Archive for the ‘Water’ Category
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
T. Boone Pickens, the proverbial man with a plan, says Obama made the right call by choosing Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff.Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) is a "BIG supporter" of shifting America's energy economy from oil to natural gas. Emanuel has apparently met with Boone on at ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
For the first time in a more than a decade, California plans to reinstate the drought bank. Over 740 million cubic meters of water could change hands next year. In September, the California Department of Water Resources announced the creation of a 2009 Drought Water Bank. The drought water bank ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Energy efficiency has enormous promise for most developing economies. The investment yields in energy efficiency over the next two decades will generally be several times higher in the developing world, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute.
Developing countries could invest $90 billion annually over the next 12 ...
Posted in CCS, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, India, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Research, Sustainability, Water, law | No Comments »
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Proposed Climate Change Legislation by Ultimate Reductions Targets
Climate change is riddled with deep uncertainty about basic questions, which results from factors such as lack of information, disagreement about what is known or even knowable, linguistic imprecision, statistical variation, measurement error, approximation and subjective judgment on the structure of the climate ...
Posted in Agriculture, Antarctica, Biofuels, Bioremediation, CCS, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Sustainability, Water, biomass | No Comments »
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
The Human Pump
Gunwook Nam, an innovative designer from Seoul, South Korea, recently received one of three awards from San Francisco’s Urban Re:Vision for his innovative "Human Pump" design featured above. The design uses human foot traffic to power a system of pumps that bring fresh drinking water to the surface.
Posted in Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Sustainability, Water, Water-Filtration, materials | No Comments »
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
America's aging water infrastructure needs an overhaul desperately.
Liquid Assets, a new documentary film produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting about U.S. water infrastructure, reveals the poort conditionsof the nation's essential infrastructure systems: drinking water, wastewater and storm water. These complex and aging systems, some in the ground for more than 100 ...
Posted in Bioremediation, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Water, Water-Filtration, green-technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
New York plans to fast-track the approval process for a huge influx of natural gas wells that could bring the state more than $1 billion in annual revenue. The trouble is the wells could put the state's water supplies at risk of contamination.
The surge in energy prices earlier this year ...
Posted in Bioremediation, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Water, law, materials | No Comments »
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Today, global water prices do not fully reflect all water-related costs as 90% of water services are still managed by public authorities who tend to subsidize water for political reasons. Water scarcity will progressively trigger tariffs to climb toward full production costs, in some countries even up to the cost ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Posted in Agriculture, Batteries, Biofuels, Bioremediation, CCS, Carbon, Climate-Change, Concentrated-Solar, Energy-STAR, Energy-Storage, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Research, Solar-Thermal, Sustainability, Water, algae, biomass, green-technology | No Comments »
