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Survival Guide Application

Thu, 2012-08-30 14:08 — Maeryn Obley

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submitted by Albert Gomez

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Survival skills are techniques a person may use in a dangerous situation (e.g. natural disasters) to save themselves or others (see also bushcraft). Generally speaking, these techniques are meant to provide the basic necessities for human life: water, food, shelter, habitat, and the need to think straight, to signal for help, to navigate safely, to avoid unpleasant interactions with animals and plants, and for first aid. In addition, survival skills are often basic ideas and abilities that ancient humans had to use for thousands of years, so these skills are partially a reenactment of history.


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Water research thrives as discrepancy between supply and demand for water grows

Thu, 2012-08-30 00:15 — Corey Watts

submitted by Samuel Bendett

www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com - August 28, 2012

Research into water is growing faster than the average 4 percent annual growth rate for all research disciplines, claims a new report presented by Elsevier and Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) during the 2012 World Water Week in Stockholm. The report, The Water and Food Nexus: Trends and Development of the Research Landscape, analyzes the major trends in water and food-related article output at international, national, and institutional levels. An Elsevier release reports that Elsevier and SIWI worked closely together on creating the report, which is based on the analysis of Scopus citation data by Elsevier’s SciVal Analytics team.

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Agri-Cube grows mass quantities of vegetables in a one-car parking spot

Wed, 2012-08-29 17:56 — Maeryn Obley

External view of the 11.7 square meter Agri-Cube E garden factory

Image: External view of the 11.7 square meter Agri-Cube E garden factory

submitted by Samuel Bendett

gizmag.com - Brian Dodson - August 14th, 2012

Daiwa House, Japan's largest homebuilder, has introduced a line of prefabricated hydroponic vegetable factories, aimed at housing complexes, hotels, and top-end restaurants. Called the Agri-Cube, these units are touted by Daiwa as the first step in the industrialization of agriculture, to be located in and amongst the places where people live, work, and play.

More and more people desire sustainable, organic produce for their own use, and are turning to urban farming in an effort to insure the highest degree of freshness.

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More Dengue Fever Reported in Eastern Cuba

Sun, 2012-08-26 22:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

miamiherald.com - by Juan O. Tamayo - August 20, 2012

A vocational school has been turned into a makeshift hospital to handle the overflow of Dengue patients.

An outbreak of dengue fever in eastern Cuba has reportedly forced authorities to turn a vocational school into a hospital, while a city racked by a cholera epidemic now also faces an increase in the mosquito that carries dengue.

Medical personnel in the eastern city of Camaguey said the Maximo Gómez vocational school for sciences is being used as a hospital, and a local university building will be turned into a treatment center if the outbreak spreads.

“We have a huge outbreak of dengue here, and if things continue to be bad — we already are at the level of epidemic — I think they may quarantine us,” one local medical worker told relatives in Miami. “Don’t worry too much, but this is bad.”

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Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) - Newsletter - Summer 2012

Sat, 2012-08-25 23:57 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                               

   

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(CLICK HERE - SEI Newsletter - Summer 2012)

http://www.sei-international.org/

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MSN's The Cities Issue

Sat, 2012-08-25 11:57 — Maeryn Obley

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foreignpolicy.com


Our special issue dedicated to the cities of the future has its eye squarely toward China, because the cities of the future are increasingly going to be speaking Mandarin -- even more than you realize. It's no longer news that China has embarked on the largest mass urbanization in history, a monumental migration from country to city that will leave China with nearly a billion urbanites by 2025 and an astonishing 221 cities with populations over 1 million. But this isn't just about size: It's about global heft.

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Tiny Pacific Island Tops World Ocean Health Index

Thu, 2012-08-16 18:29 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Coral off Jarvis Island in the central Pacific. Photograph: Jim Maragos/AP

Uninhabited Jarvis island, halfway between Hawaii and Cook Islands, gets score of 86 compared with global average of 60

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guardian.co.uk - by John Vidal - August 15, 2012

An uninhabited Pacific island has come top of the first comprehensive ocean health index, which compares all the world's coastal countries and scores them for how well the seas around them benefit both man and nature.

Tiny 4.5 sq km Jarvis island, halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands, was briefly mined for seabird fertiliser in the 19th century but both the waters around it and the island itself have been left more or less untouched since then, which accounts for its top score of 86 out of 100 compared with a global average of 60.

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Microfinance - How Kiva Works - The Story of a Kiva Loan

Thu, 2012-08-16 17:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Susan Steinhauser

kiva.org

Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Learn more about how it works.

http://www.kiva.org/about

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Poland Bans GE Corn, Monsanto Buys Bee Research Firm

Thu, 2012-08-16 16:56 — Kathy Gilbeaux

       

ecorazzi.com - by Linda St.Cyr - May 15, 2012

Active protests in Poland have led to a ban on Monsanto’s Mon810 corn. Monsanto’s corn has been genetically engineered to produce a mutant version of the insecticide Bt. Beekeepers saw the link between the corn and the deaths of honeybees.

So what did Monsanto do? It bought a leading bee collapse research organization, Beeologics, to study the collapse disorder that is thought to be a result—at least in part– of Monsanto’s own creation.

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Fascinating floating city concepts to house humanity in a globally warmed world

Tue, 2012-08-14 15:08 — Corey Watts

submitted by Samuel Bendett                                                                           photo courtesy of Oculus

www.ecofriend.com - by Dattatreya Mandal - April 2012

The last time we checked, water occupied around 71 percent of our precious Earth's surface. And with the serious instigations of global warming, it is clearly beginning to dawn on some of us that we are running out of 'ground' for our mega-cities, grand settlements and expansive conurbations. But before we press our panic buttons, there has been progressive yet credible proposals to design and build human habitats in the seas itself!

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