Ecological crisis
January 4, 2012 | 
Author The economic activities of mankind during the last century have led to serious pollution of our planet in a variety of waste production. Air, water and soil in areas of major industrial centers often contain toxic substances which exceed maximum permissible concentration (MPC). Since cases significantly exceeding the MPC sufficiently frequent and increasing morbidity related to pollution of the natural environment, in recent decades, professionals and the media, and follow them and people began to use the term “ecological crisis”.
All you should split the concept of “local” and “global”. The local ENVIRONMENT is expressed in the local raising of dirt-chemical, thermal, noise, electromagnetic-through one or several closely spaced sources. As a rule, the local ENVIRONMENT may be more or less easy to overcome administrative and/or economic measures, for example by improving process technology in the enterprise polluting or through redevelopment or even closure. Much more serious risk is global ecological crisis. It is a consequence of the whole economic activity of our civilization and manifests itself in changing the characteristics of the natural environment on a global scale and thus dangerous to the entire population of the Earth. Deal with the global ENVIRONMENT is much harder than with a local, and this problem will be solved only in the case of minimization of pollution produced by humanity to the level to which the nature of the Earth would be unable to cope on their own. Currently the global ecological crisis includes major components: acid rain pollution, the greenhouse effect, and the so-called ozone hole.
An important source of SO2 is the non-ferrous metal industry: production of copper, nickel, cobalt, zinc and other metals includes stages of roasting of sulphides. Nitrogen oxides-predecessors of nitric acid-enter the atmosphere primarily in the flue gas of boilers of thermal power plants and exhausts of internal combustion engines. At high temperatures, developing in these devices, nitrogen air partially oxidized, giving a mixture of Mono-and nitrogen dioxide.
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Tags: Economic Activity, ENVIRONMENT, Global Ecological Crisis, Major Industrial, Pollution | 
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The Green requires a new development strategy
To varying degrees, but all enterprises associations affected by the global crisis. However, declining sales it was uneven, the sales structure has changed significantly. The market appeared steady demand for clean food, bio-fertilizers, energy-saving technologies, etc. Crisis made consumers more cautious about acquisitions, take into account not only the price, but first quality. Environmental component clearly became the prominence.
In a global sense of the world crisis showed that society clearly was delayed by traditional technologies to regulate markets and stimulate further economic growth. SOAP bubbles economy, the continuing dependence on hydrocarbon sources of energy and as a consequence, growing environmental problems, as well as the uneven development of the territories, the escalation of local conflicts, floral and other revolution is the natural result of the established system.
The time has come to make the transition to a new development paradigm, which is more consonant with the goals of sustainable ecological development of the territories, has contributed to more effectively address the socio-economic problems. The new development paradigm, I think it should be, in terms of the future, more fundamental values. The transition from commodity economy to innovation, the development of energy efficiency, energy saving and resource saving technologies, investment in human capital, environmental protection, the need to pass on to future generations a better and sustainable world order – all this requires public green consciousness development paradigm.
If a new development strategy will be positively perceived by society, she, in turn, will require the enterprises as propagators of a market economy, transition and new green business-formats (models). The high quality of life of the population, including comfortable conditions of labor, consumption of clean food, healthy lifestyle is the strategic direction. The inhabitants of the territories through the mass media is motivated by ecological lifestyles, participation in projects for the conservation and improvement of the environment, which gives a greater sense of the existence of a clear vision of the future for themselves and their children.
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Alternative energy, there is no alternative
The fact that surrounding space affects us in the strongest terms, and is not challenged. Everyone knows that the person wants to live quietly, cozy and comfortable. Stipulated in the so-called “green building”, one of whose objectives is building satellite cities, consisting of cottage townships. The recent downward trend of such objects to a minimum, as much a question of willingness of villagers pay for the infrastructure, not at the time of construction, and for its use. Buying a home – this is not the most expensive consumption in human life, but its contents could dent in the purse.
Housing maintenance and payment of housing and communal services is one of the most concise articles in the family budget. Monthly man pays for water and heating, electricity and garbage collection. Each month of persons obliged to bear the burden of urban housing. And even move outside the city, building your own individual shelter did not solve the problem. The content of individual housing is more expensive than the cost of central services and utilities in the city. If an individual House, which is usually much more urban area apartment, is connected to the central systems of life, the cost of monthly payments grows at times. But you can go to and from this situation; If you build a passive house (offline, not connected with any communications systems). Indeed, there are the Sun, wind, water, which are reliable sources for use in order to produce alternative energy.
In high-rise construction of rapid development of technology makes many innovations for record-breaking short time familiar requirements – so, in the West are no strangers to automatic control systems, solar panels or building infrastructure to separate garbage collection. That building was actually on the market and through 5-10 years on the application of emerging technologies you need to think today. Once wisely investing the money in the construction of a House, we are no longer dependent on the extent to which premiums gas, electricity, water, heating. Thanks to the high standards of construction, thoughtful solutions and technologies can create homes that are ahead of others in terms of durability. They do not require great efforts and investments for their lifetime. This means less than the daily worries and strong sense of security for the future of children.
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Green construction
Green construction, green building is the practice of the construction and operation of buildings whose purpose is to reduce consumption of energy and material resources throughout the life cycle of buildings ranging from site selection to the design, construction, maintenance, alteration and destruction. Another objective of the green building is the maintenance or improvement of buildings and the comfort of their internal environment. This practice enhances and complements the classical structural design concepts of economy, usefulness, durability and comfort.
Although new technologies are constantly being developed for use in current practice in the creation of green buildings, the main concern of this approach is to reduce the overall impact of construction on the environment and human health, which is achieved by:
Efficient use of energy, water and other resources;
Attention to supporting the health of inhabitants and the productivity of employees;
Reducing waste, emissions and other environmental impacts;
A similar approach of natural building, with a smaller scale, is to use natural local materials.
Functions of living substance
Compared with other substances Biosphere (nutrient, rigid, radioactive substance, the scattered atoms and matter space origin) living substance plays greatest role and performs several functions. Between the rigid, lifeless, part of the biosphere, too rigid natural bodies and living organisms, its inhabitants, is a continuous flow of matter and energy. A steady stream of solar energy, green plants, absorbable is converted into chemical energy. Synthetic organic compounds (sugars, proteins, etc.), moving from one organism to another as a result of their food, are enclosed in them energy. Plants consumed by animals which, in turn, become victims of predators and t. d. this transition and there is a coherent and orderly flow of energy in the biosphere.
Energy is defined as the common quantitative measure of the movement and interaction of all types of matter. Its properties are described as the laws of thermodynamics. The first is the law of conservation of energy States that energy can change from one form to another, but it does not disappear and are not re-created. The second is the law of entropy – can be formulated as follows: the energy of any system is as thermodynamic equilibrium or maximum entropy. If the temperature of a body or surface of the Boulder or the site is valid, the land above air temperature, this system is to equilibrium. Boulder or land will give heat until its temperature is equal to the ambient air temperature. The energy of any living organism can be scattered in heat form. Finally comes the State of thermodynamic equilibrium and further energy processes become impossible. To the maximum entropy is not state of the organism or system must constantly draw energy from the outside and constantly strive to thermodynamic equilibrium. Otherwise, there comes the death of the organism and irreversible degradation of the system.
Some of this energy always dissipates as unusable heat energy. The efficiency of energy transformation of light into potential energy of chemical compounds in the green sheet is always less than 100 per cent .
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