Your Questions About Green Living

Nancy asks…

Looking for a Job in Canada or US?

My name is Sinan and I am living in Germany and looking for an job opportunity in the Canada or US.

I have been working as an Project Engineer in the Environmental Industry (Germany) for more than fourteen years. I also worked in the Automobile Industry, (Turkey), where I was responsible for the implementation of ISO 9000.

My area of responsibility includes the development and management of project budgets. I proactively analyze multiple reimbursable contracts and am responsible for project budget management in close cooperation with the project manager and project schedule planner. In my function I also develop action proposals. My duties further include implementing change and contingency management issues as well as benchmarking progress measurement.

I am multilingual in English, Turkish, and German,

I am looking forward hearing from you.

To Pounder:
The thing is that I need a sponsor. Idon´t have a work permit. It is hard to find a employer which would sponsor you.

The Expert answers:

If you want to go to Canada, you can try to find an employment agency to hook you up with an employer and see if you can get a temporary work permit.

Otherwise you can apply as a skilled worker if you qualify, you don’t need a job offer for that but you need points to qualify and you get points for education, language, work experience etc. The average processing time through Berlin is 2 years.

Ken asks…

Today oil prices hit a new record: $122 per barrel. How could we react?

Today oil prices hit a new record: $122 per barrel. With quickly rising gas prices and other economic issues in the spotlight, many of us are feeling the pinch. But what exactly is causing this change in our economy, and as Christians or Muslims or Hindus, how can you help improve the situation? We are fully religious conscious and caste conscious. How can you get rid of this from your foolish Religious sentiments? All are humans, hence, think positively and do something for this cause towards environmental pollution.

The Expert answers:

That’s what happens when fascist dictators invade third world countries looking for non existent WMDs. Bush was warned about the consequences of invading Iraq.

Jenny asks…

Why not ban/charge for carrier bags in the UK?

They’ve done it in Ireland, and now Hong Kong is doing it:

“Plastic bag levy to pay for green education in Hong Kong” on Yahoo News at:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070522/tsc-hongkong-environment-b1f5339.html

“Money raised from a Hong Kong government levy to be placed on the use of polluting plastic bags will be used to fund green education programmes, the environment chief said Tuesday.

The bags are considered harmful to the environment as they take so long to decompose when trashed. The levy is aimed at reducing the number used each year.

Environment chief Sarah Liao said the levy money would be used to teach environmental issues to school children and to fund conservation programmes.”

If they can make such a sensible change, why can’t our government, which keeps telling us it’s supposedly supportive of green issues?

The Expert answers:

If they actually made a bag strong enough, ie the bag doesnt break 2 ft from your car, and the handles aren’t like razor wire, then people will only ever need 1 bag,

Make them really strong and people will re-use them instead of throwing them away.

James asks…

Who thinks countries should be got rid off and people placed to live together along new criteria?

Being of the same nationality is such a rubbish basis for grouping people together to obey all the same laws and live similar life styles. What have i got in common with my neighbours? Sod all. But I have friends in the U.S. Russia, Poland, Israel, Iran, Germany, Spain – all over the place- who i have far more in common with. Would it not be better if we organised where we lived and how we lived- the laws of our lands – along criteria such as what we believed in? There could be a Fundamentalist Christian state, different forms of socialist/communist states, rampant capitalist states, whatever there was a big enough population of people to justify them getting their own place! I would, for example, go for somewhere with no drug prohibition, where communities lived in small farming communities and governed themselves- an agricultural, by the sea, paradise type thing! 🙂 We would maybe not have TV or cars or designer clothing, but, i think i could live happily without these things. And with a few other things added and few more taken away, I know i could live a much happier and contented life- and i don’t think i’m alone?
But, i am aware enough to know some people want to live in a world of fast cars and chasing the dollar and doing business deals …while others want to make their religion the prime governer of their lives etc.. The world is big enough! Couldn’t we just have a big vote, determine the type of nations that were going to exist, then determine the size of each new nation by the number of people wishing to live in it? In this way people would be able to live in the type country they wanted to instead of the ‘sameness’ that is threatening every country on Earth right now, this democratic, christian capitalism that is spreading like a cancer. It would also be the opportunity to end the inequality between nations of the earth. We are all people and all, at heart, the same, and the sooner we see that then the easier it’ll be to accept the differences we do have, tolerate and respect those differences and the better it is going to be for EVERYONE!! People would have old friends and neighbours and family in different nations too making wars less likely! U.N. or some other effective body could govern it all. Shouldn’t we as a race be asked if we want this though? The technology is almost with us that would allow humanity to answer such a question and allow us to finally put wars and poverty behind us and start tackling global warming and environmental issues and working together instead of against each other, with every citizen of the world more content living in a nation with a belief system they supported and one that they had chosen for themselves. And people would of course be able to move between these different states. Your kid could leave your island dope smoking country and make his fortune in one of the big capitalist states, then trade it all in and move back to be where he grew up. Only problem would be people who still wished more than anything to belong to their country of birth- ultra nationalists – idiots. Jesus, if the principal thing that defines you is a flag, or an anthem or man made lines drawn on a map marking out the boundaries of a space on the crust of the planet and then given a name – there can’t be that much to your character.
I think its time we organised our living arrangements on better guidelines than nationality.

The Expert answers:

It’s never going to happen..not every country will agree on similar ideals/govt/etc.

Lisa asks…

why pesticides has become worse?

32,000 tons of pesticides were produced in the US in 1960. Despite the formation of the EPA, the availability of more information, and a greater public awareness of environmental issues, 615,000 tons of pesticides are used in the US each year

The Expert answers:

The truly effective pesticides will readily kill humans and pets in addition to the species they were targeted to kill during their deployment (humans and pets are just “collateral damage.”)

The formation of the EPA prohibited the use of those highly effective but indiscriminant and long-lived (can remain in the environment at killing/damaging strengths long after deployment) — so pesticide users had to resort to less effective pesticides to accomplish their goals.

Obviously, when something like a pesticide is less effective and less long-lasting, you have to use more — so the exchange is less more-effective pesticide for more less-effective pesticide. XD

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