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Ireland Green Campus - Trinity College Dublin Raise their Green Flag April 2013
PRESS RELEASE (issued by An Taisce)
Trinity reduces water consumption by 25%
The programme is very strongly student led and many achievements have taken place at Trinity College including:
• A 25% reduction in water consumption (due to leakage elimination, behaviour changes and rainwater harvesting)
•Stable energy efficiency despite large building projects and increasing student numbers
•1,200 trees on campus with increasing numbers planted each year
•Green roofs to promote ecology and water retention
•‘Green Week’ has become one of the College’s largest events
•Green-Campus included in staff and student induction
•Reviews of waste, energy, water, travel patterns and biodiversity have been undertaken and are being monitored
Trinity joins a number of pioneering Irish third level institutions: University College Cork, GMIT Castlebar, Coláiste Dhúlaigh, Coolock, Dundalk IT and Ballsbridge College of Further Education that have been awarded the Green Flag.
Speaking at the Flag Raising Ceremony the Director of An Taisce’s Environmental Education Unit Patricia Oliver, said: “It will be great to see the Green Flag flying at Trinity particularly as it attracts a footfall of around one million people per year due to its city centre location and heritage attractions such as the Book of Kells.
“This in itself can create challenges as regards litter management and maintenance. Trinity College Dublin has made great strides with the Green Campus programme. However, the award today is only a milestone on a continuous journey. The award will have to be renewed and updated on a regular basis.”
Trinity College Dublin Provost, Dr. Patrick Prendergast said: “We are delighted to be awarded the Green Flag for Trinity’s green campus. The environmental and recreational benefits provided by our campus in its city-centre location are of immense importance for our students, staff and the general public, and we hope to preserve and develop it.”
The Green-Campus award is overseen internationally by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). FEE President Jan Eriksen said: "We are delighted that Trinity College Dublin has achieved the Green Flag. We have been following its progress and are aware of the challenges the college overcame to achieve this result.
“Now the challenge is to maintain, augment and build on its Green-Campus status. We are more than confident that Trinity College will be able to meet this challenge, continue to gain from it, and indeed inspire others."
Further Information
Ronan Cavanagh, Cavanagh Communications: (086) 317 9731
Deirdre O’Carroll, Green-Campus Office, An Taisce: (01) 400 2211
Caoimhe Ní Lochlainn, TCD Press Officer, Communications Office Trinity College Dublin, (087) 995 8014.
Note for Editors
Green-Campus is an international environmental education programme, environmental management system and award scheme that promotes long term, whole college action for the environment. It is broadly similar to the Green-Schools programme and available to all third level institutions (colleges, universities etc.). Both programmes are initiatives of FEE (The Foundation for Environmental Education) and in both cases successful applicants receive the Green-Flag award. Green-Campus has been developed by An Taisce in Ireland for the FEE international network. Green-Schools began as a pilot project in 1994. Currently, over 40,000 schools from 47 countries in Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania are participating in the programme and almost 14,000 have been awarded the Green Flag.
In Ireland, Green Schools is operated by An Taisce in partnership with Local Authorities and is supported by the Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport, the Department of Environment, Community & Local Government and sponsored by Repak, Trócaire and the Wrigley Company Ltd. Currently, over 3,650 primary, secondary and special schools in Ireland are participating in the programme and over 2,500 schools have been awarded the Green-Flag.
Girl Scout Troop #41280 from Bethel, Ohio
Title - "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle....Make a difference one piece at a time."
Dream Theme - Conservation
Who Participated?
Alex Fridel, Alyson Bauer, Brook Jones, Cara Bowen, Destanie Haney, Fiona Leahr, Hannah Davis, Julia Bowen, Lauren Abner, Libby Richards, Lovely Michel, Summer Fields, Deborah Davis, Denae Bowen, & Sharee Manning
Techniques Used & Materials Used: Plastic canvas & yarn
Tell us the story behind your panel:
Our Girl Scout Troop has been learning about the Great Pacific Garbage
Patch and how long it takes various materials to break down.
Through this visible reminder, we will learn ways that we can make a
difference in our community one piece at a time. We hope this will make a difference in how our community
thinks about the containers they use everyday.
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★What IS THE INTERNATIONAL FIBER COLLABORATIVE?
As the leading voice for collaborative public art projects around the world, the International Fiber Collaborative is dedicated to promoting understanding and appreciation of contemporary art & craft through educational experiences. We are committed to developing vital education programs that elevate, expand, modernize and enhance the image of collaboration and education today.
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The Dream Rocket Team is collecting nearly 8,000 artworks from participants around the globe. The artwork will be assembled together to create a massive cover in which will wrap a 37 story Saturn V Moon Rocket at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. We will also be displaying submitted artwork in dozens of national venues prior to the wrapping of the Saturn V. Additionally, we are posting images of submitted artwork & their stories on our Website, Flickr, and Facebook.The Dream Rocket project uses the Saturn V Moon Rocket as a symbolism of universal values of the human spirit. Optimism, hope,
caring for our natural resources, scientific exploration, and harnessing technological advancements for a better quality of life while safeguarding our communities, are all common desires across national and international boundaries. Participants are able to express and learn about these values through this creative collaboration. With the completion of each artwork, participants are asked to write an essay explaining their artwork, and the dream theme in which they chose.
★How can I Participate & Have my Artwork Displayed?
The Dream Rocket project would like to challenge you to ‘Dare to Dream’. To dream about your future and the future of our world through dream themes such as health, community, conservation, science, technology, space, peace, and so on. We would like you to use your selected Dream Theme to express, explore, and create your vision on your section of the wrap. We hope that you are able to express and learn through this creative collaboration. With the completion of each artwork, you are asked to write a brief essay explaining your artwork, and the dream theme in which you chose.
“The Saturn V is the ideal icon to represent a big dream. This rocket was designed and built as a collaboration of nearly half-a-million people and allowed our human species to venture beyond our world and stand on ANOTHER - SURELY one of the biggest dreams of all time. ENABLING THE DREAMS of young people to touch this mighty rocket sends a powerful message in conjunction with creating an educational curriculum to engage students to embrace the power of learning through many important subjects”
-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, New York
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The British Columbia government will complete construction of the Site C hydroelectric dam, saying that to do otherwise would put British Columbians on the hook for an immediate and unavoidable $4-billion bill – with nothing in return – resulting in rate hikes or reduced funds for schools, hospitals and important infrastructure.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017PREM0135-002039
GB Railfreight Class 92, 92043 powers south through the early morning fog at Acton Bridge with the Caledonian Sleeper Up Highlander (1M16) bound for London Euston.
A revised timetable was in operation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with only the Inverness and Glasgow portions running and splitting/joining at Edinburgh to form one train in each direction on the WCML. 92043 had also worked the Glasgow-Edinburgh portion (1C16) prior to working 1M16 from Waverley.
Obesity is a very serious problem that is growing in the people. Most of the people are adopting healthy habits to reduce their weight without any effect on their health. Sometimes, people prefer to take pills that may do magic for them to lose pounds, but these are not much more effective. Sometimes, these pills may produce negative side effects. You can get very simple health and fitness tips from the fitness experts.
Following the post-election crisis of 2010-2011, the European Commission has encouraged the establishment of a partnership to facilitate a transition between humanitarian and development aid in support of Côte d’Ivoire’s efforts to restore social services to its people. ECHO’s aid supports the government’s policy of free healthcare for children and pregnant women in order to reduce the high rate of illness and preventable deaths, but also the improvement of food security and social cohesion in areas affected by the conflict. ©EC/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie
Former Anchor Hocking building in Clarksburg, WV. See the attached photo of what it used to look like.
Object Details: Messier 38 (aka The Starfish Cluster) is an open star cluster consisting of about 100 young stars approximately 220 million years old. Located roughly 4200 light-years from Earth, it spans nearly 25 light-years in diameter. The wide-field image on left also shows the smaller nearby cluster NGC 1907, which lies approximately 4500 light-years away and contains about 30 stars estimated to be 500 million years old. Although they formed in different parts of our Milky Way galaxy, simulations of their three-dimensional movement through space indicate the possibility of a relatively recent close encounter (i.e. a 'fast fly-by') of these two open star clusters. Located in the constellation of Auriga and glowing at magnitude 7.4, M38 spans 21 arc-minutes in our sky (i.e. 2/3's the diameter of the full moon) and is easily visible in binoculars. It's young bright stars can appear dazzling in a telescope from a dark site on a cold, crisp and clear winter's night!
Image Details: The attached were taken by Jay Edwards at the HomCav Observatory as test images (of simultaneous imaging) early on the morning of Oct. 19, 2018 as I awaited the rise of a comet. It is a composite of two images taken through (left) an 80mm f/6 apochromatic refractor (Orion ED80T CF) with a 0.85X field flatterner / focal reducer; and (right) a vintage 1970 8-in, f/7 Criterion newtonian reflector, connected simultaneously to twin Canon 700D (t5i) DSLRs. Each image is a stack of short exposures consisting of slightly less than an hour of total exposure time (not accounting for darks, flats & bias frames). The scopes were tracked on a Losmandy G-11 mount running a Gemini 2 control system, and guided using a ZWO ASI290MC planetary camera / auto-guider in a Celestron 80mm short-tube refractor, controlled by PHD2. The overall composite has been resized down to HD resolution and the bit depth lowered to 8 bits per channel to reduce the file size.
Following the post-election crisis of 2010-2011, the European Commission has encouraged the establishment of a partnership to facilitate a transition between humanitarian and development aid in support of Côte d’Ivoire’s efforts to restore social services to its people. ECHO’s aid supports the government’s policy of free healthcare for children and pregnant women in order to reduce the high rate of illness and preventable deaths, but also the improvement of food security and social cohesion in areas affected by the conflict. ©EC/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie
Village Ð Alikia, Block-Chandanpur CHS, Dist-Puri, Odisha, INDIA..Namita Barol along with her child Lovely Barol, two months child, waiting to be immunized after Purnachandra Sabata, 44, an autorickshaw driver, delivered cold chain boxes of vaccines to Anganwadi centre. Every Wednesday, Purnachandra Saba, delivers boxes of vaccines to anganwadi centres.Immunization is one of the most cost effective public health interventions, preventing around 2 million child deaths each year worldwide, and IndiaÕs Immunization Program is the largest in world with respect to the quantity of vaccines used and the number of beneficiaries. Here, Routine Immunization (RI) saves the lives of 400,000 children annually. In OdishaÕs 30 districts and 314 blocks, it is not easy for health workers to reach a population of 4.1 crore. With 30% of the areas difficult to reach, 22% tribal population, 48% people in the BPL category and 17% schedule cast population, Odisha has been one of the most challenges states for them in terms of geography and demography. Despite these odds, during 2013-14, the state provided immunization services at a cost of Rs 30 crore to 8,54,619 children between 0-1 years and 9,40,081 pregnant women to prevent seven diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles and Hepatitis B. In addition, vitamin A is also administered to children. The current level of full immunization coverage is 62.3% for children (AHS 2011-12), officials say. Since 2009, the program has manifested itself in the Teeka Express, where participation of civil society, NGOs, porters, rickshaw drivers and volunteers strengthen the vaccine delivery logistics. This system has been implemented in 280 out of the 314 blocks of the state, and has reduced vaccine shortage, improved vaccine quality, improved timeliness of reporting, ensured regularization of immunization in hard to reach areas and improved immunization waste management. .
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The Bureau of Land Management utilizes goats to help reduce fuel loads, slow shrub encroachment and decrease some of the invasive plants in Fort Ord National Monument.
Photo by Este Stifel, BLM.
One option for reducing greenhouse gas buildup in the atmosphere is storing it deep underground. Laboratory experiments confirm that carbon dioxide is effectively trapped when injected into basalt formations.
In this photo: Manager, Wayne Martin
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This small area of nebulosity sits not far from two more well-known targets, NGC 1499 (the California nebula) and M45, the Pleiades. This was the first time I had imaged NGC 1579 and it was a nice surprise to discover that as well as the nebula, there is also clearly a surrounding faint dark nebula, as the volume of stars immediately surrounding the nebula is far less than in the surrounding region. Next time I may give it a longer session to see what else is lurking there.
Peter
HA = 5x10minutes
Equipment:
Atik 460EX mono CCD, HA filter, 0.75 reducer, 1309mm triplet APO, EQ8 mount.
The original to this image was a nice, but not truly remarkable portrait. Reduction sometimes works wonders ...
ECHO’s partner Caritas manages the provision of nursing care services to the elderly living in the Dbayeh camp in Northern Beirut, the only Christian Palestinian camp in Lebanon.
In the photo, an old man takes a stroll down this quiet street in the late afternoon. He is being supported by Caritas nurses at home until he regains his mobility.
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Le partenaire d'ECHO, Caritas, gère les soins infirmiers prodigués aux personnes âgées vivant dans le camp de Dbayeh, au nord de Beyrouth. Il s'agit du seul camp palestinien chrétien au Liban.
Photo : un vieil homme se promène dans une rue tranquille en fin d'après-midi. Il bénéficie de soins à domicile d'infirmiers de Caritas qui l'aident à retrouver sa mobilité.
© EU 2012 Photo credits: EC/ECHO/Dina Baslan
OurDailyChallenge Taped
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. These are the three prime tenants of waste reduction so when the garbage collector broke my recycling bin about two months after buying it, what else was there to do but repair it by taping up the cracked corner. (Is this the reuse aspect?) Any way, it has been retaped about four times over the last six years so its life has certainly been extended. So a bit of tape on my blue box gives me a nice warm green feeling.
On April 3rd, 2012, Mr. Douglas Williams, Canada's Head of Aid in Afghanistan, participated in World Tuberculosis (TB) Day in the company of Dr. Suraya Dalil, Afghanistan's Minister of Public Health (MoPH), Dr. Sima Samar, Chair of Stop TB Partnership, and representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO), Afghan Red Crescent Society, and international community. In his remarks, Mr. Williams stressed the remarkable achievements made by the Ministry of Public Health, in partnership with the WHO, to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis in Afghanistan. He also underlined Canada's continued support for control and prevention, particularly among Afghan women and children. Since 2008, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has provided almost $8 million to the National Tuberculosis Control Program in Afghanistan, making Canada one of the largest bilateral donors to TB control in the country.
Le 3 avril 2012, M. Douglas Williams, chef de l'aide canadienne en Afghanistan, a participé à la Journée mondiale de lutte contre la tuberculose en compagnie du Dr Suraya Dalil, ministre afghan de la Santé publique (MSP), du Dr Sima Samar, présidente du Partenariat Halte à la tuberculose, et des représentants de l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS), du Croissant-Rouge afghan, et la communauté internationale. Dans ses remarques, M. Williams a souligné les réalisations remarquables faites par le ministère de la Santé Publique, en partenariat avec l'OMS, afin de réduire l'incidence de la tuberculose en Afghanistan. Il a également souligné le soutien continu du Canada pour le contrôle et la prévention, en particulier chez les femmes et les enfants afghans. Depuis 2008, l'Agence canadienne de développement international (ACDI) a fourni près de 8 millions de dollars au Programme national de lutte antituberculeuse en Afghanistan, faisant du Canada l'un des principaux bailleurs de fonds bilatéraux dans la lutte antituberculeuse en Afghanistan.
Governor O'Malley gives remarks at reducing violence against women and children press conference by Tom Nappi at Arnold, Maryland
Governor O'Malley gives remarks at reducing violence against women and children press conference by Tom Nappi at Arnold, Maryland
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There were so many shooting stars even when shooting for this picture, but hardly to see. One longer shooting star is marked on the bottom in the middle. Next time I shouldn't go with 11mm for motivs like this. Even though 20 mins far from Berlin the dome of smog above Berlin is irritating the lower part of the milkyway ... but maybe it's not even the milky way, just Smog ;)
Due to the lack of a shining moon the forest were lightened with a strong LED.
Vertical Pano from three images, each 46sec, so the impact of moving stars is reduced even more.
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Paddy in Kuttanad. Our boat driver gave us some gyan about the paddy that we saw. Only the higher lying fields like this one gets sowed in June for the second crop. Also in some fields like this one the whole process of making seed beds and transplanting them is now abandoned to reduce cost. Instead the whole field gets sowed and after a month and few days of growth plants are dragged from more dense areas to empty areas for uniform distribution.
With hundreds of lives being lost to drug overdoses each year, Delaware will hold a Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 29, to help reduce the risk of prescription medications being diverted for misuse. Sens. Tom Carper and Chris Coons joined Attorney General Matt, DHSS Secretary Dr. Kara Odom Walker, Division of Public Health Director Dr. Karyl Rattay, DEA Assistant Special Agent Shawn Ellerman and Walgreens Regional Healthcare Director Jessica Puckett Beasley for Monday’s Drug Take-Back Day announcement at the Walgreens pharmacy in the Fairfax Shopping Center near Wilmington. Dr. Walker praised Walgreens for being the first private Delaware retailer to install safe medicine disposal boxes. Six of Delaware’s 21 permanent medicine drop-off locations are in Walgreens pharmacies. The remaining 15 permanent boxes are located in local law enforcement agencies.
Delawareans can discard their expired or unused medications at locations statewide between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday:
New Castle County
•Daniel S. Frawley Stadium, 801 Shipyard Drive, Wilmington
•Delaware City Police Department, 407 Clinton St., Delaware City
•New Castle County Airport, 151 N. DuPont Highway, New Castle
•Paul J. Sweeney Public Safety Building, 3601 N. DuPont Highway, New Castle
•Wilmington VA Medical Center, 1601 Kirkwood Highway, Wilmington
•Shipley Manor Nursing Home, 2723 Shipley Road, Wilmington
•Christiana Care Surgical Center, 4755 Ogletown Stanton Road, Newark
•University of Delaware – Laurel Hall, 282 The Green, Newark
•Delaware State Police Troop 2, 100 La Grange Ave., Newark
•Newark Police Department, 220 South Main St., Newark (permanent collection site)
•Walgreens, 1120 Pulaski Highway, Bear (permanent collection site)
•Walgreens, 6317 Limestone Road, Hockessin (permanent collection site)
•Walgreens, 2119 Concord Pike, Wilmington (permanent collection site)
Kent County
•Atlantic Apothecary, 103. S. Dupont Blvd., Suite 2, Smyrna
•Cheswold Police Department, 691 Main St., Cheswold
•Delaware State Police Troop 3, 3759 S. State St., Camden
•Heritage at Dover Assisted Living, 1203 Walker Road, Dover
•Walgreens, 1001 Forrest Ave., Dover (permanent collection site)
•Felton Police Department, 24 East Sewell St., Felton (permanent collection site)
•Milford Police Department, 400 N.E. Front St., Milford (permanent collection site)
Sussex County
•Dagsboro Police Department, 33134 Main St., Dagsboro
•Delaware State Police Troop 4, 23652 Shortly Road, Georgetown
•City of Lewes Board of Public Works, 129 Schley Ave., Lewes
•Delaware State Police Troop 7, 18006 Coastal Highway, Lewes
•Milton Police Department, 101 Federal St., Milton
•Beebe Medical Tunnell Center, 18947 John Jay Williams Highway, Rehoboth
•Rehoboth Beach Police Department, 229 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth
•CVS Pharmacy, 36252 Lighthouse Road, Selbyville
•Selbyville Town Hall, 68 W. Church St., Selbyville (permanent collection site)
•Ocean View Police Department, 201 Central Ave., Ocean View (permanent collection site)
•Laurel Police Department, 205 Mechanic St., Laurel (permanent collection site)
•Walgreens, 17239 Five Points Square, Lewes (permanent collection site)
•Walgreens, 22898 Sussex Highway, Seaford (permanent collection site)