2. We were born to help the world,
Not to destroy it,
Then why we are destroying the
environment ?
3. What is the
environment?
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The environment is something you are very familiar
with.
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It’s everything that makes up our surroundings and
affects our ability to live on the earth-the air we
breath, the water that covers most of the earth’s
surface, the plants and animals around us, and
much more.
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In recent years, scientists have been carefully
examining the ways that people affect the
environment.
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They have found that we are causing air pollution,
deforestation, acid rain, and other problems that are
dangerous both to the earth and to ourselves.
4. Environmental protection is influenced by three factors:
It is the collection of laws and regulations
pertaining to air quality, water quality, the
wilderness and other environmental factors.
Environmental Legislation
It is branch of ethics that studies the
relation of human beings and the
environment and how ethics play a
role in this.
Environmental Ethics
It is a process that allows individuals to
explore environment issues, engage in
problem solving, and take action to improve
the environment.
Environmental Education
5. Environmental pollution
•Pollution is the addition to the ecosystem
of something which has a detrimental
effect on it.
•One of the most important cause of
pollution is the high rate of energy usage
by modern growing populations.
Different types of pollution are found. In this
section we will discuss:
Waste disposal, dumpyards
etc.
Land pollution
Industrial effluents,
sewage disposal etc.
Water pollution
Tobacco smoke,
aeroplanes, cars etc.
Air pollution
6. Air pollution
Air pollution is the accumination in the atmosphere of substances
that, in sufficient concentrations, endanges human health or
produce other measured effects on living matter and othe
materials.
The six major type of pollutants are carbon monoxide,
hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, particulates, sulfur dioxide and
photochemical.
7. Control measures:
•The establishment of more smokeless zones
•Control over the kinds of fuel used in cars, aeroplanes, power stations, etc.
Air pollution
8. Water pollution
Water pollution is the introduction into fresh or ocean waters of
chemical, physical or biological material that degrades the quality
of the water and affects the organisms living in it.
9. Control measures:
•Every intelligent people should be wise enough not to pollute water in any way.
•By research and legislation the pollution of water bodies, even through not entirely
prevented, must be effectively controlled.
Water pollution
10. Land pollution
Land pollution is the degradation of the earth’s land surface
through misuse of the soil by poor agricultural particles, mineral
exploitation, industrial waste dumping and indiscriminate disposal
of urban wastes.
It includes visible waste and litter as well as pollution of the soil
itself.
12. Control measures:
•Anti-litter campaigns can educate people against littering.
•Organic waste can be dumped in places far from residential areas.
•Inorganic materials such as metal, glass and plastic can be reclaimed and recycled.
Land pollution
13. How to help save the environment
•Run your air conditioner sparingly or not at all. Air conditioners use a great deal of electricity.
•Donate or share rather than sending them to usable household items a landfill.
14. How to help save the environment
•Bring your own paper or cloth bags to the supermarket.
•Recycle all you can.
15. How to help save the environment
•Reduce garbage.
•Plant a tree.
16. Suggestions to save our planet earth
•Conserve water
•Conserve energy
•Grow more trees
•Recycle the wastage
•Ban the polythene
•Use renewable resources
18. 1. Agar plasticity
Agar is not only food anymore. Agar plasticity is a project that explores agar as an
alternative to synthetic plastics.
It turns out that agar can be an eco friendly packaging material.
19. 2. Water you can eat
Ooho is a water bottle created out of 100% plants and seaweeds.
It can be coloured & flavoured.
No need for plastic water bottles anymore!
20. 3. Organic waste recycling system
Homebiogas is a system for recycling food and other organic waste.
In addition, it generates clean energy.
Homebiogas need only sunlight and food waste to produce 2hours of gas.
21. 4. Water saving device
The Altered:Nozzle is a device that installs into your existing tap.
It helps you consume 98% less water while you are washing your hands or brushing
your teeth.
22. 5. Ocean cleaner
The seabin project was founded by 2 Australian surfers, and the V5 seabin was
designed to clean the oceans.
Seabin collects the garbage and works like a filter for the water.
It can be installed in the water or ports, marinas, or any other water.
23. 6. Solar cookers
With Solar Cookers International , you can cook using only the sun.
There are also similar low budjet solutions you can build yourself.
No more propane!
24. 7. Smart trash bin
TetraBin is garbage can with an intractive surface that awards users
with prize points every item thrown in it.
The whole internal surface of the tank is equipped with motion
sensors.
When garbage enters the bin, a chicken leg is displayed on the
outer panel,
Whick flies directly into the mouth of a hungry dog.
The purpose of the development is to motivate people to throw
garbage into trash bins.
25. 8.Ecological umbrella
A new way to save money in the water bills it’s gives by this ecological umbrella, that
allows to collect rainwater during your walk outside.
26. 9.Drinkable sea water
Maria Telkes, in 1920, when she was only 20 years old, she invented system of solar
distillation that can makes the water drinkable.
The system planned to pour salt water into a special container converted with a
transparent glass sheet, which was to be exposed to the sun, so the sun’s rays could
carry out his own water purified.
27. 10. Bottles that illuminate
Alfredo Moser, Brazilian, he invented a light bulb that works without electricity.
Just a 2 liter plastic bottle filled with water and bleech and each may be have it’s light,
free.
The solar bottle bulb uses the refraction of sunlight through the water, the bleech is
used to clean and maintain the transparent bottle.
28. 11.A biodegradable material that
decomposes as soon as it is empty.
Ari Jonsson, he invented a simple water bottle. But, this water bottle has the potential
to change the way the utilize and dispose substances in our environment.
This water bottle is made up from a biodegradable material that retains it’s shape till
the time it is full of liquid. But once it is empty, it starts to decompose!
29. 12. Lights powered by algae
Imagine having lights without electricity. That is so very possible, with the research
biochemist Pierre Calleja is doing.
With the Earth’s resources rapidly depleting and a need for renewables.
It is completely self-sufficient, where energy for to power lights in the evening comes
from photosynthesis in a day.
Also, it absorbs CO2.
30. 13. Plastic alternative made from methane
An alternative to plastic, Mango materials produces a naturally occurring biopolymere
from waste biogas(methane) that aree economically competative with conventional
oil-based plastics.
Converting greenhouse gas into something that replaces plasics, this is a double-win
for the earth.
31. 14. Concrete made from CO2
Every 1kg of cement more than 0.5kg of CO2 is released. It is responsible for 5% of
global CO2 emissions, this is a game changer for the cement industry.
Solidia Technologies is designing and creating cement blocks that sucks CO2 from
the atmosphere in order to be made.