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POPS10 Amazing Facts About Worldwide Water Use
More facts: Since 1950, water usage in the United States has risen 127 percent. If you shorten your showers by just a single minute, you can save approximately 700 gallons of water in a month. Letting the tap run when you brush your teeth wastes up to 4 gallons of water every time. It takes an average of 300 gallons to water your lawn. During the summer, this can account for almost half of your water usage. It takes an average of 300 gallons to water your lawn. During the summer, this can account for almost half of your water usage. Another wasteful desert endeavor, the proposed Waveyards water park in Mesa, Arizona will require up to 100 million gallons of groundwater every year in an area that receives a mere 8 inches of rainfall in that time. This last is particularly insane. All the Western states are in desperate need of water for crops and other basic uses. The Colorado River no longer reaches the sea. Salmon spawning grounds have almost disappeared and major animal (as we
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POPSUS Energy and Natural Resouces Maze Scan the more than 250 bills introduced this term in to the US House Natural Resources Committee and the 49 members of the committee and you begin to understand how difficult it is to enact large strategic changes in policy and why Congress might spend time building target shooting facilities on public lands or in wilderness sites. Consider what states have representatives on the committee and those that do not. Earmarking or "pork" then starts to become clear: "Give you a new energy policy? Sure - give me a new pier for Santa Monica." grin/groan.
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POPSCosta Rica Family Adventure This diverse itinerary offers you the chance to get up close to the leatherback and green turtles that inhabit the Caribbean coastline of Costa Rica. While staying at the Pacuare Reserve turtle conservation project in Tortuguero National Park you can take part in turtle patrols - protecting the nests, hiding them from poachers and helping to measure and tag the turtles, all of which helps to preserve this fragile ecosystem....Teach your children to make a difference
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POPSCirque du Soleil Founder To Raise Global Awareness About Water Conservation Aboard Russian Rocket The former fire-eater and stilt-walker will orchestrate the show, called Moving Stars and Earth for Water, from the space station and blend artistic performances or "poetic readings" by celebrities in 14 cities around the world. Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore, Canadian astronaut Julie Payette, U2, Shakira, Quebec singer Garou, composer A.R. Rahman, Quebec biologist Jean Lemire, singer Peter Gabriel and Cirque performers are set to take part. Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2046224#ixzz0SXhQFZSs
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POPSGreen Investment There has been a rise recorded in investments in green companies as the world is waking up to environmental issues and world summits are discussing them.
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POPSNot Your Fathers Mobile Home Park
The roof is a butterfly roof for water conservation, a new design vernacular we are seeing more of. The wheels lift the structures well above the meadow, keeping the footprint of each hut to the barest minimum, making for a low-tech and low-impact design. The construction of each identical hut is very simple. It is just an offset steel clad box on a steel platform with a wood deck on top. Unlike a typical mobile home, less than half of the space on each structure is indoor space; outdoor decks comprise 55% of the usable space. While the interiors leave some design issues unsolved, the exteriors are well thought out. They are built of simple, durable and no-maintenance materials – steel, plywood and car-decking. No effort is made to soften this reality. The steel exterior is just allowed to rust naturally. The huts are “grouped as a herd” while each faces a view of the mountains (and away from the other structures), they are also gathered together as a unit.
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POPS2 species of salt water fish, genus Groupers critically endangered (CR) Pacific goliath grouper or quinquefasciatus (Epinephelus quinquefasciatus )* Atlantic goliath grouper or itajara (Epinephelus itajara )** Both salt water fishes are two different species.*** The range of both is Latin America also. Both are listed as critically endangered (CR) by the IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature.****| |*Pacific goliath grouper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This page was last modified on 27 May 2009 at 19:29. **Atlantic goliath grouper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This page was last modified on 19 June 2009 at 19:49. ***The clipped source **** *and** above
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POPSWe Must Save The Living Environment E. O. Wilson says we must do more than save the plants and animals. 99% of earth's organisms are tiny but extremely important in the functioning of all the larger organisms. If we don't save the minute, we lose it all.
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POPSNew life for ancient Syrian sculptures more: Fragments were initially reassembled with temporary glue and later more permanently attached with reversible epoxy resin. No metal framework or pins were used. Break marks remain very visible, and no attempt has been made to disguise them. Where large pieces are missing (some since antiquity), roughly shaped inserts have been added, using a mixture of ground basalt, sand and resin, in a slightly lighter shade of grey than the original stone. Some fragments of molten glass and bitumen from the Charlottenburg museum roof have been left on surfaces which will not be visible on display, since they are now part of the history of the sculptures. Conservation work is due to be concluded in October.
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POPSOprompter's New Science Czar
This kook actually thinks putting sterilizers in the water supply would be a good thing On mass involuntary sterilization: Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock. We wouldn't want livestock to be affected while we're snuffing out the human race. What would PET
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POPSObama Says Mountain Crimes Can Be Regulated--Will Gore, Carter or Congress Intervene Now? "Mountaintop removal is a crime--and ought to be treated as a crime." --Al Gore, April 28, 2008 "Mountaintop removal is a crime against local people, nature, our children, and our planet." --Dr. James Hansen, NASA Consider this: Over 3.5 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives rip across the most diverse and oldest mountains in America--and rain down silica dust and heavy metals on residents--in West Virginia alone EVERY DAY. Consider this: Mountaintop removal provides less than 5-7% percent of our national coal production, at a time when coal demand is down, and mountaintop removal coal could EASILY be replaced by energy efficiency, conservation, renewable energy sources or underground coal. Consider this: Not one person in the Obama administration involved in this outrageous decision has ever set a foot on a mountaintop removal site.
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POPSLonghorn Cavern Going next week to see this. My daughter loves cave exploring. Any Clippers been here? Highlight the area under the pictures in the clip for secret captions.
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POPS160 Syrian villages deserted 'due to climate change' The study also revealed the challenge posed by population growth. "The combined population of the Levant will grow to 71 million by 2050 from 42 million in 2008" with major implications for water demand, food supply, housing and jobs, it said. The IISD report said there is much that Middle Eastern governments and authorities, civil society and the international community can do to respond to climate change and the threats it may pose to regional peace and security. "They can promote a culture of conservation in the region, help communities and countries adapt to the impacts of climate change, work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and foster greater cooperation on their shared resources,"
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POPSCounterintuitive: Help endangered predators by culling their prey? The lake's temperature and nutrient levels were mostly constant during this time, so why did the trout do better when they prey was culled? Persson believes that it's not the numbers of the char, but their size that matters, and that changed irrevocably when the trout first vanished. Paradoxically, predators like trout, can actually increase the numbers of small prey by eating them. It seems like a strange idea, but it happens because the remaining prey face less competition for food. As a result, they grow more rapidly, mature faster and give rise to more young. By growing too large, the Arctic char muscled the trout out of Lake Takvatn.This means the population becomes, on average, smaller, since individuals spend less time growing and fill the water with baby fish. And that's good news for predators. But take the predator out and the whole system grinds to a halt.
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POPSEco Second Homes An article on 'Off-grid" discussing just a few of the eco-developments that are finally springing up around the world.
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