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Dec
09
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Jay Brandley asked:
Riding a bicycle is a great way to contribute to the preservation of our eco system and environment here on our great planet earth. Many people are concerned with pollution and many other things that damage and dissolve the ozone and cause the atmosphere to be dirty. If we all contributed with one small thing that we can change in our daily living routines to help with the protection of the earth, perhaps we could, as a collective, make a substantial impact for the better.
One way to go green and contribute to the preservation of our environment is sometimes riding a bicycle instead of starting up the car or motorcycle. Driving and operating vehicles is one thing that many countless people do on a daily basis that harms the environment.
Exhaust from cars damages the ozone in a irreparable manner. What we do to the ozone negatively can not be repaired, which is why it is very important to do all that we can within our means to protect it. In addition to damaging the ozone, pollutants released by vehicles that run on combustion engines affects the health of human beings rather adversely.
Air pollutants damage not just the ozone layer, but also the lungs and respiratory systems of people. It can contribute to causing, or worsen, certain respiratory illnesses and diseases such as asthma, emphysema, COPD, and even pneumonia.
Do not get me wrong because I do believe that driving, in most cases, is a necessity of life in this modern age. However, if we just dedicated one day or one short route to the use of bicycles and cycling as a method of transportation, it can, in a small way, make a big difference to the health of humans and other living beings, and also the health of the our home, the earth.
Not only do we contribute to the well-being of the environment and the respiratory health of people, but also we can greatly increase our overall physical health.
Cycling takes a measure, big or small depending on the length that we travel while cycling, of physical strength and endurance. It also takes a measure of determination and discipline. By trading a vehicle for a bicycle, even if it is just once or twice every so often, we are able to get some exercise. This gives us the opportunity to build stamina, strengthen our muscular structure, get an aerobic workout, and experience the mental clarity you are able to get while enjoying the great bicycle ride.
Although there are many ways to go green, cycling is more than worthy of consideration. Besides helping with saving what is left our healthy earth, there are more great perks and benefits to make adding cycling into our routines look very appealing.
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Riding a bicycle is a great way to contribute to the preservation of our eco system and environment here on our great planet earth. Many people are concerned with pollution and many other things that damage and dissolve the ozone and cause the atmosphere to be dirty. If we all contributed with one small thing that we can change in our daily living routines to help with the protection of the earth, perhaps we could, as a collective, make a substantial impact for the better.
One way to go green and contribute to the preservation of our environment is sometimes riding a bicycle instead of starting up the car or motorcycle. Driving and operating vehicles is one thing that many countless people do on a daily basis that harms the environment.
Exhaust from cars damages the ozone in a irreparable manner. What we do to the ozone negatively can not be repaired, which is why it is very important to do all that we can within our means to protect it. In addition to damaging the ozone, pollutants released by vehicles that run on combustion engines affects the health of human beings rather adversely.
Air pollutants damage not just the ozone layer, but also the lungs and respiratory systems of people. It can contribute to causing, or worsen, certain respiratory illnesses and diseases such as asthma, emphysema, COPD, and even pneumonia.
Do not get me wrong because I do believe that driving, in most cases, is a necessity of life in this modern age. However, if we just dedicated one day or one short route to the use of bicycles and cycling as a method of transportation, it can, in a small way, make a big difference to the health of humans and other living beings, and also the health of the our home, the earth.
Not only do we contribute to the well-being of the environment and the respiratory health of people, but also we can greatly increase our overall physical health.
Cycling takes a measure, big or small depending on the length that we travel while cycling, of physical strength and endurance. It also takes a measure of determination and discipline. By trading a vehicle for a bicycle, even if it is just once or twice every so often, we are able to get some exercise. This gives us the opportunity to build stamina, strengthen our muscular structure, get an aerobic workout, and experience the mental clarity you are able to get while enjoying the great bicycle ride.
Although there are many ways to go green, cycling is more than worthy of consideration. Besides helping with saving what is left our healthy earth, there are more great perks and benefits to make adding cycling into our routines look very appealing.
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Dec
08
Filed Under (Environment) by Go Green Advisor
Gen Wright asked:
g environment is very essential for the woman to settle and get attracted to you; in some cases, it makes the woman to feel safe, respected and loved. The ability to learning what women want makes them feel loved and appreciated and hence create a pleasing and intimate environment for women.The following are ways that will help you create an intimate and more pleasing environment for women. Create time for herThe first thing to do is try slowing down, more than often, men live their lives. They are ever busy with making money and accumulating more wealth but women love their men to be around. Most men do not have time or even take time to smell the roses, or appreciate the good qualities in their women. Hence, to create a more intimate and pleasing environment men need to take time, slow down and reflect on what pleases women.Health communication and listeningSecondly, communication means a lot to women. Speaking to one another too often creates harmony and the woman feels appreciated. Men should try and avoid the boring sequences of long monologues. Communication should rather be a back and forth short comments or reflections.The most neglected thing is listening; this is an important skill that men should master and learn. Women always desire to be listened to; this makes them happy and willing to have intimacy with you. Give them time to reflect and respond to what you said as much as possible because this creates the essence of being valued. Take time to learn and find out what women needs to feel appreciated, and do not hesitate giving it to them. Women are different and unique, and then you should take time to learn things that make them feel appreciated and loved. Show you care through AppreciationTo create an intimate and pleasing environment on women, daily appreciation is vital. A woman always needs at least one appreciation daily. Appreciation is said to enhance connection, in return connection creates more intimacy.Have an open heartThis is the most crucial and most important thing to do. The more you open your heart to your partner, the more your partner will feel relaxed and loved by you. Never built walls or obstacles to your heart and receiving love. Even though Past hurts, disappointments and rejections make us more protective to our hearts, however finding ways to heal and overcome past hurts are essential ingredients in creating an intimate and a more pleasing environment on women. Learn how to open your whole heart if you need to create a intimate environment to a woman.Caress and touchLastly, while open communication is important for creating and deepening an intimate environment, regular moments of nurturing touch are very crucial and extremely important. Human psychologists argue that touching creates a sense of connection that is beyond words.
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g environment is very essential for the woman to settle and get attracted to you; in some cases, it makes the woman to feel safe, respected and loved. The ability to learning what women want makes them feel loved and appreciated and hence create a pleasing and intimate environment for women.The following are ways that will help you create an intimate and more pleasing environment for women. Create time for herThe first thing to do is try slowing down, more than often, men live their lives. They are ever busy with making money and accumulating more wealth but women love their men to be around. Most men do not have time or even take time to smell the roses, or appreciate the good qualities in their women. Hence, to create a more intimate and pleasing environment men need to take time, slow down and reflect on what pleases women.Health communication and listeningSecondly, communication means a lot to women. Speaking to one another too often creates harmony and the woman feels appreciated. Men should try and avoid the boring sequences of long monologues. Communication should rather be a back and forth short comments or reflections.The most neglected thing is listening; this is an important skill that men should master and learn. Women always desire to be listened to; this makes them happy and willing to have intimacy with you. Give them time to reflect and respond to what you said as much as possible because this creates the essence of being valued. Take time to learn and find out what women needs to feel appreciated, and do not hesitate giving it to them. Women are different and unique, and then you should take time to learn things that make them feel appreciated and loved. Show you care through AppreciationTo create an intimate and pleasing environment on women, daily appreciation is vital. A woman always needs at least one appreciation daily. Appreciation is said to enhance connection, in return connection creates more intimacy.Have an open heartThis is the most crucial and most important thing to do. The more you open your heart to your partner, the more your partner will feel relaxed and loved by you. Never built walls or obstacles to your heart and receiving love. Even though Past hurts, disappointments and rejections make us more protective to our hearts, however finding ways to heal and overcome past hurts are essential ingredients in creating an intimate and a more pleasing environment on women. Learn how to open your whole heart if you need to create a intimate environment to a woman.Caress and touchLastly, while open communication is important for creating and deepening an intimate environment, regular moments of nurturing touch are very crucial and extremely important. Human psychologists argue that touching creates a sense of connection that is beyond words.
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Dec
06
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Wally Bock asked:
We know a lot about what a great working environment is.
In a great working environment the mission is being accomplished and morale is high. It’s the “user” side of the two key leadership objectives: accomplish the mission and care for your people.
Most people know exactly what I mean by a great working environment. They may not be able to list characteristics, or point to research, but they’ve usually experienced one. So have you.
Think about a time in your life when it was great to come to work. If you’re lucky there are lots of them. If you’re really lucky, now is one of those times.
What was it like then? I’ll bet you were excited about the work you were doing, and you knew that it was appreciated. You almost certainly felt that you were being treated fairly and that you had some control over what you got to do.
There’s been quite a bit of formal research into the factors that make up a great working environment. Here’s a quick summary of what the research tells us make for a great working environment.
* Interesting and Meaningful Work
* Clear and Reasonable Expectations
* Frequent and Usable Feedback
* Fairness (Consequences = Performance)
* Consistency (Predictability)
* Maximum Control Possible Over Work Life
In my training classes, I often do an exercise where participants identify the times when they were in a great working environment and what that was like. The language is often a bit different from the formal research, but the same things come up over and over again.
Interesting and Meaningful Work
People want to do work that’s interesting and meaningful. They want what they do to be enriching for them and important to others.
Different people define interesting in different ways. For some people, it means that they’re learning a lot, having lots of personal growth. For others, the most important thing is that there are lots of different situations to deal with or lots of different problems to solve.
Sometimes “interesting” is not so much about the work itself as it is about the people you work with. This self fulfillment comes from being part of a team, an elite group, or just a bunch of folks you like working with.
It’s also important for the work to have value to others. The “others” can be the whole world, or just your customers or the people you work with.
Clear and Reasonable Expectations
People like to know what’s expected of them. They like to know the rules of the game.
Expectations need to be clear. At the supervisory level, that may mean laying out detailed, step by step procedures. At the management level expectations may come out of discussions with several people. At the leadership level, slogans and other brief statements that people can use as a “test” of their plans or actions are usually the most effective.
Don’t underestimate the values of frequency, simplicity, and memorability when you’re communicating expectations. You have to communicate the important things over and over in memorable terms.
In fact, repeating things is one way of telling people what’s important. Slogans are great for this. So are devices like pocket reminder cards with simple messages or messages in table form.
Use your regular forms of communication, like newsletters, emails, sales bulletins to reinforce your leadership message. Reinforce your written communications of expectations with oral communications. Reinforce your formal communications with informal ones.
Remember that you need to state expectations for the performance you want, but you also need to be clear about the consequences of performance that’s beyond or not quite up to standard.
Frequent and Usable Feedback
People like to know how they’re doing. Feedback is how they find out. To work, the feedback must be frequent (lots of small course corrections) and usable.
How frequent is frequent? The answer, which sounds something like a cop out is: “As often as necessary?”
Some people want and need a lot of feedback. Other people prefer to be left alone most of the time to do their work. You have to know who needs what and in what situations.
The idea is to make lots of small course corrections on the way to the clear target you’ve established with your expectations. Lots of small adjustments are almost always easier and more effective then a few giant ones.
Feedback also has to be usable. Time your feedback so it reaches people when it is the most helpful. In most situations, that means you want feedback as close to the performance as possible. If you can set up a system so people can get their own feedback, so much the better.
Work on your communications skills so you deliver feedback in the most effective way possible. Learn about different ways that people process information, and match your communication to their preferred style. Learn about Social Styles and other ways that help you communicate with people in the ways they most like to be communicated with.
Fairness (Consequences = Performance)
People want to know that they (and others) are being fairly rewarded based on their performance. This is one of those words that requires definition. Otherwise, it becomes one of those words that everyone agrees with, but no two people have a common definition for.
For us, fairness means that the consequences of the performance are determined by the quantity and quality of the performance. One of the people in my class put it in almost Biblical terms: “The good shall be rewarded and the underachievers shall be punished in accordance with their results.”
This ties back to reasonable expectations. It depends on regular and usable feedback.
Consistency (Predictability)
Consistency means predictability. Subordinates want to know how their supervisor will react in a given situation. Consistency also relates to predictability in terms of performance.
Your people want to know how to predict your reaction in different situations. If they can’t, they worry about whether or not to trust you.
According to some management studies, consistency (predictability) is the single most effective standard to establish with your own leadership behavior. It’s actually another form of communication. It’s a way of walking the talk.
Leadership by example means that you act out the values and principles that you say you and others stand for. To quote Howell Raines on Bear Bryant: “Coach Bryant had an idea about how a man ought to act and if you watched him, you could figure out what it was.”
Leadership by example means that you consistently pay attention to the important things, consistently reward good performance, consistently see that rewards and punishments are meted out fairly.
Maximum Control Possible over Work Life
People want to have a say about things that affect their life. You can make that happen for them by giving them as much control as possible over issues that affect them at work.
Obviously that varies from person to person and situation to situation. Some people like to be left alone. Others want to see you frequently.
Some people are qualified to make lots of decisions about their work. Others need to develop their skills a bit before they can do the same.
Some people work hard and make an effort to do the job. Others slack off.
It’s probably a good general rule to allow individuals as much control of the basic decisions about their work as they are capable of handling and willing to handle. In today’s flatter organizations, this is easier to do from an organizational standpoint, but it’s hard for many of us from a personal standpoint.
Part of your job as a boss is to create a great working environment for the people who work for you. It’s not easy, but the result can be both high morale and high productivity.
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We know a lot about what a great working environment is.
In a great working environment the mission is being accomplished and morale is high. It’s the “user” side of the two key leadership objectives: accomplish the mission and care for your people.
Most people know exactly what I mean by a great working environment. They may not be able to list characteristics, or point to research, but they’ve usually experienced one. So have you.
Think about a time in your life when it was great to come to work. If you’re lucky there are lots of them. If you’re really lucky, now is one of those times.
What was it like then? I’ll bet you were excited about the work you were doing, and you knew that it was appreciated. You almost certainly felt that you were being treated fairly and that you had some control over what you got to do.
There’s been quite a bit of formal research into the factors that make up a great working environment. Here’s a quick summary of what the research tells us make for a great working environment.
* Interesting and Meaningful Work
* Clear and Reasonable Expectations
* Frequent and Usable Feedback
* Fairness (Consequences = Performance)
* Consistency (Predictability)
* Maximum Control Possible Over Work Life
In my training classes, I often do an exercise where participants identify the times when they were in a great working environment and what that was like. The language is often a bit different from the formal research, but the same things come up over and over again.
Interesting and Meaningful Work
People want to do work that’s interesting and meaningful. They want what they do to be enriching for them and important to others.
Different people define interesting in different ways. For some people, it means that they’re learning a lot, having lots of personal growth. For others, the most important thing is that there are lots of different situations to deal with or lots of different problems to solve.
Sometimes “interesting” is not so much about the work itself as it is about the people you work with. This self fulfillment comes from being part of a team, an elite group, or just a bunch of folks you like working with.
It’s also important for the work to have value to others. The “others” can be the whole world, or just your customers or the people you work with.
Clear and Reasonable Expectations
People like to know what’s expected of them. They like to know the rules of the game.
Expectations need to be clear. At the supervisory level, that may mean laying out detailed, step by step procedures. At the management level expectations may come out of discussions with several people. At the leadership level, slogans and other brief statements that people can use as a “test” of their plans or actions are usually the most effective.
Don’t underestimate the values of frequency, simplicity, and memorability when you’re communicating expectations. You have to communicate the important things over and over in memorable terms.
In fact, repeating things is one way of telling people what’s important. Slogans are great for this. So are devices like pocket reminder cards with simple messages or messages in table form.
Use your regular forms of communication, like newsletters, emails, sales bulletins to reinforce your leadership message. Reinforce your written communications of expectations with oral communications. Reinforce your formal communications with informal ones.
Remember that you need to state expectations for the performance you want, but you also need to be clear about the consequences of performance that’s beyond or not quite up to standard.
Frequent and Usable Feedback
People like to know how they’re doing. Feedback is how they find out. To work, the feedback must be frequent (lots of small course corrections) and usable.
How frequent is frequent? The answer, which sounds something like a cop out is: “As often as necessary?”
Some people want and need a lot of feedback. Other people prefer to be left alone most of the time to do their work. You have to know who needs what and in what situations.
The idea is to make lots of small course corrections on the way to the clear target you’ve established with your expectations. Lots of small adjustments are almost always easier and more effective then a few giant ones.
Feedback also has to be usable. Time your feedback so it reaches people when it is the most helpful. In most situations, that means you want feedback as close to the performance as possible. If you can set up a system so people can get their own feedback, so much the better.
Work on your communications skills so you deliver feedback in the most effective way possible. Learn about different ways that people process information, and match your communication to their preferred style. Learn about Social Styles and other ways that help you communicate with people in the ways they most like to be communicated with.
Fairness (Consequences = Performance)
People want to know that they (and others) are being fairly rewarded based on their performance. This is one of those words that requires definition. Otherwise, it becomes one of those words that everyone agrees with, but no two people have a common definition for.
For us, fairness means that the consequences of the performance are determined by the quantity and quality of the performance. One of the people in my class put it in almost Biblical terms: “The good shall be rewarded and the underachievers shall be punished in accordance with their results.”
This ties back to reasonable expectations. It depends on regular and usable feedback.
Consistency (Predictability)
Consistency means predictability. Subordinates want to know how their supervisor will react in a given situation. Consistency also relates to predictability in terms of performance.
Your people want to know how to predict your reaction in different situations. If they can’t, they worry about whether or not to trust you.
According to some management studies, consistency (predictability) is the single most effective standard to establish with your own leadership behavior. It’s actually another form of communication. It’s a way of walking the talk.
Leadership by example means that you act out the values and principles that you say you and others stand for. To quote Howell Raines on Bear Bryant: “Coach Bryant had an idea about how a man ought to act and if you watched him, you could figure out what it was.”
Leadership by example means that you consistently pay attention to the important things, consistently reward good performance, consistently see that rewards and punishments are meted out fairly.
Maximum Control Possible over Work Life
People want to have a say about things that affect their life. You can make that happen for them by giving them as much control as possible over issues that affect them at work.
Obviously that varies from person to person and situation to situation. Some people like to be left alone. Others want to see you frequently.
Some people are qualified to make lots of decisions about their work. Others need to develop their skills a bit before they can do the same.
Some people work hard and make an effort to do the job. Others slack off.
It’s probably a good general rule to allow individuals as much control of the basic decisions about their work as they are capable of handling and willing to handle. In today’s flatter organizations, this is easier to do from an organizational standpoint, but it’s hard for many of us from a personal standpoint.
Part of your job as a boss is to create a great working environment for the people who work for you. It’s not easy, but the result can be both high morale and high productivity.
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Dec
04
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dorothy smith asked:
World Environment Day, which is commemorated each year on June 5th, is one of the most significant mode through which the United Nations stimulates the global awareness of the environment. It is by this way that the United Nations attract political attention and enhances action to shape a better global environment. Each year the World Environment Day is celebrated in recognition of unique theme. Norway was honored to host International World Environment Day 2007 celebrations in recognition of the theme — ‘Melting Ice - The Hot Topic’. Over a hundred nations across the globe celebrates the World Environment Day with highly relevant theme each year.
The slogan for World Environment Day 2008 is ‘Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy’. With an understanding of the fact that the change in climatic condition is gradually becoming one of the most defining issue of the age, UNEP is requesting the nations, companies and communities to put special focus on the greenhouse gas emissions and to put spare thought over how to reduce them. The World Environment Day 2008 is going to highlight resources and focuses on promoting low carbon economies with a view to shape a better and healthier future. Promoting a low carbon economy involves steps towards improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, forest conservation and eco-friendly consumption. The chief international celebration of the World Environment Day 2008 is going to be held in New Zealand.
The Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Ministers of Environment deliver statements and commit themselves to care for this only green planet of the universe. Serious pledges establish sound and non-transitory governmental policies related to environmental management and economic planning. bicycle parades, tree planting , recycling campaigns, clean-up campaigns, street rallies, school level essay and poster competitions etc. are organized all over the world on June 5th to celebrate the World Environment Day.
Here are some information on World Environment Day for the last ten years regarding where the WED celebration was held at and what were the respective themes each year:
Places of celebration:
World Environment Day 2007 - Tromsø, Norway
World Environment Day 2006 - Algiers, Algeria
World Environment Day 2005 - San Francisco, U.S.
World Environment Day 2004 - Barcelona, Spain
World Environment Day 2003 - Beirut, Lebanon
World Environment Day 2002 - Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
World Environment Day 2001 - Torino, Italy and Havana, Cuba
World Environment Day 2000 - Adelaide, Australia
World Environment Day 1999 - Tokyo, Japan
World Environment Day 1998 - Moscow, Russian Federation
Themes of celebration:
World Environment Day 2007 - Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?
World Environment Day 2006 - Deserts and Desertification - Don’t Desert Drylands!
World Environment Day 2005 - Green Cities – Plan for the Planet!
World Environment Day 2004 - Wanted! Seas and Oceans – Dead or Alive?
World Environment Day 2003 - Water – Two Billion People are Dying for It!
World Environment Day 2002 - Give Earth a Chance
World Environment Day 2001 - Connect with the World Wide Web of Life
World Environment Day 2000 - The Environment Millennium - Time to Act
World Environment Day 1999 - Our Earth - Our Future - Just Save It!
World Environment Day 1998 - For Life on Earth - Save Our Seas
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World Environment Day, which is commemorated each year on June 5th, is one of the most significant mode through which the United Nations stimulates the global awareness of the environment. It is by this way that the United Nations attract political attention and enhances action to shape a better global environment. Each year the World Environment Day is celebrated in recognition of unique theme. Norway was honored to host International World Environment Day 2007 celebrations in recognition of the theme — ‘Melting Ice - The Hot Topic’. Over a hundred nations across the globe celebrates the World Environment Day with highly relevant theme each year.
The slogan for World Environment Day 2008 is ‘Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy’. With an understanding of the fact that the change in climatic condition is gradually becoming one of the most defining issue of the age, UNEP is requesting the nations, companies and communities to put special focus on the greenhouse gas emissions and to put spare thought over how to reduce them. The World Environment Day 2008 is going to highlight resources and focuses on promoting low carbon economies with a view to shape a better and healthier future. Promoting a low carbon economy involves steps towards improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, forest conservation and eco-friendly consumption. The chief international celebration of the World Environment Day 2008 is going to be held in New Zealand.
The Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Ministers of Environment deliver statements and commit themselves to care for this only green planet of the universe. Serious pledges establish sound and non-transitory governmental policies related to environmental management and economic planning. bicycle parades, tree planting , recycling campaigns, clean-up campaigns, street rallies, school level essay and poster competitions etc. are organized all over the world on June 5th to celebrate the World Environment Day.
Here are some information on World Environment Day for the last ten years regarding where the WED celebration was held at and what were the respective themes each year:
Places of celebration:
World Environment Day 2007 - Tromsø, Norway
World Environment Day 2006 - Algiers, Algeria
World Environment Day 2005 - San Francisco, U.S.
World Environment Day 2004 - Barcelona, Spain
World Environment Day 2003 - Beirut, Lebanon
World Environment Day 2002 - Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
World Environment Day 2001 - Torino, Italy and Havana, Cuba
World Environment Day 2000 - Adelaide, Australia
World Environment Day 1999 - Tokyo, Japan
World Environment Day 1998 - Moscow, Russian Federation
Themes of celebration:
World Environment Day 2007 - Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?
World Environment Day 2006 - Deserts and Desertification - Don’t Desert Drylands!
World Environment Day 2005 - Green Cities – Plan for the Planet!
World Environment Day 2004 - Wanted! Seas and Oceans – Dead or Alive?
World Environment Day 2003 - Water – Two Billion People are Dying for It!
World Environment Day 2002 - Give Earth a Chance
World Environment Day 2001 - Connect with the World Wide Web of Life
World Environment Day 2000 - The Environment Millennium - Time to Act
World Environment Day 1999 - Our Earth - Our Future - Just Save It!
World Environment Day 1998 - For Life on Earth - Save Our Seas
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04
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Edwin Mah asked:
Mention the word meditation, and the image that comes to mind is that of a person sitting in a lotus position on top of a mountain. The environment around him is very serene and quiet, surrounded by nature. Many believe that if the environmental conditions are not right, it would not be possible to meditate. However, most are not aware that meditation can be performed in almost any kind of environment.
Although the ideal setting to perform meditation would be a quiet and undisturbed place, this option may not always be available. Those of us living in the city or in suburban areas may not always enjoy the peace and quiet that the ideal meditation environment should have. Making a trip to some far away place to meditate would also be unnecessary and time consuming.
In reality, if you intend to practice meditation, any kind of environment will do. With practice, you can meditate in your room, sitting on your bed (a very popular choice), at your office desk, while commuting to work in the bus or train, even in the restroom. You can perform meditation in just about any place you can think of.
It would be best if you can get some time away from people when you’re about to start meditation. Getting some distance away from others will help you to relax and prepare for your meditative session in a more quiet setting. The only time when it is appropriate to meditate with other people around you is when they are also involved in the meditation session as well. Group meditations can sometimes be very motivating. It is easier to be still for longer periods, because everyone else is sitting silent around you.
Many people performing meditation prefer to use some form of music during the session. Generally, any kind of music can be played, but you must take care to ensure that the music you choose isn’t going to distract and move you away from your main focus. The best kind of music is the soft and gentle kind. These kinds of music promote a sense of calm and relaxation, and are ideal for meditation. Sometimes, you can use nature sounds as a backdrop. Sounds of chirping birds, a distant thunderstorm, or a waterfall all bring you a step closer to nature. You don’t have to go into the outdoors to experience these sounds. Many of them are available on CD.
So, with this newfound knowledge, go forth and meditate. Stop giving yourself excuses even if the environment you’re in may seem less than perfect. With constant practice, you’ll soon find that you’ll be adept at meditating just about anywhere.
Happy meditating!
Copyright 2007 Edwin Mah
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Mention the word meditation, and the image that comes to mind is that of a person sitting in a lotus position on top of a mountain. The environment around him is very serene and quiet, surrounded by nature. Many believe that if the environmental conditions are not right, it would not be possible to meditate. However, most are not aware that meditation can be performed in almost any kind of environment.
Although the ideal setting to perform meditation would be a quiet and undisturbed place, this option may not always be available. Those of us living in the city or in suburban areas may not always enjoy the peace and quiet that the ideal meditation environment should have. Making a trip to some far away place to meditate would also be unnecessary and time consuming.
In reality, if you intend to practice meditation, any kind of environment will do. With practice, you can meditate in your room, sitting on your bed (a very popular choice), at your office desk, while commuting to work in the bus or train, even in the restroom. You can perform meditation in just about any place you can think of.
It would be best if you can get some time away from people when you’re about to start meditation. Getting some distance away from others will help you to relax and prepare for your meditative session in a more quiet setting. The only time when it is appropriate to meditate with other people around you is when they are also involved in the meditation session as well. Group meditations can sometimes be very motivating. It is easier to be still for longer periods, because everyone else is sitting silent around you.
Many people performing meditation prefer to use some form of music during the session. Generally, any kind of music can be played, but you must take care to ensure that the music you choose isn’t going to distract and move you away from your main focus. The best kind of music is the soft and gentle kind. These kinds of music promote a sense of calm and relaxation, and are ideal for meditation. Sometimes, you can use nature sounds as a backdrop. Sounds of chirping birds, a distant thunderstorm, or a waterfall all bring you a step closer to nature. You don’t have to go into the outdoors to experience these sounds. Many of them are available on CD.
So, with this newfound knowledge, go forth and meditate. Stop giving yourself excuses even if the environment you’re in may seem less than perfect. With constant practice, you’ll soon find that you’ll be adept at meditating just about anywhere.
Happy meditating!
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Groshan Fabiola asked:
She walked into the store and was immediately swept up in emotion. This store was for her. Like they knew who she was and what she wanted. She had only come in for a small birthday gift for a friend. But immediately gravitated towards six new things she absolutely had to have. One display case showed purses that she loved, another shoes, another perfume. She wandered aimlessly, enjoying the retail experience. She kept finding herself in front of a display that just popped out at her. The store environment was irresistible, and she stopped resisting. After buying the birthday gift and several treats for herself she was a fan. She couldn’t wait to tell all of her friends about this great new find.
Does your retail store inspire and motivate customers? With attention to detail, your retail store design will engage and influence your customers. Each buyer will browse happily and buy more. Having an award winning retail store environment with point of purchase displays, pop-out displays, can set you apart from your competition. You have visitors in the store, now it is time to make the sale.
Your retail store design can be the difference between success and failure. Choosing the right deign requires an understanding of marketing, customer psychology, advertising, space planning and engineering. Many store and franchise store owners rely on experts to help the design a retail environment that works. Professionals, like DNI Retail Design, know exactly how to make a store engaging and useful. In addition, professionals design retail stores with a pragmatic approach. They know how to manage logistics of a retail store build out including design, documentation, construction, moving, storage and warehousing so that you don’t have to worry about bringing it all together.
Part of a successful retail store design is Point of Purchase displays. POP displays increase sales, but some displays increase sales more than others. Your retail store’s profitability depends on how well your product sells; you need the very best in-store marketing with high quality POP displays. These can attract the customers’ eye and, in just a glance, convey the products’ message.
If you build an effective retail store environment, your customers will respond. The design of your store will influence your visitors to stay and become customers. Motivate your customers with a creative and professional retail store design to achieve success.
DNI Retail Design is a turnkey provider of Retail Design Environments and Point of Purchase Display Solutions. The award winning DNI team provides retail design, engineering, production, distribution, installation, and online inventory management.
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She walked into the store and was immediately swept up in emotion. This store was for her. Like they knew who she was and what she wanted. She had only come in for a small birthday gift for a friend. But immediately gravitated towards six new things she absolutely had to have. One display case showed purses that she loved, another shoes, another perfume. She wandered aimlessly, enjoying the retail experience. She kept finding herself in front of a display that just popped out at her. The store environment was irresistible, and she stopped resisting. After buying the birthday gift and several treats for herself she was a fan. She couldn’t wait to tell all of her friends about this great new find.
Does your retail store inspire and motivate customers? With attention to detail, your retail store design will engage and influence your customers. Each buyer will browse happily and buy more. Having an award winning retail store environment with point of purchase displays, pop-out displays, can set you apart from your competition. You have visitors in the store, now it is time to make the sale.
Your retail store design can be the difference between success and failure. Choosing the right deign requires an understanding of marketing, customer psychology, advertising, space planning and engineering. Many store and franchise store owners rely on experts to help the design a retail environment that works. Professionals, like DNI Retail Design, know exactly how to make a store engaging and useful. In addition, professionals design retail stores with a pragmatic approach. They know how to manage logistics of a retail store build out including design, documentation, construction, moving, storage and warehousing so that you don’t have to worry about bringing it all together.
Part of a successful retail store design is Point of Purchase displays. POP displays increase sales, but some displays increase sales more than others. Your retail store’s profitability depends on how well your product sells; you need the very best in-store marketing with high quality POP displays. These can attract the customers’ eye and, in just a glance, convey the products’ message.
If you build an effective retail store environment, your customers will respond. The design of your store will influence your visitors to stay and become customers. Motivate your customers with a creative and professional retail store design to achieve success.
DNI Retail Design is a turnkey provider of Retail Design Environments and Point of Purchase Display Solutions. The award winning DNI team provides retail design, engineering, production, distribution, installation, and online inventory management.
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Anna asked:
If everyone in this world threw garbage and litter indiscriminately wherever they went, the environment as we knew it would soon be in ruins.
Litter in our surroundings is an important environmental issue, which many people overlook. While a majority of people do know that littering is a bad thing, many continue to carelessly scatter their trash around nonetheless.
A host of problems stem from littering, and as a result of some people’s inability to control this habit, the environment has been suffering. Money is also wasted because of it. The government has to employ people to pick up trash, and that means tax money.
Littering can be hazardous to one’s own health as well. Trash in an area attracts vermin and bacteria. Broken glass and other sharp objects are dangerous when they are left lying around in public places.
Litter is harmful to wildlife as well. Plastic can cause animals such as birds to choke, when they mistake it for food. And, even worse, small bits of plastic can accumulate in the stomach of a bird, never digesting or decomposing, to the point where there is no more room for real food and the bird starves to death with a full stomach.
Lastly, but most obviously, litter makes an area look bad. When a large amount of litter can be found in a particular environment, it reflects badly on the people who live there.
Sources of Litter in the Environment
Probably no one is completely innocent of ever littering. And the environment is what is essentially being punished by it. Pedestrians drop garbage in the streets. Motorists throw their trash out of their windows. Trailers, when not properly covered, can have some of their load blown away by the wind. Some households dispose of their garbage improperly and irresponsibly.
Even commercial places of business are guilty of this one. Events which create large amounts of litter can overflow to other neighboring areas, if their organizers don’t plan things right. Construction sites can produce significant amounts of litter, due to improper waste management.
These are just some examples of the sources of litter your our areas.
Misconceptions
There are misconceptions about what constitutes litter. Some people think that if an item is organic (and will “turn into dirt”) it’s alright to throw it anywhere. Banana peels, apple cores, and the like, are just some things that come to mind on this one. But in reality, throwing garbage around, organic or otherwise, is littering. And the environment is adversely affected by it.
Why do people litter? Quite frankly, the main reason is simple laziness.
Our environment can be made much more attractive if people simply use garbage cans properly.
If you have garbage to dispose of, and there’s isn’t a garbage can nearby, then wrap your trash up (in a napkin, plastic, paper bag, etc) and place it in your pocket or carry it with you until you reach a garbage can. Also, make sure that the trash actually goes into the garbage can, and does not fall to the side.
It’s all a simple matter of proper waste disposal, which is vital for our environments and for our ecosystems.
The truth is, we all know about the problem. Now its time to act on it, if you haven’t been. But if you already do have proper and responsible waste disposal habits, remember that you can make a difference by encouraging others to follow your example.
When we dispose of our garbage properly, instead of polluting our environment, it does more than just help our locale to look good - we all feel better about it as well.
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If everyone in this world threw garbage and litter indiscriminately wherever they went, the environment as we knew it would soon be in ruins.
Litter in our surroundings is an important environmental issue, which many people overlook. While a majority of people do know that littering is a bad thing, many continue to carelessly scatter their trash around nonetheless.
A host of problems stem from littering, and as a result of some people’s inability to control this habit, the environment has been suffering. Money is also wasted because of it. The government has to employ people to pick up trash, and that means tax money.
Littering can be hazardous to one’s own health as well. Trash in an area attracts vermin and bacteria. Broken glass and other sharp objects are dangerous when they are left lying around in public places.
Litter is harmful to wildlife as well. Plastic can cause animals such as birds to choke, when they mistake it for food. And, even worse, small bits of plastic can accumulate in the stomach of a bird, never digesting or decomposing, to the point where there is no more room for real food and the bird starves to death with a full stomach.
Lastly, but most obviously, litter makes an area look bad. When a large amount of litter can be found in a particular environment, it reflects badly on the people who live there.
Sources of Litter in the Environment
Probably no one is completely innocent of ever littering. And the environment is what is essentially being punished by it. Pedestrians drop garbage in the streets. Motorists throw their trash out of their windows. Trailers, when not properly covered, can have some of their load blown away by the wind. Some households dispose of their garbage improperly and irresponsibly.
Even commercial places of business are guilty of this one. Events which create large amounts of litter can overflow to other neighboring areas, if their organizers don’t plan things right. Construction sites can produce significant amounts of litter, due to improper waste management.
These are just some examples of the sources of litter your our areas.
Misconceptions
There are misconceptions about what constitutes litter. Some people think that if an item is organic (and will “turn into dirt”) it’s alright to throw it anywhere. Banana peels, apple cores, and the like, are just some things that come to mind on this one. But in reality, throwing garbage around, organic or otherwise, is littering. And the environment is adversely affected by it.
Why do people litter? Quite frankly, the main reason is simple laziness.
Our environment can be made much more attractive if people simply use garbage cans properly.
If you have garbage to dispose of, and there’s isn’t a garbage can nearby, then wrap your trash up (in a napkin, plastic, paper bag, etc) and place it in your pocket or carry it with you until you reach a garbage can. Also, make sure that the trash actually goes into the garbage can, and does not fall to the side.
It’s all a simple matter of proper waste disposal, which is vital for our environments and for our ecosystems.
The truth is, we all know about the problem. Now its time to act on it, if you haven’t been. But if you already do have proper and responsible waste disposal habits, remember that you can make a difference by encouraging others to follow your example.
When we dispose of our garbage properly, instead of polluting our environment, it does more than just help our locale to look good - we all feel better about it as well.
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