According to the backgrounder by The Economic Times: A lethal plume of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas escaped from a storage tank at the Union Carbide pesticide factory in the early hours of December 3, 1984 in the central Indian city of Bhopal. Government figures put the death toll at 3,500 within the first three days …
Tag Archives: Environment
World 2.0
I chance upon The Artist Farm recently, and soon find myself reading post after post on a wide range of interesting topics. One particular post that stays with me is the one about World 2.0: World 2.0 is about realizing and deeply internalizing that we (especially westerners) have gone beyond day-to-day survival, that we have crossed …
True Cost of Stuff
From the Master of Simplicity comes a pathbreaking post on a new blog, appropriately titled ‘mnmlist’. Here’s just a minimal extract… But there’s more to buying less. Way more… The cost of purchasing an item just scratches the surface. … It now occupies valuable real estate in our homes (or offices), real estate that could go to …
Saving Your PC
I was surprised to read on TechSoup about the environmental impact that PCs have : According to the Electronics TakeBack Coalition, manufacturing one desktop computer and monitor requires 530 pounds of fossil fuels, 48 pounds of chemicals, and 1.5 tons of water… A report from United Nations University indicates that building a computer takes five …
350
Why is the number 350 so important? According 350.org : There are three numbers you need to really understand global warming, 275, 390, and 350. For all of human history until about 200 years ago, our atmosphere contained 275 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Parts per million is simply a way of measuring the concentration …