Electric Sports Car with Solar Panel
Melbourne-based company EVX Ventures is entering the electric automobile market with an aerodynamic sports car that can drive all day using power from the sun. Called The Immortus, the sleek two-seater has an unlimited traveling range thanks to 75 square feet of solar photovoltaic paneling on its exterior. This means you wouldn’t have to stop and recharge over long distances, easing the fear of running out of power.
The Immortus uses technology that came from a project originally funded by Australia’s Aurora Solar Car Team. Their photovoltaic innovations means that the vehicle only needs a small 10 kWh lithium-ion battery to power its twin motors, and it’s also what gives the car its infinite-range capabilities—as long as your average speed is about 37 miles per hour. If you increase your speed to 53 miles per hour, the company estimates your total driving range will be about 342 miles. And on non-sunny days or at night, the distance is 248 miles.
The company has a clear idea of where they fit into the market. “We’re not trying to be a Tesla,” says Barry Nguyen, CEO and co-founder of EVX Ventures. “Tesla is a mass manufacturer of cars, we’re designers of boutique custom electric cars and aftermarket products." He goes on to explain, "There’s regulations in the US and Australia that allow for individually constructed vehicles. Essentially what that means is that if you contract a custom car builder with the designs and components, you can build a road legal car without the crash testing and the 5-10 million dollars you’d have to raise to do that. We plan to sell those cars in low volume.”
EVX hasn't announced when The Immortus will be on the market, but when that happens, they expect to sell only about a 100 units. The projected price tag is currently $370,000 ... See MoreSee Less
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Hello Green Friends, the Earth Day reminds us to do something to support our planet.
We are now entering the 46th year of a movement that continues to inspire, challenge ideas, ignite passion, and motivate people to action. Earth Day 2016 is a historic event as today, the landmark Paris Agreement is scheduled to be signed by the United States, China, and some 120 other countries. This signing satisfies a key requirement for the entry into force of the historic draft climate protection treaty adopted by consensus of the 195 nations present at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
The Earth Day has become a movement. In 1970, the year of our first Earth Day, the movement gave voice to an emerging consciousness, channeling human energy toward environmental issues. Forty-six years later, we continue to lead with groundbreaking ideas and by the power of our example. Earth Day is more than just a single day — April 22, 2016. It’s bigger than attending a rally and taking a stand.
In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be celebrated on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States SenatorGaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970.
Nelson was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in recognition of his work.[5] While this April 22 Earth Day was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations. Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues that troubled the world.
This Earth Day and beyond, let’s make big stuff happen. Let's support Green Living Association in its efforts to make our planet Greener and Cleaner. Let’s plant 7.8 billion trees for the Earth. Let’s divest from fossil fuels and make cities 100% renewable. Let’s take the momentum from the Paris Climate Summit and build on it.
Let’s start now. And let’s not stop. ... See MoreSee Less
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WHO has updated Water Safety Guidelines
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued new safety guidelines for drinking water that put the emphasis on prevention of waterborne disease rather than responses to outbreaks.
Currently, water sanitation relies largely on testing water samples for chemical and biological contaminants, but this often means that pollutants are identified long after the water has been consumed.
Instead, says the WHO, regulators should ensure water quality by protecting water sources and controlling treatment processes 'from source to tap'. This approach can be applied to any setting, whether isolated rural situations such as settlement camps or urban centres with running water.
The WHO guidelines will help reinforce one of the UN Millennium Development Goals, which is to halve the number of people — currently 2.6 billion, mostly in developing countries — without access to safe water and basic sanitation by 2015.
Earlier in 2004, more than 4,000 people suffered from acute diarrhoea and 34 died in Hyderabad, Pakistan, when highly polluted water from a lake contaminated an adjacent water supply.
In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, ground water containing high concentrations of arsenic puts millions at risk of severe health problems such as skin lesions and cancers of the skin, bladder and lung. In response to threat such as this, the updated guidelines also include recommended safe values for 100 chemicals based on a review of fresh scientific evidence.
Safety of drinking water can also be highly compromised in emergencies, because of inadequate sanitation and hygiene, says the WHO. Floods, for example, can contaminate wells with sewage, and drought can force people to use unsafe water when their usual sources dry up.
The WHO's advice includes several low-tech preventive measures that people can use in their own homes — such as covering stored water to prevent its contamination by human and animal waste, and boiling water before drinking it. But according to John Fawell, a UK consultant on drinking water and environment, larger scale water supplies will need a more technological approach.
"Both filtration and chlorination are important for ensuring the removal or inactivation of bacteria and viruses, and filtration is the key against parasites such as cryptosporidium," Fawell told SciDev.Net. "Here, the use of portable kits to take measurements frequently — hourly rather than daily — can be a powerful tool."
During 2004's Hyderabad crisis, health problems were compounded by the fact that sanitation officials had been over-chlorinating the water in an attempt to deal with the contamination. The WHO emphasises that educating local individuals responsible for sanitation is crucial.
Reinforcing the need for local training Fawell says: "the composition of raw water can change, for example after rainfall, and understanding the science of how a particular treatment works is key to adapting it to different conditions".
Link to the full WHO guidelines
www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/guidelines/en/ ... See MoreSee Less
5 months ago ·
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Green Living Association announced the results of Kindness BINGO on 15th April 2016.
Kindness is like a habit we develop by practice, it is nurtured with care and love and brings joy to both the giver and the receiver. It comes in many forms, some in softly spoken words, or in giving a good advice, some in helping others either directly or indirectly, some in form of helping and showing love to the lesser beings. Green Living Association, a member of the World Kindness Movement, has launched ‘Kindness BINGO’ in bringing love, peace and social harmony among various parts of the nation in making a unified Pakistan and a Peaceful world.
‘Kindness BINGO’ is a fascinating game for the students and their families who are to rate the kindness stories given in the guidebooks into their exclusive order to develop Kindness as habit – and to win lucrative prizes. The impact of Kindness BINGO is however much greater than merely winning the prizes.
A participating student, with the help from his/ her 4 supporters, is going to read 25 Kindness stories from the specific Kindness Guidebook of the respective category, available on our websites, to bring them into the precise BINGO order as set by Green Living Association. Lucrative prizes have been announced for the winners of the Kindness BINGO which include Abroad Study Trip, Rs. 100,000 CASH Prize and hundreds of more for the students and the Schools’ Administrations (Please click prizes below to view).
Moreover, there are dozens of more national Gift Hamper Prizes to be distributed purely on lucky draw basis regardless of the score achieved in the Kindness BINGO. Furthermore there are hundreds of ‘Campus Winner Awards’ for the campus winner students from the campuses with their participation of 50 or more students. ... See MoreSee Less
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Green Living Association updated their cover photo. ... See MoreSee Less
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