Practical Approach to Environmental Protection

Nowadays, we can no longer hide the truth or sugarcoat the dreadful condition of our planet earth. At this time all we can do is to make collaborative efforts towards environmental protection. And it is extremely significant that every mankind, depending on his or her potential must adhere to this environmental advocacy.


Although it is not that easy to convert all people in becoming a tree hugger, one of the ways to convince them towards protecting the environment is to be a role model and make them understand how extremely important is the environment protection nowadays. Through creating awareness about the advantages of replenishing our nature and disadvantages of disrupting it would definitely make a difference. For example, planting trees can already provide a statement about purifying the air in order to help in mitigating global warming. Another is by keeping our surroundings clean and green. Improper garbage disposal is not only one of the major causes of health hazards but the number one source of pollutants.

Likewise, promoting environmental campaigns and green technologies can help in creating environmental awareness. Spectrum Blue Steel (SBSC) and True Green Energy Group (TGEG) are just right in promoting biosphere technology, a waste to energy system that eradicates waste materials in ecological manner.

Therefore, the practical approach towards protecting our environment is to create awareness through our environmental initiatives. This is a mission that would benefit our planet earth, a kindness to oneself and others and, in fact, to all living beings.

Sustainable Energy for the Future

In today’s world almost everyone are very accustom to a ready access of electricity. Sometimes others don’t even think where it’s coming from or don’t even realize how much energy they consume every day. Since it’s only a secondary form of energy, in order to produce it we need our natural resources. However, the most abundant and low-cost energy source which is the fossil fuel creates huge impact to the environment. Among all the form of energy sources it’s the highest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas.

According to IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report the atmospheric mixing ratio of CO2 has increased worldwide by about 100 ppm (36%) over the last 250 years. Just imagine if CO2 in the atmosphere continue to increase on the coming years, then maybe it would be too late for us to stop global warming. And with this problem at hand, we cannot continuously depend on fossil fuels for most of our energy consumption. We need sustainable and clean green energy and it should be given utmost attention nowadays or else our future is at risk.

There are various solutions available, there’s the use of renewable energy, biofuels, and other researches on science such as capturing of energy from yeast and genetically engineered bacteria. There’s probably one winning solution but the most interesting solution is the use of wastes to generate electricity. Through this technology, both problems on energy and wastes can be solved. We even don’t need to use our natural resources since it uses wastes to derive clean energy. This is known as the biosphere process or biosphere technology.

Improve Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

It is quite evident that nations have not given much attention to the importance of energy conservation and efficiency from the past years. While world’s energy consumption has continued to increase over the years, the policies on energy efficiency and sustainability are often ineffectual and not properly implemented. And since energy is required for economic growth, it is just essential to have sustainable clean energy and improved energy efficiency. 

Energy efficiency is defined by World Energy Council (WEC) as the overall changes due to reduction of energy usage for a given service or level of activity. But it does not necessarily mean that it is only because of technical changes, it can also be the result of a better organization and management or improved economic efficiency in the sector. 

But really, how can we achieve improved energy efficiency?

By lowering or decreasing our energy consumption through effective energy policies and efficient technologies we can improve our energy efficiency. Since for every product/service produced there is an equivalent energy usage, the less energy consumed the higher the energy efficiency. Therefore, improved energy efficiency will result in improvement of production, total costs reduction and eventually—improvement of our economy.

On the other hand having improved energy efficiency is not enough for almost 7 billion people around the world. Energy problem couldn’t be resolve without both energy efficiency and sufficiency. Although it is possible for every nation to conserve energy, if the resources can’t support our present energy needs and of the future generation, then we can say sustainability is way too far achievable. As the term itself defines, sustainability is the ability to meet long term sustenance whether it is for individual needs or for a global scale. It is meeting the needs within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems without risking the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 

There are options given such as the explorations on solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy. Sounds promising but still are not the best sources for the sustainable energy we want for our future. Aside from being capital intensive there is still the underlying question of environmental impact and seasonal factors. These renewable sources do not totally eliminate the burning of fossil fuels though known as clean energy. The only known renewable sources that generally meet this are biomass and burning of wastes such as biosphere technology.