reflective plant

Temperatures have risen by about 0.7C since the dawn of the industrial age and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that by the end of the century, the average global temperature will have risen by 1.8-4.0C from 1990 levels. Scientists at Bristol University calculate that switching crops in North America and Europe could reduce global temperatures by about 0.1C, that’s significantly offering good impact.

Although pessimist experts say that the idea is feasible but could not cool the world enough to combat rising greenhouse gas levels, it is worth to try since they would be easy to do and posses no negative effects anyway. Its worth to try since there are hopes that we can actually slow down the global warming effects. Whereas farming already has a global infrastructure and it’s done each year, so it should be relatively simple to utilize it to provide a climate benefit.

The principle, expounded in the scientific journal Current Biology, is certainly simple enough: since some crop varieties are naturally more reflective than others, a field of more reflective leaves will send more solar energy back into space than a field of a more absorbent variety. The specific reflective crop variety can be tracked from satellites that monitor albedo – reflectivity – across the planet’s surface, which means more research needed to be done to determine on which varieties would prove most suitable to the task.

One downside to the idea is that it only works with crops grown in Europe and North America, according to Andy Ridgewell’s computer-model. In the Asian growing season, he explained, most of the reflection is done by clouds, so changing the ground’s albedo would have little impact. The corollary of that is that most of the temperature reduction would happen over North America, Europe and surround regions such as western Russia, and would be concentrated in the summer, when the net regional cooling could be as much as 1C. But with the IPCC forecasting a greater number of summer heat waves over Europe, the continent’s politicians might see the concept as desirable.

Another obvious question with the approach is how to persuade farmers to make crop choices that might impact on their income, if they were asked to adopt strains that fetched less at market. For Andy Ridgewell, rewards such as those the EU offers to stimulate the growing of biofuel crops would be one way to incentives farmers – and this approach should not generate any of the same problems that biofuels raise.

Ken Caldeira from the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University, California, has analyzed many different potential climate “fixes”; and he suggested the approach seemed feasible, especially given other research indicating that conversion of dark forests to lighter-colored croplands during the settlement of North America might have lowered temperatures by about 1C.

Although feasible enough, this kind of approach can never be quantitatively important on a global scale. It could help marginally in certain places but it shouldn’t cause anybody to think we can slow up our efforts to stop dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

memory

1. Eat a balance diet of Nutritious Food contained:
a. High Antioxidant such as: Vitamin A and beta-carotene (Carrots, spinach, cantaloupe, winter squash), Vitamin C (Citrus fruits, broccoli, strawberries, tomatoes), Vitamin E (Nuts, seeds, vegetable oil, wheat germ).
b. High in Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acid DHA such as in fish oil, fish meat, dark green vegetables.
c. High fiber food such as most fresh vegetables & fruits.
d. Supplemental herbs: Rosemary proven to enhanced memory; while Ginkgo Biloba proven to improve blood circulation & increase oxygen intake to the brain (to be taken in moderate amount in daily dosage).
e. Replace Caffeine with dark Chocolate in boosting your morning energy.
f. Avoid Alcohol & Nicotine.

2. Manage stress, take relaxing exercise such as meditation, yoga, enjoy relaxing music, stress therapy with aromatic objects or your religious praying time.

3. Get enough sleep & rest. At least take 8 hours of sleep every day will guarantee an optimal capacity of your brain.

4. Exercise your brain to prevent it from deteriorating. There are many kinds of brain/ memory exercise available that might suit your personal requirements. Get more focused, motivated & interest in things you want to remember. Make necessary association, visualization, imagination & object clusterisation needed

5. Exercise your body. A good cardiovascular exercise will increase blood circulation to your whole body as well as your brain. An exercise will also add a happy hormone (serotonin) & reduce stress hormone (cortisol).

6. Boost your self esteem & confident, picture your self in a positive self image to keep a long lasting healthy mind. Poor memory is often a result of poor self esteem.

self esteem

Self esteem increases your confidence. By improving self esteem & confidence you will be able to improve your relationships and become happier in life.

By being more confident doesn’t make you as a selfish person, on the contrary if you are having a better self esteem & confident you’ll likely to contribute more and share yourself with people around you.

Here are some tips to build confidence & self esteem:

# Be grateful for all the blessing you’ve received — you can start with making the top three things. Despite what you are feeling, the more you realize that there are still good things you can thank God, the more comfort & self esteem you will get.
# Be helpful to others – Involve yourself with social activities around you. It is human nature that the more you help other, the more comfort & self esteem you feel within. By helping others you will feel precious as you can give more benefit for others.
# Be proud of your achievements & what you have accomplished.
# Mistake is only for giving your self a clue of what not to be done in the future, not to be an excuse to blame your self too much about it.
# Be as if you were confident – in a situation that makes you nervous but urge you to be confident, act as if you are a confident person. Just by pretending your brain will support your physical gesture of a confident person. If it still doesn’t work try to learn relaxation skills.
# In making a presentation or where you have to perform yourself, prepare thoroughly so that you can be sure you are ready to do it.
# Improve various aspects of your personal skills. Work on any skills you think you have & master it. You can never be over-trained or over-skilled for any sudden challenge in life. Success after all is the moment where your polished talents meet the right opportunity when people see you doing well on the current subject.
# Be careful what you say about yourself. Give a positive statement about your positive aspects will enhance self confident. The words you said will empower you under your consciousness to be a better confident person.
# Be careful what you say to others. More positive words & energy you radiate, the more positive words & energy you will get back.
# Accept the compliment you deserved from others (Sometimes it’s not as easy as it may sound for some people) When someone else giving you a nice compliment, just say ‘Thank you’ and embrace it.
# Give your self a reward you deserve. Make sure you give a proper gift to your self when you manage to achieve success, even in small scale. More respect to your self will reflect to others as a confident & self esteem. Be generous to your self.

Building esteem is an important step towards happier times to create our own life. Yes, we must start to take more responsibility in creating & living our own best life.

Let’s just take a look on what’s really going on:

The Global Warming Process
# The carbon dioxides (CO2) emission, caused by: Burning of fossil fuels (mainly for the power plant), Factory toxic contamination & air pollution, Vehicle Emission and High Increased World Population
# Forest Illegal logging & burning means cripple the earth’s lung in delivering clean air for all living being.
# Increased temperature on earth’s surface (land and water) causing increased natural disasters in quality & quantity: hurricane thunder storm, heat wave, and tide wave (such as: El Niño, Katrina, etc)

The Earth Temperature Trend

# Increased rainfall intensity and relocation which means drought & flood happened in near distance location as well as irregular weather pattern.
# By 2007 there are 23 new hurricanes in the world, 11 of them is severe.
# Drastic melting in the north & south poles, as well as the snow on high mountains which could means the loss of around 40% fresh water.
# Extinction of more species, especially in the poles (polar bear) which would take the rest of wild habitat
# Increased quality & quantity in disease related to pest & virus vectors, such as Malaria, SARS, bird flu, etc.
# Increased level of ocean surface (1 meter in the last 100 years) which leads to the drowned small islands, narrowed beach & land.

do you want me to continue more of these overwhelming facts?

The point is that all the “normal” condition we take for granted all these years would not be experienced by our next generation! We will experience more drastic changes of weather & disease in our older times … We won’t be able to live “normal” again unless we make action to heal the earth’s big wound.

What we can contribute to Nurture Nature then?
Save more energy, be efficient & wise
Water use efficiency,
Paper & tissue efficiency
Fossil fuel efficiency
Expand to alternative green energy
Use nature friendly products
Recycle, Reduce & Reuse of Waste
Plant more trees
Tell more people to be aware of the real danger of Global Warming!

Plant More Trees

productive

It is possible! for a person to have an overwhelming number of things to do and still  function productively with a clear head and a positive sense of relaxed control. That’s a great way to live and work, at elevated levels of effectiveness and efficiency. It’s also becoming a critical operational style required of successful and high-performing professionals. You already know how to do everything necessary to achieve this high-performance state.

If you’re like most people, however, you need to apply these skills in a more timely, complete, and systematic way so you can get on top of it all instead of feeling buried as a victim of circumstances. Most people have some major work habits that must be modified before they can implement this system. The small changes required—changes in the way you clarify and organize all the things that command your attention—could represent a significant shift in how you approach some key aspects of your day-to-day work; which many people have referred to this as a significant paradigm shift.

The methods are all based on three key objectives: (1) capturing all the things that need to get done—now, later, someday, big, little, or in between—into a logical and trusted system outside of your head and off your mind; (2) disciplining yourself to make front-end decisions about all of me “inputs” you let into your life so that you will always have a plan for “next actions” that you can implement or renegotiate at any moment and; (3) prepare for any change of situation and be prepared to make any adjustment needed.

I think efficiency is a good thing. Maybe what you’re doing is important, interesting, or useful; or maybe it isn’t but it has to be done anyway. In the first case you want to get as much return as you can on your investment of time and energy. In the second, you want to get on to other things as fast as you can, without any nagging loose ends.

 

And whatever you’re doing, you’d probably like to be more relaxed, confident that whatever you’re doing at the moment is just what you need to be doing—that having a beer with your staff after hours, gazing at your sleeping child in his or her crib at midnight, answering the e-mail in front of you, or spending a few informal minutes with the potential new client after the meeting is exactly what you ought to be doing, as you’re doing it.