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Traversing the thousand years head on Department of Science and Technology Region IV-A Vol. XVI No. 2 February 2008 DOST-ITDI, ICETT actualize GFIS Joined hands with DOST CALABARZON in â€Å"greening† situations The Industrial Technology Development Institute, a line office of DOST, in collaboration with the International Center for Environmental Technology Transfer (ICETT), situated in Yokkaichi City, Prefecture of Mie, Japan, and select DOST Regional Offices are starting up neighborhood activities to help profitability yet still save nearby condition. ICETT, with the help and collaboration of its own national and neighborhood governments, industry, and academe, uses Japan's gathered modern advancements and authoritative measures on ecological preservation. It applies these to actualize projects and tasks on the equivalent along with taking an interest nations. The point is to improve â€Å"greening† of provincial situations and forestall their devastation abroad, accordingly accomplishing protection all inclusive. Along with ICETT, the Philippines as taking an interest nation is in this way executing â€Å"Green Framework of Innovative Strategy on Sustainable Consumption and Productivity† or GFIS, a five-year undertaking of DOST-ITDI through its program on Cleaner Production. GFIS intends to: 1. Set up model mechanical eco barangays, towns and networks; 2. Improve ecological execution of both neighborhood ventures and its locale through natural mindfulness, Cleaner Production (CP), Energy Efficiency (EE), and Environmental Management System (EMS); and 3. Suggest arrangements for consideration in approach proposals to neighborhood government units and national government organizations. Nursery EFFECT GFIS plans to improve â€Å"greening† of local situations subsequently adding to worldwide lessening of the Greenhouse Effect. The nursery impact alludes to the manner by which gases in the Earth’s air warm the Earth like the glass top of a greenhouseâ€by giving daylight access however keeping the reflected warmth vitality caught inside. These normally happening gases, outstandingly carbon dioxide and water fume, are called ozone harming substances. DOST CALABARZON Bulletin February 2008 DOST-ITDI claims that one of the parts of GFIS under the CP program is mechanical limit working of staffs. It included CP is a forward looking â€Å"anticipate and forestall reasoning. † Thus, firms forestall contamination before they happen bringing about decreased squanders created at source. This by implication decreases working expenses and expands wellbeing of laborers. The outcomes are an improved corporate picture as seen by the general population and worldwide intensity. GFIS is being pilot tried at DOST NCR, DOST CALABARZON and DOST Region V. DOST CALABARZON through Guilberto A. Veluz, Center Manager for Technical Operations, as of late started direct of a three-day preparing and workshop for Cleaner Production Assessors of the district at Batis Aramin Resort and Hotel in Lucban, Quezon. The Regional Office planned to construct CP and EE specialized abilities of 18 CP assessors from five state colleges in CALABARZON. These incorporate Provincial S Center of Quezon, Cavite State University, Laguna State Polytechnic University, Batangas State University, University of Rizal System, and the Southern Luzon State University. During the preparation, the assessors assessed creation of Center Miki Factory and Valde’s Poultry Farm in Lucban, and Capistrano Distillery and Kamayan sa Palaisdaan in Tayabas. The assessors finished drafting of the FiRST Reports (Findings, Recommendations, Schedules and Tasks) and offered duplicates to the executives agents of taking part firms. They will present the total CP report one month after the preparation. (AMG) NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE DOST-PTRI effectively utilizes youthful coconut husks Develops material color While the majority o f us appreciate the blistering summers drinking â€Å"Buko† (juice structure youthful coconut) and snacking on its new meat as a push to while away time, the Philippine Textile Research Institute (DOSTPTRI) discovered great use for the youthful coconut husks which we for the most part discard. DOST-PTRI diverted hard to expel stains from these husks into a material color called coconut pink. They discovered that youthful coconut husk remove bestows red to maroon shading on silk, pina-seda and pina while it creates an old rose shading on cotton. They likewise settled colorfastness, washing and light appraisals of the colored materials and saw these as palatable for every one of these sorts. Coconut husks’ potential to bestow red shading comes as a vital guilty pleasure for material producers who use in extraordinary amounts the non-colorfast red color from sibukao (Caesalpinnia sappan). The material institute’s inquire about examination uncovered that youthful coconut husks sourced from various areas produce changing shades of red. This necessary subsequently shade and shading tint coordinating abilities and modifications in the coloring parameters. Moreover, DOST-PTRI found that coconuts from high heights yield practically no shading contrasted and coconuts from coastals and low-lying zones. This new use for youthful coconut husks holds guarantee for extra salary for ranchers. In like manner, the new technique’s necessity for obligatory hacking of husks before extraction encourages quick deterioration. This decreases the danger of stopping up of conduits and waste frameworks along coconut preparing towns. Unexpectedly, this developing common color industry runs complimentary to the National Coconut Agenda as it doesn't rival the food and wellbeing employments of coconut. DOST-PTRI pilot tried the youthful coconut husk extraction and material application innovation utilizing materials from the Bahaghari and kaLIKHAsan Collection of Kingsmen Corporation and Mariana Fashion Apparels, separately. The method frames some portion of the bundle of advancements embraced and marketed by Soumak Collection to deliver one of their unique shading alternatives. Their colored manifestations are sold in select shops in California, New York City, portions of Asia, and soon in Europe. Soumak Collection additionally gave the new coloring innovation a shot cotton bed materials for their Bed and Beddings assortment.  µ (PTRIAMG) DOST CALABARZON Bulletin NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE February 2008 Space Technology Committee pushes for securing SATELLITE for RP In a goals marked during the ongoing Second National Congress on Space Technology Applications and Research (NCSTAR), exactly 25 government and private offices pronounced that the Philippines seriously needs its own earth-watching satellite which can give continuous information pivotal in misfortune checking and climate guaging. â€Å"An earth perception framework will be advantageous to the country,† says Dr. Reynaldo Ebora, Executive Director of the Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCASTRD), convenor of the congress. â€Å"The Philippines is lastingly influenced by cataclysmic events, making auspicious, brief space-based data a need. † Participants to the Second National Congress gave strong help for a proposition to investigate prospects of getting the country’s own earth-watching satellite. When procured, the satellite will give climate figure a long time ahead of time. It can foresee where illnesses like intestinal sickness and SARS are well on the way to emerge. While most may take a gander at the obtaining as an approach to keep away from trouble in their every day exercises, ordinary frequency of tropical storms and their subsequent illnesses show the significance of the satellite in sparing lives and properties. As per DOST’s space innovation master Dr. Jose Edgardo Aban, having our own earth-watching satellite can help the nation in observing our property surface, biosphere, climate, and encompassing seas. The satellite can follow ecological changes in regions it is relegated. Procedures that the earth experiences, be it organic, natural, climatological, or geographical, can be checked and better comprehended. These will empower us, particularly our pioneers and specialists, to settle on progressively educated choices that may influence lives, the earth, and the economy. Beside these, it can screen woodland fires, anticipate the impact of air quality on individuals, give ranchers quick conjecture to help augment farming yields, and compute the example of tropical storms and tempests. In like manner, members proposed the consideration of satellite turn of events and other related space innovation applications in the school educational plan and fortifying the coordinative elements of the present Science and Technology Coordinating Council †Committee on Space Technology Applications.  µ DOST researcher graduate finds 900 BLACK HOLES in the sky A Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) researcher graduate is currently causing a ripple effect in the global galactic world in the wake of driving a group that found the biggest number of excessively gigantic dark gaps in the focuses of systems known to man. Reinabelle Reyes, a PhD understudy at Princeton University and a BS Physics summa cum laude graduate at the Ateneo de Manila University in 2005, drove a group of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) researchers that found countless â€Å"hidden quasars† that are covered in light-retaining residue and gas. As per Reyes, her group found around 900 concealed quasars, which is by a wide margin the lar