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Research microbiologist Rebecca Bell prepares a liquid containing nutrients that make it an ideal environment for growing bacteria. Tomatoes are vulnerable to contamination by Salmonella, bacteria that are a common cause of foodborne illness. At FDA, there is a group of researchers nicknamed “Team Tomato” that tries to understand and prevent Salmonella contamination early in the tomato production process, working with state extension services, growers, and industry.
To learn more about how FDA is using genetic research to help ensure food safety read this Consumer Update: Whole Genome Sequencing Helps FDA Identify Dangerous Bacteria.
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DSM).
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Forest lands are beneficial to the environment, economy and society all at the same time and should be considered a treasure for both the country and the world.
That's why we are working to enhance Turkey's forest management.
Turkey's Forestry Authority OGM and UNDP met at Köyceğiz to try a new system, not ever used before, to more comprehensively make carbon measurements. OGM’s forestry engineers, who received training of trainers on this new, comprehensive method of carbon measurement, had an opportunity to field test their newly acquired skills. The updated measurement systems will enable OGM to make more integrated plans of forest management. Following the training and field trials, it was decided to pilot this new method at Alara Forest Administration Section of Antalya. Should the new measurement techniques prove feasible, the intention is to roll them out all over Turkey. OGM will have more detailed and better standardized data on the quantity of carbon retained by forests in Turkey. It will also employ such information to address the question of how we better manage forests for the common good.
Native brook trout acclimate after being released into a nearly one-mile restored section of Piney Run in Purcellville, Va., on Jan. 8, 2021. It may be the first time in over a century that brook trout have existed in the waterway, according to Joe Bane, operations manager of Loudoun Mitigation Bank, LLC., who has led the restoration effort on property that has been in his family for generations, and that is conserved through the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 1m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
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With the passage of time, people are getting more concerned about the overall environment; and it is certainly a positive thing. When it comes to the factors which have been causing contamination in the environment, #packaging materials can be placed on the top of the list. Packaging wastes contribute to a majority of total wastes which have been hazardous for the environment for so long.
Good thing is that both #customers and #manufacturers are now paying attention to reducing the packaging waste. While the mechanism of dealing with the existing packaging wastes does its job, it is pretty important to make sure that manufacturers and customers do their part of work to reduce this packaging waste. In this article, we are going to discuss a much needed packaging mechanism, i.e. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Reduced packaging
Reducing the amount and number of packaging materials doesn’t only help in saving environment but it is an option that can help in lowering the overall packaging costs. An example in this regard is of the stretch wrap. You can switch to the use of a lower #micron #stretchwrap which can reduce the need of the use of stretch wrap. With the help of a 12-micron high performance machine film, you can improve load containment and package stability.
If you want to make the process even more efficient and cost effective, you can consider using automated stretch wrap machine. With the help of this machine, you can reduce packaging wastes.
Reuse
An example of the packaging feature which can be reused is the plastic pallet. This pallet may be made of plastic but it is highly reliable, reusable and reliable due to the type of material and the specific shape of the pallet. Hence, they turn out to be even more effective than their wooden counterparts.
Since they are made of plastic, they are easier to clean and they are lightweight enough to make the movement easy. You can stack them anywhere in the warehouse. And since you are using a high quality plastic instead of woods, you are essentially doing your part of work in saving the environment.
Recycle
Although there are many packaging options available now but the use of Cardboard BOxes is still one of the most popular options. Majority of items are packed in the cardboard boxes and containers before they are shipped. Cardboard, however, doesn’t last for too long as compared to other sustainable options. But it doesn’t mean that this material needs to become a part of the packaging waste. You can use cardboard shredders to make the unusable cardboard usable in a different way.
Gloria Sylvia, an access control monitor for Jacobs Technology at the Kennedy Space Center was recently presented NASA's Catch an Environmentalist Award for her efforts in planting a small garden at the gate to the Vehicle Assembly Building. Participating in the presentation were, front row, from the left, Bonnie Hughes, Jacobs Human Resources and Security Group manager, Mike Barber, Jacobs Test and Operations Support Contract Safety and Health, Sylvia, Robert Williams, Jacobs area integrator, Jim Bolton, NASA Vehicle Assembly Building Operations manager and Gary Casteel, Jacobs Asset Management director. Back row, from the left, Frank Kline, NASA's Sustainability Program technical lead, Mike Parrish, Jacobs Project manager-Vehicle Operations, Andrew Allen, Jacobs Technology Vice President and general manager of the Test and Operations Support Contract Group. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitrios Gerondidakis
1 June 2014. El Fasher: Street children collect disposable water for car washing in El Fasher, North Darfur.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Stewart Stevenson, Environment and Climate Change MSP, received a suitcase of hope from Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) ahead of the Conference Of Parties 17 climate talks in Durban.
Maryland state and federal government officials meet at MedStar Harbor Hospital in the Cherry Hill neighborhood of Baltimore to announce Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for cleanup projects throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed on May 2, 2022. Speakers included MedStar Harbor Hospital president Hill Donaldson, EPA Region Three Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz, EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe, Sen. Ben Cardin, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, Rep. John Sarbanes, Rep. Kweisi Mfume, Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Maryland State Senator Sarah Elfreth. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
VIDEO, Rocking Christmas Songs - youtu.be/Q5IF6iWf5W4
The VanDusen Garden Festival of Lights is a Christmas event that many nature-lovers have been waiting for to start the holiday season.
One of the guiding principles of the VanDusen Garden has always been to connect people to plants and the natural environment. Year-round, visitors have come here to appreciate and learn about conservation, gardening, plant lives and stories, nutrition, pollination, adopt a tree, birding in the garden and many more.
The VanDusen Garden is also a popular spot for wedding couples getting hitched.
Although there are more than 100 events happening all year, don’t think that during winter the garden would be in hibernation. No, December happens to be the busiest time of the year.
To celebrate Christmas and the Yuletide season, the garden comes alive with more than a million light bulbs illuminating all vegetation and the surrounding enclave. 1.4 million lights to be exact.
Nancy Wong, VanDusen Garden’s Public Relations Director, proudly pointed out that volunteers counted each light bulb every year and made sure they were working before putting them on.
The Festival of Lights is an extremely popular event. Families come in droves.
On the first day of the festival (Dec 02), there was a long lineup of people wanting in before the garden officially opened at 4:30 PM. In fact, visitors were advised to purchase tickets in advance at Tickets Tonight or in person at the Garden Shop at VanDusen Garden as early as Nov 1st.
Once visitors entered the garden, many of them seek out the popular Dancing Lights at Livingstone Lake in which a continuous series of strobe lights was synchronized to rock versions of familiar Christmas songs that reverberated with the audience, adults and kids alike.
Music is the universal language, no loss in translation there. It signifies the joyous season and everyone is excited to be there. Dancing Lights plays every half-hour and it has become one of the main attractions of the Festival of Lights experience.
After the light show, visitors began to explore different areas of the garden and there were plenty for them to see and enjoy - Santa’s Living Room, Gingerbread Wood, Make-a-Wish Candle Shrine, Sparkling Spruce in the centre court, Candy Cane Express model train etc.
Roaming along the brightly-illuminated Candy Cane Lane, you would likely hear a singing choir that draws you nearer or encounter two Christmas Gnomes, Svend and Jens eager to entertain.
Svend joked often in a heavy Swedish accent while Jens played his quiet and abiding partner. Their routine worked out very well I must say.
It’s the Winter Light season (not Lights, in honor of director Ingmar Bergman) and with Svend and Jens close by, you are reminded of the Swedish filmmaker’s world-famous troupe of actors including Liv Ulman, Max Von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom and others. Ja!
After an hour or two, you just might feel hungry and it is a perfect time to have dinner at the garden. Both light fare and full meals are available at the VanDusen Garden. Dinner is also served every night at the Shaughnessy Restaurant during the Festival of Lights. Reservations are recommended.
Ho-Ho-Ho, Santa’s rocking in his chair too!
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Ray Van Eng is an award-winning photographer, journalist, online publisher, screenwriter and movie & TV producer. One of his videos is currently on view at the Hava Nagila Exhibit, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. from Sep 2012 to May 2013.
Gravesend is a small town situated in the borough of Gravesham, Kent. Developed by the metropolitan police in 2002 to simulate the environment of urban community the 300 square meter site was constructed in facsimile of an urban complex to meet the training requirements of the police with all the façade of human presence, except that presence itself. This surreal installation serves as a chilling account of the death of community in 21st century Britain.
While the global village expands, local collective identity and communication have dwindled, to the detriment of communal interest. We have estates, parks, nightclubs, tube stations, but is the community missing from Gravesend significantly more present in our inhabited cities and towns? Gravesend can be interpreted as a warning – a prophecy of society’s potential to alienate itself from itself, and kill its collective identity.
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Barbara J. Ryan, Secretariat Director of the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) briefs the Media at the United Nations January 10, 2014 on the GEO-X Plenary & Geneva Ministerial Summit.
From January 13 to 17, 2014 Geneva’s CICG center will be the site of a major international conference and exhibit aimed at improving access to critical information on the global environment. The GEO-X Plenary and Geneva Ministerial Summit brings together experts from 90 governments and nearly 70 organizations and will include an exhibit of cutting edge technology and more than 30 forums and panel discussions, many open to the general public. Topics will include Agriculture and Food Security, Measuring Biodiversity, Disaster Risk Reduction, Cholera Early Warning, Ocean Acidification, UNEP Live!, and Water Security. The summit will be presided over by GEO’s four co-chairs: China, the European Commission, South Africa and the United States. The United States will be represented at GEO-X by a high level multiagency delegation.
For nearly a decade, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has been driving the interoperability of thousands of individual space-based, airborne and in situ Earth observations around the world. Often these separate systems yield just snapshot assessments, leading to critical gaps in scientific understanding. GEO is addressing such gaps by providing easy, open access to organized observations that enable an increasingly integrated view of our changing Earth. Summit participants will look at how the international community can increase the sustainability and quality of observation networks and make the maximum possible volume of data freely accessible. For sound science to shape sound policy, leaders and other decision-makers require this fuller picture as an indispensable foundation of environmental decision-making.
For Additional Information Visit: www.earthobservations.org
U.S. Mission Photo by Dominique Nicolas
Sheila Malcolmson, Parliamentary Secretary for Environment, announces that British Columbia’s central coast, including the Great Bear Rainforest, is the focus of a unique partnership to rid the shoreline of marine debris.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020ENV0045-001613
Sheila Malcolmson, Parliamentary Secretary for Environment, announces that British Columbia’s central coast, including the Great Bear Rainforest, is the focus of a unique partnership to rid the shoreline of marine debris.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020ENV0045-001613
This world is too beautiful to be destroyed for our daily needs !!
On this World Environment day, I pledge to :
- Check and fix all leaking taps and pipes in my home.
- Avoid all electricity wastage by:
o Switch off electrical appliances when not in active use
o Put mobile/battery chargers off the plug point and not to leave appliances in standby mode to save the electricity from "vampire power".
o Switch off computer mointors at home/office when not in use.
- Avoid using vehicles when I can walk.
- Reduce usage of papers.
- Create awareness about conserving environment in people around me.
Conserve or Perish ... we are left with only two options now !!
Share your ideas/plans/actions for saving our Earth on this Environment day.
Dale Farm Team, Finalists at the Merseyside Environment Awards 2012
Dale Farm is a day centre for adults with learning disabilities, its ethos is to promote independence doing so through various aspects of horticulture. The site boasts a sensory garden with water features and pools. Visitors can also see organic vegetables being grown, whilst walking around the fields and polytunnels. Situated near Heswall Dales and the Wirral Country Park, Dale Farm has extensive views of the Welsh hills and is conveniently located for walkers who wish to rest in its tranquil surroundings. The Farm Shop sells organic vegetables, honey, perennial and bedding plants, all of which were grown on the farm.
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Child-friendly hall. Coat hooks are positioned at the child eye's level, that he can easily reach by himself. His shoes and hats in the separate basket are on the floor, so that they can be easily accessed.
I would love to hear what you think. Thanks!
Although Marujeando, is a word as a function of ruling and the environment that is said may be an offense or something pleasant. My intention is for this second that is no more than spend time in a way intranscendete having coffee or knitting, as the two protagonists of the picture, while talking fashion,, cleaning tips, recipes, decoration , crafts, travel, children and husbands, neighbors, aspirations and frustrations in the confidence that comes friendship and sharing time and the sun of this end of summer
Julie Lawson, Director of Trash Free Maryland, and Stiv Wilson, Campaign Director of The Story of Stuff Project, lead a research effort to collect microplastic samples from the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland on Sept. 4, 2015. The team used a manta trawl for the study, which sought to find out how much plastic waste is in the Chesapeake Bay, what kinds of plastic it is, and where it is coming from. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
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This meeting will be convened by ITU and involves regulators, policy‐makers, and representatives from industry and civil society to gain insight into how current consumer trends in terms of behavior and demand of services and applications are forecasted to develop, and how this will affect the required bandwidth capacities.
The session serves to allow top-executive industry representatives to present their global outlooks and to allow stakeholders to share their experiences and perspectives on how to jointly best address the issues and challenges raised by these outlooks. The session is driven by stakeholders’ contributions on the topic at hand.
Day 2
14 May 2013
ITU/ Claudio Montesano Casillas
The goal of integration should be to make the environment easy to use by offering the highest possible level of synergy between the elements that constitute the environment.
Sheila Malcolmson, Parliamentary Secretary for Environment, announces that British Columbia’s central coast, including the Great Bear Rainforest, is the focus of a unique partnership to rid the shoreline of marine debris.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020ENV0045-001613