The Ecological Footprint

The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth’s ecological capacity to regenerate.  The Earth has approximately 1.8 biologically productive hectacres per person. By analyzing the ecological footprint of humanity, we can see that most people in the western world have footprints so large, that if everyone lived like them, we would need multiple planets.

 

Watch the video:) Think global act local! Save your planet!

Maria Gyoker, CEEMEA GTS Team, Budapest, Hungary

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Save lives by preventing suicides with the help of technology in the city of Székesfehérvár, Hungary

Can somebody’s life saved to 99.9%?
Can it be lost “only” 0.01%?

The Lean/Six Sigma method argues whether 99.9% can be a quality good enough.
Is a 0.01% suicide rate low enough?  45 suicides per 100,000 people, that was the suicide rate in Hungary in the 1980’s and that is the highest recorded suicide rate in history, is a nearly 0.05%. It is not only a low enough number: even 1 life that couldn’t be saved is a 100% failure.

What can be done to approach a life-saving rate?
This video tries to describe the problem and find a technical solution to it.

Edit Toth, IDC CE Szekesfehervar, Hungary, Smarter Healthcare, #gdchallenge

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Superman and the energy

There is fact, that is for many people not clear. It’s all about energy. Food is energy, water is energy, money is energy, living is energy, crime is done for energy.

Let’s take Superman as an example. He is still living in Metropolis. With all respect, he helps a lot, he fights against crime with a vengeance, but in a wrong way.

He has a supernatural power. He could use this more effectively. He throws cars away, shoots laser from his eyes…

Well, it seems he is a unique, super-power-source. He should take a seat in front of some hectoliter water, and heat it in the winter with his laser-eyes.

And the hot water could heat the whole city. Or he spends some hours a day on a special generator-bicycle to give the city free electricity. How about this?

The result:

The heating costs for all the people would be zero. The electricity would be free. It would mean a great save for all. The city could sell the extra energy, the electricity to other towns.

The living for all the citizen of Metropolis would be free. The citizens would have actually an income, because the tax would be zero and the city could share the money (sold extra energy) with them.

And my point is: we all now, in a city of free lighting, heating, and a regularly “pocket money” from Metropolis to the citizens, the crime would be a thing of the past.

I proudly realize, that my city, Budapest is starting to recognize the effective ways of using energy. Green thinking is starting to grow, and I have trust in our generous energy specialists.

It means: living in Budapest will be better and better, than It’s all about energy.

Gergely Nagyfugedi,  Budapest

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