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The problem is so vast and the urgency so great that advice which suggests you turn off the tap while brushing your teeth or switch off lights and standbys when they are not needed or go vegetarian for one day a week seems, well, ridiculous. But it’s very use. We can do everything even the little thing, we must be able to do it for our lovely planet.Here is twenty ways How to stop global warming.

1. Do not leave appliances on standby
Use the "on/off" function on the machine itself. A TV set that's switched on for 3 hours a day (the average time Europeans spend watching TV) and in standby mode during the remaining 21 hours uses about 40% of its energy in standby mode.

2. Buy Recycled products

There has to be a market for products made with recycled goods. Support this movement by purchasing recycled goods. Recycled paper products include toilet paper (which is no longer scratchy, like it used to be), copy paper, paper towels, and tissues. Look for garbage bags and bin liners labeled "recycled plastic," and buy recycled toner cartridges for your fax machines and printers.

3. Rinse NO More

According to Consumer Reports, pre-rinsing dishes does not necessarily improve a dishwasher's ability to clean them. By skipping the wash before the wash, you can save up to 20 gallons of water per dishload. At one load a day, that's 7,300 gallons over the course of the year. Not to mention that you're saving time, dishwashing soap, and the energy used to heat the additional water.

4. Cover your pots while cooking
Doing so can save a lot of the energy needed for preparing the dish. Even better are pressure cookers and steamers: they can save around 70%!

5. Take a shower instead of a bath
A shower takes up to four times less energy than a bath. To maximize the energy saving, avoid power showers and use low-flow showerheads, which are cheap and provide the same comfort.

6. Re-gift Gift Wrap

Help cut down on the consumption of paper and plastic by re-using wrapping paper, ribbons, bows, and gift bags. These items should be good for at least one more wrapping. If you are feeling creative, use old calendars, pages from magazines, or even newspaper to wrap gifts.

7. Plant a tree
A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

8. Switch to green power
In many areas, you can switch to energy generated by clean, renewable sources such as wind and solar.

9. Buy fresh foods instead of frozen
Frozen food uses 10 times more energy to produce.

10. Reuse your shopping bag
When shopping, it saves energy and waste to use a reusable bag instead of accepting a disposable one in each shop.

11. Reduce waste
Most products we buy cause greenhouse gas emissions in one or another way, e.g. during production and distribution. By taking your lunch in a reusable lunch box instead of a disposable one, you save the energy needed to produce new lunch boxes.

12. Use less hot water
It takes a lot of energy to heat water.

13. Use the washing machine or dishwasher only when they are full
If you need to use it when it is half full, then use the half-load or economy setting. There is also no need to set the temperatures high. Nowadays detergents are so efficient that they get your clothes and dishes clean at low temperatures.

14. Green Paint

Most paint is made from petrochemicals, and its manufacturing process can create 10 times its own weight in toxic waste.

15. Go vegetarian One day a week

To produce one pound of beef requires 2,500 gallons of water—that's 40 times more water than is used to produce a pound of potatoes.

16. Stop the water

By leaving the water running while you brush your teeth, you can waste 150 gallons of water per month.

17. Turn off your chargers

Most cell-phone chargers continue to draw electricity even when the phone isn't plugged into it. If your cell-phone charger averages five watts per hour and is plugged in all the time, that means a total of more than 40 kilowatt-hours every year, or about 93 pounds of CO2. The same problem applies to your other electronic equipment—your laptop, iPod, digital camera, and BlackBerry. Unplug all your chargers when they are not in use.

18. Turn off your computer when you leave at night

While computers do require a power surge when you first turn them on, they don't need enormous amounts of electricity to function for lengthy periods. Also, you can set your computer on "sleep" mode, which uses about three watts per hour, if you are going to be away from your desk for more than 15 minutes.

19. Recycle your newspaper

There are many million newspapers printed each day in the in Indonesia, about 50 percent, of these will be thrown away.

20. WALK OR BIKE

Always consider alternatives to driving, especially for journeys under two miles. It's better for the environment to walk, cycle, or even take the bus than to hop in your car.

would you like to do these?? I believe you can do it, a little thing but have a big changed, Why not?? LET'S DO IT...LET'S HAVE A BEAUTIFUL EARTH...

Facebook was founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.

In September 2004, Facebook received around $500,000 from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel in an angel round. In May 2005, Facebook raised $12.7 million in venture capital from Accel Partners [9] .

In late August 2005, it was announced on the main website that the domain name facebook.com was acquired from Aboutface Corporation, and the website moved domains and dropped the "the" from the site name effective August 23, 2005. The purchase price for the domain name was $200,000 according to people familiar with this deal[citation needed]. Also included in the move was a site overhaul, making profile pages more "user-friendly", according to Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg has since added more universities to Facebook.

When one of America's largest electronic surveillance systems was launched in Palo Alto a year ago, it sparked an immediate national uproar. The new system tracked roughly 9 million Americans, broadcasting their photographs and personal information on the Internet; 700,000 web-savvy young people organized online protests in just days. Time declared it "Gen Y's first official revolution," while a Nation blogger lauded students for taking privacy activism to "a mass scale." Yet today, the activism has waned, and the surveillance continues largely unabated.

IAS / IFRS merupakan standar akuntansi internasional yang diterbitkan oleh International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) / International Accounting Standard Board (IASB).
Di Indonesia, laporan keuangan yang disampaikan kepada Bapepam wajib disusun berdasarkan Pernyataan Standar Akuntansi Keuangan (PSAK) yang dikeluarkan oleh Ikatan Akuntan Indonesia (IAI) dan praktik akuntansi lainnya yang lazim berlaku di pasar modal. Selain itu, tanpa mengurangi ketentuan yang ada, Bapepam berwenang menetapkan ketentuan akuntansi di bidang pasar modal. Dalam penyusunan PSAK, IAI mengacu pada IAS / IFRS dengan tetap mempertimbangkan faktor lingkungan usaha yang ada. Harmonisasi PSAK dengan IAS terus dilakukan dalam upaya untuk mendukung program harmonisasi yang diprakarsai IASB. Dalam hal pengembangan suatu standar akuntansi karena adanya tuntutan perkembangan dunia usaha di Indonesia yang belum diatur dalam IAS atau tidak dapat diadopsi untuk kondisi di Indonesia. Pengadopsian Internasional Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) dibanyak negara, mengikuti pola yang berbeda tanpa memperlihatkan apakah negara tersebut mengikuti Code Law atau Anglo-Saxon Accounting. Untuk negara tertentu, seperti Inggris pengaruhIFRS tidak terlalu besar, namun untuk negara lain, akan terjadi perubahan yang sangat besar.

Adopsi penuh standar akuntansi internasional adalah mengadopsi standar akuntansi internasional secara penuh tanpa adanya perubahan-perubahan untuk diterapkan di suatu negara. Adopsi dan implementasi standar akuntansi internasional (IAS) yang sekarang menjadi International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) bukanlah suatu yang mudah, beberapa permasalahan akan dihadapi oleh tiap negara.

Konverjensi ke IFRS di Indonesia

Indonesia saat ini belum mewajibkan bagi perusahaan-perusahaan di Indonesia menggunakan IFRS melainkan masih mengacu kepada standar akuntansi keuangan lokal. Dewan Pengurus Nasional IAI bersama-sama dengan Dewan Konsultatif SAK dan Dewan SAK merencanakan tahun 2012 akan menerapkan standar akuntansi yang mendekati konvergensi penuh kepada IFRS.

Standar akuntansi keuangan nasional saat ini sedang dalam proses secara bertahap menuju konverjensi secara penuh dengan International Financial Reporting Standards yang dikeluarkan oleh IASB. Adapun posisi IFRS/IAS yang sudah diadopsi hingga saat ini dan akan diadopsi pada tahun 2009 dan 2010 adalah seperti yang tercantum dalam daftar- daftar berikut ini.

IFRS/IAS yang Telah Diadopsi ke dalam PSAK hingga 31 Desember 2008
1. IAS 2 Inventories
2. IAS 10 Events after balance sheet date
3. IAS 11 Construction contracts
4. IAS 16 Property, plant and equipment
5. IAS 17 Leases
6. IAS 18 Revenues
7. IAS 19 Employee benefits
8. IAS 23 Borrowing costs
9. IAS 32 Financial instruments: presentation
10. IAS 39 Financial instruments: recognition and measurement
11. IAS 40 Investment propert

Indonesia akan mengadopsi IFRS secara penuh pada 2012 nanti,. Dengan mengadopsi penuh IFRS, laporan keuangan yang dibuat berdasarkan PSAK tidak memerlukan rekonsiliasi signifikan dengan laporan keuangan berdasarkan IFRS. Namun, perubahan tersebut tentu saja akan memberikan efek di berbagai bidang.

Sumber :

http://one.indoskripsi.com/node/2332

http://inovarizka.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/ifrs

http://www.kanaka.co.id/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63:konverjensi-ke-ifrs-di-indonesia&catid=44:audit

Ulasan Kelompok kami :

Permasalahan yang dihadapi di antaranya adalah

1) masalah penerjemahan standar itu sendiri, IFRS yang diterbitkan dalam bahasa Inggris perlu diterjemahkan, sedangkan penerjemahan itu sendiri akan mengalami kesulitan di antaranya adanya ketidakkonsistenan dalam penggunaan kalimat bahasa Inggris, penggunaan istilah yang sama untuk menerangkan konsep yang berbeda, dan penggunaan istilah yang tidak terdapat padanannya dalam penerjemahan

2) ketidaksesuaian antara IFRS dengan hukum nasional, karena pada beberapa negara standar akuntansi termasuk sebagai bagian dalam hukum nasional, sehingga standar akuntansinya ditulis dalam bahasa hukum, dan di sisi lain IFRS tidak ditulis dalam bahasa hukum, sehingga harus diubah oleh Dewan Standar Akuntansi masing-masing negara,

Dampak konvergensi IFRS di Indonesia :

1. Perubahan mind stream dari rule-based ke principle-based

2. IFRS selalu berubah dan konsep yang digunakan dalam suatu IFRS dapat berbeda dengan IFRS lain.

3. Semakin meningkatnya ketergantungan ke profesi lain.

4. Perubahan text-book dari US GAPP ke IFRS.

5. Akses ke pendanaan internasional akan lebih terbuka karena laporan keuangan akan lebih mudah dikomunikasikan ke investor global

6. Relevansi laporan keuangan akan meningkat karena lebih banyak menggunakan nilai wajar.

7. Disisi lain, kinerja keuangan (laporan laba rugi) akan lebih fluktuatif apabila harga-harg fluktuatif.Penggunaan off balance sheet semakin terbatas

When I was travelling at Mall, located Lb bulus, I bought Hachiko DVD because I love so much about Dog stories, example Beverly hills Chihuahua, Underdog, Cats and Dogs , but only Hachiko story’s has a lot of messages for us.

This heart warming true story that I had watched is an American adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal Dog.

In 1924, Hachikō was brought to Tokyo by his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo. Hachiko is very special friend, he would accompany his master to the train station everyday and return each afternoon to greet him after work at Shibuya Railroad Station.

The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925 until one day His master had suffered a stroke when he was teaching at university that day, He died and never returned to the train station where his friend (Hachiko) was waiting.

Hachikō was given away after his master's death, but he routinely escaped, showing up again and again at his old home. And then Hachiko was going to his old home, but not founded, he was going to station, trying to found his master and still waiting.

Each day, Hachikō waited for his master to return. And each day he did not see his friend among the commuters at the station. Many of people who always had seen Hachiko and his master together at the train station. They gave foods and caring for Hachiko during he was waiting for his beloved master. This continued for 10 years, with Hachikō appearing only in the evening time, precisely when the train was due at the station.

Finally Hachikō died on March 8, 1935. He died at the same spot where his owner found him. His stuffed and mounted remains are kept at the National Science Museum of Japan in Ueno, Tokyo. His loyalty, faith, devotion and undying love makes everyone who had listen and seen this story must be touched. I hope we as a Person can learn from Hachiko although he’s just Dog but he has undying love until he died.