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Water Hackathon!
26/09/11 07:34
WaterHackathon Asks: What’s Your Problem?
In search of new ideas and solutions to water and sanitation problems, the World Bank and Water and Sanitation Program, in collaboration with NASA and Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), are reaching out to new partners. WaterHackathon will convene teams of software developers, programmers and designers to solve (“hack”) technical challenges facing the water sector as defined in advance by the water community. The global event will take place simultaneously October 21 - 23 at multiple sites, including Bangalore, Cairo, Kampala, London, Nairobi, Tel Aviv, and Washington, DC.
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In search of new ideas and solutions to water and sanitation problems, the World Bank and Water and Sanitation Program, in collaboration with NASA and Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), are reaching out to new partners. WaterHackathon will convene teams of software developers, programmers and designers to solve (“hack”) technical challenges facing the water sector as defined in advance by the water community. The global event will take place simultaneously October 21 - 23 at multiple sites, including Bangalore, Cairo, Kampala, London, Nairobi, Tel Aviv, and Washington, DC.
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Interviews with thought-leaders in climate change: Engineering at the IDB
05/09/11 12:29
AdaptationAction.org is a new sister-blog of CCW that launched during World Water Week two weeks ago. While a lot of content has been planned for the site, the first focus has been on talking with some of the emerging thought-leaders in climate adaptation -- people who are at the edge of climate adaptation, conservation, economic development, and sustainable resource management. The first interview is with Fernando Miralles-Wilhem, an environmental engineer with the Inter-American Development Bank (usually just referred to as the IDB). Fernando is extremely unusual — an engineer who works with ecosystems, an academic with two decades of research into “applied” questions, and — rarest of all — a person who somehow combines science with policy and economic development. Affiliated with both Florida International University and the Inter-American Development Bank, Fernando describes how his work on wetlands has evolved into climate adaptation and climate-sustainable development.
Changing Currents: Filling the Stationarity Gap from John Matthews on Vimeo.
Read More...Not for the "Future of Water"? The role of widespread groundwater pollution
06/06/11 10:41
Anna Lappe from the Small Planet Institute was asked to submit a video the Future of Water event described in an earlier post (below, and to be broadcast here tomorrow, June 7). She had a bad experience with the event’s sponsor, Dow Chemical. In her words, “My contribution, which raised concerns about the threats to water sustainability from toxins in our environment, was rejected by 4goodmedia on the grounds that this should be a ‘positive, inclusive discussion.’ While I, too, believe in the principles of inclusiveness and engagement, I feel strongly we must pursue those principles in an honest context, including with full knowledge of water sustainability in relationship to Dow. For that reason, I felt it would disingenuous to engage in this conversation without pointing out the direct relationship between Dow’s core business products—a source of its $8 billion in profit last year—and toxins polluting groundwater across the United States and around the world.”
In fairness to Anna, I asked for (and obtained) her permission to post her video on this site after I was contacted by her. And in full disclosure, I was interviewed and presumably my video will be shown tomorrow, and I suggested several other people who might be interviewed for the event. While I do not agree with much that Dow Chemical has done in the past or is doing now as company policy, I felt that it was personally ethical to participate in this event. Good people can disagree over some issues. And I suspect that upon viewing this video you can see why Dow and the event’s producer would decide not to include it. That also doesn’t mean that the issues are not important or worth discussing, hence my own decision to include her video here. Read More...
In fairness to Anna, I asked for (and obtained) her permission to post her video on this site after I was contacted by her. And in full disclosure, I was interviewed and presumably my video will be shown tomorrow, and I suggested several other people who might be interviewed for the event. While I do not agree with much that Dow Chemical has done in the past or is doing now as company policy, I felt that it was personally ethical to participate in this event. Good people can disagree over some issues. And I suspect that upon viewing this video you can see why Dow and the event’s producer would decide not to include it. That also doesn’t mean that the issues are not important or worth discussing, hence my own decision to include her video here. Read More...
Webinar: Changing climate, hydrology of the Tibetan plateau
08/11/10 13:41
Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for a
discussion of Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia:
Developing a Blueprint for Addressing Glacier Melt in the Region
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discussion of Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia:
Developing a Blueprint for Addressing Glacier Melt in the Region
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BioFresh network: climate change and biodiversity
08/11/10 09:12
Climate Change Impact on Freshwater Biodiversity: The BioFresh Network
BioFresh is an EU-funded international project that aims to build a global information platform for scientists and ecosystem managers with access to all available databases describing the distribution, status and trends of global freshwater biodiversity. BioFresh integrates the freshwater biodiversity competencies and expertise of 19 research institutions. Read More...
BioFresh is an EU-funded international project that aims to build a global information platform for scientists and ecosystem managers with access to all available databases describing the distribution, status and trends of global freshwater biodiversity. BioFresh integrates the freshwater biodiversity competencies and expertise of 19 research institutions. Read More...
