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At her home in rural Mangatsiotra village in Madagascar’s coastal Vatovavy Fitovinany region, Vivienne Rakotoarisoa uses a reed known locally as Rambo to weave together a mat to sell at a nearby market.
Having previously relied heavily on rice farming - where harvests have been hampered by unpredictable rainfall in recent years - this climate resilient crop is able to withstand periods of erratic rainfall, providing Vivienne and her family a more stable source of income in the face of a changing climate.
Vivenne is one of 3000 community members who were provided with ‘rambo’ seeds and trained in how to cultivate, care for and maximise yield as a springboard towards diversifying their livelihoods. This exciting initiative is part of a five year project launched in 2015 by UN Environment and its partners, entitled, ‘Adapting Coastal Zone Management to Climate Change in Madagascar’. Focusing on four coastal sites which have been identified as being particularly vulnerable to climate change, the project aims to build the long term resilience and capacity of target communities through various ecosystem-based adaptation interventions.
Learn more about UNEP's work on adaptation: www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/cli...
Photo credit: UNEP
We celebrated Earth Day with a wonderful afternoon of art, music and talks about protecting our environment. Hundreds of activists, artists, environmentalists and youth gathered to pay tribute to Mother Earth at Tamalpais High School’s Student Center in Mill Valley on April 22, 2018. Photo by Fabrice Florin.
We started the day with the first public showing of our Art Float for Social Change -- a unique parade float created to inspire more people to participate in democracy. A large globe spun over a circle of hands and a carousel of art, pulled by a colorful dragon. Singers and speakers of all ages stood on the decorated stage to share their ideas for a better world. Many more painted original posters about the earth, which were featured on the float carousel.
Dozens of environmental partners showed participants how we can all take action to reverse global warming -- organizations like the Sierra Club, Resilient Neighborhoods and 350 Marin, to name but a few. Our guest speakers were Mark Squire from Good Earth, Crystal Chissel from Project Drawdown, Marin Supervisor Damon Connolly and young local activists: they gave informative talks on a wide range of solutions to curb climate change. Participants also learned to plant a veggie garden, ride an electric bike, while others registered to vote.
We ended the day with music performances by the charming Twinkling Stars of Singers Marin, young singer Emma Spike, and sing-alongs led by Reed Fromer with the Freedom Singers and Redwoods Seniors for Peace.
Earth Day 2008 brought together diverse groups of people who might not have connected otherwise: activists, artists, environmentalists, makers, children, teenagers, teachers and parents. We are particularly grateful to all the young people who participated in our celebration.
This community gathering was produced by Democracy Cafe, Eco Warriors of MVCAN and Tam Makers, with the gracious support of Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley Community Action Network, Good Earth, Driver’s Market, Sloat Garden Supply and all our partners.
Thanks to event organizers Fabrice Florin, Jennifer Tomkins, Carol Korenbrot, Geo Monley, Grace Severtson -- and all the wonderful volunteers who helped produce this inspiring event. We think making art, playing music and talking with people of all ages and backgrounds can build mutual understanding and engage us to take meaningful political action together.
Join your neighbors to make political art and music, join good causes -- and keep democracy alive!
View more photos from Earth Day: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/sets/72157666187468057
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Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, the Honorable Katherine Hammack visits Area I on a tour of garrisons that will take her across Korea from the DMZ to Daegu.
Ms. Hammack is the primary advisor to the Secretary of the Army on installation policy, energy security and environmental initiatives. She is touring Army camps and facilities here, and she will be meeting with both Army and installation management senior leaders as part of her oversight of installation policy for Department of the Army.
The stinky wet pile: unbalanced, wet compost can become a breeding ground for maggots and produce a poor product.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 25cm LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
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Ryan Sanborn from "HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2”
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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.
IBMers team up with GRID Alternatives to install solar electric systems at the homes of six low-income families around California. This the home in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunter's Point neighborhood.
In photo: Armando Calderon
About 50 employees from IBM Solutions Delivery in Thailand teamed up to the east of Thailand to learn and share awareness about environment and ecology in Thailand coastal area. They ended their day assembling artificial coral reefs which would be placed under sea water in Thai Gulf coast.
My discourse model. Introduced in 5.2 'Discursive Power, Symbolic Violence, Discourse Analysis and Politics', Boehnert PhD 2011.
Oxford and Summer Winter Schools in Ecological Economics organized by Environment Europe attracted participants from over 40 countries, including Canada, USA, Mexico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Bosnia, Latvia, Ghana, Nigeria, Jordan, Sri Lanka, China, India, Taiwan, and Australia.
The course is taught by the leading ecological economists, ecosystem services, environmental policy and sustainable development experts in Europe.
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Image Craft's ICON Themed Environments division created this new suite of office furniture, custom designed for our recently expanded Colorado office, now located in Centennial.
Shown here in various stages of production are a reception desk, media wall with podium, conference room table, storage and display credenzas, and more! The furnishings, primarily composed of shop ply and MDF, feature a zebra wood laminate with folkstone gray and matte black laminate work surfaces.
This project was produced entirely in-house in our Phoenix headquarters, from design to fabrication, and ultimately, through on-site installation. Backlit lettering and graphics are also part of the overall concept, and will be the final addition. We'll add more photos here as the project progresses.
For more information on ICON Themed Environments and a gallery of past projects, please see our web site at:
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.
In lower acuity environments, such as med-surg, vital signs data collection is typically periodic and needs to be done on multiple patients. The challenge with mobile vital signs data capture in these environments for nurses has always been how to automatically send those validated, collected vitals for each patient to the EMR. Capsule's automated vitals documentation solution, Mobile Vitals Plus, allows clinical staff to automatically capture vital signs for multiple patients, validate those vital signs at the point of care, and automatically send them to the EMR - before leaving the bedside - and all in a way that integrates with the existing clinical work processes.
At the Lancaster County Super Fair, 4-H Home Environment exhibits include several projects, including Celebrate Art, Design Decision, Child Development, and Heritage.
Tetra Tech, a global environmental consulting firm, rented a water quality monitoring system from us to keep an eye on the Avalon Bay dredging project. The goal was to clear out portions of New Jersey's harbors to help with shipping and recreation. A remote data logging system helped project managers keep constant watch on water quality at the sites.
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Photos courtesy of John Gee from Tetra Tech
This photo was taken after I dug up and found the first egg on the top of the sea turtle nest. Part of my job was to look for turtle crawls to indicate nesting behavior and then collect one egg from each nest for DNA sampling. On this day we dug for 2 hours before my co-workers thought it was a false crawl (no eggs laid). By the looks of the original crawl, though, I did not agree and kept digging. Eventually I found the eggs and it was a great feeling!
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Our editor got the chance to visit the National Center for Water Quality Research (located in Tiffin, Ohio) and talk with researchers about the history of the center as well as their current projects.
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Oak leaves in autumn colors fallen to the ground. A close-up view with water droplets highlighting the back of a leaf.
The Ministry of Environment in collaboration with Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning through the support of Poverty-Environment Action programme organised a breakfast meeting with Development Partners to discuss collaboration and the implementation of the sector’s priorities, including mainstreaming climate change into national programmes and policies and achieving the country's climate action plans (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement.
The FloWav sensor will help monitor the amount of water travelling through the pipe into a nearby stream.
An important role played by the ocean is the storage and exchange of CO2 with the atmosphere, and its diffusion toward deeper layers. At high latitudes, dense waters sink, transferring carbon to the deep ocean. Warming of the ocean surface inhibits this sinking process and therefore reduces the efficiency of CO2 transport and storage. Furthermore, as water warms up, the solubility of CO2 declines, therefore less gas can be stored in the sea water.
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A group of IBM volunteers team up to build a clay dike in Kang Krachan forest, Petchburi, Thailand. The clay dike will help relieve the flood impact for community nearby.
The start of my enviro-friendly shopping bag. Cut the plastic bags I have into strips, create a new one to use when I next go shopping!
Environment Canada ice charts, late December 2010. Via ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca.
Great Lakes Ice Charts, Late 2010. Via ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca.
Trash and other solid waste is separated from wastewater at the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant in Richmond, Va., on May 25, 2022. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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World Environment Day (WED) is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action. It is on 5 June. It was the day that United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began.
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was from 5-16 June 1972. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. The first World Environment Day was on 1973. World Environment Day is hosted every year by a different city with a different theme and is commemorated with an international exposition in the week of 5 June. World Environment Day is in summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the Rwanda Housing Authority and in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has inaugurated the Rukumberi Green Village in Ngoma District.
Rukumberi Village was constructed in 2014 to relocate 57 households from high risk zones around the sector. The main objective was to resettle households as a way to improve access to basic services including electricity, water, schooling, healthcare, waste collection and more.
Rukumberi Village was later selected to be improved with the green village components through the Green Economy Programme under the Ministry of Environment, and supported by UNDP.
The green village components implemented in Rukumberi Village include biogas, rainwater tanks and biodegradable waste collection centre. These elements aim to address environmental challenges and improve the wellbeing and livelihood of the community.
This approach of resettling households in Green Villages is part of a national effort to move households to safer locations that are more resilience to the impacts of climate change.