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Low Carbon Life

Low-carbon becomes a high-frequency and fashionable word which gets the greatest concern in the world after the promulgation of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol. Meanwhile, a series of related words, such as low-carbon economy, carbon footprint, low-carbon technology, low-carbon lifestyle, low-carbon society, low-carbon city and so on, comes with the tide of fashion. Low-carbon life and low-carbon economy is also one of the hot topics in National People's Congress (NPC) and National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in 2010.

What is low-carbon life ? First of all, we should understand low-carbon. Low-carbon refers to a minimal output of greenhouse gas emissions into the biosphere, specifically refers to the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. So, low-carbon life means a kind of lifestyle in which people do their best to reduce energy consumption and carbon greenhouse gas emissions. Low-carbon economy is an economy model based on low energy consumption, low pollution and low emission.

Why do we advocate and pursue low-carbon life ? Because of the development of the world industrial economy, the fast increase of population, the unlimited increase of the human desire and the unrestrained production and lifestyle, the human living environment, health and safety are becoming more and more worse, for example, the resources that people rely on to survive dwindle, water pollution becomes worse, the Earth's ozone layer suffers an unprecedented crisis, the glacier is thawing, the catastrophic global climate changes appear repeatedly. So, we can say, the high-consumption and high-pollution economy model and life style is becoming the killer of the earth and human beings.

Therefore, low-carbon life is needed by man's own health, harmony between human beings and nature and the development of mankind.

Then, how can we live a low-carbon life?Firstly, we should recognize that low-carbon life is not only a kind of lifestyle but also life attitude. Each of us is responsible for the greenhouse gases we emit in our daily actions. Combating climate change has to take the combined efforts of everyone on the planet.Secondly, we should develop good habits in our daily lives. We can select products with longer shelf life when we shop. This can reduce waste and ultimately reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Paper cups are made from cutting forests. We should try not to use them, or select the smaller ones when we do because trees can absorb carbon dioxide and reduce greenhouse gas. We should use efficient light bulbs which use about one-third of the energy of normal bulbs and last 10 times as long. And the lights should be turned off when not needed. This will greatly reduced electricity consumption. We print things out only when necessary, and print double-sided and reduce the margins. All motorized travel is carbon-intensive. Buses and trains are better

than cars, but walking or cycling is better still. It's also better for our health and cheaper. Air travel is an environmental disaster. As well as carbon dioxide, planes emit nitrogen oxide, another nasty gas. There are so many low-carbon life actions that it is impossible to list all of them. Low-carbon life can be summarized as moderate food, house, transportation, more sports and not wasting. In terms of traditional Chinese culture, the concept of low-carbon life can also be simplified as industry and thrift

Jinzhou inhabitants experience low carbon life

2010-01-28 10:19:44 By:yangzixin Source: Size:[Big][Medium][Small]

With the enhancement of people?s conscience of energy saving and environment protection, th e word …low carbon” takes up in their daily conversation and trivial matters more and more.Today, the power of low carbon improves the development of times unconsciously and leads the fasion trend. Low carbon life style which stands for nature, health, safety is influencing our attitude towards life and life style unconsciously.

Recently, the journalist learnt that many citizens are bound up in low carbon life, who is gathering together as members of an abundant group in cities, low carbon group. And they stir up low carbon life tides one after another.

Low carbon besides you

Uncle LI, who lives in Guta District, remembers to take care of the saplings planted by him every morning when he is having a walk in the plot. He adopted a sapling last year when tenement department of some plot launched saplings adoption movement. Now, the sapling is thriving under his care. Although Uncle Li has profitable retirement pension, he adheres to saving water and electricity. He leads a simple life. In his grandson’s words,his grandpa is leading low carbon life. There are many people who know little about l ow carbon, a fasion word, like Uncle Li. It sounds a brand new life style at the beginning. Weighing and considering, you will find it is close to our daily life.

李叔叔，谁住在古塔区，以种植记得他每天早上当他是有阴谋走在树苗照顾。他去年通过了一棵唐时的一些情节树苗部门通过开展运动。现在，树苗是他的关怀下蓬勃发展。虽然有盈利的叔叔李退休金，他坚持节约用水和电力。他领导一个简单的生活。在他的孙子的话，他的爷爷是领先的低碳生活。还有谁不知道是什么低碳，像叔叔李一西翁词很多人。听起来一崭新生活方式在开头。称重和考虑，你会发现它是与我们的日常生活。

But what?s low carbon life on earth? In short words, it is to encourage people change their living habits and deduce the carbon footprint, which aims to reduce the integral dose all over the world. Tracing origins, over dose carbon footprint is the main cause of unusual global climate.

但在地球上的低碳生活？简言之，即是鼓励人们改变他们的生活习惯和推断的碳足迹，旨在减少世界各地的积分剂量。追踪超过剂量碳足迹的起源，是全球气候异常的主要原因。

Changing your habit will influence the environment

“The carbon dioxide footprint will reduce 0.1 gram if you save a plastic bag. It will reduce 600 gram if you climb stairs under the fifth floor instead of taking lifts. It will reduce 400 gram per kilogram if you chose fruits and vegetables on seasons. It will reduce 175 gram for a machine every day if you make the air conditioner one degree higher in summer. A tree can absorb carbon dioxide 18.3 kilogram per year. “Xi ao Wang, a college student, tells the journalist, he record minor matters about reducing carbon footprint done by him on website that day. That’s his carbon reduction dairy. And he sent the active link to his classmates and friends to encourage them to take part in environment protection activity. He hopes his way of changing his living habits can encourage others to take action instead of throbbing. After class, Wang, the teacher, says,” the power of Chinese netizen is enormous. As low carbon new generation, college students is responsible to spread the green concept to more and more people by network. The environment will develop smoothly as long as everyone changes their living habits.

“这将减少二氧化碳足迹0.1克如果您保存一个塑料袋。这将减少六百克如果你在爬，而不是采取五楼的楼梯升降机。这将减少400克，每公斤如果您选择的水果和蔬菜的季节。这将减少一台机器每天一百七十五克如果你在夏季的空调1度更高。树能吸收二氧化碳18.3千克每年。“小王，一名大学生告诉记者，他记录有关减少碳足迹的网站上完成他当天小事。这是他的减碳乳制品。他发出了积极的联系，以他的同学和朋友，鼓励他们参与环保活动的一部分。他希望他改变他的生活习惯，可以鼓励其他国家采取行动，而不是跳动的方式。下课后，王老师说，“中国网民的力量是巨大的。由于低碳新一代大学生是负责通过网络传播绿色理念，越来越多的人。环境能够顺利发展，只要每个人改变他们的生活习惯。

Low carbon trend rising online

During interviewing, the journalist leant that more and more

amazing people lead happy low carbon life online. “how much carbon have you saved today?” a group o f environment protection amazing people is gathering in the forum of some network. They are accounting the carbon footprint. This word has become their shibboleth. Mr. Liu, an officer, is one of them. He rarely drives his car, climbs stairs and turn off th e computer when he doesn’t use it any more, which are his living habits. He tells the journalist, he decides to try his best to reduce carbon footprint by changing his living habits after knowing that more carbon dioxide will influence the environment greatly.

He will audit his carbon footprint in his daily life carefully every day and show his achievements online promptly and share his happy mood with his cyber friends. A number of investors in our city can also experience the happiness of low carbon life when they are investing in stocks. Mz. Wang, who lives in Songsang newly liberated area, is an old people. She cares about current events very much.

The world climate summit held in Copenhagen not long before make energy saving and environment protection to be the focus point. And

a great number of enterprises are developing low carbon economy and

green industry. Low carbon stock and green stock become the just shares on which investors keep a watchful eye. She bought two low carbon stocks the other day, which may be substantially higher. She told the journalist.

在采访中，记者靠在，越来越多的人过幸福惊人的低碳生活在线。“你有多少碳储存今天？”的环保集团是在一些网络论坛收集了不起的人。他们是会计的碳足迹。这个词已经成为他们的口号。刘先生，一个军官，就是其中之一。他开着他的车很少，爬上楼梯，关闭计算机时，他不使用它了，这是他的生活习惯。他告诉记者，他决定尽最大努力减少通过改变后知道更多的二氧化碳将大大影响他的生活习惯，环境碳足迹。他将在他的日常生活审计其碳足迹每天都仔细查看他的成就网上及时分享他与他的网上朋友愉快的心情。一个投资者在我们的城市数量也可以体验到低碳生活幸福时，他们在股票投资。mz的。

王，谁在Songsang新解放区的生活，是一个老人。她关心时事非常。世界首脑会议在哥本哈根举行的气候没过多久，使能源节约和环境保护成为焦点。而大量的企业在发展低碳经济和绿色产业。低碳股票和股票变成了绿色，投资者保持警觉的眼睛只股票。她买了两个低的碳储存有一天，这可能会大大增加。

她告诉记者。

A forest carbon sink refers to the process of forests absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in plants or the earth, so as to reduce its density in the air.

Compared with direct emissions reductions in industry, forest carbon sinks are a kind of indirect emissions reduction. They make little demand in investment and costs, but provide comprehensive benefits. Therefore, it's quite a practical and economical way to reduce emissions. Every hectare of forest is able to absorb between 20 and 40 tons of carbon dioxide.

You?ve already changed out every light bulb* in your hou se (right?) and have derived so much satisfaction from watching your Con Ed bill shrink that you?re hungry for more savings.

Here are six more simple, do-it-yourself ways to green your home, saving money and Mother Earth at the same time.

* If you haven?t traded your old bulbs for eco-friendly ones — which can cost as little as $3 a bulb — we pass along this piece of advice:

“Changing out the light bulbs is the easiest thing you can do,” says Kevin Morrow, senior program manager for the National Association of Home Builders? green building programs.

And if that?s not enough, a little guilt: “If everyone in the world would just switch out one bulb, we would save thousands of tons of carbon from being ejected into the atmosphere,” says Mark Jupiter, co-founder and president of the product division of New World Home. Onward.

Dam it

“The quickest, easiest, biggest money savers in green living are in conservation when it comes to your home,” says Jupiter.

Namely energy conservation. Jupiter recommends a home energy audit, which will reveal where air leaks in and out of your home.

There are a slew of companies that will do this for you. For $299, Bright Home Energy Solutions (https://www.360docs.net/doc/5717851711.html,) will come to your house and show you where your energy dollars are being thrown away. Then you can apply that $299 toward their solutions of any problems found. You can find other audit providers at https://www.360docs.net/doc/5717851711.html,.

Another option is to conduct your own home energy audit. Turn on all vents (bathroom, kitchen) and then close all your doors and windows, save one. Place a fan in the open window, blowing out. And then walk around your apartment with an incense stick, holding it by the base molding, in the corners, in any recessed lighting fixtures and anywhere else air could sneak in.

When smoke is drawn into the house (rather than up), you?ve found a leak. And leaks should be caulked, weather-stripped or insulated in another way.

“Discovering where the leaks are and closing those leaks would instantaneously save most people 30 percent on their energy bills,” says Jupiter.

How low can you flow?

Good news: Low flow no longer means barely getting wet. There are a host of companies offering aerators for faucets and low-flow showerheads that don?t take everything out of the experien ce. Try Kohler?s 1.75 GPM Water-Conserving Shower Heads, which cost around $100. Or look for the EPA label, Water Sense, on other products. These items will meet EPA recommendations for flow rates.

Water savings can also come from the commode. The Archer toilet by Kohler ($650) features a classic design — unlike other eco-friendly toilets that can look like they belong in airports. And it can save a typical family of four up to 16,500 gallons of water per fixture per year.

Looking for a cheaper way to save water? “One thing we do in our buildings is we found the toilets waste a decent amount of water, so we install a Toilet Tummy,” says Kinne Yon, co-owner of Kenbar Management, which is developing 1510 Lex, a 298-unit green rental building on the Upper East Side.

A Toilet Tummy (available at https://www.360docs.net/doc/5717851711.html, for $5.39) is basically a balloon that goes into your toilet tank, displacing an amount of water of your choice and thus saving on every flush.

Paint it white

Follow Mayor Bloomberg?s lead, set with “NYC Cool Roofs,” and paint your roof white. According to the city, a “cool” roof can reduce roof temperatures by 60 degrees and indoor temperatures by 10 to 20 degrees, lessening the need for air conditioning in the summer and lowering the city?s “heat island” effect. The city estimates that a cool roof can reduce AC costs by 50 percent for a one-story building, 25 percent for a two-story building and 10 percent for a five-story building.

Breathe easy

From the smog that comes in through our windows to the fumes from the chemicals we keep under the sink (you should be getting rid of those, too, by the way), our air is filled with stuff we don?t want in our lungs.

“If you own your air conditioner [central or window] or your furnace, you own the ability to change out your filtration system,” says Morrow.

He also recommends purchasing a HEPA air purifier. The Alen Paralda HEPA Air Purifier ($499 at Green Depot) has a filter that lasts six to nine months, with replacement filters priced at $49.95.

Get smart

Once the city is outfitted with Smart Meters, a Con Ed device that monitors home energy use and is currently being tested in Queens, then we can all invest in an EnergyHub (https://www.360docs.net/doc/5717851711.html,).

An EnergyHub looks like an iPhone, goes on your countertop and tells you where and when you?re using the most electricity in your home. And then it helps you regulate your usage — by allowing you to program your thermostat remotely or cutting power to your machines when you?re not around. Though the price isn?t fixed yet, Seth Frader-Thompson, president of EnergyHub, expects it to come in somewhere between $200 and $300, which should pay for itself after about a year.

EnergyHub is in trial homes right now. Frader-Thompson hopes to release the product widely early next year.

In th e meantime, there?s the Kill A Watt Electricity Monitoring Power Strip ($99.95 at https://www.360docs.net/doc/5717851711.html,), which assesses how much energy your electronics consume. “People are starting to pay a lot more attention to …phantom? loads, energy that?s used by applianc es even when they aren?t on,” says green-building consultant Maureen Mahle. Materials, girl

Switching out functional furniture or materials just to add green touches to your home is not eco-friendly.

“You might have a countertop that?s already in place; i f so, you should use it throughout its usable life,” says Morrow.

But if you do find yourself in need of a new counter, go for the green. EnviroGLAS (https://www.360docs.net/doc/5717851711.html,) sells brilliantly colored counters composed of recycled glass, which are comparable in cost to granite counters.

Need to replace the floor? Consider linoleum, which is made from sustainable linseed oil. It?s more expensive than vinyl, but it?s long-lasting, up to 40 years, so you?ll be saving in the long run

在筹备前期，世博会选址结合了旧城改造，关停搬迁了272家污染企业，并在园区建设时广泛采用了太阳能、节能、节水和雨水回收等技术。在运行期间，上海世博会实行公交优先，在园区内投入了1000多辆清洁能源汽车以实现“零排放”，照明普遍采用的是节能环保的LED光源。针对大家比较关心的世博园区空气质量保障问题，张权表示，有些借鉴了北京奥运会期间对空气质量监测和防控的管理办法，但世博会持续时间长，还必须有自己独特的长效手段：““我们这次采用了长三角联动这样一个措施，江苏浙江两省对上海世博会是非常支持的。相对来说后世博时期也是可以用的，后世博以后我们环境质量还在继续巩固。”

In preparation for the early stage of the World Expo site combines the transformation of the old, closed down 272 polluting enterprises relocated, and widely used in the construction of the park has solar energy, energy efficiency, water conservation and rain water recycling technology. During operation, the Shanghai World Expo to implement bus priority, in the park more than 1,000 vehicles into clean energy vehicles in order to achieve "zero emissions" energy-saving lighting is widely used environmentally friendly LED lighting. For we are more concerned about air quality protection for the Expo Site, Zhang Quan said in Beijing during the Olympic Games draw some air quality monitoring, prevention and control management practices, but the Expo will continue for a long time must have their own unique long-term means: " "We have linked the use of a measure of the Yangtze River Delta, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces on the Shanghai World Expo is very much supportive. After the exposition period is relatively available, and after the quality of our environment after the Expo continues to consolidate. "

世博园现在每天产生两三百吨的垃圾，包括有生活垃圾、餐厨垃圾和少部分的建筑垃圾，部分地区也曾经出现过垃圾不够装、餐厨垃圾遗漏的问题。运营方正在积极做出调整。据了解，世博园区还有一个“智能化垃圾气力输送系统”，这是一个非常先进的垃圾收集方法，发达国家也是刚刚开始使用，目前在世博会上试点，使用的效率还不是很高，还需要引导和宣传：“就在有些场馆的旁边，有两个绿色的小构筑物，就是两个岔开的，像个绿苗。有些参观者还不知道这是气力输送的投放垃圾的地方。”

Expo is now two or three tons of garbage generated every day, including garbage, food waste and a small part of the construction waste, there have been some areas have also not installed garbage, food waste left issue. Founder and make adjustments in active operation. It is understood that the Expo Site and a " intellective waste pneumatic conveying system", which is a very advanced method of garbage collection, developed countries have just started, currently at the pilot in the World Expo, the use of efficiency is not high, but also guide and communication: "In some venues on the side, there are two small green structures, that is, the two diverge, like a green plant. Some visitors do not know if this is put in pneumatic conveying of waste places."

据记者了解，这个“气力”输送垃圾投放的设施有一定的要求，长宽比不超过50公分，垃圾进去以后可以真空负压收集到一个储存箱里面去，避免“跑、冒、滴、漏”的情况发生。上海世博会的主题是“城市，让生活更美好”，而园区内各个场馆的展示内容几乎都以低碳

环保、可持续发展、人与自然和谐等为主题。可以说这也是一场环保的盛会。

According to report, this "strength" waste transportation facilities put certain requirements, the aspect ratio of not more than 50 cm, garbage collection into the future can be a vacuum inside the storage tank to avoid the "run, run, drip, leak "to happen. The theme of Shanghai World Expo is "Better City, Better Life" and showing the park, almost all venues are to low-carbon environment, sustainable development, harmony between man and nature theme. Can say that this is an environmentally friendly event.

英国馆最大的亮点是由6万根蕴含植物种子的透明亚克力杆组成的巨型“种子殿堂”——这些触须状的“种子”顶端都带有一个细小的彩色光源，可以组合成多种图案和颜色。所有的触须将会随风轻微摇动，使展馆表面形成各种可变幻的光泽和色彩。“种子圣殿”周围的设计也寓义深远，它就像一张打开的包装纸，将包裹在其中的“种子圣殿”送给中国，作为一份象征两国友谊的礼物。

Highlights of the British Museum is the largest contains 60,000 seeds composed of transparent acrylic poles huge "seed Palace" 260,000seeds- the antennae-like "seed" the top are small color with a light source, can be combined into a variety of patterns and colors. All the tentacles will wind shake slightly, so that all may be changing pavilion surface luster and color. "Seed Temple" was also designed around the Apartments profound meaning, it is like an open wrapping paper, which will be wrapped in "seed Temple", to China, as a symbol of friendship gift