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• in Green
  India and China to Face Severe Water Crisis by 2030: IFC Report
  So it is high time for developing countries to wake up, get into serious mode, chalk out some plans, and implement them to utilize water sensibly, stop wasting it and start conserving water.
  by jaideepkhanduja / on Nov 26, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “water management”

 

• Shifts in Global Water Systems — Markers of a New Geological Epoch: The Anthropocene

  
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  Experts in Bonn to detail how science can help people mitigate or adapt to major global human-induced water system changes This is an image of North America from the data visualization video “Water in the Anthropocene,” to debut May 21 at gwsp.org and www.anthropocene.info. Credit: gwsp.org/ ...
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• Environmental Executive Moves: GlencoreXstrata, ACS, Proterra, ABB

  
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  Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. GlencoreXstrata: The commodity trading and mining company has named former BP chief executive Tony Hayward (pictured) as its interim board chairman. The company’s intention is for Hayward — who was in charge of BP ...
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• Experience - The Best Teacher

  
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  It’s strange how experiences from our childhood come back to visit later in life. Sometimes that can have an unfavorable effect, other times it may prove quite beneficial. After all, experience is the best teacher - so it’s said. Thirty-some years ago, I lived out of town, beside a small creek. There usually ...
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• Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Ship GHGs, Solar Panel Duties, McCarthy Vote Scrapped

  
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  Here’s the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 10 items. Republicans boycotted a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on Gina McCarthy’s nomination for EPA administrator, leaving Democrats unable to get a quorum ...
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• Environmental Executive Moves: Shell, Alcoa, GEI, Steel Dynamics

  
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  Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Royal Dutch Shell: CEO Peter Voser will retire from the oil company in the first half of 2014. Voser was appointed CEO in July 2009 and has been an executive director since 2004. The company didn’t give a reason for Voser’s ...
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• In the Wake of Hurricane Sandy, Design a More Resilient Rockaway

  
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  Rockaway, Queens, a low-lying area in New York City, was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, so a fascinating new design competition seeks to create a more resilient and sustainable form of development for this vulnerable area, and, really, others like it in New York City and other coastal cities. FAR ROC [For a Resilient ...
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• Wilderness South of Chicago: Beauty Amid Industry

  
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  The Calumet region surrounds Chicago and includes Lake Calumet and the Calumet river system. Here, an amazing alliance of nearly 270 organizations, which have banded together under the name Chicago Wilderness , are working towards improving green infrastructure, creating access to nature for children, devising plans ...
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• Simple Methods May Help Bring Clean Water To Developing Countries

  
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    According to the World Health Organization , the lack of clean water accounts for the premature death of 1.7 million people a year. Harmful organisms, bacteria and pollutants are found in water supplies of developing nations, where governments lack the resources to implement widespread water sanitation. And ...
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• Patagonia Commits ‘$20 Million & Change’ in Venture Funding

  
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  Patagonia yesterday launched an internal fund to invest in environmentally responsible startups focused on clothing, food, water, energy and waste. In a May 6 letter announcing the in-house venture fund, called $20 Million & Change, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard — a long-time advocate of corporate ...
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• Wastewater Market Within Pulp, Paper Industry to Hit $1.56bn

  
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  The global market for water and wastewater treatment and equipment within the pulp and paper industry will grow from $983.9 million in 2012 to $1.569 billion in 2020, according to analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The market is expected to experience a 6 percent compound annual growth rate as rising water prices and ...
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• In the Pacific Northwest, Native American Communities Plan for Climate Change

  
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  While we’ve heard a lot about the transformational climate change adaptation plans of New York City, Boston, and San Francisco, and other big coastal cities, small coastal communities are also creating bold plans for how to handle tidal surges, rising sea levels, and temperature changes. If they are smart, they are ...
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• The Stream, May 6: Planned Chinese Dam Construction Prompts Fears of Relocation, Habitat Damage, Seismic Activity

  
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  Earlier this year, China announced plans to build a series of dams on the Nu River, a Unesco World Heritage site. The dams, The New York Times reported, will force tens of thousands of relocations, could potentially trigger earthquakes, and destroy endangered-fish spawning grounds. Improving Water Management ...
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• Kim Mathews’ Cinderella Stories

  
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  In a lecture at the National Building Museum (NBM), Kim Mathews, RLA, ASLA, a founding principal of Mathews Nielsen , discussed resiliency and renewal through her firm’s “Cinderella projects.” The lecture was hosted in celebration of National Landscape Architecture Month (NLAM) and as part of NBM’s Smart ...
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• Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Bonn Climate Talks, Water Act, Dam Protest

  
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  Here’s the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 10 items. Delegates from 160 nations agreed in Bonn that a successor to the Kyoto Protocol should allow emissions targets to be tightened without further negotiations, if researchers ...
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• Thoughts & Sayings (May 2013)

  
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  Here are some thoughts and sayings I posted on Twitter and/or Facebook in April. To my knowledge, I made these up (for better or for worse). Sit back, relax, and enjoy the write! Encouraging Words 1. Silver linings are worth their weight in gold. 2. Misery loves company. Care to join me? Twisted ...
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• Interview with Kevin Shanley on Protecting Our Coasts

  
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  Kevin Shanley , FASLA, is CEO of SWA Group and a long-time resident of Houston. You were recently in Washington, D.C. speaking at the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation on improving the resiliency of our coasts in an effort to protect them from increasingly damaging storms and sea-level rise brought on by ...
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• ASLA Event: Learn about Green Infrastructure

  
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  To celebrate High Performance Building Week , the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is hosting a Congressional green roof reception and tour. Policymakers, design professionals, local media, and interested members of the public are encouraged attend. In a presentation, ASLA CEO / Executive VP Nancy ...
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• US Ranks No. 1 Using Tax Code To Shape Corporate Sustainability

  
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  The US ranks No. 1 among 21 countries most actively using the tax code to influence sustainable corporate activity, reflecting the country’s federal tax incentives for energy efficiency, renewable energy and green buildings, according to KPMG’s first Green Tax Index. Japan, the UK, France, South Korea and China ...
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• Green Infrastructure: A Landscape Approach

  
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  Green infrastructure is starting to mean different things to different people, said David Rouse, ASLA, a landscape architect and planner at Wallace, Roberts & Todd (WRT) during a session at the American Planning Association (APA) conference in Chicago. Rouse was there with Theresa Schwarz, Kent State ...
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• Chelsea Technologies Group is Working to Stop Ocean Stowaways

  
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  A new technology allows shipping operators to monitor ballast water in real time to the IMO D2 standard (10 to 50 μm category). The method has been specifically developed for working with phytoplankton within an aqueous phase at low optical density, exactly the conditions encountered in ballast water
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