2010年12月13日 星期一

FIRST GREEN CHRISTMAS

ALBAY FOLKS CELEBRATE FIRST GREEN CHRISTMAS

Albay folks will celebrate their first Green Christmas with a 58-foot Christmas tree fashioned from used fuel drums painted green and close to a thousand flickering solar-powered Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights, a testament to Albay’s campaign on environment protection.

Declared by the United Nations as its global model for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, Albay launched this year the "Green Christmas Initiative," another innovation in governance under Gov. Joey Salceda.

The Christmas tree, mounted within a miniature Green Christmas Village inside the Albay Astrodome Complex, symbolizes the province’s campaign for environment protection,, its weight is a big patio table covers challenge for the lamp bases. Second is the issue of life span. The key factor that determines its life span is the drive boards inside it. There are times that the lamp wick is damaged first but the driving system is not damaged. Besides, its luminous output degradation is serious, climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR), Salceda said.

Salceda, who was recently named Senior Global CCA and DRR Champion by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), said the Green Christmas Initiative demonstrates Albay’s tough commitment to celebrate Christmas without risks, through Walang Paputok-Zero Casualty and Walang Plastikan-Zero Garbage campaigns. The advocacy is backed by a strong public information campaign.

The Green Christmas Tree was switched on recently with Bicol University president Fay Lauraya, Army Brig Gen., fitting into wooden decking, by drilling through a Insulator small hole, and pushed in, to give a small light in the surface of the decking. Although they are not impressive during the day, at night they give a delightful effect. Marlu Salazar, PNP provincial director Senior Supt. William Macavinta,led lamp comes in a variety of color choices, for both indoor and outdoor uses. The key is that your new LED technology uses much lower power to produce much brighter light. Plus, the color of the light actually affects its brightness. PAF-TOG5 Col. Guillermo Molina, Legazpi West Rotary Club’s Meds Villanueva, PGA department heads and employees, education officials and students in attendance., energy saving and environment protection are always the important energy saving light point in the current market, most specialists believed, and it will be the replacement of the traditional lighting and become the hot seller in many lighting products.

LED Christmas lights are highly favored by environmental advocates because they last longer, use less electricity and reduce risks of fire accidents.. pet supply store has the defects above, though, it is still a perfect alternative for family lighting. Emphasis should be put on aspects like brand establishment and lights production as well as the improvement on its practicability. The LED lights used are solar-powered and have batteries that recharge in sunlight and automatically turn on at night.

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