Let us help stop Global Warming now and make sure that the world we live in stays alive!

Global Warming is not a fad. It is not a story that somebody just made up. Global Warming is a scientific reality that all humans face. Some of the things we do have a negative impact on our planet. We need to reverse this impact now.

Visit www.warmingsign.org to sign up and get facts on Global Warming.

All you need to do is register your first name, last name and the country you are from. You don’t even need to enter your e-mail address.

Help us spread the word by forwarding this message to your contacts and friends. WarmingSign is even available as a Facebook Application.

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Designed with the intent of reinventing footwear design while simulaneously eliminating waste & toxics, using less energy and reducing waste at the end of the product’s life, the Men’s Nike Considered CVT glue-free construction provides exceptional comfort traction and craftsmanship.

The outstanding form-fitting design derives from a full-grain distressed leather upper combined with cupsole fit and a plush Phylon midsole footbed. The Nike Sticky Rubber outsole offers superior traction – suitable for a casual walk or off-road runs. The feature I like best about Nike Considered CVT is the versatile fold-down heel which allows one to go up or down depending on your application and makes the Nike Considered CVT conveniently portable.

Nike Considered CVT Shoes in Black/Flint Grey

Nike Considered CVT Shoes when its fold-down heel is folded down

Nike Considered CVT Shoes is convenient and flexible

I bought mine for MYR 216.30 (approx. USD $64.15) after a 30% discount. The original price is MYR 309.00 (approx. USD $91.64) from Studio R in Suria KLCC.

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Commuting by taking public transports is only the first step in making the world greener. However, have you ever pondered even by taking public transports, how one can still go one step further in making the world greener?

By taking public buses, trains, monorails, subways, etc., most commuters usually need to buy tickets which usually come in the form of paper or card. If your city has a million commuters and a quarter of them buy tickets daily, there would be a really big amount of wastage of papers already, nevermind the exact numbers.

So, how to go greener despite taking public transport?

1. Get monthly passes / multi-ride tickets / season tickets.
   Monthly passes not only mean saving the hassles and money, you’ll get to save the environment too as instead of buying a ticket each for every working day in one-calendar month, you only buy one per month.
2. Get an electronic fare card.
   In most major cities in many countries, electronic fare cards are available in many forms.
   In Washington – SmarTrip card, Singapore – EZ-Link card, Malaysia – Touch’n Go card, London – Oyster card, Melbourne – Myki card and so on. Instead of getting monthly passes (which still contributes to environmental wastage), you just need to get an electronic smartcard which you can use over and over again and top up the credit to continue using. Unless, of course, if you are the type who keep losing things.
3. Choose Monorail / Light-Rail Transit over Buses / Trains.
   Buses and trains have very high Carbon dioxide emissions whereas Light rail and Monorail use less energy and generate less carbon dioxide.

Electronic fare cards are available in many different forms – in Europe, through mobile money in your cellphone and in one particular country, you can reload the value in your identity card! Though one can preserve the environment by doing so, you would not want your cellphone and identity card got stolen or lost in the process. For sure.

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Imagine a bed that comes with air-conditioner. Imagine no more, Kuchofuku has made a bed that comes with air-conditioner. By taking in air at the head end of the mattress, the dual fans at the foot pull it through a soft membrane that expands to become an air-cushion, bringing cool air in past your head and through the bed. Better still, the bed is so ecological, it saves energy and money!

Kuchofuku has a wide range of products including jackets, pants, white shirts (for both men and women), and workshirts with dual fans that create constant air flow. The bed and the clothing line are suitable for the hot summer.

Check out the bed and clothing.

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What is Live Earth?

Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent series of 9 concerts taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.

Live Earth will reach this worldwide audience through an unprecedented global media architecture covering all media platforms – TV, radio, Internet and wireless channels.

Live Earth will stage concerts at Giants Stadium in New York; Wembley Stadium in London; Aussie Stadium in Sydney; Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind in Johannesburg; Makuhari Messe in Tokyo; the Steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai; HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg; and Inonu Stadium in Istanbul.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews, Madonna, John Mayer, Beatsie Boys, The Police, Linkin Park, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, Black Eyed Peas, James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Kanye West, Fall Out Boy, Ludacris, Duran Duran are among the artist lineup for this major event.

Not living anywhere nearby the concert venues? No worries, Live Earth concerts will be broadcast to a live worldwide audience by MSN at LiveEarth.MSN.com.

Support the biggest event ever for mother nature. Spread the word!

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Guess what day is today? Paris-Hilton-goes-to-jail Day? Yes and no. Today’s World Environment Day. If you think Paris Hilton goes to jail is good for the environment, then yes, it’s a World Environment Day a.k.a. Paris-Hilton-goes-to-jail Day too.

World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

The World Environment Day slogan selected for 2007 is Melting Ice – a Hot Topic? In support of International Polar Year, the WED theme selected for 2007 focuses on the effects that climate change is having on polar ecosystems and communities, and the ensuing consequences around the world.

The main international celebrations of the World Environment Day 2007 will be held in Norway. UNEP is honoured that the City of Tromsø will be hosting this United Nations day. Please visit the Norwegian Polar Institute WED website for more information on the celebrations in Norway.

Visit United Nations Environment Programme site for World Environment Day 2007

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Next week delegates from 171 countries will be assembling in the Netherlands for a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. This is the world’s biggest wildlife treaty, with nearly every country in the world a member.

Amongst the topics expected to be discussed is whether China will lift its successful ban on domestic trade of tiger parts.

Reopening even a limited legal trade would reignite a demand for wild tiger products and spark an open season on tigers in the wild. We need to send a strong, clear and powerful message to the world that this simply cannot happen.

Help End the Tiger Trade

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The tiger is one of the most revered, feared and yet popular species on Earth. It is perhaps the most powerful symbol for all of our planet’s endangered wildlife.

Take action now and help end the tiger trade

Despite international and domestic bans, a thriving black market for tiger skins and bones threatens to wipe out wild tigers. China, with its booming economy, burgeoning human population and ancient traditions of using tiger parts as medicine and clothing, is the world’s leading consumer of tiger products.

The good news is that the Chinese government has taken decisive action to help save the species, outlawing the trade of tiger products and running public awareness campaigns to curb the demand for tiger products.

But there now is a new threat that could put every last wild tiger at risk: the increasing population of captive-bred tigers on so-called “tiger farms”. Investors in these businesses are now pressuring the Chinese government to allow them to sell tiger products.

Reopening even limited legal trade in tiger products from farms would reignite a demand for wild tiger products and spark an open season on tigers in the wild. We need to send a strong, clear and powerful message to the world that this simply cannot happen.

Take action now and add your photo to WWF’s tiger photo mosaic and show your support for tiger conservation.

With your help we can end the tiger trade.

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2007 could be the year that the magnificent bluefin tuna, the fish behind the finest sushi in the world, disappears from the Mediterranean.

Take action now to save bluefin

Over recent years, high-tech fishing fleets have hunted down, often illegally, ever declining numbers of these ocean giants. So much so that bluefin tuna could soon be commercially extinct.

In May, the bluefin tuna fishing season starts again. But rather than acting to stop this tragedy the European Union has set fishing quotas at a level more than twice as high as science recommends. As a result the fishery is likely to collapse.

Send an email to the governments of France, Spain and Italy – the main bluefin fishing countries in Europe – and ask them to take responsibility for their fishing fleets. Ask them to set aside or allocate half of their fishing quotas this year for conservation.

(Via WWF Passport)

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Scientists have identified a leopard found on the South-East Asian islands of Borneo and Sumatra as a new species of great cat, the global nature protection body WWF reported on Thursday.

Genetic and skin tests on the creature, now dubbed the Bornean clouded leopard, or Neofelis diardi, have shown that it is almost as different from clouded leopards found on the Asian mainland as lions are from tigers, the Swiss-based WWF said.

“For over 100 years we have been looking at this animal and never realised that it was unique,” said Stuart Chapman, coordinator of a WWF programme that aims at preserving the vast rain forests in a region known as the Heart of Borneo.

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