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Water CO2 calculator goes online
BBC: Science and environment reporter, BBC News The calculator produces a personalised report for households A website that helps people to work out how much CO2 is being emitted to heat water in their homes has gone online. Produced by the Energy Saving Trust (EST), it also suggests ways that users can save water and energy, as well as cutting their carbon footprint. The Trust says CO2 from energy used to heat water in UK homes accounts for 5% of the nation's total carbon ...
Joint Environmental Monitoring, a Way Forward?
Inter Press Service: A mutual inspection system, like the one Argentina and Brazil have developed for the nuclear industry, could contribute to solving the conflict between Argentina and Uruguay over pulp mills on border rivers. "A group of professional inspectors for mutual monitoring would create trust, and the idea could be extended to Mercosur," Federico Merke, a professor of international relations at the private Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, told IPS, referring to the Southern Common ...
Eco Friendly Advice for Healthy Lawns and Greenscapes
PHILADELPHIA (June 16, 2010) -- Beautiful lawns are a big part of summer, but the average lawn can eat up your free time and cost a bundle to maintain. Going with eco-friendly methods can actually save you time and money, and help the environment
How I Spent My 15 June: Day 1 - Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture Conference
Day 1 of the conference, Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture, is now history. It's being held in California and that's entirely appropriate, since California's agricultural groundwater use has hardly been sustainable. Maybe this conference will portend the future.
Nahhh.....
But all kidding(??) aside, yesterday was very good and I'm anticipating more of the same today and tomorrow.
The Water Education Foundation and UC-Davis are the organizers and UCD's Dr. Thomas Harter (check out his Random Groundwater Notes blog) is the chair....
Note to WaterWired's Readers: Mistakes and Comments
You may have noticed a greater number of spelling, grammatical, and related mistakes in these posts. Please accept my apologies - my interest in correct English has not diminished, but my nearsightedness has. In recent weeks I have suffered a deterioration in my reading vision. Even with my omnipresent magnifying glass I make a lot of mistakes and can't discern them very well. Suffice it so say that reading and writing have become real chores. I am being treated for this affliction and I hope it is rectified soon. Thanks for your kind thoughts.
Some of you have mentioned that...
Wood Creek Livestock Company feedlot receives EPA Compliance Order to stop polluting Snake River tributary
(Boise, Idaho – June 15, 2010) Jean M. Smith, owner and operator of the Boise-based Wood Creek Livestock Company, has been issued an EPA Compliance Order for alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act
Government launches full waste policy review
Business Green: The government has today unveiled plans for a wholesale review of waste policy in England designed to accelerate improvements in recycling rates and maximize the economic benefits associated with waste management. The review, the terms of which will be confirmed within the next few weeks, was announced by Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman at the Futuresource waste and sustainability conference in London's Docklands. "There is an economic and environmental urgency to ...
Scientists: Oil leaking up to 2.52M gallons daily
Associated Press: Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day. A government panel of scientists said that the ruptured well is leaking between 1.47 million and 2.52 million gallons daily of oil. The figures move the government's worst-case estimates more in line with what an independent team had previously thought was the maximum size of the ...
United Kingdom: Pay hill farmers to protect water supply and carbon sinks, report urges
Guardian: The government faces a new call on its diminished resources today with a recommendation from rural experts that hill farmers should be subsidised to safeguard water catchments and protect huge carbon-storing wildernesses of peat. But the Commission for Rural Communities has softened its request by suggesting that Whitehall target European funding for much of the proposed scheme, taking advantage of pending reforms in the EU's common agricultural policy. The lengthy inquiry into ...
United Kingdom: Caroline Spelman calls for 'zero-waste' society to end landfill
Press Association: Throwing rubbish such as drinks cans and leftover food into landfill wastes money and should not continue, the environment secretary, Caroline Spelman, said today. Announcing a new government review of England's waste strategy, Spelman said putting recyclable and biodegradable rubbish in the ground threatened the environment and wasted valuable natural resources. She said there was a need to go further and faster in boosting recycling rates in England, and that driving forward ...
