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The Federal Biodiversity Fund was approved in December with funds to reimburse landowners for improved vegetation and diversity management on their properties. The six-year program has $946 million in funds that are aimed at reforestation, tackling invasive species, and also close management of lands of high conservation value. This biodiversity fund is part of a [...]
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The Living Labs Global Award aims to improve the living standards of more than 100m citizens through an effort to find innovative urban solutions. There are twenty global cities participating in this challenge, including Barcelona, Cape Town, Lagos, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and San Francisco. Th challenge is organized by Living Labs Global with [...]
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A team from China’s Department of Climate Change toured the United States last week hosted by the World Resources Institute. The tour focused on low-carbon development, and the need for a climate-conscious path to urbanize China. China’s urban population is expected to grow to 1 billion people by 2030, with 350 million more people moving [...]
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The Solar Panels Suitability Checker provided by Solar Panels UK provides a unique visual representation of a homeowners roof, and its potential for solar panels. The individual rooftop view indicates the direction that panels should be positioned to achieve maximum energy collection. The site uses high-resolution GeoEye imagery along with a sunlight density overlay. Solar [...]
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Pavan Sukhdev has a fascinating TED Talk on the subject of putting value to nature. He uses economics to explore the value of Earth’s assets, and puts many practices in perspective in terms of their overall economic cost. The calculation factors in the commercial value vs. the properties of nature that are of value to [...]
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In a telling news story of the times, the Lake Champlain Basin monitoring program nearly lost its funding and narrowly avoided being shut down. The program has received earmarked congressional funding for NOAA and the USGS to run monitoring stations through the efforts of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), which has recently been closed as a [...]
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Remember the successful use of balloons to map the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? The Grassroots Mapping Forum team that brought this innovative and low-cost remote sensing approach to this project now has a project on Kickstarter to raise money to make low-cost kits. For a pledge of just $85, you receive the Balloon Mapping Kit [...]
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A new geography-oriented interactive Carbon Calculator has been developed by Vizzuality along with the Convention on Biological Diversity, LifeWeb and the United Nations Environment Program – World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC). The online tool helps put the necessary global contributions into perspective by allowing users to draw an area in the world to see the [...]
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Braden Allenby gave a keynote at last week’s GeoDesign Summit, and I had the pleasure of sitting down with him for an interview. I’ve been an Allenby fan for some time, having read and re-read Reconstructing Earth and just recently having read The Techno-Human Condition. Allenby is a big-picture thinker, an engineer that trains students [...]
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The U.S. Geological Survey has partnered with GeoEye to provide OrbView-3 one-meter satellite images from between 2003 and 2007 for free download via the USGS EarthExplorer. You may recall that the OrbView-3 satellite was put out of service in 2007 due to a malfunction of electronics, and has since been guided to a controlled reentry [...]
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