Tuesday, 24 July 2012
he two questions asked:
1. Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to a structure and using process that is environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle
2. Sun panels
buildings built primarily with wood will have a lower embodied energy than those built primarily with brick, concrete or steel
Press tap
Power saver light Bulbs
skylight
Conclusion:
so to conclude you you can say that st Albans College is a green environment to an extent. There are green features in this school but to find them you do need a prior knowledge of green design, and you need to look specifically for these features. But the un-green features outnumber the green features by a large amount.
Friday, 20 July 2012
Green building designs
Wood Hut: this hut is made up of wood, (wood is a renewable resource) it is a very good insulator, and provides less pollution. The procces of using making bricks it uses a lot more energy. As well as more materials and manpower.
Push tap: A more environmentaly friendly tap as it does not waste water, because as you leave it closes automatically, you cannot forget to close it. It cannot leak as easily as a turn tap.
Motion sensor lights: these lights are power saving lights, if someone is walking into a room the motion sensor will pick them up and then it will automatically switch off, when there is no motion. It does not waste power. The light bulbs also last a lot longer.
Sky light: this is green because it cancels out all electricity entirely, because it uses the suns power and light, A downside to this is that it does not work at night.
Reservoirs and Astros: The reservoirs pump water onto the astro, the water runs through the astro and runs back into the reservoirs. This works on the concept of recycling which is very green. if the astro had just let the water run out.
Thatch roof: This saves a lot of money, thatch is a very good insulator so no aircons or heaters are needed. There is much less energy used in this procees of making thatch roofs. T
Un-Green
A very un-green design as there are eight switch operated fluorescent lights in close proximaty. They are all on even though it is broad daylight. This is a huge waste of energy. This has a simple solution replace these lights with power saver or motion sensor lights or even just having less lights.
2. Very unefficient electric pool heaters, They are not green because of the amount of electricity used and there is pollution caused, a solution to this problem is to just use pool covers or solar panel heaters.
3. Classroom aircon/heater: this is un-green as it provides pollution, it uses water, a solution would be to us better insulators when building buildings such as thatch and wood.
4. A leaking pipe: This is very un-green which is wasting a very precious non-renewable resource. A solution to this is to use better pipes and to fix this very quickly.
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Activity 4
1. It was an informal conference held by the UN to discuss development and environmental problems.
2. The UN (united Nations)
3. The annual summit was first held in 1992.
4. Rio De Jenaro
5. Johannesburg
6. To discuss environmental and energy issues.
7. Movements to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals and to create a permanent funds to help developing (less priviledged) countries do the same thing
8. It is necesary because if we dont raise awareness about natural resources depleting the environment will be "used up"
9. Yes in the sense that they created plans to solve their problems but no in the sense that most of their goals have not been reached.
10. The conference/meeting is based around making plans to go into a sustainable development plan.
2. The UN (united Nations)
3. The annual summit was first held in 1992.
4. Rio De Jenaro
5. Johannesburg
6. To discuss environmental and energy issues.
7. Movements to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals and to create a permanent funds to help developing (less priviledged) countries do the same thing
8. It is necesary because if we dont raise awareness about natural resources depleting the environment will be "used up"
9. Yes in the sense that they created plans to solve their problems but no in the sense that most of their goals have not been reached.
10. The conference/meeting is based around making plans to go into a sustainable development plan.
Friday, 8 June 2012
Friday, 18 May 2012
activity 8
1.African nationialism to fight colonialism and demand independance from the colonisers
2. The Anc, the national congress 1920 , aboriginees writes protection society 1977
3. Pan - africanism is a movement for greater cooperation among africans. and to unify.
4.African nationialism was when african countries fought for INDEPENDANCE and pan africanism is to UNIFY all africans.
5. kwame Nkrumah was a gharnian who led the fight for independance in his home country against the british. Robert sobukwe was te first leader in the pan Africanist congress.
6.Bob Marley put lots of thought into this song it is about pan africanism it is how the afrivanss were taken from there homeland by force and sent away to work as slaves, they fought to get back much like a soldier in war.
2. The Anc, the national congress 1920 , aboriginees writes protection society 1977
3. Pan - africanism is a movement for greater cooperation among africans. and to unify.
4.African nationialism was when african countries fought for INDEPENDANCE and pan africanism is to UNIFY all africans.
5. kwame Nkrumah was a gharnian who led the fight for independance in his home country against the british. Robert sobukwe was te first leader in the pan Africanist congress.
6.Bob Marley put lots of thought into this song it is about pan africanism it is how the afrivanss were taken from there homeland by force and sent away to work as slaves, they fought to get back much like a soldier in war.
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Thursday, 16 February 2012
activity 6
1. The holocaust is a period of time when germans thought they were superior to the jews and treated them accordingly. mass genocide.
2. The germans wanted to purify the german race and these innocent people were not pure germans. They believed that the jews were responsible for the economic crisis.
3. They put the people in concentration and death camps in poland where they put the people in "showers" which are gas chambers , they also shot people. firscame the boycottts then the laws afterwhich followed the ghettos, then concentration camps einsis crupen came to death after which death camps followed.
4. After the WW11 the world reeacted very negatively making them sign treaties and such things against promoting violence like this again, during the world war people did not really have a problem with this
2. The germans wanted to purify the german race and these innocent people were not pure germans. They believed that the jews were responsible for the economic crisis.
3. They put the people in concentration and death camps in poland where they put the people in "showers" which are gas chambers , they also shot people. firscame the boycottts then the laws afterwhich followed the ghettos, then concentration camps einsis crupen came to death after which death camps followed.
4. After the WW11 the world reeacted very negatively making them sign treaties and such things against promoting violence like this again, during the world war people did not really have a problem with this
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Activity Four
2. The purpose of the nazi german workers party political manifesto was made or planned to boost their vote percentages. in order to win the elections they had to improve their ratings and this is how they had achieved it.
3. Thin nose, Light or Blonde hair, A pure descendant of an austrian or german descent, being white was not enough.
5. The Nazi Germans portrayed propaganda in many ways such as posters, radio, audio but mostly it was in classrooms by teachers. German children had had propaganda drafted into their curriculum and they were taught to worship the workers party the had been taught to worship fuhrer hitler and nobody else.
3. Thin nose, Light or Blonde hair, A pure descendant of an austrian or german descent, being white was not enough.
5. The Nazi Germans portrayed propaganda in many ways such as posters, radio, audio but mostly it was in classrooms by teachers. German children had had propaganda drafted into their curriculum and they were taught to worship the workers party the had been taught to worship fuhrer hitler and nobody else.
Monday, 30 January 2012
SDI NOTES
the Spacial development initiative was implemented in 1995. the SDI are development programs for development of economic activity and subsequintly the infrastructure neccessary for the succes in undeveloped corridors of SA.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Film Review
As a wise man once said, "give a man a fish and feed him for a night, but teach a man how to fish and feed him for a lifetime." This applies almost directly to this project (the only difference is from a raw material, fish, to building material, bricks). If you think about it this generous motion will not only help the people to build adequate shelter nut this will help them for life as this will enable them to broaden their horizons by building market centres and such things. All we can do now though is hope that this oppurtunity that has been provided by the people of the Simune rural development project will not go to waste, we have faith that these gratefull people will make a dilligent effort to continue with the brick making. This development of this town will benefit greatly from this new learned skill by the people as it will great job oppurtunities so therefore people willbe able to earn a steadfast income so therefore will be able to improve their standard of living. Another plus side to this initiative is that it is environmentally friendly as it uses mud instead of cement so there will be minimum air pollution. It is also materials that the local people can get very quick acces to. What these anyway people have done is show to us how important rural development is, and why. These people living in the rural areas will not have to suffer the same fate as what their ancestors have.These people have taken the lead to improving rural areas and I am very inspired by what they have done and it has made me feel energised and obliged to do more for my community.
homework Activity number 1
Homework exercises
· Development is any change, growth or development that happens over a certain period of time.
· GNI per person, Life expectancy, infant mortality rate, percentage of children receiving secondary education and number of fixed-line and ell phones per 1 000 people.
· here is the table
· Developed countries
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· Developing countries
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· GNI per person more than $6000 a year
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· GNI per person less than $6000 a year
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· Many industries produce high value products
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· Undeveloped industries
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· Extensive trading
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· Low value exports
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· High levels of education
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· Large numbers of unemployed poor. A few wealthy people.
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· Good health care
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· Health care problems
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· Lower economically developed countries and more developed countries.
o The HDI of an country is an accurate average of a countries wealth, where as it is very vague just to say a country is developed.
o Yes
o Because if a person has a low income then they cannot afford proper birth facilities.
o Third world countries, low GNI’s and their health care facilities are underdeveloped.
o A subsistance farmer is a farmer who farms to provide for his family and their basic needs.
o Farming equipment.
o Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs.
o Goal 1= End extremely poverty and hunger
Goal2= Give primary education to all children
Goal3= Promote equality between men and women and empower women
Goal4= Reduce child mortality
Goal5= improve the health of pregnant mothers
Goal6= Fight HIV/AIDS malaria and other diseases
Goal7= Make sure the environment is used in a sustainable way.
Goal8= Encourage partnerships between governments businesses and other organisations to work together for development.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
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