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Maldives to build floating islands to save country from rising sea levels

photo courtesy of Troon Golf / Koen Olthuis/Waterstudio.NL

submitted by Samuel Bendett 

www.ibtimes.com - August 20, 2012 - by Mark Johanson

Maybe you've already heard: The Maldives is sinking. So what do you do when your tourist-dependent country is slowly disappearing into the sea? If you're the Maldivian government, you create a series of floating islands that include a hotel and convention center, private villas, yacht club and 18-hole golf course.

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Survival Guide Application

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submitted by Albert Gomez

sites.google.com - SusaSoftX

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

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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Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) - Newsletter - Summer 2012

                               

   

submitted by Albert Gomez

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(CLICK HERE - SEI Newsletter - Summer 2012)

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

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

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

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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UN Launches Sustainable Development Network to Help Find Solutions to Global Problems

 

 

 UN News Centre

 

Sustainable development is about people. Photo: UNDP/Zak Mulligan

9 August 2012 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today launched a new independent global network of research centres, universities and technical institutions to help find solutions for some of the world’s most pressing environmental, social and economic problems.

The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) will work with stakeholders including business, civil society, UN agencies and other international organizations to identify and share the best pathways to achieve sustainable development, according to a UN news release.

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Business for Good Map

submitted by Samuel Bendett


Map: The above map shows the work of individual companies, as well as the collective impact of business on communities when points are clicked.


At BCLC, we know businesses make a positive difference around the globe. Our knowledge is now yours. The Business for Good Map is your tool to learn where and how companies invest in creating a better, more sustainable world.

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Ecocities Emerging

 

submitted by Jerry Erbach

Ecocity Builders

Mission and Vision

Ecocity Builders reshapes cities for the long-term health of human and natural systems.

We develop and implement policy, design and educational tools and strategies to build thriving urban centers based on “access by proximity” and to reverse patterns of sprawl and excessive consumption.

Ecocity Builders and associates’ definition of “ecocity” is conditional upon a healthy relationship of the city’s parts and functions, similar to the relationship of organs in living complex organism. We are concerned with city design, planning, building, and operations in an integral way and in relation to the surrounding environment and natural resources of the region, utilizing organic, ecological and whole-systems lessons to actually reverse the negative impacts of climate change, species extinction and the destruction of the biosphere.

We believe the form of the city matters, that it is within our ability, and indeed crucial, to reshape and restructure cities to address global environmental challenges.

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Technology Opens the Doors of Africa's Health Sector

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