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19 Articles match "California","Energy","Rivers"

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HafenCity: A Case Study on Future-Adaptive Urban Development
HafenCity is marked by the red dot adjacent to Hamburg, Germany and along the river Elbe. | (Image captured with Bing Maps ) HafenCity, or Harbor City, is a new city quarter under development in the old harbor of Hamburg, along the river Elbe. Petersburg, Tokyo, and Seattle, as well as low-lying cities across Asia" and New York City.
The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Toward Green Resilience: Eco-effective Design and Climate Change Adaptation in Vietnam
Under darkening skies at an HCMC café, our coffees pushed to the side and long forgotten, he points to a series of graphs showing the rise in river levels and in rainfall. Low-lying areas long used for drainage of HCMC’s rivers are being filled and capped with concrete. Embankments narrow rivers and canals. Understands what?
The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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Is Population a Problem?
Therefore, to support more people, it will be necessary to move to poorer lands, dig deeper wells, and spend more energy to transport food and water to increasingly distant homes and factories. According to the California think tank the Global Footprint Network, we first overdrew our accounts in 1983, when our population of 4.7 Earths.
The Green Changemakers - Thursday, June 10, 2010
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  • The Water-Energy Connection
    [link] In the United States, generating power consumes 3 percent of our nation's water annually and 13 percent of the energy produced in this country each year is used to treat, transport and heat our water. Conserving water saves energy, and vice versa. Energy Demands on Water Resources , a report to Congress drafted by the U.S.
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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  • Profits Before People: 7 of the World’s Most Irresponsible Companies
    Though ExxonMobil trumpeted its investment in renewable energy sources in a series of advertisements over the past few years, the fact is that the company has invested just $300 million in renewable energy sources over the next 10 years compared to the $47 billion they spent between 2003 and 2006 alone on dirty energy sources like oil and gas.
    Eco Chic - Thursday, May 7, 2009
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  • Sustainable Urban Development
    Copyright City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan (2007) Urban development should be guided by a comprehensive planning and management vision that includes interconnected green space, a multi-modal transportation system, and mixed-use development. Image credit: Mia Lehrer + Associates, Civitas, Inc., Marc A. The U.S.
    The Green Changemakers - Sunday, March 28, 2010
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  • Educating for change
    Change the world," the Stanford School of Business in Palo Alto, California, perennially ranks as the most sustainably oriented MBA program in the U.S. Launched in 2003, The Presidio School of Management in San Francisco, California, has distinguished itself for its MBA in Sustainable Management. California is a hub of the movement.
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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  • Urban Research Symposium 2009
    Municipality of Marseille Monique Barbut, Chief Executive, Global Environment Facility (GEF) Inga Bjork-Klevby, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Habitat Philippe Van de Maele, Director General, French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) (tbc) Special Message by Video Dr. Dawson, S. Barr, M. Batty, A. Bristow, S. Carney, A. Ford, C.
    The Green Changemakers - Sunday, February 7, 2010
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  • The Seven Stones of Simpler Living
    It was a little camp in the California foothills: a woodsy reserve dotted with old oak trees sloping down to a well-shaded river. But its bed was thick with well-worn river stones, testimony to uncountable seasons of floods and the persuasive nature of water. It’s about finding the important things?—?and Stack them as you will.
    The Green Changemakers - Thursday, March 19, 2009
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  • A Better Future from Farms
    How we grow our food, fiber and energy on that land—and whether that land stays in agricultural production—deeply influences our environment, our health, our economy and the very fabric of our communities. The farm’s success at a variety of southern California farmers markets drove interest from restaurant chefs who wanted its produce.
    The Green Changemakers - Monday, May 18, 2009
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  • Sustainable Living Education
    More recently, I have written a couple of successful grants to purchase wind turbines and solar panels, along with community educational materials on alternative energy. We monitor our own solar and wind energy production, and cook and prepare food twice a week. Have you ever watched kids dig potatoes for the first time?
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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  • Sustainable Living Class: Teaching with a school garden
    More recently, I have written a couple of successful grants to purchase wind turbines and solar panels, along with community educational materials on alternative energy. We monitor our own solar and wind energy production, and cook and prepare food twice a week. It is like a treasure hunt. There is no substitute for these experiences.
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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  • Eco-Industrial Parks (EIP)
    Components of this approach include green design of park infrastructure and plants (new or retrofitted); cleaner production, pollution prevention; energy efficiency; and inter-company partnering. grindstone hole along the Tule River in California where members of the Yaudanchi Native American tribe ground acorns into meal.
    The Green Changemakers - Monday, November 17, 2008
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