Archive for August, 2009
Excellent Development supports community groups in semi-arid rural Kenya to improve their enviroment sustainably through soil and water conservation, improving food and water supply, health and incomes. The key activities are terracing land, building sand dams and planting trees. These three work together to significantly improve conservation of soil and water in this [...]
August 31st, 2009 | Posted in water rural | 1 Comment
New water look and an example of a back flip animation.
Duration : 0:1:38
August 31st, 2009 | Posted in water urban | 16 Comments
Poor water quality has large economic and quality of life costs, in terms of health impacts and foregone revenues. According to the Philippine government’s monitoring data, just over 36 percent of the country’s river systems are classified as sources of public water supply and that up to 58 percent of groundwater sampled is contaminated with [...]
August 31st, 2009 | Posted in water quality | 6 Comments
Green business has been around for generations, but it’s just now hitting the tipping point. A call from the Worldwide Fund for Nature urges telecoms businesses to take the lead in this trend.
Telecom Report is an online magazine that looks at trends and issues in the telecom business. Brought to you by Ericsson. Ericsson [...]
August 31st, 2009 | Posted in sustainability report | No Comments
a video i made on water pollution for my geography class
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August 31st, 2009 | Posted in pollution water | 5 Comments
Sustaining Sparty is a short documentary about sustainability at UNCG, Greensboro, NC. It was created for a class on Sustainability taught at Mary Foust Hall.
Created by:
Nick Stubblefield (orig. music/editing)
Wyatt Rollins
Kayla Newman
Duration : 0:10:0
August 31st, 2009 | Posted in environmental sustainability | 3 Comments
Rachel was an avid contributor to various environmental initiatives at the University of California, Berkeley beginning in her freshman year. She realized that one underlying factor preventing her campus from becoming more sustainable was a lack of funding for necessary projects. To overcome this challenge, Rachel co-created The Green Initiative Fund, a [...]
August 31st, 2009 | Posted in sustainability issues | 1 Comment
Groundwater is of paramount importance to our planet and the people upon it. Management and use of groundwater should be based on thorough knowledge. An IGRAC initiative.
Duration : 0:5:20
August 31st, 2009 | Posted in sustainability | 1 Comment
http://water.totev.com/
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Water goes into a cycle and what we do today with it will come back to us!
In the past century water policies relied on the construction of massive dams and pipelines. While investment in these facilities can increase the freshwater supply and provide water for billions of people the construction of dams have serious social, [...]
August 31st, 2009 | Posted in water conservation | 2 Comments
Be water, my friend
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August 31st, 2009 | Posted in water | 25 Comments