1.Hong Eun Sook 2.FILE CHINA POLLUTION CLIMATE ACCORD 3.Whenever spring comes Yellow Dust from China becomes big problem in Korea. After the market of China was opened, air pollution bigan to emerge as a big issue not only in China but also in Korea. Because usually we have west wind in spring. Fast growth of China will be more harmful to our environment. So I think it needs a sanction against indiscriminate development that causes destruction of nature in China to protect all. --------------------------- epa02072041 (FILE) A file photograph showing the billowing himneys of a large power plant in Shanghai, China on 28 January 2010. Media reports state that China has formally signed up on 09 March 2010 for the climate accord struck at the Copenhagen summit, the last major emerging economy to endorse a plan strongly favoured by the United States. An official letter to the Bonn-based U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said that it could 'proceed to include China in the list' of countries supporting the deal reached at the summit in December 2009. ------ http://media.daum.net/foreign/others/view.html?cateid=1046&newsid=20100310063312524&p=yonhap
1. Lee, Sung-Hee 2.What's Best for Kids: Bottled Water or Fountains? 3. What kind of water should our children drink in school? Many Korean children drink tap water named 'arisu' in schools and kindergartens. On the other hand, American children drink bottled water or sugar beverages because there is no clean tap water which is drinkable. It is difficult to offer tap water because replacement of old water pipes takes much money. So, the children can not but help drinking bottled water or sugar beverages. In result, bottled water or beverages are making environmental problems. Besides, the beverage companies might not like the idea that clean tap water is offered to children because their profit will be reduce. We need to have grave reflection on the future children's health and environment. ------------------------------ This story is part of a special series that explores the global water crisis. For more clean water news, photos, and information, visit National Geographic's Freshwater Web site. As the U.S. taste for bottled water grows, environmentalists have been trying to sell people on good old-fashioned—and free—tap water. But tap water's place in schools is thorny, since some experts say children should actually be drinking more bottled water to head off two stubborn health threats: obesity due to sugary drinks and lead poisoning. "If children go from sugary beverages to bottled water, you get a benefit to public health, but not so much the environment," said Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. "If they go from sugar beverages to [clean] tap water, you get a public health home run and environmental home run."
A very down to earth* kind of guy. I'm an environmental sociologist interested in establishing material and organizational sustainability worldwide. I'm always looking for interesting materials/technologies, inspiring ideas, or institutional examples of sustainability to inspire others to recognize their choices now. To be fatalistic about an unsustainable world is a sign of a captive mind, given all our options.
*(If "earth" is defined in a planetary sense, concerning comparative historical knowledge and interest in the past 10,000 years or so anywhere...) See both blogs.
1.Hong Eun Sook
ReplyDelete2.FILE CHINA POLLUTION CLIMATE ACCORD
3.Whenever spring comes Yellow Dust from China becomes big problem in Korea. After the market of China was opened, air pollution bigan to emerge as a big issue not only in China but also in Korea. Because usually we have west wind in spring. Fast growth of China will be more harmful to our environment. So I think it needs a sanction against indiscriminate development that causes destruction of nature in China to protect all.
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epa02072041 (FILE) A file photograph showing the billowing himneys of a large power plant in Shanghai, China on 28 January 2010. Media reports state that China has formally signed up on 09 March 2010 for the climate accord struck at the Copenhagen summit, the last major emerging economy to endorse a plan strongly favoured by the United States. An official letter to the Bonn-based U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said that it could 'proceed to include China in the list' of countries supporting the deal reached at the summit in December 2009.
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1. Lee, Sung-Hee
ReplyDelete2.What's Best for Kids: Bottled Water or Fountains?
3. What kind of water should our children drink in school?
Many Korean children drink tap water named 'arisu' in schools and kindergartens. On the other hand, American children drink bottled water or sugar beverages because there is no clean tap water which is drinkable.
It is difficult to offer tap water because replacement of old water pipes takes much money. So, the children can not but help drinking bottled water or sugar beverages. In result, bottled water or beverages are making environmental problems.
Besides, the beverage companies might not like the idea that clean tap water is offered to children because their profit will be reduce. We need to have grave reflection on the future children's health and environment.
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This story is part of a special series that explores the global water crisis. For more clean water news, photos, and information, visit National Geographic's Freshwater Web site.
As the U.S. taste for bottled water grows, environmentalists have been trying to sell people on good old-fashioned—and free—tap water.
But tap water's place in schools is thorny, since some experts say children should actually be drinking more bottled water to head off two stubborn health threats: obesity due to sugary drinks and lead poisoning.
"If children go from sugary beverages to bottled water, you get a benefit to public health, but not so much the environment," said Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.
"If they go from sugar beverages to [clean] tap water, you get a public health home run and environmental home run."
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100303-bottled-water-tap-schools/