Over the past decade, the number of people on Earth shot up by more than 13 percent, to nearly 6.8 billion people. To make room for all the hungry, breeding, CO2-emitting bodies on our small planet, we’ve ravaged Earth’s surface with staggering feats of deforestation, irrigation and urbanization — and NASA satellites have captured it [...]
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Time-Lapse Videos of Massive Change on Earth | Wired Science | Wired.com
Posted in climate change, water facts on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Worldchanging: Bright Green: SolSource 3-in-1: An Alternative Energy Solution
Posted in pollution, third world assistance, water heating on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The satellite dish-shaped SolSource, developed by US-based nonprofit One Earth Designs, is elegant in its simplicity. Reflective nomadic tent material, stretched across a bamboo frame, concentrates sunlight from a large area inward toward a focal point where the user can place a pot stand for cooking, a thermoelectric device for generating electricity (at a lower [...]
Global Citizen Water Initiative | Citizen Water
Posted in tap water, third world assistance, water safety, water testing on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Global Citizen Water Initiative Citizen Water aims to empower communities worldwide to access healthy drinking water. It incorporates simple, inexpensive water quality test kits; clear, multi-lingual and multi-media instructions; and open source spatial mapping. This unique blend of community empowerment and global information exchange enables people—regardless of location, economic class or scientific training—to participate [...]
Access to safe drinking water – Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Posted in water facts, water safety on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Access to safe drinking water. There are currently more than 1000 million people in the world that lacks access to an easily accessible and safe water source, such as a connection to water mains or a protected well. Instead, water access is limited or available through unprotected sources. The target, under the Millennium Development Goals, [...]
Bay Area beaches score high on water quality
Posted in oceans, pollution, water safety on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Its safe to go into the water, according to a new health report card for Californias beaches, the vast coastal playground for millions who dig in the sand, swim, surf and dive.
Most beaches in the San Francisco Bay region won excellent marks, based on the risk of adverse health effects to beachgoers from bacteria pollution [...]
Water Education Foundation
Posted in water conservation, water facts on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Project WET Water Education for Teachers is an award-winning, nonprofit water education program and publisher. The program facilitates and promotes awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through the dissemination of classroom-ready teaching aids and the establishment of internationally sponsored Project WET programs. The Water Education Foundation is the California Coordinator for Project WET.
Project [...]
IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Posted in climate change, environmental policy, water facts on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. The IPCC does not conduct any research nor does it monitor climate related data or parameters. Its role is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and [...]
NASA – NASA Envisions “Clean Energy” From Algae Grown in Waste Water
Posted in algae, energy efficiency, pollution, recycling on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NASA scientists have proposed an ingenious and remarkably resourceful process to produce “clean energy” biofuels, that cleans waste water, removes carbon dioxide from the air, retains important nutrients, and does not compete with agriculture for land or freshwater.
When astronauts go into space, they must bring everything they need to survive. Living quarters on a [...]
Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy: Water Quality Investment Act of 2009 (H.R. 1262)
Posted in environmental policy, pollution, water conservation, water safety, water testing on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Water Quality Investment Act of 2009 (H.R. 1262) was introduced in the House on 3/3/09 by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar. It amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act [CWA]) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants to [...]
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