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Official introduction: The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is the result of a collaborative agreement between the Governments of China and Singapore to jointly develop a socially harmonious, environmentally friendly and resource-conserving city in China. Designed to be practical, replicable and scalable, the Tianjin Eco-city will demonstrate the determination of both countries in tackling environmental protection, resource and energy conservation, and sustainable development, and serve as a model for sustainable development for other cities in China.
Anne Kuriakose, Senior Social Development Specialist at the World Bank discussing with Juliet Kabera, Director General of the Ministry of Environment, Rwanda, and delegates during Global Gender Summit 2019 - Climate investment funds Event at Kigali Convention Centre, Rwanda on November 26, 2019.
A team from the D.C. Department of Energy and the Environment (DOEE) conducts spring habitat sampling for invertebrates at the site of a stream restoration on Pope Branch in Southeast Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2019. The entire watershed of 1.6-mile Pope Branch falls inside the District of Columbia and feeds into the Anacostia River. Almost 5,000 linear feet of the stream was restored in 2016. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Expert conference “The New Student: Flexible Learning Paths and Future Learning Environments” on 20 September 2018. Picturing Vice-Rector Christa Schnabl (left), President Stéphane Lauwick (second left), Vice-Rector Karin Riegler (third left), Emeritus Professor Ronald Barnett (fourth left) and Vice President Robert Napier (fifth left). Copyright BKA/Regina Aigner
Larry Unruh applies herbicide to the stumps of invasive species in Beaubien Forest Preserve. The herbicide kills the targeted plant's roots, leaving behind organic matter to help stabilize the soil against erosion.
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The site of a stream restoration along almost 5,000 feet of Pope Branch attracts an eastern phoebe in Southeast Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2019. The entire watershed of 1.6-mile Pope Branch falls inside the District of Columbia and feeds into the Anacostia River. The stream was restored in 2016. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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מנקים את הבית לכבוד פסח? גם את החוף צריך לנקות!
כולכם מוזמנים למסע ניקיון החופים של עמותת צלול בשיתוף חברת בילבונג, שייערך בין ה-14 ל-18 במרץ מעכו בצפון ועד אשדוד בדרום.
חופי ישראל שייכים לכולנו, אז בואו ועזרו לנו לשמור עליהם נקיים - למעננו ולמען הסביבה.
Passover cleaning has begun!
Zalul, in partnership with Billabong Surf Company, will lead a week-long beach clean-up tour beginning next Sunday, March 14, 2010.
"Beach Clean Up Tour"
Before Passover and the beginning of the bathing season, Zalul and Billabong will lead a beach clean-up from the north to the south called the "Beach Clean Up Tour"
Zalul's goal is to raise public awareness about the importance of keeping the beaches clean so that in the future the public will do their part as well to keep them clean throughout the bathing season.
The beach cleanup campaign is a direct continuation of the successful campaign begun by Zalul and Billabong last year, which involved hundreds of volunteers and collected dozens of tons of garbage from the beaches of Israel.
Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith at Sen. John Cornyn's keynote address on "Energy and the Environment" at The Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 24, 2011.
GREAT DISMAL SWAMP CANAL, N.C. -- More than 325 people participated in the City of Chesapeake’s 9th Annual Paddle for the Border event Saturday, May 5, 2012. And what better place to celebrate the spirit of America’s Great Outdoors then at the nation’s oldest continually operating canal - the dismal swamp. Paddlers launched at 9 a.m. from the Dismal Swamp State Park in South Mills, N.C. and crossed to Virginia border to end at the Dismal Swamp Boat Ramp at Ballahack Road on the Dismal Swamp Canal Trail. (U.S. Army Photo/Pam Spaugy)
Assemblage - acrylic paint, metal fuel lines, cowrie shells, scallop shells, satellite dish
Dimensions: W 32.5 in. x H 22.5 in. x D 4 in.
Thousands of separate oil spills during four decades of oil extraction have turned the Niger Delta into a crude soaked wasteland, fouling water sources, contaminating fish, polluting the ground and air and reducing life expectancy. No cleanup in sight.
UNDP together with a local NGO “Ekosfera” Social – Ecological Center observed the World Environment Day. An interactive trip to the center in Gala village of Baku was organized to raise awareness on environmental protection and greening and familiarize participants with UNDP’s role in supporting the national efforts.
In the framework of the event, UNDP representatives talked about the results achieved through the joint projects implemented in Azerbaijan. Participants were informed that UNDP’s current projects on Sustainable Land and Forest Management, Summer Pasture Management, Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action for low-carbon end-use and Marine Ecosystem projects brought sustainable practices into the local managing tradition in the country.
Followed by a Q&A session, participants were given a tour of the Center, the first ecological-ethnographic and archeological reserve in Azerbaijan. This center includes an organic demonstration farm (sheep breeding, plantation of cereals, fruit trees), traditional craft workshops (carpet making and felt), organic and craft eco-product shops. Participants learned about traditional methodologies in agriculture, agro-biodiversity conservation, obtaining of naturally pure products, and had an opportunity to observe the forgotten weaving culture of carpets.
Symbolizing a deeper commitment to environmental protection, a tree planting ceremony was held at the end of the trip.
World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.. It is hosted and commemorated annually the week of June 5.
A delegation from Rwanda is attending the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Madrid, Spain. The delegation is led by Minister of Environment, Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya and includes representatives from government, the private sector, civil society and young Rwandans.
The COP25 aims to raise global ambition to address climate change and develop a robust rulebook to govern the Paris Agreement.
The Rwanda Green Fund is represented by the CEO, Hubert Ruzibiza and a number of team members.
Central Marshes
Water pools sustain the water buffalo in an otherwise parched marshland landscape.
The purpose of the Ramsar Advisory Mission in 2017 was to promote cooperation between Iran and Iraq on the sustainable management of the Mesopotamian marshes.
2017 © Hassan Partow/UN Environment
Millbrook Marsh Nature Center is seen in State College, Pa., on April 11, 2018. Millbrook Marsh is a 62-acre park featuring a two-acre calcareous fen, a rare habitat fed by groundwater seeping through limestone bedrock, creating alkaline soil conditions that support specialized plants. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Photographs of "Plant a tree this monsoon" drive event at Satya Marg 28-July-2011 Follow us on www.facebook.com/greenleapdelhi
The Lockheed Martin HC-130J Hercules The Combat King II is the U.S. Air Force's only dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform and is flown by the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and Air Combat Command (ACC). This C-130J variation specializes in tactical profiles and avoiding detection and recovery operations in austere environments. The HC-130J replaces HC-130P/Ns as the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. It is an extended-range version of the C-130J Hercules transport. Its mission is to rapidly deploy to execute combatant commander directed recovery operations to austere airfields and denied territory for expeditionary, all weather personnel recovery operations to include airdrop, airland, helicopter air-to-air refueling, and forward area ground refueling missions. When tasked, the aircraft also conducts humanitarian assistance operations, disaster response, security cooperation/aviation advisory, emergency aeromedical evacuation, and noncombatant evacuation operations.
Features
Modifications to the HC-130J have improved navigation, threat detection and countermeasures systems. The aircraft fleet has a fully-integrated inertial navigation and global positioning systems, and night vision goggle, or NVG, compatible interior and exterior lighting. It also has forward-looking infrared, radar and missile warning receivers, chaff and flare dispensers, satellite and data-burst communications, and the ability to receive fuel inflight via a Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation (UARRSI).
The HC-130J can fly in the day; however, crews normally fly night at low to medium altitude levels in contested or sensitive environments, both over land or overwater. Crews use NVGs for tactical flight profiles to avoid detection to accomplish covert infiltration/exfiltration and transload operations. To enhance the probability of mission success and survivability near populated areas, crews employ tactics that include incorporating no external lighting or communications, and avoiding radar and weapons detection.
Drop zone objectives are done via personnel drops and equipment drops. Rescue bundles include illumination flares, marker smokes and rescue kits. Helicopter air-to-air refueling can be conducted at night, with blacked out communication with up to two simultaneous helicopters. Additionally, forward area refueling point operations can be executed to support a variety of joint and coalition partners.
Background
The HC-130J is a result of the HC/MC-130 recapitalization program and replaces Air Combat Command's aging HC-130P/N fleet as the dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. The 71st and 79th Rescue Squadrons in Air Combat Command, the 550th Special Operations Squadron in Air Education and Training Command, the 920th Rescue Group in Air Force Reserve Command and the 106th Rescue Wing, 129th RQW and 176th Wing in the Air National Guard will operate the aircraft.
First flight was 29 July 2010, and the aircraft will serve the many roles and missions of the HC-130P/Ns. It is a modified KC-130J aircraft designed to conduct personnel recovery missions, provide a command and control platform, in-flight-refuel helicopters and carry supplemental fuel for extending range or air refueling.
In April 2006, the personnel recovery mission was transferred back to Air Combat Command at Langley AFB, Va. From 2003 to 2006, the mission was under the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Previously, HC-130s were assigned to ACC from 1992 to 2003. They were first assigned to the Air Rescue Service as part of Military Airlift Command.
General Characteristics
Primary function: Fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform
Contractor: Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Power Plant: Four Rolls Royce AE2100D3 turboprop engines
Thrust: 4,591 Propeller Shaft Horsepower, each engine
Wingspan: 132 feet, 7 inches (40.4 meters)
Length: 97 feet, 9 inches (29.57 meters)
Height: 38 feet, 9 inches (11.58 meters)
Operating Weight: 89,000 pounds (40,369 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 164,000 pounds (74,389 kilograms)
Fuel Capacity: 61,360 pounds (9,024 gallons)
Payload: 35,000 pounds (15,875 kilograms)
Speed: 316 knots indicated air speed at sea level
Range: beyond 4,000 miles (3,478 nautical miles)
Ceiling: 33,000 feet (10,000 meters)
Armament: countermeasures/flares, chaff
Basic Crew: Three officers (pilot, co-pilot, combat system officer) and two enlisted loadmasters
Unit Cost: $66 million (fiscal 2010 replacement cost)
Initial operating capability: 2013
Visitor Livia Drechsler films a great blue heron while approaching it at Neabsco Creek Boardwalk in Woodbridge, Va., on Sept. 20, 2020. The boardwalk opened in 2019 and offers a 0.75-mile walk across acres of wetlands. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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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
The site of a stream restoration along almost 5,000 feet of Pope Branch attracts an eastern gray squirrel in Southeast Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2019. The entire watershed of 1.6-mile Pope Branch falls inside the District of Columbia and feeds into the Anacostia River. The stream was restored in 2016. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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We set up shop at The Effra Social Club in Brixton, with lots of you eagerly waiting to repair and restore your electrical gear.
I hope we could help :)
Photo by Heather Agyepong www.flickr.com/photos/heathaphotography/
Spatterdock grows in a pond at Climbers Run Nature Preserve in Lancaster County, Pa., on May 21, 2018. The 83-acre preserve owned by Lancaster County Conservancy offers roughly three miles of trails and features in-stream restorations supporting habitat for native brook trout. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Day 3 - Mystery Event Level 2. The Level 2 Mystery Event of the 2014 USARPAC Warrior Challenge featured was held at the Medical Simulation Training Center. Events included evaluating a casualty, performing first aid to an extremity, performing first aid in an open abdominal wound and a 9-line MEDEVAC request. The event included an outdoor trauma lane as well as an indoor blood trauma lane. Competitors had to perform tactical medical care in an outdoor environment, as well as treating casualties in an indoor environment with combat sound effects, thus creating a stressful environment. (Photo by Spc. Nikko-Angelo Matos, 311th Signal Command Public Affairs)
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
Atlantic ribbed mussels attach to marsh grass roots at York River State Park in James City County, Va., on Nov. 18, 2018. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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