GREENCITY PROJECT BOOKSALE

Here is a pic of my booksale! We had a pretty good turnout! The money collected will go to the Green City Project by Rotaract. Thanks to Miss Seetal, Trisha Dhaliah and Neha Sharma, Keshee Seebaruth for helping!

Did you know?

I was keeping up with my weekly celebrity gossip when i came a across an article named "Green Celebrities" and i thought that 'green celebrities' never existed! - well i got pawned!

So here are a few :

 Natalie Portman

Natalie has been advocating environmental preservation for almost her entire life.She is a regular supporter for PETA; she has been vegetarian since her childhood. As a young girl, she joined an environmental song and dance group, World Patrol Kids. In 2004 and 2005, she traveled to Uganda, Guatemala, and Ecuador as the Ambassador of Hope for FINCA International, an organization that promotes micro-lending to help finance women-owned businesses in poor countries (increased education and decreased poverty leads to a better understanding and concern for environmental awareness).She also worked on a campaign to help save the tropical habitat of African mountain gorillas. After taking part in these numerous campaigns, Portman released her own line of vegan footwear in the Spring of 2008.

Angelina Jolie

Jolie is on the board of advisors for the Yéle Haiti Foundation, and with husband, Brad Pitt she helped Wyclef Jean with his Clean Streets project. Jolie also arranged a deal with People Magazine allowing them to print the first picture showing her visibly pregnant in exchange for a $500,000 donation to the charity.

Cameron Diaz

Diaz participated at Live Earth in New York on July 7, 2007. She is also a member of thePangea Day advisory board, an organization dedicated to creating a worldwide network of concerned citizens who are making a difference and believe that film can change the world. She also supports Centre For Environmental Education, Environmental Media Association and Green Treks.

CAS Project Updates

Fighting Global Warming : GreenCity Project

  

Date of event : 25th of October 2012

Project brief :

A book sale would be organised in the school hall to raise funds. These will be used to buy plants for Courte Echelle as well as to contribute to the “Greencity” project organised by the Rotaract Club of Port-Louis. This rotaract project is aimed at creating a greener city through the distribution of plants  to various schools around Port-Louis. The Funds raised will be given to the President of the Rotaract 

Club of Port-Louis by the student and CAS Advisor and Student  personally. 

UPDATES :

Hello world, i apologize again for not posting regularly. Well i found this video on YouTube - watch it, its definitely less boring than reading fully written blog posts. In other words, it says that if a dog can stay green, then why can't you? and really it's not that hard lol. Anyway, the point of this blog post was actually about my CAS project which i'm planning to do soon (hopefully) in collaboration with my CAS supervisor and Rotary Club. So what i can tell you so far is that, we will be fundraising via a secondhand book sale, and the money will be used to buy plants/trees for primary school in order to increase their awareness on environmental issues that we are currently facing!

So, yeah, that's basically it for today. I will keep you updated about this coming project!

AUGUST

Hello guys, it's been a while since i last posted! Somehow, i lost my blog and it took me a while to recover ( you can still the damage - my photos turned into exclamation marks). But anyway, now that i'm back, i will continue to post weekly about global warming! So here is what i have for you this week! I know its nothing much, but promise that i will back next week with a lot more cause i still need to sort out my CAS Projects :/ 

Don't forget to save energy whenever you can!

See you

GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT A MYTH

Hello again! I don't why but i feel like i haven't posted since a very very very long time - must have been really busy but anyway today i would like to share some very interesting graphs on the net whilst updating myself on global warming !You will see that the data is quite shocking and if we don't do anything about it, we will have to face the consequences! So don't forget to save energy whenever you can and if you haven't joined the virtual march for global warming, please do so by clicking HERE or by clicking on the red banner on the sidebar! See you soon lovelies and don't forget to check my blog next week for new stuff! 

                                 

                             

    

Source :http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/graphs-diagrams-of-global-warming-and-climate.html

EARTH HOUR

                       


Hope that you enjoyed the video.! Check out the website by clicking here or by clicking on the 60+ Earth Hour Banner on my sidebar. It’s a really nice website as they tell you what they actually do to protect the planet! The best part is that you can also get involved and they are so many ways for you to do so!

They also do events around the world and on the 31st of March 2012, Mauritius together with Earth Hour organised the event – “Une Heure pour notre Terre” (literally meaning One Hour for Our Earth). Unfortunately that was a past event but I hope that they will do it again next year!

Don't forget to comment if you wish! See you guys soon!

SAVE THE PLANET AND HUMANITY!

Don't freak out! Get involved by  reducing your impact on planet earth!  Here are 5 easy things that you can do at home :

 1. Turn off the lights that you do not use.

2. Install and use inexpensive lighting controls -photo sensors, automatic timers

3. Unplug spare refrigerators and non-use appliances

4. Shorten showers since they account for two-thirds of your water use. Use low flow shower heads.

5. Use appliances efficiently.  

Feel free to comment and don't forget to come back to check out my next post! See you!

TAKE ACTION!

Here is a site where you can join in the campaign to stop Global Warming!  -

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/

Join the supporters of the Stop Global Warming Virtual March, and become part of the movement to demand our leaders freeze and reduce carbon dioxide emissions now. We are all contributors to global warming and we all need to be part of the solution.

WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?

So, ever wondered what global warming actually is? Over the years, the climate has faced many rapid changes and that is why such a big issue is usually made out of it. My aim will be mainly to help those who have no scientic knowledge on global warming to understand it .
Global warming is happening due to increases  in the amount of  emission of greenhouse  gases that is accumulating in the atmosphere  and it is thus considered to be one of the most challenging  problem that is facing humanity. There are various things that contribute to global warming and they are both natural and human factors. For example some natural causes would be as simple as volcanic activity (because volcanoes release gases into the air) and as for humans - the burning of fossil fuels, pollution and so on.

It is important to know what the 'Greenhouse effect' and the'Enhanced greenhouse effect actually is'. In simple words, here is basically what they are :

1. Greenhouse effect: It is the process by which the earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation via   greenhouse gases (Carbon dioxide, methane etc ...) as they allow incoming sunlight to pass through but absorb heat radiated back from the earth's surface.

2. Enhanced greenhouse effect: The increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere  due to human activity and their impact on the atmospheric systems, including global warming.

Here is a nice and easy diagram showing the greenhouse effect :

HELLO WORLD!

Welcome to my blog! I am an IB student and for my CAS programme, i have decided to blog about global warming in order to create more awareness about the problem and of course the consequences. I will be posting once a week and will  obviously talk about everything  that concerns Global Warming.  This is my welcome message so, i will posting global warming related articles and photos as from next week! I really hope that you will enjoy reading and don't forget to stay tuned!

Feel free to follow me and also don't forget to comment if you want to to see any improvements on the blog!