Senin, 04 April 2011

What You Can Do For Nature?

Several human still destroying this nature. We just watch them some with careness and other with carelessness. We should care to our nature. If not, what will be happen? things happen will like my previous post, endangered animals and the most important is Pollution and debris. Garbages will spread anywhere, in city, field, beach, ocean and other places. Trashes that throwed by human can reach anywhere as long its flow. And what can we do?

1. Cycling
People now very like going to anywhere by car and motorcycles. Usually we ride it ourselves. Pollution are made from motorcycles and other vehicles. But not for bicycle, bicycle not produce any bad chemical things to air. Bicycle is safe vehicle. Although you cannot ride bicycle for far distances, you have decrease the pollution made by yourself. Now, many people in the world have do this, they cycle together with their friends enjoying the peaceful nature and usually people go cycling with their organizations. For benefits, beside you reduce pollution it will make your body healthier. Let's do this as much as you can, for nature and for yourself.

2. Throw garbage in right places
Human often throw their garbages everywhere, usually in sidewalk, on the road, and river. Do you know that throw garbages to such places like them is dangerous? On sidewalk and road, people will feel messy and uncomfortable to walk there, and garbage collector take the garbages, send it to garbage organiser, and organiser usually throw the garbages to garbage dump. Now, garbage dump in many area are very high, its height almost reach 1 or 2 level building. it will waste useful land right? In river, garbages usually stopped in water gate, and it let dump in water gate. Once the rain fall down, water gate and other water flow that stopped by garbage will not hold the amount of water from rain and cause flood. We can reduce the disaster by starting from ourselves. We can throw our own garbage in right places like trash bin. Oh, and don't forget about the type of trash bin, trash bins are divided by 3, that's for poison trash, organic trash, and anorganic trash. We must put our trashes on right place. If not, like we put plastics in organic trash bin, it will be recycled by waste organiser. But, plastics you put there won't be recycled and it will dump again. So, please care to our nature.

3. Recycle
This is people very like to do. Recycles! We have 2 wastes, organic and anorganic. We can recycle organic wastes like dead leaves etc. to something useful like organic fertilizer. Just by grind and blind it and then do some process, the useless wastes will become useful again! That's for organic, what about anorganic? recycling anorganic is easy, just put a touch of your imagination and convert the wastes into something great. Especially plastics, in this world plastics are spreaded everywhere, and we can 'Convert' plastics into something new like plastic plane, plastic boat, plastic case and many more. That recycle won't add dump in garbage dump.

4. Wise to energy
This is one thing people very careless with it. We usually use energy in our house greedy, all lamps are turned on, TV turned on even there aren't people watching it, and turn on Air conditioner even you aren't use it. From examples above, what energy mostly used? that's electricity. We use electricity for our life, but electric energy will be drained and wasted to emptiness. It's good if you are use your energy wisely, if you save energy, you can use it for other use or for other time. Like lights, we need lights on night, so don't turn on it many on day. If you use light both in night and day, it will drained more of your electricity. Due to it, you must also pay more for electricity. One dangerous thing is Air conditioner, several AC will profuce Chlorofluocarbon (CFC) that will destroy ozone. But if you control it by turn on it if you need, you'll save energy and reduce amounts of CFC in the world. For this, Earth Hour program is like this too, minimalize usage of energy.

5. Minimalize using of paper
This thing heard impossible but truly this is possible! You are not prohibited to use paper but just reduce it even 1 sheet. By minimalize paper, we have reduce the garbages and wood cutting to make paper. many people have do this, they do this by use other technology to do something. Like in school, several teachers have minimalize paper by give their students homework by using email, explain to student by presentation and many more.









Some heard easy and some heard hard to do. You can just do what can you do, you don't have to do all things i mention above. By doing one thing above you have reduce pollution and save nature. So, keep save our nature and Go Green! Don' forget to Reduce, Recycle, Reuse and Respect!


Sabtu, 02 April 2011

Rain Tree - The Tree of Solution

Global warming, an impact of Carbon dioxide pollution in air which cause many dangerous effect such as greenhouse effect. Many things had done by people around the world to stop and decrease global warming. Not only for global warming, this tree can be a solution for other problem.

This is one solution to stop global warming, this solution is not to prevent, but to reduce. We do this solution by plant Rain tree (Samanea saman). Rain tree has a big and long stem with many branches.

It's leaves is so many, it also called canopy tree due to its widespread leaves. This tree has advantage by absorbing about 28.442 kg of Carbon dioxide each year. That's for only 1 tree, how about hundred or thousand tree? it can absorb high amount of Carbon dioxide each year. Beside that, this tree has another advantage, this tree provide shelter by it's canopy and many people can take shelter under this big tree.

If people have difficulties to search s shelter at rain, this tree can sheltered you. But, if have advantages, it must have a disadvantages. This tree has several disadvantages. This tree's root can spread widely, it can destroys and damage buildings and roads around it. It's dangerous to the other people.

Rain tree has a wide canopy, it can provide shelter, but it can also hamper the growth of plants that grow under the tree because the wide canopy prevent sunlight to go through the plant under rain tree. Plant under rain tree may die because they don't have enough sunlight to grow.

This tree can absorbed high amount of water, and people worried that the land water dry due to this tree. But, this big tree can be controlled.




Rain tree can absorbed water from land, land in big city is very small, it cannot hold much water, this tree can absorbed water from land so that land can absorbed water again. But with this tree, i think flood effect can be reduced.

For damaged buildings, you can plant it in place where there aren't buildings around it like city garden. This tree must be plant in a wide area. For growth of plants, you musn't plant various plant under rain tree, but you can let grass grow under the tree. In many area, grass can grow well under rain tree.

For water, its hard but you can control plantation of this tree by not plant this tree too many and spread well in an area. Don't plant this tree blindly, if you do it, it can destroy other environment but if not, this tree is very benefical for environment. This plant have exist in indonesia and many people and organization have plant this tree in their area.But Jakarta, which have high pollution must be planted by this tree to reduce pollution. This tree is very good and benefical if planted and controlled.

Selasa, 29 Maret 2011

Species Endangerment

Endangered species, we often hear that words and seem it familiar to us. Yes, endangered species is a population of organism especially animals which is at risk of becoming extinct. International union for conservation of nature (IUCN) has calculated and has a red list of threatened species which contain data about the criteria of endangered species. Many factors have threatened many species in the world especially human. Many of their activities can affect the amount of species in the world. But many people didn't notice this big problem. This problem become big and dangerous because it have many dangerous effect for our animals, environment and human. These are several factors that cause endangered species.

First, habitat destruction. This problem can caused by nature, but nature only change animals and plants habitat in slow pace. Not in human, human change species habitat in fast pace, this result in species endangerment. Their habitats are destroyed for human importance. Habitat is a place where animals need to live in but human destroyed it. Human usually destroyed several place and change it into something for their importance like a tropical forest, in there live many animals such as birds, owls, ferrets, cats, dogs, insects and many more. Then, human change the forest into building, road, city, field, etc. Nowadays, many forest had destroyed, burned, cut and cleared. All for human importance. Not only forest habitat, but also sea, wetlands, prairie and mountain have received impact from human activities.

Second, Overhunting. This problem is make by human. Human are need the benefit from animals, but human often hunt animals until the species only remains in small amount even to extinction of the species. For example Dodo bird and thylacine(tasmanian tiger), both of them are hunted until no more species remains. Both of them are extinct due to the overhunting. The overhunting that happens in this period is Whaling and animal trade, whaling is hunting whale for its meats and oils. But whale hunter usually hunt whale until species of whales become extremely low in sizes. Fortunately, a international moratorium has abide whaling. I think whale hunters still whaling this time although the moratorium abide it.

Third, Pollution. Pollution come from industrial, domestical or agricultural wastes in form of chemical wastes like Pesticides, too many carbon dioxide, mercury wastes, etc. These wastes will affect environment and then causes habitat destruction which destroys wildlife. There are direct impact to the animals too, if human litter on the land or sea animals will eat those wastes then died. In food chain, if one organism eat an poisoned food, then the predator of that food eater will be poisoned too. At last it cause death and species endangerment.

Fourth, Natural disasters. Several natural disaster such as volcano eruption, tsunami and many more can cause endangerment too. For disaster it will not affected much on widespread species because if animals in one region get suffered from disasters, other same animal in other region won't feel it. But, it will affected much on endemic species, species that only exist in a region and it's not exist in other region. If a region with endemic species get natural disasters, many endemic species will feel and dead, it will decreased the amount of endemic species and become endangered.

Fifth, Introduced species. Human often introduced species intentionally or accidentally to an area. Introduced species is place a species to another area where the introduced species haven't exist. This is not a small problem, it's big. The Impact is come from the predation and competition with the new species. For example, a large fish is put into a pond while the other fishes in the pond are small and weak. So, the large fish will compete with the small fish to eat food and usually the small fish will lose and get a little food or nothing. Beside that, there will be a chance that the large fish eat the small fish. From time to time, the large fish will dominated the pond and the small fishes will get endangered. From the example, we get that introduced species will 'Invade' native species and get the native species to endangerment.

That's the factors of endangerment from human and nature. The impact to other animals will be seen in food chain. If one animal in food chain become endangered or extinct the population of the predator will decreased. For example, a bird is eated by falcon, if the bird population become endangered, the falcon population will decreased too if the falcon often eat on the bird.

Human will get very bad impact from endangerment. Human get benefits from wildlife and now many of sources of those benefits get endangered. For example, whaling cause whale endangerment, people get meat and oil from whale. If whale population still decrease, people cannot get more meat and oil. Same as crop plants, the endangerment factors will cause plant pollinators, who distribute seeds become endangered by habitat destruction affect the crops, crop plants that everyday are pollinated by pollinators like bee and fruit bats will reduced seeds distributed by pollinators and cause the crop plant itself become endangered.

So, what can we do with these? several factors are inevitable so we can cope the endangerment. Many people and organizations have cope endangerment. Organizations like greenpeace has cope. Other people, to cope this problem has protect endangered animals from overhunting and introduced species and repair the destroyed habitat for endangered animals. They make In-situ and Ex-situ conservation. I'm sure you can do this too.

Kamis, 24 Maret 2011

Garbage Patch And Marine Debris - One Result Of Human's Waste

We know that we, humans are always use plastics in their lives. Always and always, but our earth have difficulties to digest plastics. So, after using a plastics human will throw the plastics to trash bin. Then, it will be throw again to the sea with full of animals and other organism. Due to the large using of plastics all over the world and many of them are throw to the sea, the plastics are moved by the sea's current.

All of the trashes are moved by a current named North pacific gyre, it located in the northern of pacific ocean. This current has clockwise circular pattern. Many plastics and other garbage that trapped in the current have form a wide area consist of garbage.

Those garbage have form an garbage island called Great pacific garbage patch. People don't see this island because most sailor and fisherman are avoid this current due to the wind and large fish. This is very dangerous because in the north pacific gyre many organism lived there and their lives is disturbed by this garbage also cause death.

There are about 5 oceanic gyres in the world, so not only great pacific garbage patch exist, but also North atlantic garbage patch and indian garbage patch, and Great pacific garbage patch is the largest of all. Not only on the sea, but also on the beach. Both sea and beach have a large ecosystem that contains many organism. There are many garbage that floated on the sea, like Plastic bag, balloons,rope, cans, Styrofoam, fishing nets, ship debris and many more. But, Plastic constitutes 90% of all trashes floating on the ocean. The amount is about hundred millions of plastics on the ocean.
Sources of the garbage
Where the garbages come from? The garbage comes from many sources like Ships. Ship usually bring cargo, they bring it to distributes many things like toys to many destinations. On their way, usually storms come and destroy the ship or the cargo. If destroyed, the remains of ship and cargo will float on the ocean until it washed ashore in a beach. But, the remains can also float and flow by the ocean gyre then form garbage patch. But, this is for accident, accident can come everywhere and everytime. Beside accidentally pollution, there are human-made garbage that throw to the sea. This is the worst sour
ces,it's not accident. The unused garbages are always dump in the sea.

The Impact of garbage dump
Some people thinks that sea is the best place to dump garbage, because it won't reduce the usage of land and the garbage are not involved in their life, but what about the wildlife, they are all suffered from garbage that they mistaken it as a food.
For example a plastics, birds usually mistaken plastics as a food, so they give their son plastics to eat and for theirselves. Later, The plastics block the passage of the food and the bird can die due to the starvation and infection in plastics, other animal will do this too. Beside plastic, Ghost net, an abandoned fishing net that people leave it and float on the sea can be dangerous too especially for big animals like turtles and big fish.

Ghost net can make animal cannot move. They
will trapped in net, get difficulties to eat, and later cause starvation and suffocation.
The impact in environment is will make a place messy and dirty. It can attract insect and bring bad bacteria from the garbage and enter our environment and spread diseases. For humans, the danger is the disease, we can get sick from insec t that bring
disease from garbage. Beside that, we can get poisoned from the food we eat. The food that come from marine life such as fish and prawn have eat plast ics will get poisoned from plastics then we eat from those poisoned animal.
The removal and prevent of debris

The large amount of garbage can cause dangero us effects so many people try to remove the garbage and prevent the garbage dump. The eff orts are like remove garbage from the beach, pulverization and a great way is to recycle the plastic. We can use plastic garbage and recycle it to a benefical things such as toys, bottle and many useful things. For example, people make a plastic craft named plastiki. This craft can be used travel the sea. you can do it too, you can change the plastics into pencil case, vase, and other.
To prevent the garbage dump, people are star t to reduce the usage of plastics. Can you reduce it too?

For the great pacific garbage patch, some people have a project named project kaisei (Ocean planet in japanese). Their goal is to clean up th e pacific garbage patch.

You have see the photos? the photos indicates that humans have do wicked things that affected the world

There are so many dangers from garbage and we should remove and prevent the garbage dump for the sake of our environment or do you want a garbage island like great pacific garbage patch become larger? i think you will answer "No". So, keep our environment clean and healthy.

Sabtu, 05 Maret 2011

Our Beautiful Earth

Welcome! This blog will tell about many things about our Earth. But, now you will see the wondeful scenery on our Wonderful Earth first. See!!!

We live here
A Great Blue planet, in this blue ball you can see many great things such as sceneries like this:







These are just a little of many many beautiful places on this Earth. We should feel lucky, live in a beautiful blue ball-shape planet with so many interesting and great things inside. You can also relax yourself by seeing beautiful Earth.

These sceneries just part 1, my post like this will continue to other parts. So, wait for it.