All Blog Posts Tagged 'climate' (17)

Bill McKibben and 350.org have called for an international work day to stop climate change on October 10, 2010. I have proposed to him that there should 350.org should provide an online solutions architecture in order to promote and support those practical demonstrations of climate solutions on October 10 and to make sure they continue after that day. Continue

Next week it will be the 10th anniversary of the day the aliens landed. The government has declared a national holiday and there will be fireworks, all the usual stuff. But not many people will be celebrating.



For one thing, there's another monster typhoon brewing in the Pacific. All those fancy new fusion generators don't seem to have fixed the weather. I remember the first television interviews when the aliens tried to explain what they could and couldn't do for us. They were like… Continue

Economy tops environment as bigger concern!

As the millennium children wake up out there stupor from all mindless media, they will one day realize todays news of exanding oil drilling over any cost of more destruction to the enviorment is something they will never forget.



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In 2006, the United Nations said it expected Africa to be the continent most affected by climate change, not because it produces a large amount of greenhouse gases - quite the opposite - but because it is the least equipped to cope with change.



2007-2009

The rains have failed in Kenya since 2007 resulting in a prolonged drought with over 10 million people needing food aid. Drought is a normal, recurring feature of the climate in most parts of the world. It…

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The mobile dings gently. I groan but don't bother to pick it up. There's no one on the other end. It's 6am and the solar panel complaining; it's rearing to get cracking at another day of work but its covered in snow. If it detects anything less than 70% efficiency I don't hear the end of it. Have you ever tried negotiating with a solar panel? Doesn't go over well. Concepts like "snooze" and "another 10 minutes" aren't in its API.



I pull on… Continue

First, a digital poster of the discretionary budget of the US. The circles are scaled, so that the 600 billion dollar Dept. of Defense budget is visibly much bigger than the meager 6 billion dollar Dept. of Ed. budget.

http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/

Second, we have a site that uses computer generated climate models to look at future trends as well as our impact on future trends. As they say at the opening…

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The change in global temperatures has led to change in the local weather patterns; this has great impact on our environment. The change in weather patterns has resulted to the melting of ice in Mt.Kenya, in the last few decades the once snow capped mountain has reduced its

volume of ice. The Mau and the Aberdare forest have not being spared either due…

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According to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the Earth's average surface temperature has increased 1.3 degrees F over the past 100 years. What may seem like a small temperature change has devastating consequences - rising sea levels, loss of Arctic habitat, extinctions, increasingly intense hurricanes, drought and famine.…

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Tuesday January 26th: 8:30-10:00am: Dr. Alan Townsend, University of Colorado

Topic: Climate Change and Food Security…. Should We Worry?

10:15-10:30pm: SPECIAL SESSION: Dr. Ashley Williamson, Department

Glad to know my community is well informed of these issues. This was one of the events at the The 21st Annual Steamboat…

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I'm usually trying to stay in the present, not to think much about future and the past. What is happened, can't be changed, what will happen in the future cannot be predicted, only thing that can change anything is what you do in the present and be happy at this moment. But I will let my imagination fly on this one, because there are few things that I would like to do.



So let's start what has happened from this moment on till 2020. I am hoping to finish my school in 2011 and get my… Continue

Is anyone working on using the heat energy from the burning of waste products, garbage, that produces steam, for trubines and electricity, the cooling of the steam collected for distilled water and the heat in the cooling used in a greenhouse for the growing of food in all kinds of weather?

The first issue is the most daunting one.



"Innovation (often) comes from constraint (If you’ve got very few resources, you’re forced to be very creative in using and reusing them.)"



Need is the mother of invention, but need, without any solutions causes stress and panic. When humans are panicky they can make big mistakes. As a result, panic comes from constraint. It is a little easier for us in the western world to be more objective and creative about another nations problems… Continue

Its the year 2020, the scheme that was launched in the previous decade of "meat free mondays" expanded to become a national policy to reduce the meat intake of the wh*** nation to help save methane damage to the environment. We are now only allowed to have the equivalent quantity of meat of just one chicken drumstick per meal for two meals of the day. The rest of the meal is made up out of grains and pulses to make sure that we have the right balance of protien and B vitamins in our diet.… Continue

Preservation of Britain's Food security

Economic and Agrarian possible ideas.

Food self sufficiency is being reduced in the UK due to trade liberalisation. Although this has to be seen as a good thing and free markets are a way to assist in the

development of a good economic community, steps have to be taken…

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Climate change is a global trepidation and
needs a global response; it’s no longer an environmental

issue but also a development problem. I agree we need to
confront the greatest environmental crisis in our history and
this will take commitment, dedication, and even sacrifice —
but nothing less than the future is at stake.The irony in this is that the least polluters has to bear the greatest calamity.

So, with the recent "fad" (excuse the word usage.. I'll get to that later) of global climate change, people all around the world are becoming aware of this problem. Corporations are advertising clean fuels, and industry is spewing out new, expensive lifestyles. It is apparent to be an enormous problem, one that affects everyone. But is the jazz towards it just a "fad"?



Reuse, recycle, sustainability, carbon free; these are words that are commonly found around our dinner tables and in… Continue

one of the things my friend Joel has taught me is the importance of letting things adapt to their environment naturally. the last two winters here in Portland have been hard. last year we had more snow than i ever remember seeing in the city, this year the ground was frozen solid for a week in November.

these are not great conditions for a startup urban farm; last year we lost some two thirds of our fava beans to the cold and this year i think we lost even more, but this years crop was… Continue