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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 execute 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 protect nearby condition. ICETT, with the help and participation of its own national and neighborhood governments, industry, and academe, uses Japan's gathered mechanical advancements and regulatory measures on natural preservation. It applies these to execute projects and activities on the equivalent along with partaking nations. The point is to upgrade â€Å"greening† of provincial situations and forestall their devastation abroad, in this way accomplishing preservation all around. Along with ICETT, the Philippines as taking an interest nation is in this manner 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 expects to: 1. Set up model modern eco barangays, towns and networks; 2. Improve ecological execution of both nearby ventures and its locale through natural mindfulness, Cleaner Production (CP), Energy Efficiency (EE), and Environmental Management System (EMS); and 3. Suggest arrangements for incorporation in strategy proposals to neighborhood government units and national government organizations. Nursery EFFECT GFIS intends to improve â€Å"greening† of territorial conditions in this manner adding to worldwide decrease 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, quite carbon dioxide and water fume, are called ozone depleting substances. DOST CALABARZON Bulletin February 2008 DOST-ITDI claims that one of the segments of GFIS under the CP program is innovative 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 diminished squanders produced at source. This in a roundabout way diminishes working expenses and builds security of laborers. The outcomes are an improved corporate picture as seen by the general population and worldwide seriousness. 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 lead of a three-day preparing and workshop for Cleaner Production Assessors of the area at Batis Aramin Resort and Hotel in Lucban, Quezon. The Regional Office planned to assemble CP and EE specialized capacities 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 board delegates 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 a large portion of us appreciate the sweltering 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 typically discard. DOST-PTRI diverted hard to expel stains from these husks into a material color called coconut pink. They discovered that youthful coconut husk extricate gives 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 evaluations of the colored materials and saw these as agreeable for every one of these sorts. Coconut husks’ potential to grant red shading comes as a vital extravagance for material producers who use in incredible amounts the non-colorfast red color from sibukao (Caesalpinnia sappan). The material institute’s explore study uncovered that youthful coconut husks sourced from various areas produce differing shades of red. This necessary subsequently shade and shading tint coordinating abilities and modifications in the coloring parameters. Likewise, DOST-PTRI found that coconuts from high rises yield basically no shading contrasted and coconuts from coastals and low-lying zones. This new use for youthful coconut husks holds guarantee for extra pay for ranchers. In like manner, the new technique’s prerequisite for necessary cleaving of husks before extraction encourages quick disintegration. This lessens the danger of stopping up of conduits and waste frameworks along coconut preparing towns. By chance, this rising normal color industry runs complimentary to the National Coconut Agenda as it doesn't contend with 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, individually. The method frames some portion of the bundle of advancements received 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 likewise gave the new coloring innovation a shot cotton bed cloths 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), somewhere in the range of 25 government and private organizations announced that the Philippines gravely needs its own earth-watching satellite which can give continuous information significant in a fiasco observing and climate determining. â€Å"An earth perception framework will be valuable 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 catastrophic events, making convenient, succinct space-based data a need. † Participants to the Second National Congress gave strong help for a proposition to investigate prospects of gaining the country’s own earth-watching satellite. When procured, the satellite will give climate conjecture a very long time ahead of time. It can anticipate where sicknesses 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 stay away from trouble in their day by day exercises, standard rate of tropical storms and their subsequent illnesses show the significance of the satellite in sparing lives and properties. As indicated by 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, air, and encompassing seas. The satellite can follow natural changes in regions it is allocated. Procedures that the earth experiences, be it organic, natural, climatological, or land, can be observed and better comprehended. These will empower us, particularly our pioneers and specialists, to settle on increasingly educated choices that may influence lives, the earth, and the economy. Beside these, it can screen woodland fires, foresee the impact of air quality on individuals, give ranchers prompt figure to help amplify rural yields, and compute the example of hurricanes 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 very monstrous dark openings in the focuses of cosmic 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 an enormous number of â€Å"hidden quasars† that are covered in light-retaining residue and gas. As indicated by Reyes, her group found around 900 concealed quasars, which is by a wide margin the lar