Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Spread Reckoning: U.S. Suburbs Face Twin Perils of Climate Change and Peak Oil
-Sprawling cities pressure environment, planning
-Climate Change Threatens the Poor in Cities
-Rampant water “pillage” is sucking Yemen dry
-Air pollution ‘will become bigger global killer than dirty water’
-What Modern Society Can Learn From a 2,800 Year Old Earthen Water Well
-Prehistoric fisheries offer clues to sustainable catch
-Ox Carts and No Coffee: Building a Monastery the Medieval Way
-U.S. intelligence sees global water conflict risks rising
-Reflections on a Thirsty Planet for World Water Day
-Las Vegas plans to pump water across 300 miles of desert approved
-China plans to curb capital’s water usage
-The Colorado River delta blues
-Are We Running Out of Water?
-From Texas to India to the Horn of Africa, Concern about Weather, Water, and Crops
-China irrigation system responsible for rising emissions, research shows
-Climate, food pressures require rethink on water: U.N
Driving down any rural highway in northern New Mexico, you are sure to come across a valley with acequias—irrigation ditches that in some cases have existed for several centuries.
-Rolling Stone Responds to Chesapeake Energy on ‘The Fracking Bubble’
-Why Not Frack? – Book & Film review
-Fracking: The New Global Water Crisis – Report
-Kept in Dark by BC’s Oil and Gas Commission
-A Fresh Scientific Defense of the Merits of Moving from Coal to Shale Gas
You’re probably doing your part to conserve water, especially if you live in a drought-stricken area. But water is in short supply across the globe because of people’s increasing demands for it—a huge problem for cities, agriculture and industry that will only get worse with climate change.
-Humanity’s Growing Impact on the World’s Freshwater
-Uncharted waters: Probing aquifers to head off war
-Drought summit: Why not pipe the water from north to south?
-Jordan’s Green Fairytale- ‘Once Upon a Water’ Campaign
-Thailand’s economy shrinks 9% after flood disruptions
-Food security v energy security: land use conflict and the law
– Defending good science: Michael Mann speaks out
– A Second Front in the Climate War (methane, soot and hydrofluorocarbons)
– Scientist denies he is mouthpiece of US climate-sceptic think tank
– Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’
– Where the Colorado Runs Dry
A group of farmers in northwest Texas began 2012 under circumstances their forbearers could scarcely imagine: they faced a limit on the amount of groundwater they could pump from their own wells on their own property.
-Is Agriculture Sucking Fresh Water Dry?
-The water footprint of humanity [report]
-UAE bans export of groundwater
-Permission granted for Britain’s first amphibious house on banks of Thames
– Vandana Shiva: The Seed Emergency
– Bloomberg: Farmers Can Grow Food for All, as Long as Ecosystems Hold
– Peak Water: The Rise and Fall of Cheap, Clean H2O
