Standard Carbon Footprint of Accounting for Building

Earth is crying for help so as millions of dwellers within it. Our action has replied with reaction as evidencing by the unprecedented force majeur (natural disaster) around the world. Somehow we still call it “Natural” disaster despite good evidence showing major attributes are out of human hands. Perhaps it should call Natural Human Disaster. While it’s not fair to pour cold water on everyone faces as I do belief many of us is still very much concern about how our action shape the environments with live in.

The most common ways of measuring how our action attributes to the climate change is via measuring of carbon footprint which is still at it infancy stage of development. Information is of prime importance and its also the hindrances when readily available. Many countries such as the America, UK& Japan have started their carbon footprint decades ago and have gather pools of data but each with own ways of measuring. As for building, measuring its lifecycle is as tough as scavenging needle in the ocean and thus not many dare to touch. Despite the challenge, we should not back off because the sector eats up a huge chunk of carbon footprint pie.

I hereby proposed a prototype of Standard Carbon Footprint Accounting for Building as a step toward building a more responsible living environment for ourselves and the future to come.

Please download the SCAFAB below;

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6OlHGnxtRJsektFMHBTckpBbGM/edit?usp=sharing

Synthetic World

As of 5^th November 2013, earth is hosting 7.19 billion of human lifes¹ an ever up rising rate from its first broke the 1 billion record, in 1804².  This intellectual creature has evolved not only to dwell in physical comfort but has gone to the next level of self-indulgence in the cyberspace. Perhaps Abraham Maslow (1943) was right about his theory of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs.

CATWalks

CATWALKS

CATWalks is a brainchild of MYCAT e(Malaysian Conservation Alliances for Tiger), an initiative to deter illegal poachers from harming our wildlife (particularly the tiger& its food chain below) while giving volunteers (I call it CATWALKERS) the opportunity to bond with the Mother Nature. The nature of catwalks requires certain level of physical and cognitive aptitude thus all Catwalkers must had survived at least 18 years on this planet and pretty much rational in respond to situation.

Resurrection of Dinosaur- Part 1

Photovoltaic 

Free Energy?

Energy is free? Yes, it’s free but to extract and convert it into a form that usable for our current technology is not. Disregard the energy spatter from the universe since the big bang (creation of universe). Sun is the main source of energy to earth from the aspects of biology, chemistry to physics. Sun rays sponsor its energy to all of us. Plant requires it in photosynthesis to grow and feed others animals which human are also part of the ecological food chain which means to say all living beings are either using energy directly or indirectly from the sun.

Slum Population

Slum Population

The United Nation defines Slum as “is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security”. There are 1 billion slum populations in the world and the figure will double up to 2 Billion by 2030. Slum population rate worldwide is decreasing from 47% to 37% from 1990-2005 but overall population is increasing thus number of slum population is swelling.

Rainwater Harvest

The Facts

Blue as it seen from above, this planet is cover with 70% of water but only 3% from it is fresh water. Discounted another 2% of the fresh water reserved as ice on Artic and Antarctica so we have only left 1% fresh water in this blue blue planet.

A shape of potatoes on the left and a puppy on the right, this is how Malaysia display on the world maps. With the total land size of 329,847km² it is showering with total of 990 billion m³ of rain each year of which 566 billon m³ becomes surface runoff, 360 billion m³ evaporated back to the atmosphere while 64 billion m³ discharges as ground water.  Malaysia has the mean annual rainfall of 2,300mm and potential evaporation average about 1,500mm.

Branding's Waste

Branding has become a big hit in every corner of business arena. In fact, it has become an essential part of the money tree to reap financial fruit from potential customer. So how does “Branding” come about? I suppose it started out of nothing more than a company delivering quality goods or services that gained its popularity over time and that particular company goods and services is recognized as branded. Quality being meeting customer expectation in some form or another such as durability, accuracy, technology advancement, appearance, reliability, effectiveness and the list go on but it’s the persistence standard of quality that make hungry consumer keep spending money and gossip about it. To create a brand it take time, cost, new ideas and risk but the reward is as lucrative as the capital invested, so much so as the failing.

Hungry Species

Earth; Gaia; Terra (Host)

Earth, with the mass of 5.9736 × 1024 kg, it hang itself some 149,597,890 km from the sun (3^rd Planet closest to sun) making it the only planet known to sustain live within the solar system. At the age of 4.54 billion years it is struggling to host more than 7 billion of its dominant species; Homosapiens or Human.