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As the state election’s getting closer and the politicians are jostling for your vote, we thought it was high time to find out who’s standing up for our environment.
So we gathered curious Victorians on Thursday, 18 November at the Melbourne Town Hall to ask the big questions of the main political players just nine days out from the state election.
The night featured the Minister for the Environment, the Hon Gavin Jennings, the Shadow Minister for the Environment, the Hon Mary Wooldridge, and Greens MP, the Hon Greg Barber.
They were joined by a panel of environmental experts, including our very own CEO, Kelly O’Shanassy, Matt Ruchel from Victorian National Parks Association and comedian Claire Hooper from Good News Week who made the evening just a little fun. In addition the Q&A was facilitated by a man who sure knows his stuff - Adam Morton, Chief Environment Reporter for The Age Newspaper.
Photo credit: Peter Campbell
HYPREP’s technical personnel visit the Rümlang Soil and Gravel Washing Plant (ESAR).
In June 2019, UN Environment organized a technical training to build the technical capacity of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) and its technical personnel. From 11 to 21 June 2019, 21 members of HYPREP’s technical personnel received training on the management and assessment of contaminated land. The training included twelve theory modules followed by two days of field-based exercises and site visits to a soil treatment plant and a remediation site.
In 2018, the United Nations Environment Programme began a project to assist HYPREP to manage the clean-up of oil contamination in Ogoniland. Designed in response to a request from the Government, this project comes as an integral part of the United Nations Environment Programme’s continuing support to the Government of Nigeria to clean up the environmental contamination in Nigeria and achieve lasting peace in the region.
© United Nations Environment Programme
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.
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.
One Point Office Supplies recently announced a merger with Corporate Environments, a Bethlehem, PA company. The merger will enable One Point to offer our clients the Herman Miller line, the office furniture industryʹs most recognized brand and respected manufacturer.
The College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment celebrated the retirement of associate dean of academic affairs and Dwain G. Luce professor Scott Enebak on Feb. 21, 2023. Dr. Enebak is an expert in forest pathology, mycology, forest regeneration and forest-seedling production systems. While at Auburn, Enebak taught Forest Health, Seedling Production and Forest Biology Forest Biology as part of the Forestry Summer Practicum at the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center. Enebak served as associate dean of academic affairs for CFWE from 2015-2022. He also served as the director of the Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative for 18 years.
Enebak received a bachelor of science in forestry and a master’s degree in forest pathology from the University of Minnesota before earning his doctorate from West Virginia University in 1992 in plant pathology.
Enebak and his wife Debbie plan to remain in Auburn where they will continue to manage their forestland. They also plan to visit their children and grandchildren who live around the country.
“The college has greatly benefitted from Enebak’s work in the classroom, with the Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative, and as the associate dean of academic affairs,” said Janaki Alavalapati, dean of the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment. “We recognize the time, resources, and expertise that he has poured into the college and are grateful for his tireless work to further our mission.”
Lighting is vital for renders but so is Environments. This was all lit with one HDRI and created using colour balance and different lighting levels in 3DS Max. Vray was used to render all the images :)
Countries, like the Seychelles and Belize, with coastal blue carbon ecosystems are increasingly looking to the ocean for climate change and business solutions. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS
Lake Victoria and Lake Chilwa basins differ in terms of their geography, size, and other spatial dimensions. Yet, people’s well-being and livelihoods are inextricably linked to the environment and natural resources in similar ways in both basins. In each basin, population and natural resource dynamics are at play along with environmental degradation and climate change, affecting food, water, health, access to education, and jobs.
Doreen Othero (Lake Victoria Basin Commission) and Deepa Pullanikkatil (Leadership for Environment and Development, Malawi) share their organization’s efforts addressing integrated population, health, and environment issues in local, national, and regional policies and programs.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/victoria-to-chilwa-integrated-...
Achim Steiner and Erik Solheim at the launch of the environmental restoration programme in Ogoniland, Nigeria.
On 2 June 2016 the government of Nigeria set in motion a $1 billion clean-up and restoration programme of the Ogoniland region in the Niger Delta. Find out more about the inauguration of the Ogoniland clean-up in UN Environment's Press Release: unep.org/newscentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27076&Art...
or at www.unep.org/Nigeria
© Emeka Echefu/UN Environment
Water flow is monitored at this site by a SonTek Argonaut, which then sends data to the nearby iSIC data logger
Indian children fill containers with water from a tap on World Water Day in Jalandhar on March 22, 2016.
International World Water Day is marked annually on March 22 to focus global attention on the importance of water and advocate for sustainable water resource management. / AFP PHOTO / SHAMMI MEHRA
The lakes are supposed to be a little clearer in Maine. These data buoys help keep an eye on lakes across the state, where small shifts in water quality can be a big deal.
Famous for its clarity, Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park is getting a little cloudier. A data buoy is helping scientists and managers find out why.
Read the full story: www.fondriest.com/news/data-buoy-acadia-national-parks-jo...
Photo courtesy of Nora Theodore / University of Maine
Maryland Environmental Service, on behalf of the Maryland Port Administration, works with local organizations and schools to place hatchling terrapins in classrooms. The juvenile turtles from the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island live in classrooms from fall through the following spring.
Students provide all care to the terrapins. They collect growth data, observe behaviors, learn care and husbandry protocol, and research the natural history of our state reptile. Head starting allows the hatchlings to grow to the size of a 2-3 year old wild juvenile terrapin in just 6 months.
After caring for the hatchlings, students bring the terrapins back to Poplar Island where they are released to the Bay. This hands-on learning experience engages students to take action and better understand the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
Overfishing and pollution are part of the problem, scientists say, warning that mass extinction of species may be inevitable.
Read the full story here: www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/03/ocean-acidifi...
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 this Oct. 1973 photo provided by the U.S. National Archives, Mary Workman holds a jar of undrinkable water from a well outside her home near a coal mine in Steubenville, Ohio. The photo is part of Documerica, an EPA project during the 1970s in which the agency hired dozens of freelance photographers to capture thousands of images related to the environment and everyday life in America. Modeled after Documerica, the agency has embarked on a massive effort to collect photographs from across the United States and around the world over the next year that depict everything from nature's beauty to humanity's impact, both good and bad. (AP Photo/U.S. National Archives, Erik Calonius)