Thinking Green - Environmental Tips, News, Commentary

Image from TrustElement 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.

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. The most commonly used is fossil fuel for it's the most abundant and low-cost energy source. However, among all other form of energy sources it’s also the highest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2), thereby creates huge impact to the environment .

Image by gilderic via Flickr There are so many interesting breakthroughs in energy nowadays. For example, the use of solid wastes to derive energy is really intriguing. It is also known as the biosphere gasification process wherein it uses high temperatures to produce clean green energy out of wastes.

We cannot change the reality, global warming is a global concern that requires a global solution. Although we do individual actions such as recycling, still it’s not the ultimate solution. Global warming also requires the action of every government. It takes both individual actions and government legislation to save our planet from devastation brought by global warming. If there’s a way of enacting the laws to provide the needs of a growing world of 6.3 billion people, there must be a way to reduce every nation’s consumption of energy and further emission of greenhouse gases. Governments simply need to consider taking actions seriously about this global problem. Why not end the selfish reasons of globalization and act collectively as one nation, one world? We are no longer talking about conflicts on resources here or economic development but our lives. We urgently need to restore and maintain the balance between ourselves and our planet earth before the problem of global warmi