Environment

From Newsweek Aug 24 – 2009
After three years of drought, California’s legendary water wars are flaring once again, and towns like Mendota, San Joaquin, and Firebaugh are getting a first glimpse of what their future might look like. Farmers blame the area’s blight on a “man-made drought” brought on by increasingly strict environmental regulations, but that is only the beginning of the story. There’s also the crushing confluence of political negligence, drought, and a century’s worth of unbridled growth.
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Decision on survival has to be made now. Survival for the future means water, clean, safe drinking water. Federal, provincial and regional governments are slow to act when the pay off is not instant and financial. By Salmon Arm a developer is facing prosecution over possible river destruction where salmon spawn. Pesticide, herbicide use is rampant, animal and human waste contaminates the source of the water we drink. Medicines remain in the water after passing through us. And then the ever increasing stories of shortages.
All Headlines are from Aug. 20 09
Syria, Iraq and Turkey ‘to discuss water shortage’
Kenya hit by mass hunger and water shortage
Doña Ana farmers face irrigation water shortage
China Faces Acute Water Shortage, Turns To The Sea To Solve The …
Water shortage the biggest environmental concern on the planet ..

Water shortage threatens Asia’s food supplies
West Bank Suffers Acute Water Shortages

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What direction will our energy policy take in the next four years? Four leaders give their perspectives on climate change and energy policy and the resulting impact on economic growth and technological innovation. 



Welcome and introduction by Teresa Heinz
 Chairman of The Heinz Endowments and the Heinz Family Philanthropies.

Speakers:
 John Holdren, Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard University; Lee Branstetter, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Heinz College; Granger Morgan, Lord Chair Professor in Engineering; Professor and Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy; Melissa Young, student in the Heinz Colleges Master of Science in Public Policy and Management program.

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Jan 6, 2010 – http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com/article/6650132/general/farmer-protest

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www.innocentive.com
InnoCentive – Changing the world, one innovator at a time. InnoCentive Solver develops solution to help clean up remaining oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. “Green” groups taking advantage of prize-based Innovation to help solve
long-term environmental problems.

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A lecture by Andrew Light, associate professor of philosophy and environmental policy at George Mason University (GMU) and an internationally recognized environmental ethicist specializing in the ethical dimensions of environmental policy, restoration ecology and climate change.

Duration : 1:9:42

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John Stossel shows how global warming is bull and is one of the biggest hoaxes.

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http://www.globalchange.com Huge water shortages in future with climate change. Water wars. Global warming, drought and changing patterns of rainfall. Rivers and reservoirs drying up. Water use restrictions. Political action and infrastructure investment. Impact of water shortage on business and farming / agriculture. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.

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Dr David Suzuki, award-winning scientist and environmentalist, talks to WWF-Australia about why humans are the real reason our planet is degrading at such a fast rate and how we can turn this around.

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This 9 minute video clip (in French) by Ibrahima Fall, a well known Senegalese filmmaker is a striking documentation of the work of the Global Environment Facility GEF in climate change projects in selected African countries. It includes interviews with environment ministers of African countries that have been benefiting from GEF support and a number of key political figures.The series of personal accounts detail on the ground results achieved over the past years; it is also highlights the path-breaking role of the GEF and its standing as the financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC.

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English version of the 9 minutes video clip by Ibrahima Fall, a well known Senegalese filmmaker is a striking documentation of the work of the Global Environment Facility GEF in climate change projects in selected African countries. It includes interviews with environment ministers of African countries that have been benefiting from GEF support and a number of key political figures.The series of personal accounts detail on the ground results achieved over the past years; it is also highlights the path-breaking role of the GEF and its standing as the financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC.

Duration : 0:9:10

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