time, however, we decided that it was high time that the car that symbolizes the carmaker’s vision for a sustainable motoring future meet the “elements” first-hand-which meant a little off-roading for this city driving designed sedan from Tuguegarao to Sitio Lalongan, Barangay Sisim, Penablanca, Cagayan.
Needless to say, the Japanese executives who visited the site (who included Toyota Motor Corp’s Nobuyori Kodaira, senior managing director; Toshinori Ogure, general manager for Biotechnology and Afforestation Division; and Toyota Motor Philippines Corp’s president Michinobu Sugata) were delightfully surprised to see the Prius in attendance, along with other Innovas, Fortuners and Hi-Aces that shuttled select guests, local and Japanese media.
At the press conference in Makati Shangrila on Friday, Yukitoshi Funo, executive vice president of TMC in Japan, told local and Japanese press that the project was awarded a gold rating last December with a third-party validation from the Rainforest Alliance under the standards of project scheme and design set by the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Project Design Standards Alliance.
Difficult road for the Prius
We couldn’t help but compare our 1,300-km trip from Manila to Tuguegarao and back on a Prius with the conservation efforts of not only Toyota and Conservation International but of all the rest of those fighting for the sustainability of the ecology of the planet.
The route from Manila to Tuguegarao via Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya and Isabela provinces comprised of 500 kms and 17 hours of bad roads and stormy Friday night and Saturday dawn weather, which forced us to take the return trip to Manila via the longer but better paved route via the picturesque Cagayan and Ilocos Norte and Sur provinces along the western coast of northern Luzon—a good 800 kms and relatively brighter Sunday weather. The return trip, though longer, took only just as much time and was a virtual feast for the eyes. Along the way, we even passed another reforestation project in in Nassiping, Cagayan. While the Prius quietly negotiated the well-maintained winding roads hugging the northern coastal mountain passes of Ilocos Norte, we were awed by the lush vegetation along the Kalbario-Patapat Natural Park in Sta Praxedes in Ilocos Norte, with peaks touching 2000 feet above sea level. A grounded ship, gathering rust, lay seemingly an arm’s length away from the Patapat Bridge, which made us think, quite pensively, did the wreck leak some bunker fuel?
The heavy Prius held its own against the forces of momentum on the mostly zig-zag roads of the North, considering that it was designed not as a sports car. We actually asked a lot from the Prius this weekend—making it go off-road in Peñablanca when it actually had low ground clearance and unsuitable tires, and forcing it to hold on to its side of the road on relatively high-speed cornering on mountain passes. Admirably, the sedan did what it had to under the circumstances.
Interestingly, the route back to Manila provided us with a couple of environment-themed sights, such as the Bangui Wind Farm—which harnesses wind power to generate electricity using the 15 or so gigantic white windmills situated along the windy coast to selected communities in Bangui town in Ilocos Norte, and the Cape Bojeador lighthouse which uses solar power to charge its batteries during the day, which in turn powers the lighthouse at night.
On Power Mode (which we used for most of the trip), the Prius hauled metal like a 2.4-liter sedan in the body of a 1.8-liter Altis. Its seat cushion, scuff plates and other interior components are made of ecological plastic. Its dashboard is dominated by green indicators, the better to remind its occupants of its environmental leanings. The seamless interplay between the electric and gasoline engine is managed by the breakthrough Hybrid Synergy Drive and its intelligent energy management system. In terms of amenities, there are plenty of compartments: two glove compartments, another two compartments in the middle, six cupholders, four cubby holes and one huge trunk. Perhaps these spaces encourage Prius owners and occupants to keep their trash in the car instead of throwing them out somewhere.
The Prius, however, did what it was designed to do, save on fuel and help save the environment in the process. The gasoline-electric combination showed an interesting pattern in our thousand-kilometer trip: The more we actually went slower, the less fuel it consumed. The fuel consumption reading was 24 kilometers to a liter (combined highway and city) when we were running at an average speed of 38 kph. Then, when our average speed went up to 45 at the highways, the fuel consumption went down to 16 km/liter and 12.416 km/liter when we hit the 65 kph average.
Using the cruise controls along the 130-km stretch of SCTex (Tarlac to Mabalacat) and NLEX at a set speed of 100 kph and at Eco Mode, the fuel consumption improved to 18 km/liter.
Notwithstanding the rut Toyota’s battered image is in at its North American front, its Prius may as well represent a constant that guides it in its future as a carmaker, a future planned with some human warmth in this cold-hearted business of automobile manufacturing. Toyota, after all, is human. Its fate, like everyone else’s, begins and ends on the earth.
UN-Water at World Water Week 2010
UN-Water at World Water Week 2010
© J.Morgan
The 2010 World Water Week will take place from September 5-11 at Stockholm and once again UN-Water will have an ever-growing presence throughout the week, with its organization and participation in several key seminars, and also at its booth which will contain UN-Water materials and publications, and others by UN-Water members and partners. The theme for 2010 will be "The Water Quality Challenge – Prevention, Wise Use and Abatement". It will be the second year under the niche “Water: Responding to Global Changes”.
Full rundown of UN-Water Events at World Water Week o
World Water Week 2010 Website o
General Assembly declares access to clean water and sanitation is a human right
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Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the General Assembly declared today, voicing deep concern that almost 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water. The text of the resolution expresses deep concern that an estimated 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and a total of more than 2.6 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation. Studies also indicate about 1.5 million children under the age of five die each year and 443 million school days are lost because of water- and sanitation-related diseases.
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Vacancy Announcement: Communications Officer UN World Water Assessment Programme
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UN World Water Assessment Programme, located in Perugia, Italy, is advertising for the position of Communications Officer. Deadline for applications is 14 September 2010.
View / Download the vacancy announcement (PDF 196 KB)o
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Water for sustainable urban human settlements
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WWAP reportWWAP and UN-Habitat have released a joint Briefing Note 'Water for sustainable urban human settlements' highlighting critical water challenges related to today's unprecedented urban expansion – from providing access to basic services to ensuring environmental and human security. The paper, produced 16 June 2010, provides urban mayors, leaders and high-level decision makers with concrete policy options to meet these challenges, protect against potential water-related disasters and ensure the development of sustainable urban settlements.
Read more
View / Download the Brief
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UN-Water GLAAS Report 2010 released
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GLAAS The Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) is a UN-Water initiative implemented by the World Health Organization (WHO). The objective of UN-Water GLAAS is to provide policy makers at all levels with a reliable, easily accessible, comprehensive and global analysis of the evidence to make informed decisions in sanitation and drinking-water.
Read more
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JMP Report: progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2010
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New WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report titled: "Progress on Sanitation and Drinking- Water: 2010 Update Report".
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Read DFID press-release o
Sanitation and Water for All o
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UN-Water at the IWA Congress and Exhibition
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Water for Life Decade logoUN-Water will also be present at the forthcoming IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition, to be held in Montréal, Canada from 19–24 September 2010. As well as its stand, UN-Water is also organizing, with the support of the GWOPA and UNW-DPAC, a development corner dialogue session on “Sharing social tools: building a water operators’ community of practice” (21 September). There will be a discussion of best practices in communication and social awareness campaigns of water operators.
More on UN-Water participation
at the IWA Congress and Exhibition o
IWA World Water Congress
and Exhibition Website o
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Contribute to the
UN World Water Development Report
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In an ongoing effort to make the United Nations World Water Development Report more relevant to all of its target audiences, the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) is carrying out regular consultations with stakeholders from all fields to identify specific needs or issues and emerging challenge areas.
WWAP have now opened registration to anyone who may be interested in the consultation process. Those who register will be invited to participate in short, targeted surveys during preparation of the fourth edition of the World Water Development Report.
Register for the Policy Consultations o
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Climate change adaptation
UN-Water policy brief
.
WWAP reportWater is the primary medium through whichclimate change influences Earth’s ecosystem and thus the livelihood and well-being of societies. Higher temperatures and changes in extreme weather conditions are projected to affect availability and distribution of rainfall, snowmelt, river flows and groundwater, and further deteriorate water quality. Adaptation to climate change is urgent. Water plays a pivotal role in it, but the political world has yet to recognize this notion.
View / Download the Policy Brief o
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New UNEP / UN-Habitat Report
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“Sick water? The central role of wastewater management in sustainable development” not only identifies the threats to human and ecological health and the consequences of inaction, but also presents opportunities, where appropriate policy and management responses over the short and longer term can trigger employment, support livelihoods, boost public and ecosystem health and contribute to more intelligent water management.
Find out more about the Report
View / Download the Report
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UN Water Donors
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A Guide to UN-Water
4-page colour brochure explains the key areas and objectives of UN-Water.
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Spanish (388 UN-Water Brochure
Factsheet on UN-Water Reports
All of UN-Water's regular reports are outlined in this 2 page factsheet
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The 2010 World Water Week will take place from September 5-11 at Stockholm and once again UN-Water will have an ever-growing presence throughout the week, with its organization and participation in several key seminars, and also at its booth which will contain UN-Water materials and publications, and others by UN-Water members and partners. The theme for 2010 will be "The Water Quality Challenge – Prevention, Wise Use and Abatement". It will be the second year under the niche “Water: Responding to Global Changes”.
Full rundown of UN-Water Events at World Water Week o
World Water Week 2010 Website o
General Assembly declares access to clean water and sanitation is a human right
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Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the General Assembly declared today, voicing deep concern that almost 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water. The text of the resolution expresses deep concern that an estimated 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and a total of more than 2.6 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation. Studies also indicate about 1.5 million children under the age of five die each year and 443 million school days are lost because of water- and sanitation-related diseases.
Read the full article o
More on drinking water and sanitation o
World Water Day 2010 website o
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Vacancy Announcement: Communications Officer UN World Water Assessment Programme
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UN World Water Assessment Programme, located in Perugia, Italy, is advertising for the position of Communications Officer. Deadline for applications is 14 September 2010.
View / Download the vacancy announcement (PDF 196 KB)o
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Water for sustainable urban human settlements
.
WWAP reportWWAP and UN-Habitat have released a joint Briefing Note 'Water for sustainable urban human settlements' highlighting critical water challenges related to today's unprecedented urban expansion – from providing access to basic services to ensuring environmental and human security. The paper, produced 16 June 2010, provides urban mayors, leaders and high-level decision makers with concrete policy options to meet these challenges, protect against potential water-related disasters and ensure the development of sustainable urban settlements.
Read more
View / Download the Brief
.
UN-Water GLAAS Report 2010 released
.
GLAAS The Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) is a UN-Water initiative implemented by the World Health Organization (WHO). The objective of UN-Water GLAAS is to provide policy makers at all levels with a reliable, easily accessible, comprehensive and global analysis of the evidence to make informed decisions in sanitation and drinking-water.
Read more
.
JMP Report: progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2010
.
New WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report titled: "Progress on Sanitation and Drinking- Water: 2010 Update Report".
Read more
Read DFID press-release o
Sanitation and Water for All o
.
UN-Water at the IWA Congress and Exhibition
.
Water for Life Decade logoUN-Water will also be present at the forthcoming IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition, to be held in Montréal, Canada from 19–24 September 2010. As well as its stand, UN-Water is also organizing, with the support of the GWOPA and UNW-DPAC, a development corner dialogue session on “Sharing social tools: building a water operators’ community of practice” (21 September). There will be a discussion of best practices in communication and social awareness campaigns of water operators.
More on UN-Water participation
at the IWA Congress and Exhibition o
IWA World Water Congress
and Exhibition Website o
.
Contribute to the
UN World Water Development Report
.
In an ongoing effort to make the United Nations World Water Development Report more relevant to all of its target audiences, the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) is carrying out regular consultations with stakeholders from all fields to identify specific needs or issues and emerging challenge areas.
WWAP have now opened registration to anyone who may be interested in the consultation process. Those who register will be invited to participate in short, targeted surveys during preparation of the fourth edition of the World Water Development Report.
Register for the Policy Consultations o
.
Climate change adaptation
UN-Water policy brief
.
WWAP reportWater is the primary medium through whichclimate change influences Earth’s ecosystem and thus the livelihood and well-being of societies. Higher temperatures and changes in extreme weather conditions are projected to affect availability and distribution of rainfall, snowmelt, river flows and groundwater, and further deteriorate water quality. Adaptation to climate change is urgent. Water plays a pivotal role in it, but the political world has yet to recognize this notion.
View / Download the Policy Brief o
.
New UNEP / UN-Habitat Report
.
“Sick water? The central role of wastewater management in sustainable development” not only identifies the threats to human and ecological health and the consequences of inaction, but also presents opportunities, where appropriate policy and management responses over the short and longer term can trigger employment, support livelihoods, boost public and ecosystem health and contribute to more intelligent water management.
Find out more about the Report
View / Download the Report
.
about
discover unwater
UN Water Donors
secure
A Guide to UN-Water
4-page colour brochure explains the key areas and objectives of UN-Water.
View / Download brochure (PDF file) in:
Arabic (1.9 MB)
Chinese (2.3 MB)
English (496 KB)
French (404 KB)
Russian (1.6 MB)
Spanish (388 UN-Water Brochure
Factsheet on UN-Water Reports
All of UN-Water's regular reports are outlined in this 2 page factsheet
View / Download the factsheet (PDF 880 KB)UN-Water Reports
Monday, September 06, 2010
Healing Music Radio - Welcome
Continuous Relaxing Broadcast
This webstation diffuse a program carried out according to the principles of the music therapy. The musical sequences are intended to calm, to relieved and finally to bring back to the ordinary but positive conscience.
The vocation of these pages is to give information on the techniques of greater comfort and more particularly the techniques related to the use of the music. The writers of these data work on a purely voluntary basis. They do not have absolutely the claim to be exhaustive nor to claim with an unspecified officiality. They are based in France, in Belgium....
Michel Pépé - Immensité
This webstation diffuse a program carried out according to the principles of the music therapy. The musical sequences are intended to calm, to relieved and finally to bring back to the ordinary but positive conscience.
The vocation of these pages is to give information on the techniques of greater comfort and more particularly the techniques related to the use of the music. The writers of these data work on a purely voluntary basis. They do not have absolutely the claim to be exhaustive nor to claim with an unspecified officiality. They are based in France, in Belgium....
Michel Pépé - Immensité
Friday, September 03, 2010
UNEP - LIST OF PLANTED TREES (PHILIPPINES)
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UNEP Billion Tree Campaign
The Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign is a worldwide tree planting initiative facilitated by the United Nations Environment Programme. People, communities, businesses, industry, civil society organizations and governments are encouraged to enter tree planting pledges on-line . The campaign strongly encourages the planting of indigenous trees and trees that are appropriate to the local environment.
By the end of 2009, more than 7.4 billion trees had been planted under this campaign – far in excess of the year-end target of 7 billion – by participants in 170 countries. With this success continuing into 2010, the Billion Tree Campaign will make a substantial contribution to the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, raising awareness of the importance of biodiversity for our well-being. Trees play a crucial role as fundamental components of the biodiversity that forms the foundation of the living networks and systems that provide us all with health, wealth, food, fuel and vital ecosystem services our lives depend on. They help provide breathable air, drinkable water, fertile soils and a stable climate. The billions of trees planted by the collective efforts of participants of the Billion Tree Campaign from all parts of society will contribute to biodiversity across the planet.
Ants Repay Acacia Hospitality by Repelling Elephants
Ants Repay Acacia Hospitality by Repelling Elephants
In a classic case of David versus Goliath, a certain type of ants has recently been shown capable of deterring elephants from eating Acacia drepanolobium trees.
At first, very few people believe that the small insects can have any possible influence on a creature countless times larger than they are. However, this indeed appears to be the case.
According to a group of researchers, it would appear that ants purposefully swarm inside the nostrils and trunk of elephants, biting and nibbling around until the aggressor gives up trying to eat the plant.
This leads to the creation of a very peculiar sight in the savanna, where most of the vegetation is exterminated when elephants roll by. The only trees that remain are Acacia drepanolobium.
Experts say that this happens because the vegetation has developed a close and personal relationship with ants, creating a symbiosis that is mutually beneficial, LiveScience reports.
While the trees provide the ants with shelter and sweet nectar, the ant colonies make sure that no predator destroys the plant and its leafs.
Whenever elephants approach, the ants begin swarming on their bodies, and then head directly for the most sensitive parts of the beast's snout. While the trunk is harsh on the outside, it is very sensitive on the inside.
It contains a lot of nerve endings, which are very sensitive to ant bites. As such, no elephant can withstand the torture for too long, and prefer to walk away than be subjected to such harsh treatment.
“Ants swarming onto an herbivore's face often tend to head for the sensitive parts such as the nostrils before hunkering down and taking a bite out of the offending animal,” expert Todd Palmer says.
“While the outside of an elephant's trunk is very tough, the inside of the trunk is very sensitive and full of” nerve endings,” explains the researcher, who is a professor of biology at the University of Florida.
“It seems that elephants simply do not like ants swarming up the insides of their trunks,” adds Palmer, who was also a researcher on the new study.
He conducted the research alongside University of Wyoming colleague Jacob Goheen. Details of the work appear in the latest issue of the esteemed scientific journal Current Biology.
“The ants protect the tree in exchange for both housing that the tree produces in the form of bulbous hollow thorns, as well as food in the form of a sugary nectar that is secreted at the base of the leaves,” explains Palmer.
“We found the elephants like to eat the 'ant plant' trees just as much as they like to eat their favorite tree species, and that when either tree species had ants on them, the elephants avoided those trees like a kid avoids broccoli," he concludes.
At first, very few people believe that the small insects can have any possible influence on a creature countless times larger than they are. However, this indeed appears to be the case.
According to a group of researchers, it would appear that ants purposefully swarm inside the nostrils and trunk of elephants, biting and nibbling around until the aggressor gives up trying to eat the plant.
This leads to the creation of a very peculiar sight in the savanna, where most of the vegetation is exterminated when elephants roll by. The only trees that remain are Acacia drepanolobium.
Experts say that this happens because the vegetation has developed a close and personal relationship with ants, creating a symbiosis that is mutually beneficial, LiveScience reports.
While the trees provide the ants with shelter and sweet nectar, the ant colonies make sure that no predator destroys the plant and its leafs.
Whenever elephants approach, the ants begin swarming on their bodies, and then head directly for the most sensitive parts of the beast's snout. While the trunk is harsh on the outside, it is very sensitive on the inside.
It contains a lot of nerve endings, which are very sensitive to ant bites. As such, no elephant can withstand the torture for too long, and prefer to walk away than be subjected to such harsh treatment.
“Ants swarming onto an herbivore's face often tend to head for the sensitive parts such as the nostrils before hunkering down and taking a bite out of the offending animal,” expert Todd Palmer says.
“While the outside of an elephant's trunk is very tough, the inside of the trunk is very sensitive and full of” nerve endings,” explains the researcher, who is a professor of biology at the University of Florida.
“It seems that elephants simply do not like ants swarming up the insides of their trunks,” adds Palmer, who was also a researcher on the new study.
He conducted the research alongside University of Wyoming colleague Jacob Goheen. Details of the work appear in the latest issue of the esteemed scientific journal Current Biology.
“The ants protect the tree in exchange for both housing that the tree produces in the form of bulbous hollow thorns, as well as food in the form of a sugary nectar that is secreted at the base of the leaves,” explains Palmer.
“We found the elephants like to eat the 'ant plant' trees just as much as they like to eat their favorite tree species, and that when either tree species had ants on them, the elephants avoided those trees like a kid avoids broccoli," he concludes.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Bee pastures may help pollinators prosper
Bee pastures may help pollinators prosper:
ScienceDaily (Aug. 4, 2010) — Beautiful wildflowers might someday be planted in 'bee pastures,' floral havens created as an efficient, practical, environmentally friendly, and economically sound way to produce successive generations of healthy young bees.
ScienceDaily (Aug. 4, 2010) — Beautiful wildflowers might someday be planted in 'bee pastures,' floral havens created as an efficient, practical, environmentally friendly, and economically sound way to produce successive generations of healthy young bees.
The pesticide-free pastures could be simple to establish, and -- at perhaps only a half-acre each -- easy to tend, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist James H. Cane. He's based at the Pollinating Insects Biology, Management, and Systematics Research Unit operated by USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Logan, Utah. ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency.
Bee pasturing isn't a new idea. But studies by Cane and his collaborators, conducted in a research greenhouse and at outdoor sites in Utah and California, are likely the most extensive to date.
Two bee businesses are already using the findings to propagate more bees.
The research indicates that species of pastured pollinators could include, for example, the blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria. This gentle bee helps with pollination tasks handled primarily by the nation's premier pollinator, the European honey bee, Apis mellifera. Cane estimates that, under good conditions, blue orchard bee populations could increase by as much as four- to fivefold a year in a well-designed, well-managed bee pasture.
Cane and colleagues have studied wildflowers that might be ideal for planting at bee pastures in California. In particular, the team was interested in early-flowering annuals that could help bolster populations of blue orchard bees needed to pollinate California's vast almond orchards.
The research, funded by ARS and the Modesto-based Almond Board of California, resulted in a first-ever list of five top-choice, bee-friendly wildflowers for tomorrow's bee pastures in almond-growing regions. These pasture-perfect native California plants are: Chinese houses (Collinsia heterophylla), California five-spot (Nemophila maculata), baby blue eyes (N. menziesii), lacy or tansy phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia), and California bluebell (P. campanularia).
Cane has presented results of his research to almond growers at workshops.
Read more about the research in the August 2010 issue of Agricultural Research magazine: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/aug10/bee0810.htm
Saturday, July 03, 2010
Awareness: AMAZING Moringa Olefeira "malunggay
AMAZING Moringa Olefeira "malunggay
Do you know that a cup of moringa oleifera contains the following:
3.1 g - protein
0.6 g - fiber
96 mg - calcium
29 mg - phosphorus
1.7mg - iron
2,820mg- carotene
0.07 mg- thiamine
0.14 mg- riboflavin
1.1 mg - niacin
53 mg - ascorbic acid/vit c
71% - antioxidant activity
45% - atocopherol (vit E)
3.1 g - protein
0.6 g - fiber
96 mg - calcium
29 mg - phosphorus
1.7mg - iron
2,820mg- carotene
0.07 mg- thiamine
0.14 mg- riboflavin
1.1 mg - niacin
53 mg - ascorbic acid/vit c
71% - antioxidant activity
45% - atocopherol (vit E)
IBIDS Database
IBIDS Database: "Title: Dietary patterns affecting prostate cancer: medical education.
Author: Ceber,-E; Cakr,-D
Citation: Turkiye-Klinikleri-tp-Bilimleri-Dergisi. 2009; 29(3): 733-739
Abstract: Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer. Studies show that prostate cancer is a preventable disease. The current studies suggest the role of dietary patterns in the prevention of prostate cancer. There are many epidemiological, clinical, case-control and prospective studies about dietary patterns and prostate cancer. These studies indicate that saturated fats, trans fatty acids, omega-6 fatty acids, meat, whole milk and dairy products, and calcium increase prostate cancer risk, whereas omega-9 fatty acids, omega-3 fatty acids, fruit and vegetables, lycopene, selenium, vitamins E and D, soya, pomegranate and green tea decrease the risk. Consumption of meat, trans fatty acids (margarine, fried foods) and whole dairy products (whole milk, cheese, yogurt, or others) should be reduced and high calcium intake should be avoided to reduce prostate cancer risk. On the other hand, consumption of vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts and radish), lycopene-containing foods (tomato and products), adequate amount of selenium (seafood, grains), vitamin E (vegetable oils, wheat germ, nuts, soyabeans, sweet potatoes, and avocado), green tea, soya (soyabeans, tofu, soy cheese, soya milk), and pomegranate juice is highly recommended. This paper reviews the associations of food and increased/decreased dietary risk factors for prostate cancer, and gives recommendations based on these associations.
Review References: None
Notes: None
Language: English
Publication Type: Journal-article
Keywords: None
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Author: Ceber,-E; Cakr,-D
Citation: Turkiye-Klinikleri-tp-Bilimleri-Dergisi. 2009; 29(3): 733-739
Abstract: Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer. Studies show that prostate cancer is a preventable disease. The current studies suggest the role of dietary patterns in the prevention of prostate cancer. There are many epidemiological, clinical, case-control and prospective studies about dietary patterns and prostate cancer. These studies indicate that saturated fats, trans fatty acids, omega-6 fatty acids, meat, whole milk and dairy products, and calcium increase prostate cancer risk, whereas omega-9 fatty acids, omega-3 fatty acids, fruit and vegetables, lycopene, selenium, vitamins E and D, soya, pomegranate and green tea decrease the risk. Consumption of meat, trans fatty acids (margarine, fried foods) and whole dairy products (whole milk, cheese, yogurt, or others) should be reduced and high calcium intake should be avoided to reduce prostate cancer risk. On the other hand, consumption of vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts and radish), lycopene-containing foods (tomato and products), adequate amount of selenium (seafood, grains), vitamin E (vegetable oils, wheat germ, nuts, soyabeans, sweet potatoes, and avocado), green tea, soya (soyabeans, tofu, soy cheese, soya milk), and pomegranate juice is highly recommended. This paper reviews the associations of food and increased/decreased dietary risk factors for prostate cancer, and gives recommendations based on these associations.
Review References: None
Notes: None
Language: English
Publication Type: Journal-article
Keywords: None
Permissions: Record courtesy of CABI.
URL: No URL associated with this record.
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Do low-income mobile phone users want mobile money?
Do low-income mobile phone users want mobile money?:
"Do low-income mobile phone users want mobile money?
by Kabir Kumar: Friday, November 20, 2009
Since the official launch of GCASH in early 2004, Globe Telecom’s subsidiary GXI set-up a number of initiatives to help them arrive at a strategy for mobile banking in the Philippines. As part of those efforts, CGAP and GXI partnered to roll-out GCASH in three predominantly rural and low-income provinces of Bohol, Palawan and Surigao. Our goal was to understand how to expand the reach of GXI’s agent network into smaller towns and how customers would use the service. I am writing to share briefly what we learned in terms of customer usage and preferences in the low-income provinces that we have been working in.
In 18 months, GXI signed up 120,000 new GCASH customers in three low income provinces (Bohol, Surigao del Norte and Palawan) and set-up 200 agents to service those customers (GXI has 1.1 million GCASH customers nationally with 3,000 agents). GXI reached over half of the registered base in the first three quarters of 2009 – roughly 72,000 new GCASH accounts. About 2,000 of those customers (under 3 percent of total) have been conducting one or more GCASH transactions a month. The average transaction size was very low at USD 30, reflecting GCASH’s appeal to those looking to transact at low values. In addition, a very small number of customers have used the wallet for storage. We found a small subset (6-7 customers) maintain a monthly running balance.
GXI found that their approach to marketing worked well because they let potential customers just try out the service extensively up front. Their marketing campaigns involved large musical concerts. On-foot sales agents were on hand to sign-up customers and train them on how to use the service. Musical performances would draw people in from surrounding towns and barangays and sales agents would approach people to trial the service. People would be allowed to try out multiple transactions as they discovered the service. GXI also used commission based sales agents (“roving” agents) to reach out to customers in the provinces at their homes. These agents were equipped to promote the SMS-based service as well as the new G-cash menu-based application.
GXI’s experience with an entirely text-based interface has been mixed. Our interviews with GCASH agents did not suggest that either the agents or the GCASH customers they serviced had a difficult time using a text-based service. Philippines is known as the texting capital of the world but we were working in provinces that were poorer and where literacy levels were lower than the national norm. What we found is true in most markets globally: younger people whose social lives involve being connected via cell phones and people with exposure to using computers are more comfortable using cell phones to begin with.
GCASH volumes have been low in these three provinces. There has been a lag between when people register and when they start actively using the service. We met an active user in Palawan who started using six months after registering for the service. She was receiving money from Manila.
There are a number of other factors for the low volume but the bottom line: GCASH as a remittance service was competing with existing well worn remittance providers, in particular the pawnshops.
There are a number of regionally dominant pawnshop chains that provide remittance services. Pawnshops got into remittance in part to deal with having a lot of cash at each of their locations. Pawnshop remittance products like ML Kwarta Padala and Express Pera Padala have 1000 and 300 shops each servicing localized markets. Express Pera Padala is Palawan Pawn Shop’s domestic remittance service. They have 30 locations in Palawan alone and, based on interviews we conducted, we estimated that locations in Puerto Princessa (Palawan’s capital) serviced 150-200 remittances customers a day. Average fees were at 3 percent (6% for smallest at ~ $6 and 1% for highest at $420). In comparison, Drugman, a general goods store and Globe’s airtime sub-distributor for Palawan saw on average of six G-cash transactions a day. Most customers were cashing out in Puerto Princessa. Average transaction sizes were $21.
chart
Because people were already used to remitting using the pawnshops, GXI partnered with some of them to make GCASH available at their stores. GCASH’s performance has not been exceptionally different from other locations, however. It did help to have the GCASH brand associated with existing remittance providers which are well known locally but it was unclear if that drove additional sales.
These providers also compete with informal channels like truck drivers. The small island of Bohol with just over 1 million people has three or four formal options and a slew of informal ones just to send money within the bounds of the island province. The island itself is small enough making it possible for someone to simply carry the money themselves on regular visits back home. I talked to a number of people (domestic workers, fast food chain employees, etc.) who simply do that. Truck drivers are known to ferry cash up the major road that skirt the island. The drivers don’t always charge and the frequency with which these trucks ply that road makes it possible to send money daily.
Poor Filipinos have options to remit but that still does not mean GCASH couldn’t deliver value. M-PESA changed people’s remittance behavior – they remitted more frequently and at lower values. At one percent cash-in, GCASH charges were already far below what the competition charges in the Philippines. GXI could have created a value proposition in the low-value remittance market (see chart and thanks to Ignacio Mas for making it) pursuing a high-volume low-margin business – large numbers of provincial customers sending money domestically paying 3 to 5 percent in commissions and at under $20 per transaction.
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"Do low-income mobile phone users want mobile money?
by Kabir Kumar: Friday, November 20, 2009
Since the official launch of GCASH in early 2004, Globe Telecom’s subsidiary GXI set-up a number of initiatives to help them arrive at a strategy for mobile banking in the Philippines. As part of those efforts, CGAP and GXI partnered to roll-out GCASH in three predominantly rural and low-income provinces of Bohol, Palawan and Surigao. Our goal was to understand how to expand the reach of GXI’s agent network into smaller towns and how customers would use the service. I am writing to share briefly what we learned in terms of customer usage and preferences in the low-income provinces that we have been working in.
In 18 months, GXI signed up 120,000 new GCASH customers in three low income provinces (Bohol, Surigao del Norte and Palawan) and set-up 200 agents to service those customers (GXI has 1.1 million GCASH customers nationally with 3,000 agents). GXI reached over half of the registered base in the first three quarters of 2009 – roughly 72,000 new GCASH accounts. About 2,000 of those customers (under 3 percent of total) have been conducting one or more GCASH transactions a month. The average transaction size was very low at USD 30, reflecting GCASH’s appeal to those looking to transact at low values. In addition, a very small number of customers have used the wallet for storage. We found a small subset (6-7 customers) maintain a monthly running balance.
GXI found that their approach to marketing worked well because they let potential customers just try out the service extensively up front. Their marketing campaigns involved large musical concerts. On-foot sales agents were on hand to sign-up customers and train them on how to use the service. Musical performances would draw people in from surrounding towns and barangays and sales agents would approach people to trial the service. People would be allowed to try out multiple transactions as they discovered the service. GXI also used commission based sales agents (“roving” agents) to reach out to customers in the provinces at their homes. These agents were equipped to promote the SMS-based service as well as the new G-cash menu-based application.
GXI’s experience with an entirely text-based interface has been mixed. Our interviews with GCASH agents did not suggest that either the agents or the GCASH customers they serviced had a difficult time using a text-based service. Philippines is known as the texting capital of the world but we were working in provinces that were poorer and where literacy levels were lower than the national norm. What we found is true in most markets globally: younger people whose social lives involve being connected via cell phones and people with exposure to using computers are more comfortable using cell phones to begin with.
GCASH volumes have been low in these three provinces. There has been a lag between when people register and when they start actively using the service. We met an active user in Palawan who started using six months after registering for the service. She was receiving money from Manila.
There are a number of other factors for the low volume but the bottom line: GCASH as a remittance service was competing with existing well worn remittance providers, in particular the pawnshops.
There are a number of regionally dominant pawnshop chains that provide remittance services. Pawnshops got into remittance in part to deal with having a lot of cash at each of their locations. Pawnshop remittance products like ML Kwarta Padala and Express Pera Padala have 1000 and 300 shops each servicing localized markets. Express Pera Padala is Palawan Pawn Shop’s domestic remittance service. They have 30 locations in Palawan alone and, based on interviews we conducted, we estimated that locations in Puerto Princessa (Palawan’s capital) serviced 150-200 remittances customers a day. Average fees were at 3 percent (6% for smallest at ~ $6 and 1% for highest at $420). In comparison, Drugman, a general goods store and Globe’s airtime sub-distributor for Palawan saw on average of six G-cash transactions a day. Most customers were cashing out in Puerto Princessa. Average transaction sizes were $21.
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Because people were already used to remitting using the pawnshops, GXI partnered with some of them to make GCASH available at their stores. GCASH’s performance has not been exceptionally different from other locations, however. It did help to have the GCASH brand associated with existing remittance providers which are well known locally but it was unclear if that drove additional sales.
These providers also compete with informal channels like truck drivers. The small island of Bohol with just over 1 million people has three or four formal options and a slew of informal ones just to send money within the bounds of the island province. The island itself is small enough making it possible for someone to simply carry the money themselves on regular visits back home. I talked to a number of people (domestic workers, fast food chain employees, etc.) who simply do that. Truck drivers are known to ferry cash up the major road that skirt the island. The drivers don’t always charge and the frequency with which these trucks ply that road makes it possible to send money daily.
Poor Filipinos have options to remit but that still does not mean GCASH couldn’t deliver value. M-PESA changed people’s remittance behavior – they remitted more frequently and at lower values. At one percent cash-in, GCASH charges were already far below what the competition charges in the Philippines. GXI could have created a value proposition in the low-value remittance market (see chart and thanks to Ignacio Mas for making it) pursuing a high-volume low-margin business – large numbers of provincial customers sending money domestically paying 3 to 5 percent in commissions and at under $20 per transaction.
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Agris Repository Search Results
Micropropagation of malunggay (Moringa oleifera)
Agris Repository Search Results: "AGRIS record
Record number PH2009000332
Titles Micropropagation of malunggay (Moringa oleifera)
Personal Authors Calinawan, N.M.,Halos, S.C., Arnichem Corp., College, Laguna (Philippines)
Conference 38. Annual CSSP Scientific Conference, , Iloilo City (Philippines), 12-16 May 2008
Publication Date (May 2008)
AGRIS Subj. Cat. Plant genetics and breeding
AGROVOC Terms MORINGA OLEIFERA, MICROPROPAGATION, EXPLANTS, GROWING MEDIA, PROPAGATION MATERIALS, PHILIPPINES, MORINGA OLEIFERA, MICROPROPAGATION, EXPLANT, SUBSTRAT DE CULTURE, MATERIAU DE MULTIPLICATION, PHILIPPINES, MORINGA OLEIFERA, MICROPROPAGACION, EXPLANTES, SUBSTRATOS DE CULTIVO, MATERIALES DE PROPAGACION, FILIPINAS
Language En
Notes Summary only, Received Aug 2008
English Abstract Malunggay is currently promoted as a potential industrial crop by the Department of Agriculture as source of oil for biodiesel, cooking oil or cosmetic ingredient. For the Philipines to be competitive in developing a crop for biodiesel, it must undertake a massive plantation establishment for malunggay, around 500,000. Planting at 10,000 trees per hectare, requires about 5 billion pieces. The massive requirement for planting stock could be met with cuttings from existing trees. Furthermore, there is an existing variation in fruiting and oil quality of the malunggay. Hence, this study was undertaken to develop a tissue culture technology for the micropropagation of seeds collected from selected mother trees that are prolific seed producers and with oil quality and yield acceptable to oil processors. Malunggay seeds collected from the Ilocos region were obtained from Biotech Office, Dept. of Agriculture. These were surfaced sterilized and the kernel dissected and placed on 22 different media formulations. Seven media formula induced the embryo to produce multiple shoots 19 days after inoculation. The number of shoots ranged from 1-13 pieces per seed. The best media produced an average of 9.8 shoots/seed and about 30 explants for the next round of multiplication. Some shoots were transferred to rooting media, others in shoot proliferation medium. Roots were induced in another 2 weeks. Provided that this rate of multiplication is maintained,one seed shall have multiplied into 27,000 plantlets 12weeks after inoculation. A massive production of malunggay planting stock is thus attainable. Experiments are being conducted to verify this projection and develop a protocol for hardening the plantlets prior to distribution to farmers. Selection of prolific pod-bearing trees is also underway.
Type Conference, Summary
Availability UPLB (Philippines)
Availability number 2009000332
Serial Title Philippine Journal of Crop Science (Philippines)
Serial ID - ISSN 0115-463X
Serial number p. 103-104
Serial Date (May 2008)
For document availability, please contact:
UPLB (Philippines)
College, Laguna 4031, Philippines
Contact: Ms Annie EVANGELISTA
Tel: +63049 5362235
Fax: +63 49 5362326
Email: agris_phils@yahoo.com.ph
URL: http://www.uplb.edu.ph/
AGRIS 2010 - FAO of the United Nations
Agris Repository Search Results: "AGRIS record
Record number PH2009000332
Titles Micropropagation of malunggay (Moringa oleifera)
Personal Authors Calinawan, N.M.,Halos, S.C., Arnichem Corp., College, Laguna (Philippines)
Conference 38. Annual CSSP Scientific Conference, , Iloilo City (Philippines), 12-16 May 2008
Publication Date (May 2008)
AGRIS Subj. Cat. Plant genetics and breeding
AGROVOC Terms MORINGA OLEIFERA, MICROPROPAGATION, EXPLANTS, GROWING MEDIA, PROPAGATION MATERIALS, PHILIPPINES, MORINGA OLEIFERA, MICROPROPAGATION, EXPLANT, SUBSTRAT DE CULTURE, MATERIAU DE MULTIPLICATION, PHILIPPINES, MORINGA OLEIFERA, MICROPROPAGACION, EXPLANTES, SUBSTRATOS DE CULTIVO, MATERIALES DE PROPAGACION, FILIPINAS
Language En
Notes Summary only, Received Aug 2008
English Abstract Malunggay is currently promoted as a potential industrial crop by the Department of Agriculture as source of oil for biodiesel, cooking oil or cosmetic ingredient. For the Philipines to be competitive in developing a crop for biodiesel, it must undertake a massive plantation establishment for malunggay, around 500,000. Planting at 10,000 trees per hectare, requires about 5 billion pieces. The massive requirement for planting stock could be met with cuttings from existing trees. Furthermore, there is an existing variation in fruiting and oil quality of the malunggay. Hence, this study was undertaken to develop a tissue culture technology for the micropropagation of seeds collected from selected mother trees that are prolific seed producers and with oil quality and yield acceptable to oil processors. Malunggay seeds collected from the Ilocos region were obtained from Biotech Office, Dept. of Agriculture. These were surfaced sterilized and the kernel dissected and placed on 22 different media formulations. Seven media formula induced the embryo to produce multiple shoots 19 days after inoculation. The number of shoots ranged from 1-13 pieces per seed. The best media produced an average of 9.8 shoots/seed and about 30 explants for the next round of multiplication. Some shoots were transferred to rooting media, others in shoot proliferation medium. Roots were induced in another 2 weeks. Provided that this rate of multiplication is maintained,one seed shall have multiplied into 27,000 plantlets 12weeks after inoculation. A massive production of malunggay planting stock is thus attainable. Experiments are being conducted to verify this projection and develop a protocol for hardening the plantlets prior to distribution to farmers. Selection of prolific pod-bearing trees is also underway.
Type Conference, Summary
Availability UPLB (Philippines)
Availability number 2009000332
Serial Title Philippine Journal of Crop Science (Philippines)
Serial ID - ISSN 0115-463X
Serial number p. 103-104
Serial Date (May 2008)
For document availability, please contact:
UPLB (Philippines)
College, Laguna 4031, Philippines
Contact: Ms Annie EVANGELISTA
Tel: +63049 5362235
Fax: +63 49 5362326
Email: agris_phils@yahoo.com.ph
URL: http://www.uplb.edu.ph/
AGRIS 2010 - FAO of the United Nations
Friday, July 02, 2010
SunPower
SunPower
Summary of Proposed Investment
This Summary of Proposed Investment is prepared and distributed to the public in advance of the IFC Board of Directors’ consideration of the proposed transaction. Its purpose is to enhance the transparency of IFC’s activities, and this document should not be construed as presuming the outcome of the Board decision. Board dates are estimates only.
Project number 27807
Company name SunPower Philippines Manufacturing Ltd
Country
Philippines (IDA)
Sector Industrial & Consumer Products
Environmental category B
Department Global Manufacturing & Services
Status Pending Disbursement
Date SPI disclosed March 13, 2009
Projected board date April 13, 2009
Previous Events Signed: May 6, 2010
Approved: February 1, 2010
View Environmental & Social Review Summary (ESRS), click here
Overview Sponsor/Cost/Location Development Impact Contacts Attachments
Project description
SunPower Corporation (“SunPower” or the “Company”) is a global player in the solar industry. The company was founded in 1985 by Dr. Richard Swanson and his students while he was professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. In 2008, SunPower generated revenue of $1.43 billion.
SunPower is in the process of completing its second solar cell fabrication facility in the Philippines (the “Project”). The project will result in the completion of twelve solar cell manufacturing lines with an aggregate nameplate capacity of 466 MW.
Project sponsor and major shareholders of project company
The project sponsor is SunPower. The company is a NASDAQ-listed public company with a widely held ownership consisting mainly of institutional investors.
Total project cost and amount and nature of IFC's investment
The total project cost is estimated at $475 million. IFC is considering a financing package of up to $75 million in the company.
Location of project and description of site
The project is located in an industrial park in Batangas, Philippines.
Anticipated development impact of the project
The project will have the following positive developmental impacts:
- Reduction of CO2 Emissions: This investment will support the production of solar cells, which will provide renewable energy. Assuming a module life of 25 years, the project will directly avoid an estimated 90-100 million tons of CO2 emissions, assuming the electrical energy they produce is instead produced through conventional fossil fuel generated electricity.
- Development of the solar industry: This project will increase the availability of high-performance and cost-effective solar cells, which is expected to accelerate the solar PV industry’s goal to reach grid parity, such that solar energy is an economically viable energy source without government subsidy.
- Job creation and other economic benefits: This facility will employ a total of approximately 2,900 skilled jobs in the Philippines and contribute to local economic growth.
IFC's expected development contribution
IFC’s presence in the project will (i) help the company attract other long-term financiers, especially from local financial institutions, and (ii) signal to the market that renewable energy is an important industry to finance in emerging markets.
Environmental and social issues - Category B
This is a Category B project according to IFC’s Procedure for Environmental and Social Review of Projects because a limited number of specific environmental and social impacts may result, which can be avoided or mitigated by adhering to generally recognized performance standards, guidelines or design criteria. Key environmental, health and safety, human resources and social issues that were reviewed included the following: Environmental and social management system; Quality and sustainability of water resources; Emissions to the environment – air, water and subsurface; Solid and hazardous materials management, including transportation; Life and fire safety; Community and occupational health and safety; Energy use and efficiency; and Community engagement. Performance Standards that are applicable for this investment include:
- PS 1: Social and Environmental Assessment and Management System
- PS 2: Labor and Working Conditions
- PS 3: Pollution Prevention and Abatement
The identified environmental, social and healthy and safety issues which require ameliorative measures are summarized in a Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) that SunPower will implement as part of IFC’s Loan Agreement. Upon successful implementation of the agreed mitigation measures, the proposed Project is expected to comply with host country laws and regulations, IFC Performance Standards and applicable World Bank/IFC guidelines. Additionally, SunPower’s solar cell technology provides a significant positive impact on global climate change and its operations create jobs and opportunities for local communities, with no adverse social impacts.
For inquiries about the project, contact:
Jay Peir
SunPower Corporation
3939 N. 1st Street
San Jose, CA 95134 U.S.A.
Tel: 408.240.5500
For inquiries and comments about IFC, contact:
General IFC Inquiries
IFC Corporate Relations
2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20433
Telephone: 202-473-3800
Fax: 202-974-4384
E Mail: Webmaster
Local access of project documentation
City Government of Tanauan
Tindalo Ave. Mt. View Subd.
Barangay Poblacion 3,
Tanauan City, Batangas
http://www.tanauancity.gov.ph
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Water and Wastewater Treatment Products
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From bench-top high purity lab water to industrial water reuse systems; from drinking water to wastewater treatment and recycling; Siemens Water Technologies touches every component of water and wastewater treatment. Let us work with you to implement the best solution for your need.
Activated Carbon
Activated carbon pellets and powder for air and water filtration. Also granular activated carbon adsorber filter systems, pressure vessels, roll-offs and canisters.
Aeration
Aeration products including aerators for oxidation of dissolved iron, degassifiers for ammonia and VOC reduction, mechanical aerators for pond aeration, and diffused air systems for biological treatment.
Biological Treatment
Air diffusers, jet aeration systems, wastewater mechanical aeration systems, wastewater package plants, sequencing batch reactors, trickling filters, and anaerobic treatment systems.
Chemical Feed and Disinfection
Analyzers, controllers, induction systems, metering pumps, dry feed, gas feed, polymer feed, chlorine dioxide generation, hypochlorite generation and UV disinfection systems.
Controls, Instrumentation and Analyzers
Water and wastewater analyzers, controllers, motor control centers (MCC), pump controls, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and remote telemetry units (RTU).
Conventional Filtration
Gravity filter and pressure filter systems and equipment, cartridge filters and filter housings, filter media, arsenic media, greensand, and packaged water plants.
Ion Exchange
Cation, anion, water softener & specialty resins. Continuous Deionization (CDI) and Continuous Electrodeionization (CEDI/ EDI) Systems. Deionizer, demineralizer, and dealkalyzer products.
Laboratory Water Products
Lab Water Purification Systems, Storage reservoirs and other accessories for your ultrapure, general grade, primary grade and clinical analyzer water needs.
Liquid and Vapor Phase Odor Control
Air strippers, aerators, chemical scrubbers, degasifiers, biological odor control, carbon adsorption towers, emergency vapor scrubbers, liquid addition and chemical supply.
Membrane Filtration & Separation Products
Ultrafiltration and microfiltration membrane water filtration systems. Reverse osmosis systems, RO pumps and equipment, and replacement RO modules. Disk Filter.
Physical/Chemical Treatment Products
Chemical reaction systems, copper select technologies, hydrothermal oxidation, wet air oxidation (WAO). Neutralization and precipitation systems and accessories.
Separation and Clarification Products
Water and wastewater circular, plate, & rectangular clarifiers. Floating decanters, dissolved air flotation (DAF), oil water separators, trash rakes and screens.
Sludge and Biosolids Processing
Digestor accessories. Sludge thickener, belt press, plate press, and centrifuges. Sludge dryers, incineration, composting and removal equipment. Cannibal(R) solids reduction process.
Specialty Products and Accessories
Anodes, electrodes, cathodic protection, flow meters, metal recovery, hemodialysis water systems, mechanical aeration, mechanical mixing, screw pumps, surge and storage tanks.
QuickShip Water Treatment Equipment
QuickShip Water Treatment Equipment
Water treatment equipment designed for quick delivery
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Get to "make-water" day faster than you though possible.
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Modules can be combined to treat the flow rates required by your operation.
Proven technology.
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GE, as a leader in water treatment equipment, has thousands of these systems running across many industries and applications such as Power, Food & Beverage, Seawater Desalination, Nuclear Plants, Light Industrial and others.
GE understands the importance of having a proven system designed to eliminate many project risks. GE's established technology, combined with the added value of schedule compression, ease of installation and reduced project management costs, are a potent combination.We are committed to providing you the fastest response time and currently stock the following units across our global manufacturing sites for immediate shipment around the world:
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Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) - Energy-efficient, high-pressure membrane systems for seawater desalination.
Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis (BWRO) - Spiral-wound Reverse Osmosis systems used to remove suspended and dissolved species in water.
Pretreatment Units.
Standalone Units
Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) - Energy-efficient, high-pressure membrane systems for seawater desalination.
Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis - Spiral-wound Reverse Osmosis systems used to remove suspended and dissolved species in water.
EDI Systems - Electrodeionization systems for polishing water using electricity.
Pretreatment Units
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Water treatment equipment designed for quick delivery
GE Water & Process Technologies' containerized and standalone water treatment plants provide the quality you expect from GE -- delivered to you in a fraction of the time of conventional systems.
Across many water sources and contaminant types, GE has a variety of QuickShipsm water treatment solutions to meet your needs.
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Speed of delivery
Product quality and safety
Proven technology
Consistent environmental compliance Product Features
Get to "make-water" day faster than you though possible.
The solution is effective, modular and easy to install.
Modules can be combined to treat the flow rates required by your operation.
Proven technology.
Flexible financing to preserve your capital and protect your cash flow
GE, as a leader in water treatment equipment, has thousands of these systems running across many industries and applications such as Power, Food & Beverage, Seawater Desalination, Nuclear Plants, Light Industrial and others.
GE understands the importance of having a proven system designed to eliminate many project risks. GE's established technology, combined with the added value of schedule compression, ease of installation and reduced project management costs, are a potent combination.We are committed to providing you the fastest response time and currently stock the following units across our global manufacturing sites for immediate shipment around the world:
Technology
Containerized
Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) - Energy-efficient, high-pressure membrane systems for seawater desalination.
Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis (BWRO) - Spiral-wound Reverse Osmosis systems used to remove suspended and dissolved species in water.
Pretreatment Units.
Standalone Units
Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) - Energy-efficient, high-pressure membrane systems for seawater desalination.
Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis - Spiral-wound Reverse Osmosis systems used to remove suspended and dissolved species in water.
EDI Systems - Electrodeionization systems for polishing water using electricity.
Pretreatment Units
Z-BOX Ultrafiltration - Submerged ultrafiltration that provides a physical barrier to viruses, bacteria, Cryptosporidium, Giardia and suspended solids.
** - Product availability is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Fresh Water For The World's Poorest
Fresh Water For The World's Poorest
Fresh Water For The World's Poorest
ScienceDaily (Jan. 9, 2008) — Lack of water causes great distress among the population in large parts of Africa and Asia. Small decentralized water treatment plants with an autonomous power supply can help solve the problem: They transform salty seawater or brackish water into pure drinking water.
Large industrial plants for the desalination of seawater deliver 50 million cubic meters of fresh water every day – particularly in the coastal cities of the Middle East. However, the technology is complex and consumes large amounts of energy. It is not suitable for the arid and semiarid regions of Africa and India, though these are the very places where it is becoming increasingly difficult to supply drinking water, particularly in rural areas.
“The regions have a very poor infrastructure. Quite often there is no electricity grid, so conventional desalination plants are out of the question,” states Joachim Koschikowski of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg. In various EU-funded projects over the past few years, he and his team have developed small, decentralized water desalination plants that produce fresh drinking water with their own independent solar power supply.
“Our plants work on the principle of membrane distillation,” explains Koschikowski. This can best be explained by the principle of a Gore-Tex jacket, in which the membrane prevents rainwater from penetrating through to the skin. At the same time, water vapor formed inside the jacket by perspiration is passed through to the outside. “In our plant, the salty water is heated up and guided along a micro-porous, water-repellent membrane. Cold drinking water flows along the other side of the membrane. The steam pressure gradient resulting from the temperature difference causes part of the salt water to evaporate and pass through the membrane. The salt is left behind, and the water vapor condenses as it cools on the other side. It leaves us with clean, germ-free water,” says Koschikowski.
The researchers have so far built two different systems, both with their own energy supply. “Our compact system for about 120 liters of fresh water per day consists of six square meters of thermal solar collectors, a small photovoltaic module to power a pump, and the desalination module itself,” explains Koschikowski. In the dual-circuit system, on the other hand, several desalination modules are connected in parallel, enabling several cubic meters of water to be treated every day.
One cubic meter of drinking water – 1000 liters – will cost about 10 euros. “When you think how much the inhabitants currently have to pay for the same amount of bottled water or soft drinks, the plant will pay off very quickly,” claims Koschikowski. The test plants in Gran Canaria and in Jordan have been operating successfully for some time. The researchers are therefore planning to market the plants through a spin-off known as “SolarSpring” from the middle of this year.
Fresh Water For The World's Poorest
ScienceDaily (Jan. 9, 2008) — Lack of water causes great distress among the population in large parts of Africa and Asia. Small decentralized water treatment plants with an autonomous power supply can help solve the problem: They transform salty seawater or brackish water into pure drinking water.
Large industrial plants for the desalination of seawater deliver 50 million cubic meters of fresh water every day – particularly in the coastal cities of the Middle East. However, the technology is complex and consumes large amounts of energy. It is not suitable for the arid and semiarid regions of Africa and India, though these are the very places where it is becoming increasingly difficult to supply drinking water, particularly in rural areas.
“The regions have a very poor infrastructure. Quite often there is no electricity grid, so conventional desalination plants are out of the question,” states Joachim Koschikowski of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg. In various EU-funded projects over the past few years, he and his team have developed small, decentralized water desalination plants that produce fresh drinking water with their own independent solar power supply.
“Our plants work on the principle of membrane distillation,” explains Koschikowski. This can best be explained by the principle of a Gore-Tex jacket, in which the membrane prevents rainwater from penetrating through to the skin. At the same time, water vapor formed inside the jacket by perspiration is passed through to the outside. “In our plant, the salty water is heated up and guided along a micro-porous, water-repellent membrane. Cold drinking water flows along the other side of the membrane. The steam pressure gradient resulting from the temperature difference causes part of the salt water to evaporate and pass through the membrane. The salt is left behind, and the water vapor condenses as it cools on the other side. It leaves us with clean, germ-free water,” says Koschikowski.
The researchers have so far built two different systems, both with their own energy supply. “Our compact system for about 120 liters of fresh water per day consists of six square meters of thermal solar collectors, a small photovoltaic module to power a pump, and the desalination module itself,” explains Koschikowski. In the dual-circuit system, on the other hand, several desalination modules are connected in parallel, enabling several cubic meters of water to be treated every day.
One cubic meter of drinking water – 1000 liters – will cost about 10 euros. “When you think how much the inhabitants currently have to pay for the same amount of bottled water or soft drinks, the plant will pay off very quickly,” claims Koschikowski. The test plants in Gran Canaria and in Jordan have been operating successfully for some time. The researchers are therefore planning to market the plants through a spin-off known as “SolarSpring” from the middle of this year.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
UNCCD - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
UNCCD - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
"Enhancing soils anywhere enhances life everywhere "
"Enhancing soils anywhere enhances life everywhere "
The World Day to Combat Desertification is observed every year on 17 June. This year, the Day's theme is "Enhancing soils anywhere enhances life everywhere"
The year 2010 is the International Year dedicated to Biodiversity. To this end, UNCCD aims to sensitize the public to the fact that desertification, land degradation and drought dramatically affect the biodiversity resident in the soil.
There is a close relationship between livelihood and ecosystem wellbeing, and soils that are rich in biodiversity. Healthy soils produce life, and yet soil health depends a lot on how individuals use their land. What we do to our soils determines the quality and quantity of the food we eat and how our ecosystems serve us. Our increasing ecological interdependence also means enhancing soils anywhere enhances life everywhere
The World Day to Combat Desertification has been observed since 1995 (General Assembly Resolution A/RES/49/1995) to promote public awareness relating to international cooperation to combat desertification and the effects of drought, and the implementation of the UNCCD. Last year, more than 40 events took place all over the world (see the 2008 report). We can celebrate the Day through organizing activities such as seminars, media events and campaigns. Every single activity involving community participation and cooperation is encouraged!
For more information about the Day, please contact: secretariat(at)unccd.int
We would be delighted to hear from you about how your country plans to mark the Day. The information received will be posted on our website.
We wish you every success in your activities to celebrate 17 June 2010.
UNCCD - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
UNCCD - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Only One Earth - Drylands are Vital
22/04/10. Earth Day, celebrated today, reminds us that we have Only One Earth. And that so much in our lives depends on the very limited resources we have. The land that feeds us is one of the most limited resources. As Earth Action has so simply demonstrated, we cannot overemphasize the importance of taking care of that land. Very simply, here is the message more..
Instant desal market comes of age | Global Water Intelligence - Archive
Instant desal market comes of age | Global Water Intelligence - Archive
Instant desal market comes of age
- From: Vol 9, Issue 11 (November 2008)
- Category: General
- Region: Unspecified
- Related Companies: ACWA Power, Aqualyng, Nirosoft, Preussag and Subseas Industries
Temporary seawater desalination plants look set to become a permanent fixture of the water industry as matching water supply and demand becomes an ever greater challenge.
When GWI wrote about offshore desalination plants back in 2005, our contributor Gord Cope delivered his copy with a note, commenting that “hell will freeze over before those guys get a deal”. The problem he identified was that no one was prepared to finance a shipbased desalination plant unless they had a supply contract, and no one was prepared to ...
METHOD FOR PRODUCING PURE WATER FROM SEA WATER AND OTHER SOLUTIONS BY FLASH VAPORIZATION AND CONDENSATION - Patent 3446712
METHOD FOR PRODUCING PURE WATER FROM SEA WATER AND OTHER SOLUTIONS BY FLASH VAPORIZATION AND CONDENSATION - Patent 3446712
METHOD FOR PRODUCING PURE WATER FROM SEA WATER AND OTHER SOLUTIONS BY FLASH VAPORIZATION AND CONDENSATION
United States Patent 3446712
Water Desalination Plants
Drinking water out of sea water Reverse osmosis systems
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Drinking water out of sea water Reverse osmosis systems
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Water Desalination Plants
Drinking water out of sea water Reverse osmosis systems
lenntech.com/Water+Desalination+Plants
Drinking water out of sea water Reverse osmosis systems
lenntech.com/Water+Desalination+Plants
Seawater Desalination
ForeverPure Seawater/Brackish units Industrial,commercial, and homes.
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ForeverPure Seawater/Brackish units Industrial,commercial, and homes.
www.foreverpure.com
US Patent References:
Method for producing pure water from sea water and other solutions by flash vaporization and condensation
3329583
Distillation of a solute-solvent mixture in successively reduced pressure stages while in direct contact and concurrent flow with a heat transfer medium
3298932
Method for multi-flash evaporation to obtain fresh water from aqueous solution
3288686
Saline water conversion
3214348
Submerged combustion and flash evaporation system and process
3165452
Method for producing pure water from sea water and other solutions by flash vaporization and condensation
3329583
Distillation of a solute-solvent mixture in successively reduced pressure stages while in direct contact and concurrent flow with a heat transfer medium
3298932
Method for multi-flash evaporation to obtain fresh water from aqueous solution
3288686
Saline water conversion
3214348
Submerged combustion and flash evaporation system and process
3165452
Inventors:
Othmer, Donald F.
Publication Date:
05/27/1969
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Othmer, Donald F.
Primary Class:
Other Classes:
202/177, 159/17.300, 202/173, 203/88, 159/DIG.033, 159/2.300, 159/DIG.008, 159/18, 202/205, 159/16.200, 159/15, 203/DIG.017
International Classes:
C02F1/16; B01D3/10; B01D3/06; C02B1/06
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