What Health care reform must include.
Tell your senator:
Health care reform must include a strong public health insurance option that’s available immediately.
Tell your senator:
Health care reform must include a strong public health insurance option that’s available immediately.
The Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group on Wednesday announced plans to invest W9.3 trillion ($ 7.45 Billion U.S.) this year, some W4.1 trillion ( $3.3 billion U.S.) of which will go to green growth projects. Another W500 billion ( $ 400 million U.S.)will be used to reduce carbon emissions from its own factories. The group expects these efforts will create 1,600 jobs in 2010 and 12,000 in 2012. The carmaker said it will expand investment into R&D and facilities to establish a mass production system for green cars in 2012, with an aim to become one of the top-four green car companies in the world.
It will spend W2.2 trillion ( $ 1.76 billion U.S.) to develop eco-friendly cars including hybrid and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles and W1.4 trillion to develop fuel-efficient engines, transmissions, and light materials.
Eco-village Rodnoe has approximately 100 plots of land, each of which measures no less than a hectare. Families organize their plots in their own way, and say that their domain has the personality of its owner.
Who are they? People who leave their successful and relatively quiet life in modern cities and go to rural areas to set upon a hectare of land – their Kin’s domains? What drive them? Are they happy about the change? How they deal with the land and growing plants? How does one build an adobe house? Watch the Day of all-Earth celebration. You will find the answers to all these and many more questions in the film # 1 about summer time in Eco-village Rodnoe.
It‘s good!.. to have your soul-searching done
And your infinite troubles finished
It’s good! To have the question solved
And being aware of your predestination!..
Time to choose: creation or destruction…
Learn Ecology in Krasnoyarsk Universe Gymnasium with Biosphere Construction course, supported by NTF, Russia
The “school (theoretical) ecology trend of the environmental education” is mainly based on studying general environment objective laws and global environmental problems. Textbooks that educators use in their teaching are written in a very “dull” and “global” manner.
Environmental and Housing Movements: Grassroots Experience in Hungary, Russia and Estonia
The vast empty plains of the Russian steppe may seem inhospitable to many, but for some it offers the chance to return to a simple life and escape from today’s pressures and problems. Sergey Boriso…
Rodnoe – Eco-village of Kin’s domains
Recently in Russia there has been an increase in the number of people who, preferring life in nature to the hustle and bustle of the city, have moved to Eco-villages…and are creating “Kin’s domains.” They have given up the use of fertilizers, heavy agricultural machines, and grow all their food themselves.
How Permaculture Water Harvesting Works? Geoff Lawton founding Director of the Permaculture Research Institute talks about Permaculture Water Harvesting techniques, swales and sillways. PERMACULTURE: A Designers’ Manual
Russia introduces complete ban on baby seal hunt
see more info on seal hunt ban in Russia
Russia looks to boost energy efficiency
Baltic pipeline fuels ecology row
Russian ministry takes Ecology seriously
Russia is the biggest country in the world and the wealthiest when it comes to natural resources. Developing these resources are at the heart of the Russian economy. But is the development sustainable? According to governmetn data, 40 million people in this country live in unfavourable environmental conditions. What are the authorities doing to improve the situation? To tell us more is the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Yury Trutnev.
Belarusian Energy and Ecology Congress …
Belarusian Energy and Ecology Congress says Belarus will upgrade all the largest power stations by 2010. Leading enterprises of Belarus, visitors from Russia and Baltic States discuss energy security
Life in Russian Eco-village
As the world wakes up to the affects of climate change, more and more Russians are ditching city life for some fresh country air. They are taking the usual ‘dacha’ living one step further by living cities…