12:44 pm in climate change effects, government policy, News, texas, usa by TreeHugger
Foundation crack. Image credit:flickr, Micheal Derr (
ewige)
How dry is it it Texas?
So dry well levels are dropping. Groundwater levels are sinking appreciably enough that, according to the
Fort-Worth Star Telegram, "The dip in groundwater levels is forcing many rural homeowners who depend on residential wells to spend $500 to $1,000 to have their pumps lowered or, worse, $7,500 or more to have deeper wells drilled." And that's a relatively cheap proble...
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12:44 pm in climate change effects, government policy, News, texas, usa by TreeHugger
Foundation crack. Image credit:flickr, Micheal Derr (
ewige)
How dry is it it Texas?
It is so dry that water-well levels are noticeably dropping. In fact, groundwater levels are sinking enough that, according to the
Fort-Worth Star Telegram, "The dip in groundwater levels is forcing many rural homeowners who depend on residential wells to spend $500 to $1,000 to have their pumps lowered or, worse, $7,500 or more to have deeper wells drilled." And that's ...
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6:10 pm in britain, Business & Politics, climate solutions, government policy, UK, usa by TreeHugger
"Cover of the September 21, 1889, issue of Puck magazine, featuring cartoonist Tom Merry's depiction of the unidentified Whitechapel murderer Jack the Ripper." Image credit:
Wikipedia.
Perhaps you've read about last week's political turmoil in Britain over the alleged hacking of private cell phone accounts by person(s) working at or with the UK tabloid paper,
News of the World, beginning, apparently, in 2005.
Rupert the Scooper is taking heat and ties between UK governm...
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10:27 pm in Business & Politics, electricity electronics, government policy, pakistan, usa, water resources by TreeHugger
"Solar powered street lights - Gwadar - Alternate energy services" Image credit:Flickr,
wetlandsofpakistan
After Pakistan's extensive hydroelectric power resources
dried up in 2008,
Australian coal was marketed to satisfy the growing power consumption of a burgeoning population. Think it's a stretc...
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6:25 pm in Business & Politics, climate solutions, corporate responsibility, government policy by TreeHugger
"Peter Pan playing the Pipes." Image credit:
Wikipedia
Environmentalists, government regulators, and captains of industry all rely on mathematical modeling to gain insights into how the future might turn, were a regulation passed, an investment made, or a market strategy taken. The method is a half-century in the making.
In the mid-1970's - 40 years ago - mainframe computer renditions of the
Streeter-Phelps Equation were used to allocate wastewater discharge permit limits...
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10:43 pm in Business & Politics, community development, electricity, government policy, nuclear power by TreeHugger
Un-surveyed nuclear neighborhood. Image credit:
NASA Earth Observatory
The US nuclear industry recently commissioned a nationwide survey of adults living within 10 miles of 64 U.S. nuclear power plants. A total of 1,152 full-time residents were surveyed,
excluding households where someone worked at a power plant. Of those surveyed "86 percent have a favorable impression of the nearby nuclear power plant " and two-thirds said it would be "...acceptable to add a new reactor at the site of the nearest nuclear power plant..." ...
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8:56 pm in electrical grid, government policy, News, usa by TreeHugger
"Alarm Clock 2" Image credit:Flickr,
Alan Cleaver
To adapt the nation's power grid to increased use of renewable power, it is proposed that procedures for meeting AC power transmission frequency standards be altered somewhat (see below for explanation of existing practice).
Associated Press reports that the North American Electric Reliability Corp. wants to see a revised scheme tested for a year, during which clocks directly running on AC power may slow or speed up a few minutes per year (exte...
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7:15 pm in climate solutions, food, government policy, usa, vertical gardens by TreeHugger
Broccoli plant. Image credit: all photos this post by J.Laumer.
Everybody eats broccoli. Well...everybody save you
Super-Tasters (more about vegetable exceptionalism down the page). Most broccoli-eaters have never grown their own and therefore miss out on the pre-floret excitement (as pictured above) as well as the eventual, superior fulfillment.
Growing broccoli is a wonderful distraction from worrying over climate change. Grow your own and you can reach salivation over the stir fry. The alternative is dreaming about the the kids in a
Blade Runner future. (Some would prefer spiritual salvation but it's not my piece of broccol...
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CANARY Event Detection Software screen projection. Canary is open source software developed by Sandia in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency to enhance the detection of terrorist attacks or natural contaminants to public drinking water systems.. Image & caption credits:Sandia Labs
Turning the internet from an avenue for hackers to do harm into a tool to help municipal authorities better protect public health would be a lovely idea wouldn't it? Well now then, thanks to your USA taxpayer dollars and not-think-tank scientists at work, remote sensors in public water system reservoirs...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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