A parliamentary body yesterday said an office building would be constructed under Science and ICT ministry using 'green technology' which would emit zero carbon.
The parliamentary standing committee on Science and Information and Communication Technology ministry is taking the initiative in line with the prime minister's direction to cope with the climate change threat and to draw attention of international community.
Chaired by Dabirul Islam, chairman of the standing committee, it also recommended that the government construct other offices and residential houses environmentally friendly using 'green technology.'
The Science & ICT ministry officials informed the committee that it would provide laptop to all 345 lawmakers within two months and also another computer to each MP's office to digitalise and make easy their communication.
"We asked the ministry concerned to take a pilot project to build its office building using green technology as part of the initiative," Zunaid Ahmed Palak, a member of the committee, told The Daily Star after the meeting held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
Elaborating on the green technology, Palak, also a ruling Awami League lawmaker, said building of offices and residences using green technology would not release any carbon to environment.
Besides, all wastes of houses and offices will be recycled and to produce energy, said Palak.
"Several other lawmakers and I shared our experience of recent visit to the southern state of Karnataka and West Bengal of India where we saw offices and houses were built using green technology," said the AL lawmaker.
“An Indian delegation of West Bengal Electronics City will visit Bangladesh in the next month to discuss different technological issues including building of zero carbon emitting buildings," he added saying "India's one of the largest software exporter Infosys, also expressed their willingness to assist".
“Global warming?” says Steve Wampler. “Crap!”
This is unexpected because Steve trained as an environmental engineer at UC Davis.
But he’s serious. “There are 100,000 scientists out there who are saying it’s total crap too, but they get shunned, swept under the carpet because all this ‘global warming’ stuff is just money-making scare tactics. They prevent the opposing view from ever getting a fair hearing.”
Steve. What a contradiction. I thought he’d be a global-warming shoo-in, a great first interview on my mission to find out what green San Diegans are doing, post-Copenhagen, to save the world. To undo — uninvent — global warming. Because it turns out (who knew?) that San Diego invented global warming, or at least discovered a way of understanding it.Just over 50 years ago, in March 1958, Charles Keeling of UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography set up camp on the summit of Mauna Loa in Hawaii. His idea was to take daily measurements of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, to see if that number was increasing as a result of humanity’s use of fossil fuels.
And over the course of 50 years, the figures tell us it was. Keeling’s graph does one sexy curve up, up, and up. Each notch equals more CO2 in every molecule of air. The Keeling curve “marked a key moment in American science history,” says Scripps, commemorating the anniversary in an article on its website. It’s “become one of the iconic images of science, rivaling the double helix, or Darwin’s sketches of finches…. It turned speculations about increasing CO2 from theory into fact.”
So the question is: With all the urgent calls from Copenhagen, can San Diego help lead the world back from the brink? It turns out that our fair city bristles with experts and activists, from Keeling’s son Ralph, also a climate scientist at UCSD, to Veerabhadran Ramanathan, who discovered the “ABC” — atmospheric brown clouds — clouds loaded with industrial soot that cause a reduction in solar radiation at the ocean surface.
Hard to Pick: visitors look at different models of notebooks on the first day of Zoom Laptop Fair. PHOTO: SK ENAMUL HAQUE"Why should I keep the fat desktop computer when I am getting a sleek laptop almost at the same price?" asked Joyee, a university student who was browsing at the 'Zoom Laptop Fair 2010' at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in city.
The three-day laptop exposition that began on Wednesday with the slogan "Light up the technological light" has drawn an overwhelming response, from the youngsters in particular.
Organisers said university students were the targets of the fair and they designed their packages on that basis.
"Students now prefer laptop to desktop," observes a salesman at the fair.
Justifying his observation, he said laptops could be used as notebook in classroom and a student can do his or her homework whenever and wherever they want if he or she has a laptop.
"If you are a student, a laptop will make your life more comfortable. It saves your time that is the most valuable thing in this busy world," said a student who studies business at a private university.
"Laptop is no longer a craze, it's a necessity," he added.
Raihan, a marketing executive, said, "My computer is my office since I have to work on computer and I can carry it, no matter wherever I am."
Mostofa Jabbar, president of Bangladesh Computer Samity, said at the inaugural ceremony of the fair that it would be difficult to find a person in near future who would use desktop.
Jabbar said the consumers' response to the laptop fairs over the last few years spelled that out.
The Laptop fair had been a grand success for the last couple of years as the fair offers very special rates.
Mobile phone operator Citycell is the title sponsor of the exposition, while Acer, Asus, HP and Lenovo are the co-sponsors.
Internationally renowned brands like HP, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Hasee, Gigabyte, Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, Acer, Great Wall, BenQ, Apple are participating in this fair with brand new laptops for attractive prices on display.
Attracting features of the exposition, that would end today, include raffle draw and quiz contest.
