Action on climate change: Building solar panels on canals

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http://www.business-standard.com/article/reuters/india-builds-solar-plants-atop-canals-to-save-land-water-115011600609_1.html Sometimes solutions come along that are fiendishly clever in their elegance. This is one such. One of the big costs of implementing a solar power plant is the cost of land. This is particularly true in a country like india where land acquisition is fraught with politics and endless publicised fights between farmer, politician and …

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Test results

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Dear Students, Congratulations on finishing the class on climate change! I enjoyed teaching you and learned a lot in the process. After correcting the answer papers, there were two common errors, which I though I would address here. What is the most water-friendly form of protein? (Which source of protein takes the least amount of …

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Action on Climate Change – Water – Janicki Bioenergy

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Few people are brave enough to sip water from a sewage tank. But the world's richest man did it. A few weeks ago, Bill Gates drank a glass of water that came directly from sewage fed into Janicki Bioenergy's Omniprocessor. "The water tasted as good as any I’ve had out of a bottle. And having …

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Action on climate change: Jadav Payeng – the forest Man

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there is so much each of us can do, and some of us swing far above our weight. one such is Jadav Payeng. He's a poor farmer. One of those who typically fall in the category of "to be helped"; of whom little is expected. But enterprise is agnostic. Mr. Payeng noticed dead snakes lying …

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Solutions to Climate Change

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If you were to type, as I suspect many of my students did, "Solutions Climate change problem", you would receive around 79 millions responses from Google. Most of these boil down to 10-12 main solutions that maybe categorized as follows. Changes in power generation Use less coal Increase % of nuclear power Increase alternative energy …

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Really cool article on ocean microbes and biofuel

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Ocean microbes - plankton, algae, diatoms, bacteria, viruses (phages) - are a critical part of the carbon cycle of the ocean. Until recently, they were not very well understood. Some great articles on the same: https://mitei.mit.edu/news/ocean-microbes-display-hidden-talent-releasing-countless-tiny-lipid-filled-sacs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_bacteriophage#cite_note-pmid17853907-11

Impacts of Climate Change

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Imagine 6 kids in a group with a cake to share. The ring leader is older, stronger and eats more of the cake. The others know that equality dictates they should get equal shares, or at least shares depending on their sizes but lack the strength to back up feeble words of protests. Now imagine …

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Who caused climate change (and who should act)?

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First, apologies for the long break. Source: Khalil Bendig, http://otherwords.org/climate-change-we-can-believe-in/ So, do we have a problem with a global warming? Pretty much everyone agrees that the world has warmed, and 97% of climate scientists agree that humans have caused it. Most of those also agree that it is going to get worse, and we should definitely …

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Cities and Climate Change – Part 3

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So far we have seen that the world has become primarily urban. Therefore, it's important to consider how cities are affected or going to be affected by climate change and how they are adapting to it. Some of the main ways by which cities are affected by climate change is through water: Flooding because river …

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