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An osprey perches on a dilapidated piling near the Manchester Bridge on the James River in downtown Richmond, Va., on Aug. 13, 2019. Like many cities on the eastern seaboard, Richmond was established along the fall line, the area of geological transition between coastal plain and Piedmont, where rivers often have a steeper gradient and become too rocky for large vessels. Cities like Richmond became the terminus for ships carrying goods as far as they could upstream. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
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EM sites won the majority of awards given to DOE for their outstanding performance in the 2012 Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC). This Environmental Protection Agency initiative encourages federal facilities to buy greener electronics, lessen their impact during use and discard outdated equipment in an environmentally safe way.
If EM were a freestanding agency, it would rank second in total number of FEC awards received within the entire federal government.
Henk Brandon of Suriname Conservation Foundation introduced both films on Thursday morning, Feb. 11, 2016. Each school was presented with a copy of an SCF documentary for their school library. Students also won door prizes for answering questions during the presentation.
Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was in generally good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction (Figure 3). The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2019 - Visual Recording of the buildings interior by MRATHS. Be means of a LIDAR scan and photographs being taken. The exterior was mapped with a drone to allow a 3D Image of the building to be created via Photogrammetry. This was created in Autodesk Photo Recap.
2020 - Building demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
A recent report by UNEP and GRID Arendal, Protecting Arctic Biodiversity, highlights the four major areas relating the Arctic region and biodiversity that need strengthening and further funding. The primary arising issue is climate change and its effect on wildlife and ecosystems.
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Liming After many years of practice and improvement, its structure is getting perfect day by day.
For low consumption, low investment, environment friendly , small occupation area, and more efficient than the traditional mill, it is widely used in the field of metallurgy, building materials, chemical industry and mining to process powder. The series is used in grinding the non-flammable and non-explosive stuff which has the Moh’s hardness below 7, humidity less than 6%, such as gypsum, talc, calcite, limestone, marble, feldspar, barite, dolomite, granite, kaolin, bentonite, bauxite, iron ore etc., the final products change from 613 micron to 44 micron. Through the function of separator and blower, it can meet different customers’ demand.
Structure of Raymond Mill:
1. The whole plant is a vertical structure of strong systematic characteristic, so it occupies small area. From crushing of raw material to grinding and packing is an independent production system.
2. Compared with other milling plants, its passing ratio achieves 99%, this is what other mill can not reach.
3. Driving system of main frame adopts airtight gearing and pulley, drives smoothly and operates reliably.
4. Main parts of the whole plant are made from cast and steel of high quality. The technics is so subtly that insures the durability of whole plant.
5. The electric control system is centralized controlled, so the automaticity is high, no people are needed in the operating room.
Working Principle:
Firstly, raw material is crushed by jaw crusher to the size required, then the crushed materials are elevated into a hopper from which the material is transported through the electro-magnetic vibrating feeder, evenly and continuously into the grinding chamber for powder-processing. The rollers oscillate outward to press the ring because of the centrifugal force and the shovel scoops up the materials, send to the middle between ring and roller to accomplish the grind.
After this, the ground stuff are carried by the air from the blower into the separator for screening. The fine powers are blow into the cyclone collector and are poured out through the output-powder valve as the final products and the rough stuff after the screening will be recycled back into the grinding chamber for regrinding. The set’s airflow system is closely sealed up and circulated under condition of negative and positive pressure.
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South Africa.
Eastern Cape
Addo Elephant National Park
The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger of the two species of African elephant.
Both it and the African forest elephant have usually been classified as a single species, known simply as the African elephant, but recent evidence has seen the forest elephant classified as a distinct species (although this status is not conclusively accepted due to a gradual reduction in elephant size between savanna and forest environments). Some authorities still consider the currently available evidence as insufficient for splitting African elephants into two species
Premier Christy Clark and eight BC ministers are promoting sound economic development and fiscal responsibility combined with world-leading actions on climate change and environmental stewardship at the 24th annual Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) Summit in Whistler.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2014/07/bc-highlights-job-creation...
An aerial view taken by Greenpeace on September 19, 2006 shows steam rising and mud flowing out of the central exploratory oil well operated by local company Lapindo Brantas in Sidoarjo in Indonesia's East Java province. Environmental group Greenpeace on September 27, 2006 dumped 700 kg (1,540 lb) of mud at Indonesia's welfare ministry in protest over the government's handling of a mudflow disaster that has swamped four villages over an area larger than Monaco, displacing more than 10,000 people. Lapindo Brantas has denied the mud is directly linked to the drilling operation. NO ARCHIVES NO SALES REUTERS/Vinai/Greenpeace/Handout (INDONESIA)
Forested mountains are seen from the Blue Suck Falls Trail at Douthat State Park in Alleghany County, Va., on May 12, 2018. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A green infrastructure project at Brian Donnelley Studio in Lancaster, Pa., features native plants, shrubs and trees on June 14, 2019. The project , funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, removed a large expanse of impervious pavement and replaced it with a bioretention cell extending around the building, managing roughly half a million gallons of stormwater yearly. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Monday April 30, 2018. Protestors from Global Justice Now demonstrate outside the Home Office in London demanding an end to the Hostile Environment policy, ahead of parliamentary debate on the Windrush scandal. Photo: David Mirzoeff/Global Justice Now
Amsterdam, 14 april 2016 / Amsterdam, April 14th 2016.
Ministers van Milieu arriveren in het Europa gebouw in Amsterdam met staatssecretaris Sharon Dijksma
Ministers of Environment arrive at the Europe building in Amsterdam with Dutch minister Sharon Dijksma. Foto: Rijksoverheid/Valerie Kuypers – Photograph: Dutch Government/Valerie Kuypers
In partnership with Greener Ethiopia (GE) and Forum for Environment (FFE), Trees for the Future (TREES) hosted a World Environment Day 2012 Celebration in Konso. Around 500 women, men and youth from five communities participated in the event. Activities during the day included a tour of one of our seedling nurseries for government reps and partners, speeches by tribal elders, tree planting in a nearby watershed, traditional dances, and environmental-themed songs and skits, written by TREES'/GE's Gocha Nursery Manager and performed by youth green clubs that were established in 2011 by TREES/GE. FFE provided funding for planting tools to be distributed to TREES/GE target communities for their seedling nurseries and training centers. The day was wrapped up with a feast of kurkufa (a local dish made of Moringa stenopetala) and cheka, a local brew made from corn.
The Matthew Henson Earth Conservation Center gets a new coat of paint in Southeast Washington, D.C., on Feb. 13, 2018. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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This Cretaeous coastal environment was created by artist Karen Carr for the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. For more information see www.smuresearch.com.
Technologies for Sustainable Built Environments (TSBE) industrial doctorate centre a
annual conference 2013, held at Henley Business School, University of Reading, on 2 July 2013
A song sparrow visits goldenrod in bloom along a trail mowed through the 69-acre property of Tina and Jeff Gleim in York County, Pa., on Oct. 7, 2020. In their retirement, the couple has converted much of their land to native plant gardens, and fostered wildlife in other ways, such as planting trees, building bird and bat boxes. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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These are some of the winning submissions of a photography contest that is helping to advocate for the protection of biodiversity in FYR Macedonia.
Read more about biodiversity in Europe and Central Asia
Photo by Stefan Petrovski
Distribution of the world's blue carbon sinks (seagrasses).
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Riccardo Pravettoni
The 2019 Chesapeake Watershed Forum is held at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, W.Va., on Nov. 16, 2019. The annual conference brings together environmental professionals from across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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3D rendering of a house in construction, connected to a computer mouse, on top of blueprints, with and energy efficiency rating chart and a safety helmet
● Op welke wijze sluit de door jou gekozen content aan bij je ‘boodschap’ en de
doelgroep?
Onze doelgroep is groot het zijn namelijk de mensen die vlees eten en een auto in bezit hebben. Grote deels van deze mensen hebben geen idee hoeveel de bio-industrie dus bijvoorbeeld koeien uitstoten aan broeikasgassen. Er word veel gesproken dat onze transport sector de grootste problemen veroorzaakt met de broeikasgassen uitstoot terwijl we ondertussen wel goedkoop vlees eten. Het filmpje lijkt in eerste instantie over auto’s/ transport sector te gaan terwijl het eigenlijk over de bio-industrie gaat.
● Op welke wijze sluiten de door jou gekozen technologische middelen aan bij
het verwachte gebruik door de doelgroep?
Ik wil omdat dit best een verassend en verwarrend onderwerp kan zijn de mensen laten verwarren. In principe denk je dat je gewoon ondertiteling krijgt omdat het filmpje in het engels word gesproken. Maar de ondertiteling en het beeld materiaal passen op een gegeven moment helemaal niet meer bij wat er word verteld. Deze mensen kunnen dus eigenlijk 2 verschillende verhalen beluisteren waarvan 1 het meest duidelijk word beschreven namelijk dat de bio-industrie meer uitstoot en gevolgen heeft dan de transport sector.
● Op welke wijze sluit jouw remix aan bij de strategische keuzes en motivaties
van de door jou gekozen doelgroep?
Ik wil dat mensen er over na gaan denken en bewust gaan worden wat de gevolgen zijn als we te veel vlees blijven eten. We zijn zo bezig met duurzamere auto’s terwijl we met minder vlees eten veel meer zouden kunnen verbeteren met onze milieu. Hopelijk lukt dat met deze film.
Door: Jamie de Ronde
A2C
Blocking ditches to raise water level in Kamanos bog, Tajikistan
“After the project, a great proportion of nature management activities is being implemented by local farmers. The project gave them the inspiration and tools to manage the wetlands of Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve and to participate in rural development
programmes. Together, we improved about 117 ha of
important habitats just in 2009."
Photo from Library of Nature Heritage Fund
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