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The National Research Council has just released a report that outlines the benefits, and the increasing need, to create drinking water from wastewater. The viability of this approach was a central point to Braden Allenby’s keynote at the recent GeoDesign Summit, used to illustrate the need for us to manage and adapt to climate change [...]
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The new interactive mapping website MappingForRights.org provides a new understanding of local communities living in the rainforest of the Congo River basin, with their location, how and where they are using forest resources, and how they are threatened by logging, mining, industrial plantations and sometimes strict nature protection. The site is a project of the [...]
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The Integrated Marine Observing System is an array of connected technologies developed by Australian climate and ocean scientists to monitor nearly one-third of the world’s oceans. The network, which got its start in 2007 with initial funding of more than $90M from government and partners, takes measurements of physical, chemical and biological variables. The system [...]
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The UN Environment Programme Report, “Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment,” was released today, with details of the environmental changes that have taken place on our planet over the past 20 years. The report coincides with the planet reaching the 7 billion population mark this year, and is aimed to mark twenty years since the [...]
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PepsiCo has teamed with farmers and Cambridge University in the United Kingdom to devise a sensor and web-based monitoring tool to help farmers reduce the water they use for irrigation. The i-crop technology aggregates data from farming activity, soil moisture probes and local weather stations, which farmers can access online. Based on this data, farmers [...]
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The Urban Design Lab of the Earth Institute at Columbia University has pulled together a regional model for New York City’s regional capacity to produce food. The New York City Regional Foodshed Initiative incorporates land use, soil type, transportation infrastructure, and climatic conditions to assess production at several scales, as well as actual consumption data [...]
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $750,000 grant to a consortium of 20 U.S. universities, two national labs and three international partners for the new Sustainable Cities – People, Infrastructures and the Energy-Climate-Water Nexus project. The grant seeks to develop harmonized methods, open datasets and shared curriculum on the topic of sustainable cities [...]
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George Hawkins, general manager of DC Water, gave a rousing keynote this morning at the Autovation event taking place in the DC area this week. Hawkins asserts that utilities are at the forefront of saving human civilization. He said that we’re called utilities, which in sports implies that you’re able to play a number of [...]
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The University of British Columbia Library and the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Center have teamed on a project to discover and map Vancouver’s vanished streams and waterways. The project involved the digitization of paper maps to show the original shoreline and paths of old streams. The maps show the area of land reclaimed since the [...]
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