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The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
A view of the aspects of the activities to support Traded-sector Business Startup. Including Outreach, Business Facilitation, Angel Funding, Business Acceleration and Cluster Development.
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) researcher Sigi Deni Sasmito and a worker enjoy the water in CIFOR's study on above-ground and below-ground biomass in mangrove ecosystems, part of Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP). Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Photo by Sigit Deni Sasmito/CIFOR
Related research publication on mangrove:
Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
Carbon storage in mangrove and peatland ecosystems
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
For more information about CIFOR’s wetlands research visit: cifor.org/swamp
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Goal of this FAO-led project is to adopt an integrated ecosystems approach for the management of land resources in the Kagera Basin that will generate local, national and global benefits including: restoration of degraded lands, carbon sequestration and climate change adaptation and mitigation, protection of international waters, agro-biodiversity conservation and sustainable use and improved agricultural production, leading to increased food security and improved rural livelihoods.
More: www.fao.org/nr/kagera/about-kagera/en/
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The ITU Regional Seminar for CIS & Europe was held in St. Petersburg from 6 to 8 June to discuss the latest technologies and trends in the development of modern radiocommunication ecosystems. Co-organized by ITU and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), the seminar addressed the appropriate solutions for the sustainable use of the radio frequency spectrum as a scarce resource in enabling the development of the digital economy through mobile, transport, navigation and space systems.
Aambyvalley Rd.,Lonavala,Mah.,India
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Ecosystem infographic shows where your users are active online. Really cool infographic from Zabisco
•Krisztina “Z” Holly, Adviser, National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, USA; Global Agenda Council on Fostering, •Huang Mengfu, Honorary Chairman, All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC), People's Republic of China Entrepreneurship, - Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Chief Executive Officer, Fora, Canada; Global Shaper •Kristin Peterson, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Inveneo, USA; Social Entrepreneur •Mariana Mazzucato, R. M. Phillips Professor in Science and Technology Policy, University of Sussex, United Kingdom •Orlando Ayala, Chairman, Emerging Markets, Microsoft Corporation, USA; Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 13 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
A fantastically rich ecosytem established just above my head height on a brick wall in a busy snicket near the shops.
Worth a quick zoom!
by Jay Field
LOS ANGELES--U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and Los Angeles County officials broke ground Feb. 22 on a project designed to restore degraded habitat in the San Fernando Valley.
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, Public Works Deputy Director Mark Pestrella and District Commander Col. Mark Toy ceremonially turned dirt for the start of the $7 million Tujunga Wash Ecosystem Restoration project that will extend greening along the sides of a 3/4-mile stretch of concrete channel that carries runoff from Hansen Dam to the Los Angeles River.
Corps contractors will construct a meandering manmade stream, complete with native riparian vegetation and pedestrian pathways, on the west bank of the channel between Vanowen St. and Sherman Way. The east bank will be planted with native, drought-tolerant perennials and shrubs. The restoration project will connect to the county's Tujunga Wash Greenway project just to the south, creating a riparian habitat corridor nearly 2.5 miles long.
"Every segment of this wash that we've restored has had their neighborhood just thrilled with the beautification," said Yaroslavsky. "It's just an improvement of the quality of life."
Community residents Stan and Lynne Friedman, among the nearly a dozen community members in attendance at the ceremony, couldn't have agreed more with Yaroslavsky. They've lived along the barren channel for nearly 40 years.
"We're pretty excited about the project," Stan said. "We think it's a great idea."
"It'll be nice to look out at and take a walk in," added Lynne.
Toy told the residents and county partners in the audience that the project will effectively combine flood risk management with ecosystem restoration and recreation.
"We owe this to you, to create a community that you can walk down and enjoy the great outdoors," said Toy. "We have so much momentum right now with the LA River Watershed, not only with America's Great Outdoors Initiative, but the Urban Waters Federal Partnership Program."
Both programs share goals that include reconnecting people to their waterways and promoting water conservation.
According to Pestrella, the project brings multiple benefits that will serve as a model for a sustainable and healthy stream system in a dense, urban area of the valley.
"That water will eventually someday become part of the drinking water here in LA," said Pestrella. "It'll also help us with pollution issues. As pollution reaches the channel and we bring the water up onto the top of the channel, it's recharged eliminating a number of pollutants before it reaches our groundwater again."
Tujunga Wash was channelized in the 1950's curbing flooding in the developing area, but also halting the wash's natural function. Some of that function will be restored, providing opportunities for migratory bird nesting, wildlife movement, recreation and education, none of which will reduce the capacity of the flood control system.
The Corps is funding 75 percent of the project costs under its Continuing Authorities Program, Section 1135 of the Water Resources Development Act, that allows improvement of the quality of the environment in the public interest. Los Angeles County Flood Control District, which operates and maintains the wash, will fund the remaining 25 percent of the total project costs. Construction is scheduled to be completed this summer.
In Japan and elsewhere, people often wash their produce before eating it. Why? Is it to rinse off the dirt and insects? Or maybe we are hoping to clean off all the dreaded pesticides?
Perhaps the question is: do we really need those pesticides? One pioneering organic apple grower, Akinori Kimura, has proven that we do not. For years now, he has been inundated by more orders than he can handle from those who want a taste of what has been nicknamed the Miracle Apple.
Read more at Our World 2.0!
(Photo by Mathatelle)
An expanse of burnt peat in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan.
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR
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Pied King Fisher.
The Sundarban is the largest mangrove forest in the world. The name Sundarban can be translated as "beautiful forest".
The forest lies in the vast delta on the Bay of Bengal. It became a UNESCO world heritage in 1997.
Wildllife thrive in this unique and delicately balanced ecosystem and it is home to large numbers of mammals, birds and fish. It is also one of the largest haunts of the endangered Royal Bengal tiger.
The Building Innovation Ecosystems session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum/Nelson Ching
DesCon 2017 is the third annual “Internet of Things/Shit” marathon. It is open to all creatives and developers who want to work together to make our digital and craft skills stronger and planet earth a more fun and sustainable place.
It is a collaborative multidisciplinary and computer programming event – aimed at local and regional participants in the Balkans and South East Europe. However, it attracts global leading thinkers, engineers, artists, designers and hobbyists from all corners of the world including, so far, participants from Brazil, New Zealand, Switzerland, UK and Germany.
DesCon 2017 theme is about use of technology to create skills, projects and IoT/IoS devices that monitor and alerts us of imminent changes in our environment as well as in our digital data ecosystem. For the first time this year, we dedicate a special workshop to gather, scrape, analyse and visualize ecological open data (e.g. from regional Hydro-Meteorological Institute and Office of National Statistics) and build tools to understand correlations throughout time.
DesCon 2017,
30 September – 1 October, KC Grad, Beograd
© 2017 ph: vladimir opsenica, DESCON 3.0
This is a mural comprised of eight 2ft x 2ft panels, created by the 4th Grade Students at Grant Elementary School in Long Beach CA. We completed it last year, but just this past week the school finally installed it. My friend and fellow mosaic artist, Luz Mack-Durini, and friend Ilona Miko, worked with me on this project. We grouted this weekend, hurrah! Images, L to R, top first: Whales, coastal scene, tidepools, shark; sea turtles, kelp forest, coral reef, and jellyfish.
Human Ecosystems in Sao Paulo: the Real-Time Museum of the City
Human Ecosystems is coming to Sao Paulo, at SESC Vila Mariana, from September 23rd to 28th 2014.
From September 23rd to 28th, as a parallel program of the International Meeting on Culture and New Technologies, the SESC Vila Mariana will hosts the Human Ecosystems project, by the Italian artists Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico (Art is Open Source).
Human Ecosystems is a global project which captures the real-time public conversations happening on major social networks in cities, to analyse them, to create real-time interactive visualisations, and transform them into a source of open data.
human-ecosystems.com/home/human-ecosystems-in-sao-paulo-t...
A map from 'Mapping and valuing ecosystem services in the Ewaso Ng'iro Watershed', 2011 (map credit: ILRI/WRI).
Photo by Jaqueline Marks, Seaweb.
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The Field Station will afford VI University marine science students the opportunity to conduct field research in Deep Bay and lab work in the lower level of the field station. Some of the students were on hand to tell us about their research and explain the unique centerpieces at each table (shown above right). Each flask held water and live shellfish from the bay and next to it was a flask with murky, algae-filled water. The students advised us to pour the ‘dirty’ water into the larger shellfish-filled flask and watch them go to work. By the end of the delectable meal the water was clear again – a creative demonstration of the important ecosystem services shellfish provide.
The Arctic is a region not easily delineated by one boundary or definition - it includes the Arctic Ocean and the land areas around it, including Greenland, Eurasia and North America. A climate definition of the Arctic is the 10 centigrade July isotherm. This limit roughly coincides with the treeline and represents a change in growing conditions for plants. As visible in the map, this also includes mountainous and alpine areas. The map also presents the Arctic circle at 66°33 North - the limit of the midnight sun and polar night. The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) area presented in the map is the area covered by CAFF working group under the Arctic Council.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Riccardo Pravettoni
Carnation spurge (Euphorbia terracina) is a highly invasive plant that threatens ecosystems in and around the Santa Monica Mountains. The plant is also toxic to humans and wildlife.
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) scientist begins taking notes on a study on above-ground and below-ground biomass in mangrove ecosystems, part of Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP). Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Photo by Kate Evans/CIFOR
Related research publication on mangrove:
Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
Carbon storage in mangrove and peatland ecosystems
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
For more information about CIFOR’s wetlands research visit: cifor.org/swamp
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Aron Cramer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), at the Strategic Shifts in the Consumer Ecosystem session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. APhoto by World Economic Forum/Nelson Ching
Photo Courtesy of IMR
For the first time an ecosystem survey with R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen will be conducted in the coastal area of Gabon. Identification and abundance of birds, whales, fish, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos will be conducted in the period from 9-23 May. In addition environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity, current, chlorophyll and oxygen will be measured. A reception was help onboard the vessel before the start of the cruise and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Security, the governor of Port Gentil, and the FAO representative in Central Africa, were among the distinguished guest.
Aambyvalley Rd.,Off Lonavala,Mah.,India
In India endemic to Maharashtra.
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Jean Mombombi Nyangue a fisherman on the Congo River. Lukolela, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR
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Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) study on above-ground and below-ground biomass in mangrove ecosystems, part of Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP). Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Photo by Sigit Deni Sasmito/CIFOR
Related research publication on mangrove:
Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
Carbon storage in mangrove and peatland ecosystems
www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publ...
For more information about CIFOR’s wetlands research visit: cifor.org/swamp
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org