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Green Sales Software For Banks & Hedge Funds

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Environmentally friendly business communications & sales software.


Pieces of paper? Not anymore.

Sendside can easily replace all kinds of environmentally damaging paper mail, credit union and bank documents, information, contracts, business sheets… anything which will be  already sent through wasteful and slow paper mail can now be delivered by Sendside.

Precisely how damaging is regular paper mail?

  • 60% of dump waste materials is actually paper mail.
  • 100 million trees in the US are clear cut to generate paper mail each year – this is the same as clear cutting the Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.
  • 260,000 houses may be heated with only one day’s production of junk paper mail.
  • Environmentally friendly sales automation software can eliminate huge amounts of printed sales and marketing collateral.
  • Just 1 annual output and removal of junk mail consumes a bit more power than 3 or more million cars or trucks.

New software solutions replaces almost all these environmentally damaging inefficiencies. We do not plan to change homemade cards and letters coming from anyone’s Mom, but we do need to upgrade the huge amounts of surface mail which is generated due to the fact right now there hasn’t already been an potent and protected means of transmitting it over the internet.

E-mail squanders energy

After you send out a file by means of email, that file flows to a Internet Service Provider (ISP), through the internet, through the recipient’s ISP and finally towards the recipient. In each and every ‘node’ along the route, this email is actually copied as well as put into storage leading to an ever improving explosion of duplicates and backup copies. And so the 1 report you emailed is probably replicated and stashed something like 20 times prior to when it actually gets to its recipients inbox. In the event that there’s a answer back it goes through the same process all over again. Send out a 10MB record to twelve people and it may possibly add to the overall ‘size’ on the whole system by a thousand instances.

All of which information needs to be filed. These machines need to be constructed. The building which houses these computers is required to be air-conditioned. Power will have to be used to work the whole thing. While the cost of bandwidth is actually getting smaller, the actual hard expenses related to that rapid duplication of this data isn’t. The entire environmental cost is incredible.

Sendside is totally environmentally friendly: Once you electronically send a message with an attachment, the grateful recipients all receive the email and a ‘link’ into the attached file. The actual included file is not sent before the receiver ‘downloads’ the document. There isn’t any duplication. The record is not copied through all of these ‘nodes’ and is exclusively served if and when needed. So a 100MB file on a Sendside communication is always just 100MB, even in the event you post it again to one thousand individuals.

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Facts About Solar Energy - Shall We Use It?

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Facts about solar energy help you to understand how solar energy works, for example with solar flagpole lights, and how you can save some dollars without having to run a high energy bill with your home or gardening, desert landscaping decor. Solar energy is a inexhaustible resource and of the oldest method of energy use that is available at nowadays. The significant fact about solar energy is that the sun s beams are so powerful that if we are to convert that into energy it would mean that Earth will never run out of energy for at least another 4.5 billion years according to scientists.  Sun never create any hazardous by-product which could harm the environment.

During the early 1950s solar energy was looked upon as an substitute to man made energy resources. Through much research it was found energy could be acquired at much cheaper source. With a constant figure of 20% - 25% demand growth year-by-year, the solar energy demand increases for last two decades. Solar energy is able to support household gadgets, lighting such as wall sconces and water heaters. As of the moment, solar energy is more heavily priced but in the near future with the growth in scientific studies, it will bring down the prices and also increase its efficiency. By 2025, it is expected to generate 2.5% of the world energy demand through solar energy. Solar energy can be considered as the fastest growing technology.

There are some primary facts about solar energy that one needs to be presented to; solar energy is measured in kilowatt hours and 1 kilowatt=100 watts. One kilowatt hour is equal to the total of electricity which is required to burn 100 watt light bulb for approximately 10 hours. 866 kilowatt is the use by an average American household. The Residential Energy use Survey conducted in 2001 shows that an annual energy bill was around $2000.

A reduction in unit costs has added towards an increase in growth rates and thereby making it an important energy resource. Since 2000, solar energy has been expanding at an incredible rate of 40% per annum. Solar energy is going at a raising rate in the developing countries too as the use of fossil fuel has doubled over the years. When compared to solar energy which is unlimited, fossil fuel reserves are diminishing.  Setting up solar energy appliances is relatively easier in the more remote areas in comparison for setting up an expensive power grid structure. A disadvantage of fossil fuels is that the prices have risen together with the price of transporting coal, oil and gas.

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Sustainable building

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

A green or sustainable building relies on a special design that emphasizes the efficient use of all the resources from the materials to the heating and the water systems. Following the green criterion, the construction, the sitting, the design and the maintenance of a building have a limited impact on the environment. The best of practices are needed for good sustainable building construction, and the standards to work by refer to the reduction of polluting agents and waste, the efficient use of all the resources and the protection of the occupants’ health. At a small scale, sustainable building is known in the form of natural building.

Local resources only serve for the construction. The benefits of such a sustainable building are manifold if we consider the aimed efficiency of all the processes. The water and energy consume are low and therefore the operating costs are pretty reduced. The impact on the indoor quality remains high, meaning that there are fewer chances to get mold inside the house. Enthusiasts of sustainable building also try to create a balance between the architecture or design lines and the surroundings of the structure.

Ifmore people take up sustainable building practices, a serious reduction of the environmental impact of business can result from it. Statistics indicate that homes take up most of the total energy consume both in the European Union and the United States, and commercial buildings are following close behind. It is with buildings that the highest levels of carbon dioxide are also generated, and pollution levels become critical. The solution could thus come from the practices and techniques specific to sustainable building in order to reduce the negative impact of human habitat on the environment and implicitly make living conditions healthier.

Solar panels and rain gardens work great for sustainable building. Rain and sun light help one reduce the consume of resources because they are free and abundant. Why use tap water for the garden when there are special collecting systems that capture rain water? Moreover, the architecture specific to sustainable building relies on special materials such as ecology blocks, dimension stones and even wood from forests certified as sustainable managed. Recycled materials such as wood fibers, calcium sand stone, compressed earth blocks, foundry sand and even demolition debris could also turn into useful resources for sustainable building.

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Green Friendly - Is That For Us?

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

There are plenty of ways to choose a green-friendly lifestyle, like consumption of organic food and using solar lights or hybrid cars, but it all resumes to personal convictions and beliefs. People often tend to associate green-friendly products will a lack of individual comfort, and the rawest and most striking example is the ultra brands of toilet paper that feel so soft on the bum. Well, you may not know or care that very soft toilet is made from virgin fiber wood that requires the cutting down of trees. Next time when you fancy yourself as a green-friendly person, be more critical with your daily habits and see whether you really live up to your standards or simply make superficial claims of environmental concern.

You can recognize a green friendly person by the food he/she eats. Whether out of preoccupation for personal health or care for the environment, lots of people buy local food instead of the non-organic products available in hypermarkets. A vegetables garden will produce very nice food that can be kept 100% pesticide free. And here we have an inexpensive way of covering the need for beans, peas, tomatoes, carrots or peppers. Local green-friendly farms need all the support they can get from communities in order to sell their products; think about that, next time you go to the hypermarket.

Then, to give some further green-friendly lifestyle examples we ought to refer to outdoor activities more. How much time does your child spend in front of the computer or watching TV? The choice of the leisure activities should be from those that require spending time outside. Sports like climbing or cycling, family camping and other activities in natural settings will encourage children to seek a nature-oriented life. Fewer video game consoles would sell every year, if more parents thought like that.

Lots of other elements define a green-friendly attitude to life. From the effort to recycle and reuse to the very building of a house according to sustainable criteria, there is so much one can do to stay in harmony with the environment. We have got so used to our comfort, to the huge number of ready made items that serve us every day that we not even think where all our litter goes once we dump it in the bin or what happens to the waste water full of household residues. Just think for a second that the fish we serve for dinner may come from the toxic pool that the ocean has become, then, we may be more co-interested in cleaning this larger ‘home’ of ours.

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Earth Friendly Products - Do We Need It?

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Earth friendly products are goods and services, such as organic food or solar lights and hybrid cars, that don’t have a negative impact on the environment either in the manufacturing process or the consume. The eco-labels on such products tell consumers that the items are organic or natural. Unfortunately, many people lack green education and they have no familiarity with the concept of earth friendly products. Plus, there is no international standard for the concept, which makes things a bit difficult when it comes to implementing an-all valid green regulation. Sometimes the environmental specifications on the labels are not enough to increase consumer awareness and more needs to be done.

Earth friendly products have started to receive a growing attention on the market. Winning over market segments takes time, patience and commitment, and we won’t witness earth friendly products dominance in the too near future. Momentarily, organic food is probably the most advertised because of the benefits it provides for health. This seems to be the right alternative to the conventional food saturated with chemicals, pesticides and additives. The average consumer does not even know how many options there are available in terms of earth friendly products from the bio-degradable bags to sustainable building materials.

Green living, clothing, green building, pet care, toys, gifts, furniture, body and bath products and lots of others make the main categories of earth friendly products that you can shop for. Some items are now widely available on the shelves of the supermarkets, but others can only be purchased online. Just search for them, and you won’t feel disappointed. It is worth checking with local suppliers first and then turning to the Internet.

With earth friendly products, there is no toxicity for the body or the environment. They are made of raw materials, with organic dyes without any chemical addition at all. For the moment, we cannot speak of a predominance of earth friendly products, but there is no doubt that the diversity has significantly increased over the last ten years. The offer should increase proportionately with the demand. Plus, eco-friendly products receive full support from international organizations such as Greenpeace that contribute to the conservation, regeneration and protection of the planet’s environment.

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