Discussion at a Falmouth Board of Health meeting over a proposed nutrient management bylaw–likely to be on the April town meeting warrant–sparked an important exchange between a lawyer who tends to represent homeowners and builders and a board concerned that a sewer system will encourage development, thus increasing the town’s nitrogen load. (more…)
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Nutrient management, without a bylaw
Friday, December 24th, 2010
Tags: cape cod, composting toilets, Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan, Earle Barnhart, Falmouth, Hilde Maingay, nitrogen, Sewering
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Mapping Change
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
The Woods Hole Research Center was like a miniature United Nations last month, as scholars from Africa, South America, and Asia took part in a two-week workshop at the Woods Hole Road campus.
They came to learn advanced satellite imaging techniques, and left at the end of September with maps that will help their countries manage their forests and take part in a potential global carbon credit trading system.
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Tags: Abel Siample, biomass, cap and trade, carbon credit, Climate Change, CO2 emissions, deforestation, Edersson Cabrera, Edward Ssenyonjo, Eric Armijo, Falmouth, forest cover, forest management, global warming, Green Belt Movement, Indian Forest Survey, Joseph Kellndorfer, Kenya, Mukund Srivastava, Nadine Laporte, Nguyen Hanh Quyenv, pan-tropical map, Peter Ndunda, REDD, Ugandan National Forest Authority, UN Climate Conference, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Woods Hole Research Center, Zambia Forestry Department
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