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The Chesapeake Executive Council Meeting is held at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 11, 2022. At the meeting, the Council agreed to outline the steps necessary to reach the targets set by the 2014 Chesapeake Watershed Agreement, potentially prioritizing which outcomes should be met by 2025. This critical plan will be unveiled at the 2023 Executive Council meeting, just in time for the Chesapeake Bay Program’s 40th anniversary. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Tanks of environmentally hazardeous substance are stored in the CHEMAF factory of Lubumbashi on July 8, 2010. The surrounding population complains about chemical and potentially dangerous discharges resulting from the factory.
Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes discusses the challenge of restoring Earth's natural biodiversity. Copyright 2009 Daniel Bayer/kodachromeproject.com for the Aspen Institute.
Sanitary fishing activities to remove invasive species in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan works at restoring a native species fishery through sound ecological management and alternative income generation.
photo by Azat Alamanov
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Mission Man Band
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Rwanda has launched a new facility that will invest in climate action led by the public sector on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. The facility, which will be managed by the Rwanda Green Fund, has been capitalised through a grant of EUR 46 million from the Federal Republic of Germany through the Rwandan-German Climate and Development Partnership.
Known formally as the NDC Facility, the new funding will be available to government institutions working to implement Rwanda's climate action plan, also known as the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement.
The NDC Facility will be housed at the Rwanda Green Fund and act as the financial driver of Rwanda’s climate action plan. It also aims to attract additional climate finance from investors and development partners looking to be part of Rwanda’s green growth journey.
At the event, Rwanda and Germany also signed a Joint Declaration of Intent on Climate Research and Science Cooperation. The declaration will facilitate scientific exchange between Rwanda and Germany, supporting scientific analyses of the impacts of climate change.
SHENAQO. July 2011- Tusheti is one of the remotest highlands of Georgia. Unique location, endemic flora and species make Tusheti one of the richest protected areas in the Caucasus, while its indigenous culture, traditions and crafts provide unforgettable experience to the tourists.
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.
Elene Gagoidze's house in Shenaqo.
July 2011
Photo: UNDP/David Khizanishvili
Tangier Island is seen in Accomack County, Va., on March 20, 2017. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program with aerial support by Southwings)
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A fallen tree shows the marks of beaver chewing activity at Emmons Pond Bog in Oneonta, N.Y., on Aug. 3, 2016. Beavers raised the water level of Emmons Pond, which flooded a stand of trees. The pond, owned by the Nature Conservancy, dates to the time of the last glacial period 11,000 years ago—after paleo-Indian people arrived in the Chesapeake regions but before the Chesapeake Bay as we recognize it had formed. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Wind turbines rise above a ridge overlooking Keyser, W.Va., on April 29, 2017. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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IUCN Takes the Environment a Step Closer to Business
By Amantha Perera
Jeju, Sep 12 (IPS) - The outcome of the June Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development was the undisputed inability of governments to come to an agreement on moving ahead to protect the planet. Three months later, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is proposing what can be done as a collective.
Leader of the Labour Party launching 'Cleaning Up Our Act: Labour's Blueprint for a Low Carbon Ireland'
Climate Change: One of The Biggest Challenges Of Our Time.
Picture by Shane O'Neill, Fennell Photography.
Gagoidze family – Elene, Irakli and their elder son Giorgi in front of their house.
September 2011
Photo: UNDP/Giorgi Chkheidze
Tangier Island is seen in Accomack County, Va., on March 20, 2017. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program with aerial support by Southwings)
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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
My main goal on this sketch was to draw an entire environment and again have it done before Shannon went to bed. I had all day of course to work on it, but I kinda like the forced last minute exercises so i can't linger and rework everything that should be a sketch anyway. My secondary goal was to try and achieve different textures which was part of the reason i chose the picture i did.. I feel I only succeeded with the texture part marginally though,(as in i pretty much failed haha) its something I still need to work on in the future
Rwanda has launched a new facility that will invest in climate action led by the public sector on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. The facility, which will be managed by the Rwanda Green Fund, has been capitalised through a grant of EUR 46 million from the Federal Republic of Germany through the Rwandan-German Climate and Development Partnership.
Known formally as the NDC Facility, the new funding will be available to government institutions working to implement Rwanda's climate action plan, also known as the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement.
The NDC Facility will be housed at the Rwanda Green Fund and act as the financial driver of Rwanda’s climate action plan. It also aims to attract additional climate finance from investors and development partners looking to be part of Rwanda’s green growth journey.
At the event, Rwanda and Germany also signed a Joint Declaration of Intent on Climate Research and Science Cooperation. The declaration will facilitate scientific exchange between Rwanda and Germany, supporting scientific analyses of the impacts of climate change.
SmartGeometry 2011 at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen - hosted by CITA
cluster:
reflective environments - Judit Kimpian, Goetz Peter Feldmann + Josh Mason
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photo: Anders Ingvartsen
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Home Rule Travelling Stock Reserve, Mudgee district
Blakely's Red Gum, Grey Box Woodland
Photographer: Lorraine Oliver
This site is supported by:
The Grassy Box Woodlands Conservation Managment Network www.gbwcmn.net.au/node/3
NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water www.environment.nsw.gov.au/
Oyster shell for reef. Love Point, Md. (Photo by Tawna Mertz/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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tuna fish tin, Morrisons skipjack tuna chunks in springwater, with logo "Dolphin Friendly", 80g tin, 2010
object height: 35mm
object diameter: 67mm
Stanford University Professor John Hennessy speaks about harnessing and encouraging innovation in education, industry and the government. Copyright 2009 Michael Brands for the Aspen Instit
Professor Salim Al-Hassani, President of the Foundation for Science, Technology (FSTC) attended the First Arab Innovation Network Annual Conference (AINAC 2012) in early December 2012 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Organised by Cambridge University's Arab Innovation Network Society between December 4-6, keynote speakers (among many other workshop speakers) included Professor Salim T.S. Al- Hassani, Mr. Riad Kamal, Founder and Executive Chairman of Arabtec Construction and CEO of Arabtec Holding and Mr Badr Jafar, Managing director of Crescent Group and President of Crescent Petroleum. The designated research categories discussed in the conference include: Entrepreneurship, Information and Communication Technology [ICT], Environment and Health.
A black-capped chickadee visits Millbrook Marsh Nature Center 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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Judy is the UK Director of the Black Environment Network.
In a seminar on 18 November she'll highlight the impact of working within a framework of socio-cultural-environmental projects on the lives of ethnic minorities, giving many examples of good practice.
The Chesapeake Executive Council Meeting is held at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 11, 2022. At the meeting, the Council agreed to outline the steps necessary to reach the targets set by the 2014 Chesapeake Watershed Agreement, potentially prioritizing which outcomes should be met by 2025. This critical plan will be unveiled at the 2023 Executive Council meeting, just in time for the Chesapeake Bay Program’s 40th anniversary. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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