oldephartte(in training): Search results for water and environment

Monday, July 13, 2015

Search results for water and environment

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Cheap oil endangers poorer nations' switch to renewable energy

Financial Times

This is the hope that people in developing countries can “leapfrog” conventional electricity grids powered by coal or other fossil fuels and go straight to renewable energy — in a manner that some poorer nations have bypassed fixed line phone networks ...

Australian Government Deals Big Blow To Public Investment In Renewable Energy

ThinkProgress

In another blow from Prime Minister Tony Abbott's administration to clean power, Australia's renewable energy investment agency has been told not to invest in wind farms or small-scale solar projects. Opposition leaders and solar energy supporters say ...

Colorado renewable energy standard constitutional, judge rules

The Denver Post

A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a lawsuit claiming that Colorado's renewable energy standard violates the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit was brought by the Washington-based Energy & Environment Legal Institute, a free-market oriented ...

Amazon Web Services Announces Its Largest Renewable Energy Project to Date

MarketWatch

“This agreement, and those previously in place, puts AWS on track to surpass our goal of 40 percent renewable energy globally by the end of 2016,” said Jerry Hunter, Vice President of Infrastructure at Amazon Web Services. “We're far from being done.

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

JCC to host ecology, food and permaculture panel, July 19

Mountain Xpress

According to Friedman, the panel is design to “renew our awareness of the ancient basis that Jewish culture has in ecology and sustainable farming cycles, and explore how our local Jewish community can partner with other groups for local earth healing ...

Squam Lakes Association to host ecology trip

The Union Leader

HOLDERNESS — The Squam Lakes Association will present “Adventure Ecology Trip: Lake Bird Ecology,” from 10 a.m. to noon on Friday. Participants will meet at the association headquarters, 534 Route 3, in Holderness. Be ready to learn about the ...

New York's Cathedral of Science Reopens with Interactive Ecology Beneath the ...

Hyperallergic

The Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science in Queens was designed to give visitors to the 1964 World's Fair the feeling of floating in deep space. Over the following decades its 5,400 concrete panels embedded with cobalt blue glass, speckled in ...

$16 million to help relieve drought hardships statewide | Department of Ecology

Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald

Drought relief money is now available across the state as hardships from water shortages really begin to mount for farms and fish. With a $16 million appropriation from the Legislature, the Washington Department of Ecology is accepting grant ...

Water Power

water floods pollution

On Parched Navajo Reservation, 'Water Lady' Brings Liquid Gold

New York Times

THOREAU, N.M. — The yellow truck slogged along the red-dirt roads in this impoverished corner of the Navajo reservation last week, its belly full of water — liquid gold in a treasure chest on wheels. The truck's driver, Darlene Arviso, steered it ...

How Big Water is trying to stop the National Park Service from cleaning up ...

Washington Post (blog)

The National Park Service thought it had a good strategy for reining in the discarded water bottles that clog the trash cans and waste stream of the national parks: stop selling disposable bottles and let visitors refill reusable ones with public ...

In Pennsylvania city, the poor are paying the price for a bad water deal

Al Jazeera America

Tony Washington couldn't understand why his water bill last month was almost $200. But, given where he lives, he wasn't surprised. “This is Coatesville,” he said. “The worst of the worst.” Washington is a disabled veteran who lives alone in a house ...

Water main break closes Long Rd. at Chesterfield Airport Rd.

KSDK

Water main break closes Long Rd. at Chesterfield Airport Rd. ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KSDK) Flowing water caused by a water main break has resulted in two major roadways being closed at this time. Long Road is now closed at Chesterfield Road as crews attempt ...