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• I guess China wont absorb North Korea if the government falls

  
  gangwon notes — Authority: 499
  There has long been concern that, should the North Korean government collapse, China would move in on a peacekeeping mission and somehow end up in full control.  I have seen many articles and posts on the subject, but only found this one while preparing this post. To many Koreans, judging from past actions, this ...
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• Top 5 Green Holiday Gifts at The Nature Conservancy

  
  Natural Environment Blog — Authority: 100
  The Nature Conservancy is continuing to offer green gifts this year, with its Green Gift Guide . You may remember that it launched its Green Corporate Gift-Giving Center last year. Included in this year’s gift guide are TNC’s “Top 5 Eco-Friendly Holiday Gifts”. Adopt an Acre ($50 per acre) Help protect ...
  2 days ago

• Martinez mayor appointed to Bay Area water board

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 477
  Schroder Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Martinez Mayor Rob Schroder to the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. He also reappointed to the board Lafayette resident Shalom Eliahu, 82, who has served on the board since 2000. Eliahu is president of Solo Engineer Consulting and has also ...
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• Academic Water Economists

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 594
  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting of the International Water Resource Economics Consortium at Berkeley. Many big wheels were presenting (Dinar, Hanemann, Howitt, Libecap, Olmstead, Zilberman and others who are probably more famous than I know :) and others were in the audience, giving comments, questions and ...
  3 days ago

• A fish here, a fish there. Who cares?

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 594
  OO says: Im a law student researching Entergy v. Riverkeeper where the Supreme Court said EPA can use cost-benefit analysis when determining the best technology available standard for cooling water intake systems. J. Breyers concurring opinion posits that its irrational in a world of stressed resources to force a ...
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• manure solution?

  
  Ventura River Ecosystem — Authority: 119
  Folks in Ojai have been researching potential solutions to the manure problem . One big idea is creating marketable products from the waste, and in the process make a big step toward local sustainability. In this case, a BioDigester that would process collected manure and green waste into bioGas for use in vehicles ...
  4 days ago

• the manure problem

  
  Ventura River Ecosystem — Authority: 119
  Horses are a way of life in the Ojai Valley, but the waste they generate has long been recognized as a potential water quality problem. The issue is nutrient-rich manure that is often disposed of adjacent to or sometimes in the creeks throughout the watershed. This elevates nitrogen levels in the water, which ...
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• Cleaner water

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 594
  Walter Bauer contacted me with an interesting invention/process [pps]: The Bauer Energy Design® Water Processor improves water quality through many fundamental phenomena: Zeta potential reduction, electrolysis, turbulence and cavitation. Zeta potential controls the growth of particles in water. Reducing Zeta ...
  4 days ago

• Udall’s Good Samaritan water-cleanup bill drawing support

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 655
  U.S. Sen. Mark Udall ’s new streamlined Good Samaritan legislation , designed to encourage volunteer water cleanup projects, may yet become law. It is the 11th piece of Good Samaritan legislation to be introduced in Congress in the last 15 years. Udall’s bill, however, is drawing more support and less opposition ...
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• Sewers at Capacity

  
  Sebago Canoe Club — Authority: 408
  Here is a good New York Times article about storm water pollutions around the country. We had our shares of issues with the storm water facilities and it seems we have less issues as we are aware and take proactive measures. It is 3 pages long and talks about issues at a Brooklyn facility and Suffolk county. It ...
  4 days ago

• EPA Sets National Rules On Construction Site Soil Runoff

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 506
  Melvin Baker - AHN Reporter Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday issued its first regulations designed to limit runoff and reduce water pollution from construction sites.
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• Places to Visit: Lower Arroyo Seco in Pasadena

  
  L.A. Creek Freak — Authority: 458
  Midstream in the Arroyo Seco When some of the Swedish visitors were here for their The Fifth Ecology: Los Angeles Beyond Desire exhibit, we planned to go for a hike to Millard Canyon Falls, above Pasadena. Unfortunately the area was closed, likely due to the recent fires. We instead ended up taking a hike along ...
  6 days ago

• iPhone App Of The Week: Aquarium – Strip Ease 1.0

  
  Greg In The Desert — Authority: 126
  I do not yet own Aquarium Strip Ease. I like the concept, use water test strips and compare them to the colors in the app. The app will explain what steps are need to improve water quality and presumably keep a log. Based on the screen shots, I think the app could use a little more polish and could look more like a ...
  6 days ago

• Cigarette butts toxic to fish, say researchers

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 152
  From CBC News:“Cigarette butts are toxic to fish and should be labeled as toxic hazardous waste, U.S. researchers say.Scientists at San Diego State University say that a single cigarette butt containing a small amount of unburnt tobacco is enough to contaminate a litre of water and kill half of the fish swimming in ...
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• Events in Ballona-land

  
  L.A. Creek Freak — Authority: 458
  Tree planters, grab your shovels and head out to Ballona Creek and Cochran Avenue tomorrow morning – Saturday – to help out with what promises to be a significant project on Ballona Creek in Mid-City Los Angeles.  North East Trees, with the support of Mid City folks, Council District 10, and the involvement of ...
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• The Urban Coast comes to life

  
  L.A. Creek Freak — Authority: 458
  Thursday saw the launch of a new research and policy journal, Urban Coast , put out by my friends and former co-workers at the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation (non-profit arm of the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission) and the newly-formed Center for Santa Monica Bay Studies (a partnership of the Santa ...
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• Legal Group Challenges Locust Fork Coal Mine

  
  The Locust Fork News-Journal — Authority: 428
  Glynn WilsonFog in Autumn on The Locust Fork RiverIn another challenge to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s failure to protect the purity of the state’s waterways, the Southern Environmental Law Center today petitioned for a hearing on the permit issued last month for a 3,255-acre coal mine in ...
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• How safe is safe enough?

  
  Journey to Perplexity — Authority: 122
      We don’t do very well at dealing with risk and uncertainty. Maybe because it’s so darn scary !  Risk means danger, and uncertainty only adds to our fear, even if the risk, as a quantitative value, is very small!  Here we have an example of small risks attacked with big solutions that cost ...
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• Metals Fate And Transport Modelling In Streams And Watersheds: S...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Metals pollution in surface waters from point and non-point sources (NPS) is a widespread problem in the United States and worldwide (Lofts et al., 2007; USEPA, 2007). In the western United States, metals associated with acid mine drainage (AMD) from hardrock mines in mountainous areas impact aquatic ecosystems and ...
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• Pakistan: environment ministry finalises drinking water standards

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 122
  The Ministry of Environment has finalised the standards for drinking water [...] as part of the National Action Plan to implement the National Drinking Water Policy approved by the Federal Cabinet in September 2009. Sources mentioned the absence of the environment minister [following the resignation of Hamidullah ...
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