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CARMEL–Carmel residents and business owners may bring large recyclable items to Carmel High School between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday.
The America Recycles Week event will be in the stadium parking lot at the northwest corner of 136th Street and Keystone Parkway.
Recycling services are offered at no charge during the event.
Items accepted include electronics, microwaves, small appliances, TVs, cell phones, computer equipment (with hard drives removed or reformatted), dehumidifiers, small lawn tools, fans, medical/orthopedic equipment, cardboard, and bicycles.
Crews also are available to pick up of items that are difficult to drop off, such as large appliances, lawn mowers, mattresses, heating and cooling equipment, large office equipment and disassembled metal playground equipment, said Margot Gibson, a Carmel Clay Schools staff member.
To schedule a pick-up or for more details, residents should call (317) 375-7788 or e-mail name, address, phone number and a description of recyclables to info@applianceproject.org, Gibson said.
The recycling event is being sponsors by Carmel Utilities, Carmel High School International Baccalaureate Program students and DAO Recycling, an Indianapolis Eastside appliance removal and recycling service, Gibson said.
Source: Indystar.com
Canon Marketing (Philippines) Inc. (CMPI), a leading imaging company, has launched its local efforts supporting the worldwide Canon Green campaign.
The campaign, dubbed Canon GreenNation, is a sustainable environmental program that focuses on the proper disposal of Pixma and Selphy ink cartridges and toners. It aims to instill caring for the environment a part of the lifestyle of every citizen of Canon GreenNation.
GreenNation’s first project is an ink cartridge collection program, which was also launched alongside the campaign. With this, Canon Selphy and PIXMA users can simply place their empty printer cartridges in designated recycling bins inside Canon concept stores in malls.
Look for the Canon Green Nation Recyling Bins
AOC, the leading computer display manufacturer in the world, launches its new line of LED monitors and LCD TV. The first to launch the LED monitor to the Philippines, AOC furthers its green campaign through its monitors that are safe and energy efficient because they have no mercury content with a press conference and a dealer’s launch at the Garden Ballroom of EDSA Shangri-La.
AOC guarantees the 3 E’s in technology—GrEen, Ergonomic, and Entertaining. Its new line of monitors are equipped with top-of-the-line features such as the mercury-free power-saver LED backlight, Navi-Ring to replace the modern remote control, and multiple input connections for the gamer in everyone.
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Hinkley Lighting, makers of quality lighting products since 1922, provides its share in environment conservation with a line of Energy Star® (EST) qualified fixtures and home décors.
Energy Star
® products use about 75 percent less energy than standard lighting, produce 75 percent less heat, and last up to 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs. With these, customers get to reduce costs on energy bills and bulb replacements.
Hinkley’s EST fixtures combine a GU24 socket together with a self-ballasted CFL bulb and a photocell that prevents it from staying illuminated during daylight hours. Moreover, the product has met strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Energy (DOE), providing an assurance of superior energy efficiency for your indoor or outdoor lighting needs.
Attorneys working on the litigation dealing with the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil plume can expect to deal with novel questions of punitive damages, economic injuries, and the interaction of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 on the existing body of state, federal and maritime law, participants in the Gulf Coast Oil Symposium said Tuesday.
The symposium, organized by the New Orleans Bar Association at the Sheraton New Orleans hotel, is a measure of just how engrossing the legal issues facing plaintiff and defense attorneys alike are expected to be. “We’ve never done a seminar in response to a specific event,” said Loretta Larsen, executive director of the bar association.
Attorneys who represented plaintiffs in the litigation over the Exxon Valdez tanker grounding in 1989 offered their words of wisdom.
Minneapolis attorney Karen Hanson Riebel said that time is the enemy. By the time the litigation settled, 20 percent of her 32,000 class members had died. After nearly two decades of litigation, class members received an average of $15,000 each for their losses.
Water crisis, pandemics, energy crisis, extinction of species, chemical contamination, global warming, and climate change have become danger warning signals for us to heed and proactively act for the environment.
In this regard, being proactive means these environmental issues should be in the forefront of national and international agendas and cooperation. Saving Mother Earth and the attainment of a sustainable society should be everybody’s business and every person’s responsibility.
Canon and the environment
Canon has always incorporated into its manufacturing and corporate philosophy the proper care and conservation of the environment. Its products are manufactured in compliance with the highest international environmental standards, which include Energy Star certification (for energy efficiency) and the EU’s RoHS (controls on the use of hazardous materials).
Canon realizes that the whole lifecycle of a product can affect the amount of energy consumption and of pollutant and CO2 emission on the planet. For this, it undertakes efforts to reduce the amount of used energy and of pollutant and CO2 emitted by products from the stages of production (raw materials used, product design, and actual production), product use (transit and features), and recycling or disposal.
In line with this, Canon has developed compact cameras that use as few resources as possible; produced printers and copying machines that consume dramatically less energy; and drawn out programs on the collection, recycling, and proper disposal of used toner and ink cartridges.
Printers that care for the environment
In the manufacture of printer bodies and parts, recycled plastic and bio-plastic are used extensively to save on raw materials and energy to conserve the environment. This year’s latest models, made with more compact packaging compared to last year’s, will definitely conserve even more packaging materials.
The new PIXMA iP2770, MP258, and MX347 printers have Quick Start and self-opening paper output tray features to help conserve electricity and avoid paper wastage, respectively. Likewise, Auto Duplex printing and the ability to print multiple pages on a single sheet significantly reduce paper use.
At every printing stage, from factory to home or office, Canon’s photo printers are designed to have minimal impact on the environment.
On the 27th of March 2010 at 8:30PM, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation (Shell) joined cities and towns across the world in turning off their lights for one hour – EARTH HOUR – sending a powerful global message that it’s time to take action on global warming.
The company switched off the red bar canopy lights in all Shell stations, billboard lights and all area lights in its offices, refineries and depots all over the country. Shell’s LPG dealers and Lubes distributors likewise turned off their signage lights nationwide.
Shell has similarly shared energy conservation tips to staff, business partners, and neighbouring communities across various Shell offices, installations and retail stations nationwide.
“Management of energy use requires all of us to work together. Earth Hour is one of these unique ways by which each one of us may take part in collectively doing our part to ensure that our planet lives for this generation, and the many generations to come,” Roberto Kanapi, Shell Vice President for Communications said.
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National Geographic Channel, in partnership with Ayala Malls and The Mind Museum, unveiled a life-size sculpture of the world’s biggest baby blue whale in Manila last November 17, 2009. This is the last stop of the Asian tour that aims to further public understanding of blue whales. Blue whales are the largest creature to ever inhabit the earth. Bigger than the greatest dinosaurs, they weigh up to 200 tons and extend up to 30 meters.
The Big Blue Exhibition will take visitors into the world of the magnificent blue whales. The sophisticated sculpture will be the highlight of the event. It is a life-like rendering of a nine-meter long, two-month old, female blue whale that was created by a team of professional model makers in Australia.
Baby Blue Whale replica
The exhibition also includes expert sharing sessions, conservation and education activities, and a feature writing competition. It features never-before-seen footages from National Geographic’s groundbreaking documentary, Big Blue.
The Big Blue Exhibition will run in five different venues on the following dates: Glorietta 5, November 17-26; Trinoma Mall, November 28-December 11; Alabang Town Center, January 4-17; Market! Market!, January 18-February 2; and Greenbelt Mall, February 3-17.
Lorie Tan of WWF
“Te National Geographic Channel is delighted to launch Asia’s first Blue Whale Exhibition in Manila, in partnership with Ayala Malls and the Mind Museum. We hope that this inspiring encounter with this majestic creature will spark imaginations and further interest in marine conservation and how oceans relates closely to the well-being of humans,” said Sonia Jackson, senior vice president for marketing and general manager for Hong Kong and the Philippines of Fox International Channel, the mother company of National Geographic Channel.
The Ayala Malls, led by Ayala Group senior vice president Marivic Anonuevo, is committed to support the National Geographic’s efforts to encourage Filipinos to care for this beautiful creature and raise awareness of marine conservation in the Philippines.
Learn from the expert
National Geographic and The Mind Museum have invited local marine mammal scientist Dr. Arnel Andrew Yaptinchay to host special sharing sessions to inspire students and visitors of the Big Blue Exhibition.
Dr. Yaptinchay is one of the volunteer scientists providing advice on some exhibits for the museum. He is involved in conservation initiatives on threatened marine species such as the whale shark, cetaceans, and dugong in the Philippines. Dr. Yaptinchay has once served as director for the Species Conservation Program of World Wide Fund-Philippines. He will share his experiences with local audiences and answer questions.
Big Blue documentary
Showing on National Geographic Channel 18 November at 7 pm, 21 November at 11 am, and 22 November at 8 pm, the two-hour Big Blue special is the first documentary to uncover the mysteries of the blue whale.
The special features never-before-seen moments in the life of blue whales, with stunning first-time footage of a blue whale calf and its mother and amazing shots of an adult blue whale singing.
Audiences will also get a unique whale’s view through an advanced technology developed by National Geographic called CRITTERCAM®, which allows unprecedented access into the animal kingdom without human interference.
This state-of-the-art research device was attached to a blue whale’s back to record footages of the animal as it travels deep into the ocean to allow scientists to study its behaviors.
For more information about the Big Blue Multimedia Exhibition and the Big Blue documentary, please visit http://www.ngcasia.com/programmes/blue-whale
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AAI Media Relations Team
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