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1.7 million children die every year due to polluted environment: WHO

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1.7 million children die every year due to polluted environment: WHO Two World Health Organization (WHO) reports highlighted that children are exposed to harmful chemicals through food, water, air and products around them. Photo. Imagine what could be accomplished if a fraction of the 20 million of us in the global chemical enterprise (according to …

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National Research Council Estimates Impact of Human-Caused Global Warming

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Image via Wikipedia The NRC issued a report on July 16, 2010, entitled, “Near-Term Emissions Choices Could Lock in Climate Changes for Centuries to Millenia: Report Estimates Impacts from Various Levels of Warming.” These data will inform policy decision-makers. Here are some of the main points, quoted directly: Increased Confidence About Future Impacts Although some …

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A new study shows 77 million Bangladeshis are being exposed to water containing arsenic. CNN’s Dan Rivers reports. Jun 21, 2010

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Here’s a short update on the arsenic problem in Bangladesh, and how the SONO filter alleviates the problem (click the title above to view the 2:51 minute video). With over 300,000 SONO filters already in place, that leaves some 75 million people in Bangladesh still in need of its benefits. Of course, there are many …

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Martin Fisher (KickStart) Fighting Poverty in Kenya by Selling Water Pumps to Poor Farmers

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PBS‘s Spencer Michels reports on the story of how a California social entrepreneur sees the chance to increase access to clean water in Kenya through the use of foot-pumps. In this segment, there are many lessons for us on how to achieve our goals in the field. I recommend you watch this report: Related articles …

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Irreversible Catastrophic Climate Destabilization

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Image via Wikipedia Last Friday’s edition of NOW on PBS asks, “Is a coastal catastrophe approaching, and what should we be doing about it?” It specifically addresses the issue of flooding in Bangladesh, currently the 7th most populous country on the planet and one of the most densely populated (1063 per sq km). (The next …

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11th Annual Workshop on Brominated Flame Retardants

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Image via Wikipedia Dr. Arlene Blum (Executive Director, Green Science Policy Institute) provided this report from the 11th Annual Workshop on Brominated Flame Retardants. This is a topic that that deserves more of our attention than it currently gets. Dear All, I am just back from an informative and fun Brominated Flame Retardant meeting in …

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Cash Flows from China’s Water

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Jean-Francois Tremblay, C&EN Hong Kong (Chemical & Engineering News Digital Edition – May 11, 2009) writes: “In this highly populated, rapidly industrializing country, water purification is becoming big business. ……. Between 200 million and 300 million people throughout the Chinese Countryside do not have access to a safe source of water.” In this picture, do-it-yourself …

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Taxing Carbon – Part 4 | Mother Jones

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There’s an interesting dialog on taxing carbon between Kevin Drum at Mother Jones and Jeffrey Sachs (Sachs is, among other things, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time). You can read the latest episode here: Taxing Carbon – Part 4 | Mother …

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Substantial work ahead for water issues, say scientists at ACS’ Final Report briefing

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2009 — Scientists and engineers will face a host of obstacles over the next decade in providing clean water to millions of people caught up in a water shortage crisis, a panel of scientists and engineers said today at a briefing at the Broadcast Center of the National Press Building on the …

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e2 | PBS: Environment and Energy

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e² | PBS A new series of half-hour programs about sustainable energy innovations, e² energy, releases on PBS stations October 19. And the second season of e² design releases on November 30. Check it out – very informative.