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With increased globalization and a smaller world, money flows more easily and the flows have increased. Where aid once represented a majority of the funds from high income countries to developing countries, this has now been surpassed by investments and worker’s remittances, and these flows show no sign of slowing down – maybe pausing for an occasional downturn in the global economy. The question is when this will start show as a significant decrease in poverty.
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ENVIRONMENT-NEPAL: Slowly, Vulture Numbers Picking Up
KATHMANDU, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) - Dhan Bahadur Chaudhary, an ornithologist, grew up with vultures in his native Nawalparasi in western Nepal. He and his neighbours were used to seeing vultures flying overhead, feeding on the carcasses, and sunbathing near the rivers.
Rotary Club of London Luncheon The Chesterfield Hotel Mayfair with Her Excellency Dr Justina Mutale and Professor Tim Benton Director, Energy Environment and Resources Department Speaking on Climate Action for Peace United Nations International Day of Peace
This is an image that I 'shot from the hip' while walking through the crowd at the Comerica Cityfest this past weekend. My main goal at the time was to capture the man on the golf cart with the trash receptacle as he whizzed by. As to why – I don't know. It just seemed right.
It's funny to study the image after the fact and see the slice of action I captured without really composing the shot... the man with the trash receptacle seems calm and bemused as he navigates the crowd; what is he thinking of? The two women behind him seem to be pausing, as if they are looking out into the crowd, seeking additional companions they attended the festival with. The couple with the child behind them seem to be redetermining what direction to go. Are they leaving or thinking of heading in a direction that they have not yet explored? Or are they wishing they were elsewhere? What of the figures behind them... milling about and merging into the shapes of the vendor booths beyond...
And that perspective of the building in the background that fades into the hazy distance – it feels like a canvas backdrop on a sound stage from a motion picture during the golden era of Hollywood. So choice.
SHENAQO. July 2011 - Tusheti is one of the remotest highlands of Georgia. UNDP works in Tusheti to help preserve its unique ecosystem and promote sustainable and equal development in the region. UNDP assists environment-friendly tourism to create better opportunities to the local residents.
Zaur Gagoidze, guesthouse owner, in front of his house in Shenaqo.
July 2011
Photo: UNDP/David Khizanishvili
"Shared Space" is a tool that allows scenographers to create virtual sound spheres in any space in a museum. This new experience offers the public the possibility to merge more deeply with works of art. While wearing headphones, the visitor is at the center of every sound. Depending on their location in the museum, the visitor can focus on a specific sound, story, or sound texture. In this way, senses other than sight, may be aroused and stimulated.
South Sudan
Find out about UN Environment's work in Republic of South Sudan at:
web.unep.org/disastersandconflicts/where-we-work/republic-south-sudan
low-profile SRT–101 in situ, sporting a mint 85/1.7.
the surface is the one used for almost all "reflected" images, cf. Minolta v. the World or Seduced by the Evil Empire.
Nikon D90
AF Nikkor 35mm Æ’/2 D
ISO200; 1.6sec @ Æ’/8
The inauguration of a new solar power planet in the building of the "Tawasul School" in Establ Antar, implemented through the Egypt PV project.
The project is implemented by the Industrial Modernization Center (IMC) and the United Nations Development Programme in Egypt with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
ENVIRONMENT: For Trees, Against Monoculture
WINDHOEK, Sep 21, 2009 (IPS) - Growing demand for products like timber and biofuels is putting pressure on shrinking rainforests.
This week, One Planet looks into money and Mike visits Mark Boyle, who lives in a caravan in South-West England, who leads a money-less life.
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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The cards that children from Fund for Preservation of Wild Life and Cultural Assests made tell you 3 easy things how to protect the environment.
The Ministry of Environment, Protection of Nature and Sustainable Development of Cameroon (MINEPDED) in collaboration with the United Nation System in Cameroon, organized the official ceremony to mark the 2016 World Environment Day on Monday, 06 June 2016 at the Yaounde Conference Centre.
I thought about doing something big for the last day of the Challenge, and also because it is Earth Day, but then something that Hightouchmegastore wrote on her blog about the small things that we do are really what is going to make a difference, and I realized that this is what the Challenge is really about: we do make a difference in the small things we choose to do. Yes the big things are important (hell I've already given up driving for all intents and purposes) but the small things that we can continue to do beyond the EDC are what really matters. As a matter of fact all of my things I think I can keep doing.
Now as for sweeping, there are a couple of benefits: you don't waste water by hosing down the porch and secondly you cut down on vacuuming because not as much of the outside is tracked inside. Sweeping the porch, in fact, used to be a daily activity for our ancestors. I still recall that every morning my grandmother would go out and give the porch a once over. Why? So she didn't have to spend more time sweeping her carpet. Of course by the time I recall her doing this, she had a vacuum and it was simple for her, but old, and much more earth-friendly habits died hard with her.
My grandfather, as well, would regularly rake the yard for the same purposes. It was interesting whenever they came and visited: the yard was raked and the porches were swept.
I think I'll make it a part of my daily routine to sweep the porch.
Although pyrethrum is a natural insecticide, the other active contituent in this insect killer is piperonyl butoxide (PBO) which is harmful to aquatic organisms and may cause long term adverse effects in the aquatic environment.
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 great blue heron visits wetlands near 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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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.
Male wild turkeys have a dark, iridescent plumage, a tuft of feathers called a beard on the chest, and a bare red, blue or white head.
Above, a wild turkey resides at the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Va., on March 9, 2016. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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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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