World's coal resources rapidly running out of water. Solar Power Is A Huge Water Saver (World Water Day Infographic) John Kerry: Climate Change Is 'Perhaps The World's Most Fearsome Weapon Of Mass Destruction' JAKARTA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry warned Indonesians on Sunday that man-made climate change could threaten their entire way of life, deriding those who doubted the existence of "perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction". Kerry described those who do not accept that human activity causes global warming as "shoddy scientists" and "extreme ideologues", and said big companies and special interests should not be allowed to "hijack" the climate debate. Emissies door ontgassen binnenvaart veel hoger dan gedacht. ANALYSE - Het rapport van onderzoeksbureau CE Delft over de uitstoot van schadelijk stoffen als gevolg van het ontgassen door binnenvaartschepen, gaat uit van verkeerde aannames, zegt Krispijn Beek.
Hij denkt dat de uitstoot vele malen hoger is. UPDATE 13/12/2013 17:30: Ook GroenLinks heeft nu kamervragen gesteld n.a.v. dit onderzoek. UPDATE 12/12/2013 16:13: SP stelt Kamervragen naar aanleiding van dit onderzoek, en GroenLinks Rotterdam aan College B&W. UPDATE 10/12/2013 14.06: Een samenvatting van onderstaand artikel is hier te lezen. Unilever Crowdsources Eco-Friendly Shower Ideas. August 14, 2013 Unilever is reaching out to consumers to crowdsource the design of an environmentally friendly shower that uses less water and has a smaller carbon footprint than current models.
Unilever will award €10,000 ($13,000) and a trip to London to develop the winning idea. Submissions for the “shower of the future” competition need to be cost efficient and affordable to the end user, have an innovative design that fits within a typical modern bathroom and should use no more than 10 liters (2.6 gallons) of water in a single use. The competition will be managed by Unilever partner eYeka, a crowdsourcing portal that acts as a liaison between consumers and brands.
Unilever announced in June it would partner with eYeka to tap into the crowdsourcing site’s open creativity platform across Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Russia and South Africa. Unilever expanded its existing food distribution center to include homecare products to enable options for combined deliveries. Matt Damon Goes On Strike! Wind Turbine Produces Both Electricity and Water. Written by Philip Proefrock on 07/09/12 While we usually look at wind turbines chiefly as a cleaner, better source of electricity.
But in many parts of the world, electricity is only one of several needs faced by much of the population. Een gesloten energiekringloop - Groen. Woonlastenmonitor2012. Corsica heeft dag en nacht zonne-energie « NOST France news. A WASHplus Weekly: Financing Examples for WASH and IAP Interventions. Veolia Launches #Water Data Site. Cap'n Trade might have unintended consequences; not that there's anything wrong with that. Greedy profit seekers tend to find profit opportunities where others don't--even if they happen to help others (spliced and diced from here).
People who work on providing clean water in poor countries estimate that about half the projects fall into disrepair soon after their builders move on. .. Now there’s a new way to save water projects from an early death: make clean water a for-profit business, charging people an unusual price: zero.... Where will the profits come from? Polluters. What will make this work are the global carbon credit markets. Most of the projects that have won certification from the carbon markets are big energy plants in India and China.
Vestergaard Frandsen’s idea is similar. Now it can be good business as well. Vestergaard Frandsen will distribute the LifeStraw Family for free... The company is on the way to getting approval from one of the carbon credit markets for the LifeStraw Family, and expects to win it in February. 213na3. We're a mid-level water blog. Arjen Hoekstra's innovation: the water footprint. Arjen Hoekstra, scientific director of Water Footprint Network, on the bank of the Thames.
Photograph: Karen Robinson You can imagine the eye rolling. In 2002 Professor Arjen Hoekstra first attempted to engage business and the general public with the unsustainable amounts of water embodied in almost every consumer staple. When what's happening to gas happens to drin. Let's start with the fairy tale that came true for the gasoline magnates: Once upon a time, a number of companies bought up drilling rights here and oil refineries there and eventually gained control over the USA's gasoline.
For a while, gasoline hovered under $2 a gallon, and the companies and magnates had to console themselves with--ho hum--tidy profits. One day, some people began to worry that there wasn't always going to be enough gas for everyone. "Demand will grow," they said. "Supply will fall. " Now let's look at the future fairy tale that the companies who privatize our drinking water look forward to: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Suez and a bunch of other companies buy up water rights around the United States and elsewhere. THE ENVIRONMENTALIST: Creating Drinking Water from Air. According to U.S.
Government estimates, at least 36 states will face water shortages in the next five years, as available supplies decrease due to drought, rising temperatures, population and inefficient management. Tensions created by mandatory conservation restrictions have turned neighbors against each other by reporting to the water police suspected illegal watering based on a lawn that was simply too green. However, there is some good environmental news. Cleaner water through nanotechnology. Could tiny particles added to water sources help solve one of the world's biggest problems?
Coated silica particles filter out toxins, pathogens Tiny particles of pure silica coated with an active material could be used to remove toxic chemicals, bacteria, viruses, and other hazardous materials from water much more effectively and at lower cost than conventional water purification methods, according to researchers writing in the current issue of the International Journal of Nanotechnology. Peter Majewski and Chiu Ping Chan of the Ian Wark Research Institute, at the University of South Australia, explain that the availability of drinking quality water is fast becoming a major socio-economic issue across the globe, especially in the developing world.
However, water purification technology is often complicated, requires sophisticated equipment and is expensive to run and maintain. Moreover, it usually requires a final costly disinfection stage. Kilian Water - Hemelwatersystemen.