Under the Lens by Elise Hugus
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Posts Tagged ‘global warming’
Friday, December 10th, 2010
Hatchville native Barry Febos is on the move. He recently sold or gave away all the belongings that did not fit into his 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit and headed home from Baltimore for the holidays.
But he is not stopping in Falmouth for long: shortly after Christmas, Febos will hit the road in his Rabbit, armed with nothing more than a camera, a laptop, and a tank full of vegetable oil.
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Tags: Alchemy Farm, Barry Febos, biodiesel, CO2 emissions, diesel conversion, global warming, Joe Hackler, recycled art, Sustainabeast.com, sustainability, The Green Center, vegetable oil
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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.
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
Posted in Climate Change, REDD, sustainable solutions | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Most of us have heard the reasons for consuming food with origins closer to home: fresher food tastes better, it contributes little to global warming, and supporting your local farmer keeps food dollars in the community. But Hatchville resident Earle Barnhart wants Cape Codders to go the extra mile for their produce, by “growing fresh, growing local.”
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Tags: Alchemy Farm, composting toilets, Earle Barnhart, fertilizer, global warming, Hilde Maingay, New Alchemy Institute, packaging toilets, permaculture, The Green Center, water reuse
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
A question from Ric Gerace, Alma Road, Falmouth:
High tide flooding covers Menauhant Road
I would like to know why, in all the discussion on the half-billion dollar sewer project, there has been not one word on global warming and sea level rise. There is no question that the sea level is rising, and this century it is likely to rise sufficiently to make the health of the coastal ponds a moot question. … It seems to me that spending that much money to protect ponds that will soon enough be part of the Atlantic is a huge waste of resources.
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Tags: Climate Change, Coastal Resources Working Group, Coastal Zone Management, global warming, IPCC, Rob Thieler, sea level rise, Sewering
Posted in Climate Change, Request for ideas, sea level rise, Sewering, Wastewater | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 29th, 2010
A major chemistry experiment is taking place in the world’s oceans, with potentially irreversible effects on marine ecosystems and commercial fisheries.
According to scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 30% of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, known to be a leading cause of global warming, are being absorbed by the ocean. Small coincidence that over the past 50 years of global industrialization, rising CO2 emissions have also led to a 30% increase in the average acidity of ocean surface water.
This phenomenon is just starting to attract the attention– and alarm– of policymakers and the shellfish industry. I talked to Scott Doney and Sarah Cooley at WHOI to find out why.
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Tags: Climate Change, CO2 emissions, commercial fisheries, global warming, ocean acidification, Sarah Cooley, Scott Doney, shellfish, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
The effects of climate change are being felt in regional fisheries, causing a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to predict that haddock will disappear from the North Atlantic within 70 years. A 3-D underwater camera helped confirm the numbers. (more…)
Tags: Cabell Davis, Climate Change, commercial fisheries, copepods, Georges Bank, global warming, GLOBEC, phytoplankton, salinity, underwater video, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Hatchville native Barry Febos is on the move. He recently sold or gave away all the belongings that did not fit into his 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit and headed home from Baltimore for the holidays.
