Water Pollution

Mitigation Strategies and Solutions: Water Pollution Crystal Miller University of Phoenix January 18, 2009 On planet earth life would be impossible without water. All forms of life including plants, animals, and bacteria contain water. Humans are composed of approximately sixty percent of water [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:55:54

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Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Friday, November 21, 2008

Teri Rhodes gave birth to her baby Theresa Rhodes on August 12, 2007 in her Mercyhurst College apartment ... with mitigating circumstances of 2 years. A water filter on the 5th floor of the Erie County Courthouse broke ... this week in November 2003, Scott Enterprises announced plans for a hotel, two office buildings [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 12:33:46

Alyssa commented on "Study of trans people's earnings confirms workplace discrimination against women."

Alyssa said: Laura, Okaaay...take a deep breath. I am glad that you posted this. I am glad that we got at least some mention ... negligence. So, your claim of ignorance as mitigation will hold no water here [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 16:28:45

Episode #21 - Part 1: An interview with Roger German (the Basement Guy!)

The Handyguys complete their basement finishing series with an interview of a basement refinishing expert Roger German ... Water mitigation We wrap up the show talking about insulation, R values, vapor barriers, and mold [more...]

Date: 2008-06-12 21:00:01

Read The Stimulus - Demand Accountability

January 18, 2009 | By Beltway Baca A coalition of organizations and bloggers have started a new website called ReadTheStimulus ... for habitat restoration and mitigation activities. $2,736,000,000 for water and waste disposal loans ... . $550,000,000 for State fire assistance hazardous fuels projects. $200,000,000 for leaking underground [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 21:55:40

Environment: Maps, Online Communities & Carbon Footprint Calculators

Earlier this year, GV Environment listed the web2.0 tools for environment activism. Since then many more tools have been developed ... . The activities mapped relate to water, recycling, tree planting, education and climate change mitigation. To visit the site please click on the graphic below. Clean up the world Online Communities [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 00:43:24

Grand opening of Conner Preserve

When I saw the billboards pop up in downtown Tampa a few years ago touting “Connerton, FL, ” with images of herons and trees, ... the landscape. A brilliant mitigation move on the part of the Southwest Florida Water Management District [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:07:20

The International Angle

The Daily Telegraph reports, We now know that it was French finance minister Christine Lagarde who begged Mr Paulson to save the US insurer AIG ... that it was for "regulatory capital relief rather than risk mitigation". In other words ... Europe as banking capital sank below water level. It turns out that European regulators [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 01:04:04

Buleleng to develop Lake Buyan

Andra Wisnu, THE JAKARTA POST, DENPASAR | Sat, 01/17/2009 3:14 PM Pristine view: A view of Lake Tamblingan, ... also hosts Ulun Danu, one of the most important water temples on the island.The three lakes ... for environmental damage mitigation by the State Ministry for the Environment last year. Much of the blame [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 09:22:00

Tips For Water Damage

Help full tips in what to for water damage by SERVPRO:  Remove as much excess water as possible by mopping and blotting ... , Smoke & Soot - Cleaning Mold Mitigation & Remediation Move Outs & Content Restoration ... ; Renovation Contractors,Mold/Radon/Air Quality Services,Painting Contractors,Residential/House [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 20:46:46

World Bank buying $3.2-m carbon credits from Roxas

Environment News Network, January 15, 2009 The World Bank has agreed to purchase carbon emission reduction credits worth $3 ... s ethanol plant wastewater and methane gas recovery project, which is seen to avoid air and water ... of its contribution to the country’s growth, poverty reduction, environmental improvement and mitigation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:55:00

Report on climate change effects on Singapore expected in 2009

Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia 31 Dec 08;SINGAPORE: A team of local and foreign experts is studying possible long-term effects of climate change on ... to climate changes such as coastal erosion, water scarcity, and higher energy demand. That is why ... will not only help to mitigate green house gas emissions and address climate change issues, but also [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 00:51:00

Radon Action Could Save Many Lives

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/Press%20Releases%20By%20Date!OpenView ...Radon gas is the No. 1 cause of lung cancer in non-smokers ... years. Radon comes from the natural breakdown of uranium in soil, rock, and water ... be lowered with a straight-forward radon venting system installed by a contractor. Mitigation costs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:35:56

Winter v. NRDC: Just How “Separate” Is The Separation of Powers Doctrine?

Scott Street prepared the following in advance of yesterday’s argument in Winter v. NRDC (No. 07-1239) ... stealthily through open water.  The Navy chose not to go through the EIS process, however, even though ... certain mitigation measures to protect the marine environment.  Then things got interesting.  The Navy [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 14:33:22

Fight Global Warming, Plant Trees

What can't a tree do? They give us shade, fresh air, sequester carbon dioxide, help maintain our water tables and keep our land from eroding ... role of reforestation and avoided deforestation in climate change mitigation strategies. In his recent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:13:00

Kill the Geese?

As you have no doubt heard by now, ... York, says wildlife biologist Steve Garber, who once ran the wildlife-mitigation program at Kennedy ... like: making airport environs less hospitable to certain bird species; moving standing bodies of water [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 21:47:55

Ecosystem Markets Take Off

By Ben Block, WorldWatch Institute, January 11, 2009 About 100 wetlands mitigation banks are operating or proposed across the United States, according to the National Mitigation Banking Association. Photo courtesy U.S. Interior ... as long as the affected ecological services are offset through separate habitat preservation, water [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 05:56:00

Www.OSIR.org.in - Analytical Chemistry Projects Spring 2001

Analytical chemistry Projects Spring 2001. Alex Scopton, Dan Henderson and Matt Brown - Analysis of lactose in milk ... Current Projects. Design of a targeted mitigation system for transport of pesticides in If you have any ... s insights. Print it & start it now! Source: www.terimore.com USGS Water Resources: National Research [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 06:30:08

Daily Sprout

Tesla vs. Recession: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says the Model S sedan factory is no longer a done deal, ... change mitigation, promoting clean energy and cracking down on toxic chemicals. — Washington Post ... Again: Forty solar panels were stolen from the City of Napa’s water treatment plant in the third major [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 18:30:54

Abrupt Climate Change: Will It Happen this Century?

The United States faces the potential for abrupt climate change in the 21st century that could pose clear risks to society in terms of our ability ... that the northward flow of warm water in the upper layers of the Atlantic Ocean, which has an important impact ... information that is necessary to develop effective adaptation and mitigation strategies [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 22:10:58

Electrochemical Splitting of Calcium Carbonate to Increase Solution Alkalinity: Implications for Mitigation of Carbon Dioxide and Ocean Acidity

Electrochemical splitting of calcium carbonate (e.g., as contained in limestone or other minerals) ... insoluble in water, CaCO3 can be dissolved in the presence of the highly acidic anolyte of a water ... , in natural or artificial surface water reservoirs, or underground. The theoretical work requirement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 09:53:28

Just released: Policy and Institutional Reforms to Support Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Development Programs (A Practical Guide)

By Muthukumara Mani, Anil Markandya and Viju Ipe, Environment Development, Sustainable Development Department, ... mitigation and adaptation.  Actions needed to adapt to climate change and to limit GHGs cover many sectors of the economy (agriculture, water, coastal areas, forests, biodiversity and ecosystems, health [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:35:51

New England Climate Change: More Rain on Snow Will Challenge Stormwater Management

Stormwater modeling calculations, such as those found in the Kohl condo proposal for North Street, typically leave out a number of common scenarios ... ground doesn't absorb water well. Snow can plug up pipes and grates and interfere with landscape grading that directs water towards catchment systems. Unfortunately, more rain on snow is what New [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:06:04

Judgment Day For Transport Projects

Yesterday we were so bemused by the prolix perambulations in Boris' Way To Go transport document that we neglected to ... in mitigation. The Thames Gateway Bridge: "disbenefits sic to traffic flow" and a £500m funding gap have done ... such as Victoria Embankment and Parliament Square are dead in the water - again, no surprise [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 16:32:12

Agriculture: Unsustainable Resource Depletion Began 10,000 Years Ago

This is a guest post by Peter Salonius, a Canadian soil microbiologist. According to Peter, humanity has probably been in overshoot of the Earth's carrying capacity since it abandoned hunter gathering in favor of crop cultivation (~ 8,000 BCE). The problem is that soil needs tightly woven natural ecosystems to properly recycle nutrients and [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 13:55:10

More Greenwashing by Schwarzenegger as California Fisheries Collapse

After vetoing a number of key environmental bills last week and presiding over the destruction of Central Valley salmon and Delta fish populations ... to policies by his administration and the Bush regime that have exported record amounts of water ... are campaigning for a $9.3 billion water bond that would seal the doom of the Delta, the West's Coast's [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 00:14:41

MANDALAY AGAIN

My email box pinged and there, under the capitalised title ‘HAPPY NEW YEAR,’ was an email from my eldest half-sister, the one who has nine children and lives somewhere deep in the South of France. She is an erratic correspondent but surfaces at odd moments with some breathless message, hammered out in capitals [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 13:04:00

Plundering the private purse

It was the great economist and philosopher Adam Smith who wrote:People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, ... Water Group, B&Q, BAA, Centrica, E.on, F&C Management, Faber Maunsell, John Lewis, Johnson Matthey ... Water, Unilever and Vodafone.Most of these, in one way or another, stand to gain financially [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 02:04:00

Wrath 101: Honor points

One of our site leads, Dan O’Halloran, asked me a question that surprised me yesterday. He asked me what he was supposed to do with Honor points and where he could spend them. See, Dan isn’t a huge fan of PvP. In fact, he only happened to try out the wonderfully fun and crazy Wintergrasp in between exploring on his brand-spankin’ new epic wings [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 15:46:39

What Is Adaptation, Anyway?

Last December, I wrote a post about adaptation, and subsequently realized that I hadn't given many of you an adequate enough primer explaining what ... points to look at: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation focuses on reducing carbon emissions ... , we're dealing with mitigation. Mitigation is probably what most people are familiar with because [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 05:16:00

Could the Titanic have changed course?

Rybolov really struck a note with me (as he usually does) with his blog entry with his decision that S.3474 was a bad thing ... was including water-tight bulkheads in her design. This was something of an advanced and novel feature ... was not spread over several of these water-tight compartments she would stay afloat. The problem [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:45:37

Peak Oil: Here sooner than we thought

Peak Oil is a topic I haven't mentioned here, partly because the minutiae of exploration geology has never been a big interest of mine (trust me I've done classes in it and while the industry is lucrative the work is theory is dull as ditch water). However, I have been keeping an eye on developments in this area and other areas [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 02:18:18

Torture ambivalence masquerading as moral and intellectual superiority

(updated below - Update II) Behold the now-solidified Smart, Reasonable American Consensus on torture:  the agreed-upon method for dismissing away -- mitigating and even justifying -- the fact that our leaders, more or less out in the open, instituted a systematic torture regime with the consent of our key elite institutions and a huge bulk of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 09:30:11

Orwell's 2009- United States Big Brother is Watching

“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 16:05:00

Environmental Justice for All: Protecting Communities Fairly and Fully

The election of Obama as President provides a transformational opportunity to make good on the promise for an America where every person, regardless of their race or income, enjoys the right to a healthy environment. Over the past 8 years we've seen unprecedented attacks on our basic environmental protections [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 21:51:57

The Obama Stimulus: An $825 Billion First Step

by James Parrott The version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan unveiled on Jan. 15 by House Democrats is breathtaking in its scope and cost. Intended to retain and create 3.7 million jobs over the next two years, the $825 billion package of federal government investments includes dozens of spending measures ranging from $200 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:45:29

USGS Science at AGU Climate Change, Floods, Northern Forests, Coral Reefs, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Mercury and More

Wading through thousands of abstracts at the American Geophysical Union Conference can be a daunting task. In this USGS media tip sheet ( ... Flood Flows and Climate Variability in the US, an Exploration of the Literature, Theory, and Long-term Flood Records Bob Hirsch H11I-01/Oral Presentation Recent literature and global climate models [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 23:49:13

Sibu - Multipronged Flood Mitigation Projects After Lunar New Year

The persistent rain keeps Sibuians nightmarish! It is nerve-racking nowadays to wake up in the middle of a night to find rain pouring down, worrying the water level might be already on the rise.I am more fortunate to be in an area which ... . Are they going to stay awake at night to keep watch of rising water level?According to the news today [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 02:03:00

Change, but at what price?

After 2008 started with panic over food prices, the world seemed to be waking up to global warming. But then the recession hitJohn Vidal, The Guardian 17 Dec 08;No one could have predicted quite how dramatically 2008 would have ended. Even as President Bush was slashing his way through US environmental protection laws, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 23:08:00

Wildcatter Weekly, January 15, 2009

IPAMS Meetings and Announcements Utah Lease Sale The Utah lease sale continues to generate a lot of attention in the media, which usually get the details wrong about the the leasing process and the implications for the ‘environmental martyr.’  Robert Redford has even called us ‘morally criminal’ for providing the nation with clean-burning natural [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:56:34

10 Steps to a Healthy Ocean: Protecting our Oceans from Pollution

Photo courtesy of Webzer at Flickr.com. The ocean covers more than 70% of the earth’s surface, and it’s a major part of the ecosystem that we rely on. Phytoplankton are responsible for about half of the oxygen produced worldwide. More than 1 billion people rely on fish for a significant part of their diet [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 11:48:27

Bringing Down A Hurricane

A group of Israeli scientists may hold the key to reducing a hurricane’s destructive potential ... their energy from the warm evaporative conditions found over tropical oceans.  Water evaporating off ... within the lower altitudes of the hurricane, smoke particles force water to prematurely condense [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 20:48:28

Don’t let fire and water damage ruin your business, call Munters Corporation!

We’ve seen over the years the destruction done by hurricanes, and the mess they can leave behind ... Document Recovery Commercial Mold Remediation Disaster Planning Disaster Restoration Commercial Hurricane ... professionals who are standing ready around-the-clock and have both the knowledge and equipment to mitigate [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 09:57:48

Disease — is it just a state of mind and bad energy?

The bigger story’s been missed. No one has put the pieces together. Two medical news stories this month may have appeared to be completely unrelated, but they had everything to do with each other. What they forewarn may be the most important message of all for the future of our healthcare [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 05:02:00

LCDC sees need for climate change action, puts off decision on new climate change goal

Last August, Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition formally asked the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) ... of more frequent and intense storm events, more frequent and intense forest fires, less water during dry ... , buildings, bridges, and water and sewer systems. ODOT, unsurprisingly, weighed in that the proposed goal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 21:31:16

Legal Risk of Cyber Outage

New analysis indicates that critical infrastructure operators are ill prepared to deal with cyber attacks. That reinforced the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report earlier this year that found Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public power company serving over 8 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 19:15:38

Munters Corporation for all your commerical restoration needs

 Munters Corporation, MCS Division is a global leader in Commercial Fire & Water Damage Restoration and Humidity Control ... Commercial Mold Remediation Disaster Planning Disaster Restoration Commercial Hurricane, Storm Clean ... who are standing ready around-the-clock and have both the knowledge and equipment to mitigate your loss [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 14:17:26

Renewed Interest: Analyst Ties Monetary Reform To Social Credit Movement (2007; Richard C. Cook)

Dandelion Salad Sent to me by Richard C. Cook Tuesday, June 12, 2007 By Nathan Diebenow, Associate Editor http://lonestaricon.com Interview With Richard C. Cook Former Government Analyst COLLEGE PARK, Md. — One may know Richard C. Cook from such moments in American history as the Challenger shuttle disaster of Jan. 28, 1986 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 09:46:19

Street Art Matures at Outsiders NY Show

street art, PSFK finally got around to stopping by the Outsiders NY show this past weekend.  The exhibition is being put on by Steve Lazarides, who also represents Banksy, and is being held on Houston and Bowery at the Lazarides Gallery in Manhattan.  Featuring some of the biggest names in the game, including Faile, JR, Jonathon Yeo, Invader, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 21:08:28

Who’s in charge of the money? Indonesia’s fractured climate change leadership

At Poznan a number of developing countries - China, Mexico and Brazil - took the opportunity to announce new climate change initiatives ... the actions of 17 government ministries in: • Formulating new climate change mitigation policies; • ... with the Finance Ministry, it was setting up a climate change trust fund to manage mitigation financial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 10:29:18

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