Even though it’s raining hard here in EarthQuaker land, we’re still being told to expect a drought this summer. That makes us more than usually interested in issues of water management and conservation.
A good place to start for a global overview of the crises we face with water is this interview with Peter Gleick, founder [...]
Posts Tagged ‘water’
- the ’soft path’ to global water management
Posted in climate change, weather, tagged water on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
- confused this Earth Day?
Posted in environmentalism, policy, political action, tagged consumer culture, corporations, eco-anxiety, energy, food, global warming, health, pollution, resources, water on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What, exactly, is the world coming to? How worried, precisely, should we be about the state of our climate, our energy system, our food supplies, our water, the air we breath? What really is — or might soon — be the problem with any of these?
It’s hard to keep track and easy to [...]
- more water; but in the wrong places
Posted in climate change, tagged downsizing specialist, European Geosciences Union, sea levels, water on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scientists at this week’s general meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna have been worrying about water.
Some see ‘melting mountains’ (to use Reuters’ headline) as a “time bomb” set to explode established patterns of global water use.
That snow melt will raise world sea levels much more than previously predicted, say others.
If we’re looking at [...]
against golf — a trend that’s growing
Posted in leisure, tagged America, fiscal policy, golf, leisure, pollution, tax, water on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s always struck us EarthQuakers as odd that golfers have long been allowed to portray their sport as beneficial to the environment. Golf course owners are adept, for example, at receiving tax breaks, on the grounds that they protect ‘green’ space.
For sure, the first golf courses were relatively low impact. They were [...]
