Against Climate Change

That’s what I call a change in direction: Not the MPH but the MPG (miles per gallon) as the new modding goal. There at ecomodder you can collect infos about tuning your car into a green or at least greener car.

Will the rising oil price bring work back to us? It seems so.

Cheap labor in China doesn’t help you when you gotta pay so much to bring the goods over … Distance costs money, and when you have to shift iron ore from Brazil to China and then ship it back to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh is looking pretty good at 40 bucks an hour.

At least one positive effect of the current situation. And even the climate will be a winner by not shipping every bit around the world but transporting it only within country borders.

How about these figures: In a medium sized city in Germany the near future will give a change in summer temperatures from 55 days to 75 days with values above 25°C. Accompanied with an increase of 40 percent rain giving a hot and humid climate and more chance to flooding.

The reverse effect in the winter time: from 60 days below 0°C down to 40 days. And snow will be a tale from the past.

One more step to reducing energy consumption: If you don’t need it, turn it off! Most modern devices have no switch at all. The EU plans to control the maximum power consumption for those devices and tries to keep them below 1W. There are even plans to disallow the stand-by mode at all.

Well, at least they say so.

These are the ten commandments of being green. Or do you have any other points we missed?

1. Move near to public transport connections
2. Walk for shopping within your town
3. Travel using the train, not the plane
4. Buy locally produced things
5. Shop for food matching the time of year
6. Take someone with you when using a car, don’t drive alone
7. Switch off your technical stuff by unplugging it, no standby function
8. Don’t waste hot water, use the shower with two or more people together
9. slow down your air conditioning, never use it outsides
10. Don’t take you car driving to the fitness centre

This website not only talks about climate change, we also listen to ourselves. As of today our hosting provider is using 100 percent waterpowered energy resources. Resulting in a reduction of 9300 tons of CO2 every year. In addition there was an energy reduction of thirty percent for the complete server farm.

The pace of desaster is speeding up, but the human reaction is slow as ever. So what should the local political leaders do? In this case in a small town in germany with about 78000 people they will order you to be green. With a full selection of red tape – remember, this is germany – today might start a new era. With the votes of the left wing, the even more left wing and the green party, a new law will be created. Every roof in this town has to get a solar powered equipment for getting hot water. Only Spain and Israel have some similar law.

Not very astonishing the first voices raise against this. And one of them is an association of fuel sellers, Do they realy fear their oil becomes rancid?

What a surprising act. We don’t like it, so we condemn the messenger.