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Robert Kennedy Jr. speaks about the environment and creating a national marketplace for energy Thursday in Warriner Hall's Plachta Auditorium. Kennedy stressed the importance of being involved in the political process and encouraged the audience to run for political office whether it be a school organization or local government.
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m 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...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
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Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
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Premier Member of Landscape Design Advisor
Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
For more on this member, visit us at www.landscape-design-advisor.com and be sure to follow
Premier Member of Landscape Design Advisor
Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
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MacArthur Elementary School is seen in Binghamton, N.Y., on Oct. 8, 2020. After remnants of Tropical Storm Lee inundated the school with over three feet of water from the nearby Susquehanna River, the school was rebuilt with numerous measures to improve its resilience to flooding. The lower level of the school, sitting in the river's flood plain, was converted to a playground that can flood without lasting damage, while rain gardens and other structures to soak up and filter stormwater are scattered throughout the campus. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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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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Historic Environment, traditional farm building, HTB option, Agri environment scheme.
Credit: © Natural England/Margaret Nieke 2011
Final plenary session of COP15. Some analysts say the adopted framework is a good compromise. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS
Environment Victoria described the ALP's climate change policy announcement on 23 July 2010 as appalling and said it gives the green light for 15 new coal-fired power stations nationally, including the HRL proposal in Victoria, and risks sending the Australian climate debate back to the Howard era.
Environment Victoria and other environment and climate action groups called a snap protest outside the Prime Minister’s Melbourne office this afternoon to urge the ALP to come up with a real climate policy that will actually lead to emissions reductions ahead of the election.
For more information:
www.environmentvictoria.org.au/media/gillards-climate-pan...
Nomad wasps from the genus Nomada search for the nests of mining bees on a bare patch of soil in Annapolis, Md., on May 30, 2020. Nomada are a type of cuckoo bee that practices brood parasitism of mining bees and other ground-nesting bees. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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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)
A 13-foot "blue heron" sculpture stands in front of the Matthew Henson Earth Conservation Center near Buzzard Point on the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23, 2019. The artwork was made by several young people using thousands of plastic bottles retrieved from a trash trap on the Anacostia in 2017. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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This bamboo nursery in Port Salut was set up in August 2014 and will produce 150,000 seedlings ready for planting during February to May 2015.
UNEP is working with local NGO partner Organisation for the Rehabilitation of the Environment (ORE) to set up bamboo nurseries. ORE propagates bamboo by root division and by branch cuttings. Thousands of bamboo plants to date have been planted in the South Department and in other areas of Haiti.
Bamboo can protect against soil erosion, particularly in ravines, and can also stabilise riverbanks and prevent landslides. Goats do not eat bamboo (a major problem in Haiti where there is open grazing) and bamboo cannot be used to make charcoal (a major deforestation driver in Haiti). In addition to their environmental services, bamboo forests can provide a renewable supply of construction material, thus promoting resilience among resource-poor communities and reducing deforestation (and the associated release of carbon into the atmosphere).
With climate change likely to increase the incidence of weather extremes, building resilience - especially among poor communities - is an urgent priority in Haiti. Including bamboo in forestry and agroforestry systems is a practical, affordable and sustainable option that could benefit a large number of people not only in the South Department, but across Haiti.
UNEP has been supporting the Government of Haiti since 2008 in reforestation efforts in order to help the country transition to a green economy and to boost sustainable growth.
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Pépinière à bambous, Port Salut, Département du Sud, Haïti
Cette pépinière à bambous a été installée à Port Salut en août 2014. Elle produira 150000 plants qui seront prêts à être plantés entre février et mai 2015.
Le PNUE travaille en partenariat avec une ONG locale, l’Organisation pour la Réhabilitation de l’Environnement (ORE), pour mettre en place des pépinières de bambous. L’ORE bouture ces derniers en divisant leurs racines et en coupant leurs branches. Des milliers de semences de bambous ont déjà été plantées dans le Département du Sud et dans d’autres régions d’Haïti.
Le bambou protège les sols de l’érosion, notamment dans les ravins, stabilise les rives des fleuves et empêche les glissements de terrain. N’étant pas comestible pour les chèvres, qui broutent librement dans le pays, et ne pouvant servir à la production de charbon de bois, moteur de la déforestation locale, cette plante constitue donc une source de services écosystémiques durables. De plus, les forêts de bambous fournissent des matériaux de construction renouvelables qui favorisent la résilience des populations pauvres, tout en réduisant la déforestation et les émissions de CO2 qui en résultent.
Avec l’impact potentiel du changement climatique sur l’occurrence des phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes, le renforcement de la résilience est une priorité urgente en Haïti, notamment pour les populations pauvres. L’intégration du bambou dans les systèmes forestiers et agroforestiers est une option pratique, abordable et durable qui pourrait bénéficier à un grand nombre d’individus, pas seulement dans le Département du Sud, mais dans tout le pays.
Depuis 2008, le PNUE soutient le gouvernement haïtien dans ses efforts de reforestation afin d’assister le pays dans sa transition vers une économie verte et de favoriser sa croissance durable.
2014 © UNEP/Marc Lee Steed
Find out more about UN Environment's work in Haiti: web.unep.org/disastersandconflicts/where-we-work/haiti
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 1m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
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...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and the Environment, Richard Lochhead competing in a 'bake-off' at the Royal Highland Show. Pictured left to right - Frazer Campbell, Richard Lochhead, Sandra Duncan (SWRI representative and judge of the competition) and Stuart Jamieson. Crown Copyright. Photographer - Matt Cartney.
A nomad bee from the genus Nomada visits the nest of a mining bees on a bare patch of soil in Annapolis, Md., on May 30, 2020. Nomada are a type of cuckoo bee that practices brood parasitism of mining bees and other ground-nesting bees. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Speaker of the TN House Kent Williams (center) wants a "Forever Green Tennessee"!
(From left: Hugh Travis, Boy Scouts of America; Dan Brown, Tennessee Preservation Trust; Michelle Haynes, Land Trust for Tennessee; Speaker Williams; Kathleen Williams, TN Parks & Greenways Foundation; John Noel, TPGF;Gina Hancock, The Nature Conservancy; and Danny Sells, TN Assoc. of Conservation Districts)
MacArthur Elementary School is seen in Binghamton, N.Y., on Aug. 30, 2019. After remnants of Tropical Storm Lee indundated the school with over three feet of water from the nearby Susquehanna River, the school was rebuilt with numerous measures to improve its resilience to flooding. The lower level of the school, sitting in the river's flood plain, was converted to a playground that can flood without lasting damage, while rain gardens and other structures to soak up and filter stormwater are scattered throughout the campus. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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An education site for the 2012 BioBlitz, to be held on August 24-25. Student groups will be working with at this site with scientists to conduct aquatic invertebrate sampling and measure stream health.
Photo courtesy National Park Service.
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Workers operating under the H-2B visa program pick crabs at Russell Hall Seafood in Fishing Creek, Md., on June 15, 2020. Russell Hall is one of only two out of the five picking houses on Hoopers Island that were awarded visas for workers this year. Mark Phillips, son of Russell Hall owner Harry Phillips, says “it doesn’t just hurt his business, but the whole community,” as watermen have fewer places to offload their catch. “We’ve had job fairs everywhere, Baltimore to Washington, [but] people just aren’t going to do it,” Phillips said. “If I had to run this business and rely on Americans, I’d sell it today.” (Photo by Carlin Stiehl/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Brainstorm Green, Laguna Niguel, CA, USA
7:00 PM
DINNER AND CONVERSATION: PLANET SIZE IDEAS FOR PLANET SIZE PROBLEMS
Harvard physicist and entrepreneur David Keith is focused on building tools that could help solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. He’s recently launched a company (backed by Bill Gates) with the goal of sucking CO2 out of the air. Keith sits down with Marc Gunther.
Speaker:
David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School, Harvard University
Moderator:
Marc Gunther, Contributing Editor and Co-chair, Brainstorm GREEN, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm Green
Dustin Wichterman of Trout Unlimited holds a young brook trout caught in a tributary of Seneca Creek in Pendleton County, W.Va., on April 21, 2018. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Garbage sorters at the bio waste management centre.
©ILO/Alan Dow
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Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
For more on this member, visit us at www.landscape-design-advisor.com and be sure to follow
Premier Member of Landscape Design Advisor
Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
For more on this member, visit us at www.landscape-design-advisor.com and be sure to follow
Data and maps on poverty, sanitation, safe and clean water and the incidence of cholera were used to help contain the spread of cholera in the Kwazulu Natal province in January 2001. Poverty and cholera data sets showed that the cholera outbreak followed a river flood plain and moved through and towards poor areas.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Philippe Rekacewicz, UNEP/GRID-Arendal