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2013 – Jahr wachsenden Engagements für Agrar- und Energiewende. Im Wahlkampf verquere “Veggie-Day”- und Mautdebatten. Hochwasser und leider nur Trippelschritte beim Klimaschutz

By Guest PostDecember 23, 2013Environment2013, agrar, bund, deutschland, donau, elbe, energiewende, gruenen woche, hochwasserkatastrophe, hubert weiger, jahr wachsenden, klimaschaeden, klimaschutz, klimawandel, pestizide

Berlin: Für den Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) stand das zurückliegende Jahr ganz im Zeichen großer Demonstrationen für eine andere Agrar- und Energiepolitik. Das Jahr 2013 hat gezeigt, dass sich die Zivilgesellschaft wieder deutlich sichtbar einmischt, wenn es um den Schutz unserer Lebensgrundlagen geht”, sagte der BUND-Vorsitzende Hubert Weiger in einer Jahresbilanz.

Anfang 2013 seien in Berlin schon zum dritten Mal anlässlich der “Grünen Woche” 25.000 Menschen gegen Massentierhaltung, den Einsatz der Gentechnik in der Landwirtschaft und Umweltschäden durch giftige Pestizide auf die Straße gegangen. Und Ende November hätten 16000 Demonstranten das Bundeskanzleramt umzingelt und gegen den Weiterbetrieb von Atom- und Kohlekraftwerken demonstriert. “Die Menschen wissen, was sich in den Tierfabriken abspielt, sie kennen die irreparablen Klimaschäden aus der Nutzung fossiler Energiequellen und sie verlangen mehr Entschlossenheit bei der Agrar- und Energiewende. Auf Veranstaltungen und Kundgebungen, in Blogs, über Twitter und Facebook wird von den Regierenden eingefordert, Lösungen für die Umweltprobleme zu finden anstatt mit Nebensächlichkeiten davon abzulenken”, sagte Weiger. (more…)

The Problem of Using Plastic Bags

By Guest PostDecember 23, 2013Environmentadvertising agent, australian, australian department, bbc, cleaning day, Environment, environmentally friendly material, hdpe, hdpe bags, logo, marine animals, melisa marzett, plastax, plastic waste, polyethylene, polyethylene recycling, problem, problems of environment, recycle plastic bags, statistics in ireland, using plastic bags, Wall Street Journal

We are all familiar with plastic bags, but not many people are aware of the cruel truth hiding behind the using of plastic bags. The level of plastic bag consumption is estimated at more than 500 billion plastic bags per year, almost 1 million per minute.

The main source of this problem is disposable bags made of polyethylene with a high level of density (HDPE). Having packed your goods in such a package, you leave it to rot in the earth for nearly 1,000 years.

FACTS

Investigation of Australian Department of the Environment shows that Australians consume about 6.9 billion plastic bags per year, it is 326 per person.

According to statistics in Ireland in 20011.2 billion disposable plastic bags were used, each person uses 316 disposable plastic bags per year. However, the problem has been cardinally improved in 2002 due to the introduction of new packages PlasTax , thus, the consumption level of HDPE bags decreased by 90%. (more…)

Limited food may be significantly changing Great Lakes ecosystems

By Guest PostDecember 23, 2013Environmentdavid bo bunnell, Economy, great lakes ecosystems, inputs of phosphorus, invasive species, lake huron, microscopic water organisms, native invertebrates, phytoplankton, phytoplankton growth, predator, quagga mussels, suzette kimball, thomas f nalepa, thomas h johengen, U.S. Geological Survey, university of michigan, zebra

ANN ARBOR — Declines of the food resources that feed lake organisms are likely causing dramatic changes in the Great Lakes, according to a new study.

The study, led by the U.S. Geological Survey and co-authored by three University of Michigan researchers, found that since 1998, water clarity has been increasing in most Great Lakes, while phytoplankton (the microscopic water organisms that feed all other animals), native invertebrates and prey fish have been declining. These food web changes fundamentally affect the ecosystem’s valuable resources and are likely caused by decreasing levels of lake nutrients, and by growing numbers of invasive species such as zebra and quagga mussels. (more…)

Made in IBM Labs: Advancing Privacy and Security in the Cloud

By Guest PostDecember 23, 2013Technologybreakthrough, client data, cloud, cloud computing, craig gentry, cryptography, des, encrypted information, fully homomorphic encryption, hmac, homomorphic encryption, ibm, ideal lattice, labs, made in ibm, optimization, original data, privacy, security, shai halevi

Patented cryptography invention enables unlimited analysis of encrypted data

ARMONK, N.Y. – 23 Dec 2013: IBM inventors have received a patent for a breakthrough data encryption technique that is expected to further data privacy and strengthen cloud computing security.

The patented breakthrough, called “fully homomorphic encryption,” could enable deep and unrestricted analysis of encrypted information —intentionally scrambled data — without surrendering confidentiality. IBM’s solution has the potential to advance cloud computing privacy and security by enabling vendors to perform computations on client data, such as analyzing sales patterns, without exposing or revealing the original data. (more…)

The long game: New book probes the uneasy future of China’s relationship with the United States

By Guest PostDecember 23, 2013Politicscanadian ambassador, China, global financial crisis, hexun, joseph caron, new book, paftad, post cold war, relationship, rival, rotman ut publishing, the long game, uneasy future, united states, university of toronto, us china relationship, wendy dobson, world economy

TORONTO, ON – The global financial crisis accelerated China’s rise in the world economy, disrupting a post-cold war status quo in which the United States was the world’s largest and most dynamic economy and undisputed super power. The world economic order is shifting. Can those who manage international commercial, cultural or political exchanges afford to ignore this shift? (more…)

High-fat diet during puberty speeds up breast cancer development

By Guest PostDecember 23, 2013Healthadult women, aggressive in nature, basal like, breast cancer development, cell growth, disease, environmental risk factors, experimental model, high fat diet, immune cell, mark aupperlee, michigan state university, precancerous lesions, preclinical model, puberty, research project, richard schwartz, risk of cancer, sandra haslam, tumor

New findings show that eating a high-fat diet beginning at puberty speeds up the development of breast cancer and may actually increase the risk of cancer similar to a type often found in younger adult women.

The research comes from the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program at Michigan State University and is published in the current online issue of Breast Cancer Research. (more…)

«Die grössten Steuerprofiteure seid IHR!»

By Guest PostDecember 23, 2013Politicsbenchmark, bruessel, daenemark, einkommen, eu parlament, eu parlamentarier, euro, gehalt, godfrey bloom, grossbritannien, schweden

«Sie werden Euch aufhängen»: Die Brandrede eines britischen EU-Parlamentariers macht Furore. Er las dem EU-Parlament die Leviten.

Der EU-feindliche britische EU-Parlamentarier Godfrey Bloom rastete am 21. November aus, als er während einer Steuerdebatte im EU-Parlament in Brüssel die Glaubwürdigkeit seiner Ratskolleginnen und Kollegen in Frage stellte. Sie würden über Massnahmen gegen Steuerflucht und Steuervermeidung beraten, sich selber aber in Steuerprivilegien suhlen. (more…)

Searching for Cosmic Accelerators via IceCube

By Guest PostDecember 22, 2013Scienceastrophysical neutrinos, cosmic accelerators, extraterrestrial neutrinos, galactic nuclei, high energy neutrinos, icecube detector

Berkeley Lab Researchers Part of an International Hunt

In our universe there are particle accelerators 40 million times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Scientists don’t know what these cosmic accelerators are or where they are located, but new results being reported from “IceCube,” the neutrino observatory buried at the South Pole, may show the way. These new results should also erase any doubts as to IceCube’s ability to deliver on its promise. (more…)

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