When Al Gore received a nobel prize for making the world pay attention to the dangers of carbon emissions causing climate change green parties around the world were vindicated in their insistence on the importance of trees not only in any specific eco-system but in the world carbon cycle. The less trees we have the less carbon recyclers there are, and the more trees that are cut down the faster climate change will happen.

While New Age elements often bravely faced police and security firm harrassment to protect trees in the UK that were marked for felling to build more roads. The New Age groups also organized free outdoor festivals in the UK that often did a lot of damage to the local environment and trees.

Now environmentalism has become part of the mainstream, especially in Germany which has recently voted top ban nuclear power stations. At the same time, the music and youth culture has been hijacked by consumer culture. Whereas young people wanted to party and share ideas, now they just want to party and consume. The infamous Full Moon Party in Koh Phangan used to be composed of hippies wanting to sit under the stars and listen to music. Now it is 30,000 people who are ignorant of their surroundings and are happy to litter, urinate in the sea and have not a thought for conserving the natural environment.

Maybe we need the New Agers back?

It is hard to find effective ways to limit the destruction of tropical forests. In Thailand land (as elsewhere) is at a premium, especially farm land. People in the South of Thailand can make a good living farming rubber trees to supply the global demand for rubber products.

On Thailand’s fifth largest island they have managed to keep the tree cover at approximately 90%. This is despite the financial success of the Full Moon Party and such luxury resort enclaves as Thong Nai Pan. There are two main reasons for the success of the authorities in Koh Phangan.

One of the main reasons is that the forestry service and the land office have avoided corruption. They have carefully set down the areas where devlopment is permitted and they have rigorously policed the enforcement of these areas to stop encroachment. In developing countries stopping corruption and efficient policing is vital to protecting forestry resources.

The other main reason for Koh Phangan’s success in stopping illegal land clearing is tourism. The tourist sector provides a large in-flow  of cash into the region and employs many people. While people can gain money from tourism they are less inclined to exploit natural resources to gain money. Moreover, Thai people understand it is the natural beauty of the island that draws the tourists in the first place to the island. If Koh Phangan was stripped of forestry it would not be an island paradise and the tourists would soon go elsewhere for their holidays.

Thus, proper policing combined with the economic benefits of keeping the forest has helped to maintain the natural forest resources of Koh Phangan. This is an important lesson for other areas in the world.

Forests are an important element of nature. They don’t just provide natural resources in the form of medicines, food, herbs etc but they are also quite significant for the role they play in conserving our environment and thereby our lives. Global warming is primarily due to the cutting down of forests in order to expand urban life. In an urge to bring about development, we are sacrificing our forests but the question is – can we really have a life without these forests?

Having read all this, the next time you are enjoying a glass of orange juice that you made using the Breville 800JEXL juicer, you are sure to appreciate the value of the forests for they provided you this juicy little fruit!

As you can see forests play a vital role in the overall health of the planet we live in. This can be said because forest don’t just help the human beings and the animals to have a healthy lifestyle but also maintain the ecological balance which is essential for improving the environment we live in. Forests provide us food in the form of fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs, cereals, pulses, grains and other such essentials. Not just that, forests also provide us medicines that help us live better and stay healthier.

It is often those businesses that don’t have a bad reputation as far as harming the environment goes that could do more. For example, 5% of the world GDP comes from tourism. This is therefore an important field that should be targeted by the media and pressurized by consumers to green up their act.

In Thailand and other hot countries water management is very important. Tree cover must be maintained to allow as much moisture to be retained during the rainy season. Zoning to stop resorts encroaching onto forest land is important for the health of local eco-systems. Moreover, swimming pools should be limited in size and number. So many resorts in Koh Samui, Phuket, Khao Lak and elsewhere have ridiculously large swimming pools right next to the ocean that is fine for swimming.

One method to reduce the wasteful use of electricity is to connect the power supply to the a card that is attached to the room key. This stops customers leaving the air-con on all the time.

Kuraburi Greenview Resort makes more of an effort. This is a resort in Phang-Nga Province. The swimming pool is filled with mountain water that is not chlorinated. The huts have no air-con but instead are made from thick insulating clay to keep the heat out. The resort offers comfort and luxuries but with a consideration for the environment more in mind. More resorts should follow the example of Kuraburi Greenview Resort.

Wood is a natural insulator. Dependent on the type of wood you use you can offset most of your heating costs for the winter. Dense logs are laid together and stuffed with foam and plaster to make a waterproof airtight insulated walls. This technique will provide shelter from the elements for generations to come.   Also, they are natural and do not add to environmental problems that so often plauge modern builds and ill thought out ‘concept homes’.

When building new homes it’s important to take into account the transport costs associated with the materials used to build the home. Steel framed homes can use source materials from as far away as South America where as woodframe homes are generally sourced from within 150 to 250 miles. If you live in a densely wooded area, you might be able to build from Wood collected from your grounds. Sustainable home-building does not necessarily mean finding a new solution to an old problem, but sometimes finding the right old solution to a new problem.

On the other hand, this aim of sustainability and conversation is not often practical to the typical renter.  When searching for flats to rent, you do not need to feel that you have to find a log built cabin that comes from sustainable forests.  Instead, start with the small things- is there unnecessary lighting?  Are your appliances energy star compliant, do your windows leak heat or cool air?  We can’t all live in the forest but even us city dwellers can do our part.

However, for many homeowners, a lawn is not optional.  We often are subject to HOA regulations that require we maintain a lawn of a certain nature in a particular manner.  Those of us who have to deal with the ethical issues this presents us are forced to keep environmentally friendly ways to care for our lawn.

Thankfully, not ever lawn care technique ravages the environment.  When it comes to mowing lawns it is possible to get push mowers that cut the lawn using ’person power’ than fossil fuels – and provide a good workout to boot!  These are a lot more environmentally friendly than polluting gas lawnmowers.

Similarly, dethatching your lawn can be done in two ways.  Using power equipment – usually rented – that produces substantial amounts of greenhouse gases, or by using a dethatching lawn rake that we power ourselves.

Hopefully, one day I will move to a rural location and get to enjoy the sights and sounds of forest living. Until then I will do my best to maintain my lawn to my neighbors satisfaction without doing too much damage to the Earth.

One of the key tenets of environmentalism is to think locally; by doing so we can effect global change. It is always a mistake to formulate one plan and try to apply it universally, disregarding the conditions on the ground. Every country has its own set of environmental issues that require specific low carbon and local solutions.

In Thailand in tourist areas such as Koh Phangan, Koh Samui, Phuket and Khao Lak the problems are partly created by the influx of people due to tourism. It is a hot country and regularly there are water shortages because of all the foreign guests taking baths, using swimming pools and flushing the toilet. One obvious solution to this is to set up grey water recycling systems so that the water used in baths, toilets and sinks is reused for irrigation. Another way to improve the water system is to set up local water purification plants and try to discourage resorts selling foreign bottle water. It is a waste of resourcesw shipping bottle water around the world.

Tree cover is vital in Thailand to absorb the water from the rainy season and also to supply natural habitat. Hotels should be encouraged to prove their green credentials by investing in tree planting programs. Moreover, they should make sure that they recycle as much as possible the waste that is created by the tourist industry.

Finally, Thailand is renowned for the slapdash way its laws are applied. This means fishermen are often allowed to fish in protected waters depleting fish stock and damaging coral reefs. Paying for rangers who do more than collect park entrance fees would do a lot to help conserve marine resources in Thailand.

From just these few suggestions it is clear that much can be done to help the environment on a very small budget in Thailand.

A really good place to find greenhouses for sale would be a gardening show.  There are quite a few of these shows around over the course of the year at various locations.  These shows are intended to bring potential customers and sellers together.  If you are a seller you have a really good opportunity of attracting potential customers who will most likely be interested in gardening one way or another.

It is an opportunity to get your company name and your prices known.  Also customers can come along and chat with you and see the greenhouses for sale.  Quite a bit of work to set up but well worth the advertising opportunity.

A good environmental websites can be strongly connected to sustain improvement. The truth is, lasting growth will be the core step toward these mentioned technologies. Creating web design templates that are eco-friendly, is among the most answer in decreasing your waste created by individual activities. Most often, these programs are additionally driven through alternative causes of power for example solar panels and water in lieu of ingesting rare traditional causes of power similar to fossil fuel and oil content. Many of the locations within environmental innovation incorporate recycling, water filtering, reliable spend management, sewage treatment and renewable energy. The success depends on the creation of the financial atmosphere that helps those internet marketers which observe prospect within the modifying attitude from the worlds shoppers.

Advocates of environmental technology tend to be rising by the day as more and more folks are realizing the significance of conserving the natural resources. Many websites are dedicated to advertise  the preservation of the our Mother earth that is available with just a single click. Loan companies tend to provide financing plans pertaining to companies changing to eco-friendly products. Choosing eco-friendly and natural websites translates into practicality and productivity. A variety of goods covering numerous areas of human will need are actually offered.

One of the biggest problems our planet has is that our economies are built on the need to consume and replace.  There are very few business models that allow a company to thrive on reusing wherever possible.  However it is possible to break out of this trap in little aspects of our lives if you think about it. 

I help out occasionally with a local community paper in my area, it’s nothing fancy just news, views and gossip really from our home town.  However last week I was asked if I could do some of the printing to help with costs of production and because their cheap laser printer had broken down.  Now I don’t use my printers much so I didn’t really mind.  However after I had completed the run I totted up the costs of this printing and it was extremely high.  The problem was both my printers had extremely high costs to print each page, mainly due to the very expensive costs of each toner cartridge.  For a small paper like ours it really was pushing up prices beyond what was feasible.  

So I started investigating and realised many people actually regularly reuse the toner cartridges and just refill them with ink.  Most cartridges apparently can be refilled several times – which reduces costs by about 80% and also removes the impact on the environment.  Did you know that the average replacement cartridge costs 4 litres of oil to produce, you can save that each time you refill.   There’s actually a step by step guide on here about refilling your cartridges - http://www.compatibletoner.org/refill-toner/refill-toner-review/.

Whether you can do this really depends on a number of factors – one of the most important is which printer you have.  The manufacturers don’t like you refilling because it seriously reduces their profit margin so they put in various ways to stop you. The latest is  called a ’killer chip’ which stops the cartridge working after it’s done one print run.  Fortunately copies of these are available for a few pence in most cases and are very simple to replace so far.