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The bold headline of a recent Los Angeles Times editorial by the hydrologist Jay Famiglietti starkly warned: “California has about one year of water left.
How Ecodesign can Drive a circular economy in Europe http://www.eeb.org/index.cfm?LinkServID=EB5DE6FD-5056-B741-DBB2EBDF0E6E0AC5
The Huffington Post | By Kate Bratskeir Kraft Singles, a type of processed cheese that comes individually wrapped in a thin, plastic film, is the
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Thursday committing the federal government to cutting its own emissions 40 percent by 2025 and
Bigger Than Science, Bigger Than Religion We’re closer to environmental disaster than ever before. We need a new story for our relationship with the Earth,
Executive Summary Since 2012, the agrichemical and food industries have mounted a complex, multifaceted public relations, advertising, lobbying and political campaign in the United States,
The mission of the Chemical Footprint Project is to transform global chemical use by measuring and disclosing data on business progress to safer chemicals. It
In the past twenty years, the emphasis of the waste and resource management sector has moved from landfill to recycling, and there is now a
A compost experiment that began seven years ago on a Marin County ranch has uncovered a disarmingly simple and benign way to remove carbon dioxide
First published in October 2011 newsletter of the Northern California Recycling Association ExtendedProducer Responsibility (EPR) is the extension of the responsibility ofproducers for the environmental impacts
If gas were $10/gallon, would we die? Posted by Tom Wright on December 6, 2012 at 3:15 PM In order to run the industrial economy
Humility, caring and wisdom make a better future possible Federal support should shift to plant-based agriculture, including trend-setting oat and pea farmers, whose crops are made into meat and dairy alternatives.’
Just what California needs.
This new report shows that the average American household can both fight climate change and save money at the same time.
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World leading scientists put a spotlight on the risks of homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle.
As the world responds to the simultaneous challenges of climate change and increased demands for certain commodities such as food and energy, land use and land cover are changing.
Increasing plantation forestry and agricultural monocultures are turning once diverse landscapes into areas with a single plant species, which affects the terrestrial water cycle.
Conversion of large swaths of land to uniform tree plantations and single-crop species may lead to unintended consequences for the water cycle, putting ecosystems at greater risk for fires, floods, droughts and even hurricanes, warns a think-tank group of almost 30 water scientists from 11 countries.
Stable conditions in the atmosphere favor fair weather. However, when the ocean is stable, the layers of the ocean do not mix. Cooler, oxygenated water from beneath does not rise up and deliver oxygen and nutrients to waters near the surface, and warm surface water does not absorb carbon dioxide and bury it at depth.
“The same process, global warming, is both making the atmosphere less stable and the oceans more stable,” said Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State. “Water near the ocean’s surface is warming faster than the water below. That makes the oceans become more stable.”
New solar-cell design shows potential for increased efficiency
A collaborative research team, consisting of University of Delaware mathematicians and engineers at Pennsylvania State University, has come up with a new design for thin-film solar cells with the potential to significantly increase the efficiency of these flexible panels that convert sunlight into electricity.
For example, standard solar cells, the kind seen on rooftops and in “farms” spread over acres of land, are reasonably efficient and increasingly affordable, but they are heavy and rigid. Thin-film cells —built from lightweight and flexible materials, making them useful for such applications as portable devices and vehicle roofs — are inexpensive and easy to manufacture, but they are much less efficient at converting light into power. Specialized types of thin-film technology are more efficient,
but those cells are manufactured from expensive materials or are not long-lasting, severely limiting their use.
“To be fair, I don’t have any “views on climate change” either. Just like I don’t have any “views” on gravity, the fact that the earth is round, photosynthesis nor evolution… But understanding and knowing their existence really makes life in the 21st century so much easier.”
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