This was a discussion at the Australian Sustainability Group on LinkedIn staarted by Erin O’Donnell, of DSE Victoria, who asked:
International water ‘barons’ are starting to emerge – is this a good or bad thing for water resource management? Liquidity for farmers versus market dominance by non-water-users? The Weekly Times -Water Barons
My answer:
I think it [...]
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International water ‘barons’ are starting to emerge, good or bad?
Posted in Blogroll on 17, April, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Working on the projects for the Green Economy
Posted in Blogroll, Green Economy on 1, April, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a good description from the Green Economy Institute http://ping.fm/dN1TX
Multiple +ve feedback loops speed Arctic Melting
Posted in Blogroll on 31, March, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The latest New Scientist has a report by Fred Pearce that everybody should read, Arctic Meltdown is a threat to humanity. Any long term student of the trends of climate change may be dismayed at the confirmation of acceleration in the warming of the Arctic, but certainly not be surprised. What is scary for me [...]
Climate Change speeding up as Ocean CO2 sink full
Posted in Blogroll, LinkedIn on 4, December, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Back to this neglected blog ! Picking up the comments from Sanjay on the 22 tipping points in the global climate system, I first heard this in a lecture at the Australian Academy of Science Shine Dome covering more on climate feedback loops. So many of our computer modelling of the indicators of change have [...]
Already another year of extreme weather events
Posted in Blogroll on 8, August, 2007, | Leave a Comment »
It seems that every year of the last 10 has been a collection of new weather records. The sort you don’t want. More extremes. Two months rain in two hours, more droughts, mudslides, higher night time temperatures. The World Meteorological Organisation has just released a quick and disturbing summary. Disturbing in that this is the [...]
Environmental Surprise – or why good and bad things happen faster than you anticipate
Posted in Blogroll, Catalysts for Action, Sustainability Science on 8, August, 2007, | Leave a Comment »
The Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2000, Chapter 2 on Environmental Surprise is essential reading for anyone thinking about Future Proofing or Sustainable Futures.
Can you remember back to a lazy summer day at school or uni. You’re thinking of the weekend, not paying too much attention to the person droning on, and [...]
Ixquick a Metasearch engine with a great privacy policy
Posted in Blogroll on 31, July, 2007, | Leave a Comment »
I first came on this metasearch engine as it was reviewed by PC Magazine in the USA as one with the best privacy policy, Google keeps all your searches for ever, and they are only made anonymous after 18months. I am getting some great results on it
THE SCOOP ON IXQUICK – http://us.ixquick.com/uk/aboutixquick/
What Makes Ixquick [...]
