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http://okvet.co.kr/shop/shopdetail.html?branduid=62442&xcode=040&mcode=001&scode=&type=X&sort=price2&pre_idx=2&next=ok | 2023-09-26T19:07:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510219.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926175325-20230926205325-00268.warc.gz | 0.89971 | 1,350 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__6654222 | en | CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine 3rd Edition
Frances M.D. Gulland, Leslie A. Dierauf, Karyl L. Whitman
Published May 23, 2018
For three decades, this book has been acknowledged as the most respected scientific reference specifically devoted to marine mammal medicine and health. Written by approximately 100 contributors who are recognized globally as leaders in their respective fields, the CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine, Third Edition continues to serve as the essential guide for all practitioners involved with marine mammals including veterinarians, technicians, biological researchers, students, managers, keepers, curators, and trainers. The 45 chapters provide essential information for the practitioner on pathology, infectious diseases, medical treatment, anesthesia, surgery, husbandry, health assessment, species-specific medicine, medically pertinent anatomy and physiology, and global health concerns such as strandings, oil spills, and entanglements of marine mammals.
The book guides the reader through the veterinary care of cetaceans, pinnipeds, manatees, sea otters, and polar bears. In addition to summaries of current knowledge, chapters provide information on those digital resources and websites which present the latest information as it emerges in the field. The CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine, Third Edition gives a call to action for scientists to experiment with new endeavors to engage and inspire current and future generations to care for marine mammals and the marine environment, and work together to find solutions. As the most trusted reference for marine mammal conservation medicine and for marine mammal medical facilities around the world, this book needs to be in your library.
Covers all aspects of marine mammal veterinary practice
Written by internationally acknowledged experts
Adds new chapters on Ophthalmology, Dentistry, Ethics, Oil Spill Response, Health Assessments, Whale Entanglement Response, Dive Response, and Biotoxins
Richly illustrated in color throughout the new edition including updated anatomical drawings and extensive photographs of ocular lesions
Provides guidance to websites that regularly present updated information and images pertinent to current marine mammal medicine such as imaging and stranding network contacts
Discusses ethics and animal welfare
Table of Contents
Climate change, regional issues.
Global Marine Mammal Health Concerns.
Stranding networks and response.
Oil spill response and effects.
Whale entanglement response and diagnosis.
Zoonoses and public health.
Ethics and animal welfare.
Anatomy and Physiology.
Overview of dive responses.
Gross necropsy and specimen collection.
Non infectious diseases.
(update plus noise, gas bubble disease, freshwater disease).
Helminths and Arthropods.
Medicine, Anesthesia and Surgery.
Pharmaceuticals and Formularies.
Nutrition and energetics.
Hand rearing and artificial milk formulas.
Tagging and tracking.
Health Assessment (How to examine, collect blood, urine, csf, feces, breath, photogrammetry, biopsy).
Species Specific Medicine (with blood values, clin path changes with relevant diseases).
Seals and sea lions.
Leslie Dierauf, V.M.D. is a retired wildlife veterinarian, having pursued a successful and unique professional career in a variety of venues. Most recently, from 2008-2011, Leslie served in a federal agency capacity, as the senior executive Pacific Northwest Regional Director, and prior to that as the Director of the National Wildlife Health Center for the US Department of the Interior’s US Geological Survey (USGS). Between 1994 and 2004, Leslie worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service in the Southwestern US, primarily with local communities in NM, AZ, TX and OK, working together to create land, water and development plans while protecting a multitude of threatened and endangered species through habitat conservation plans and the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program.
Frances M. D. Gulland, Vet MB, PhD, MRCVS is a veterinarian at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. She has been actively involved in the veterinary care and rehabilitation of stranded marine mammals and research into marine mammal diseases there since 1994. Her interests include determining the impacts of human activities on marine mammal health, and how marine mammals can in turn serve as indicators of ocean health. She received a veterinary degree from the University of Cambridge, U.K., in 1984, and a PhD in Zoology there in 1991. She currently serves as Commissioner on the U. S. Marine Mammal Commission.
Karyl L. Whitman, Ph.D is a wildlife behavioral ecologist interested in applied ecology and mitigating human effects on wildlife. She received a B.A. in Archaeology and Anthropology from Rutgers University. As a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow, Karyl received her Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from the University of Minnesota in 2006 under the direction of Dr. Craig Packer. Her research modelled the effects of trophy hunting and developed a new method to non-invasively age African lions that has been instrumental in reforming the hunting industry across several African states. She has studied a variety of East Africa wildlife, however more recently she assists with field research of California sea lions and northern fur seals in California. Karyl serves as a scientific advisor on the African Lion Working Group and to the Serengeti Lion Project. She currently lives in Seattle with her four children and husband, Tom Gelatt, who is the real marine mammal biologist in the family. | environmental_science |
https://50shadesofsun.com/2015/11/29/around-and-about/ | 2022-01-19T17:39:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301475.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119155216-20220119185216-00266.warc.gz | 0.976005 | 511 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__113808855 | en | So many of you have been asking about the environment here in our part of Spain that I thought that I had better answer your questions in a post.
Our home is in the province of Almeria in southern Spain, between Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca but, thankfully, nowhere near the popular tourist destinations. We are in a small community of about 30 or so properties (I have never counted) in a valley completely hidden from the main road. There is a village in walking distance and a town some 8km/5m away.
The climate, as by now you must be aware, is sunny. It is said to have 330 days of sun here every year. As such, we are surrounded by palm trees, oranges and lemons grow just down the road from our front door and there are a variety of plants that grow well in tropical climes as well as some desert ones.
Agriculture is one of the major economies with melons and lettuces being two of the major crops. Near us, it was fascinating to see, just last week, people working for a local co-operative arrive and harvest a field of lettuces by hand.
We are in an area where desert meets the mountains and sea. Indeed, we can be on a Mediterranean beach in 10 minutes. Most of the rivers are dried up but they occasionally flood when the rains come. The wettest month of the year is September and the worst of winter tends to be January and February.
Average temperatures reach their peak in August with highs of 30˚C/86˚F but occasional days of 35C/95F are not unknown. At night the average low temperature is 22˚C/62˚F. Spring and autumn temperatures are more moderate; they go up to about 23˚C/73˚F and down to around 12˚C/53˚F.
November’s average high is 20˚C/68˚F but, in fact, yesterday it reached 22˚C/62˚F. The nights, however, are quite chilly with average lows of 10˚C/50˚F.
This morning, Sunday, we visited a market in a nearby town right on the Mediterranean. The stalls were set among palm trees (see main picture), the sky was blue and the sun beat down. The temperature was 23˚C/73˚F; another glorious day. Did I mention it is sunny here? | environmental_science |
https://www.porterwhidbey.com/earthquake-insurance | 2024-03-05T08:08:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948223038.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305060427-20240305090427-00097.warc.gz | 0.959817 | 393 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__109531577 | en | 5595 Harbor Avenue,
Washington customers, don't wait for the next big earthquake to hit before taking action. Protect your home and family by purchasing earthquake insurance today and give yourself the seismic security you need.
Whidbey Island is situated in an area that is extremely susceptible to earthquakes, making it important for residents and property owners to consider purchasing earthquake insurance.
Earthquakes can happen suddenly and without warning, causing significant damage to homes and businesses in the area. Without adequate insurance coverage, property owners may find themselves facing substantial financial losses.
Earthquake insurance is designed to protect property owners from the financial impact of earthquakes. It provides coverage for damages caused by seismic activity, such as structural damage to buildings, cracked foundations, and damage to personal property. With earthquake insurance, property owners can rest assured that they have the necessary financial protection in the event of an earthquake.
On Whidbey Island, the risk of earthquakes is high due to the island's location near the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This is a tectonic plate boundary where the Juan de Fuca Plate and the North American Plate meet, which can lead to significant seismic activity. While it is impossible to predict when an earthquake will occur, it is important for property owners to be prepared and have the appropriate insurance coverage in place.
Even if you don't live in a high-risk earthquake zone, purchasing earthquake insurance is still a wise investment. In fact, earthquakes can happen anywhere, at any time, and can cause significant damage to properties that may not have been designed to withstand seismic activity.
Purchasing earthquake insurance is a smart and necessary investment for anyone who owns property on Whidbey Island. With the island's susceptibility to earthquakes, property owners need to have adequate coverage in place to protect themselves from financial losses. Don't wait until it's too late – contact us today to learn more about earthquake insurance options and to secure your property's future. | environmental_science |
https://www.kjkcapital.lu/sustainability/ | 2024-04-14T20:55:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816893.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414192536-20240414222536-00881.warc.gz | 0.931374 | 914 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__76219059 | en | KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A.– EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation
KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A. makes the following disclosures in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector (the “SFDR”).
Pursuant to Article 3 of the SFDR, KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A. is required to disclose the manner in which sustainability risks (as defined hereafter) are integrated into the investment decision-making process.
A sustainability risk means an environmental, social or governance event or condition that, if it occurs, could cause an actual or potential material negative impact on the value of the investments made by KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A. In the context of the firm, sustainability risks are risks which, if they were to crystallise, would cause a material negative impact on the value of the portfolios of the firm’s funds.
Such risk is principally linked to climate-related events resulting from climate change (i.e. physical risks) or to the society’s response to climate change (i.e. transition risks), which may result in unanticipated losses that could affect an investment. Sustainability risks can also affect companies by introducing social risks (i.e. gender gaps, social inequality) and governance risks (i.e. bribery issues, selling practices).
The impacts following the occurrence of a sustainability risk event may be numerous and vary in significance depending on industries, regions and asset classes.
Such sustainability risks are integrated into the investment decision-making and risk monitoring to the extent that they represent potential or actual material risks and/or opportunities to maximize the long-term risk-adjusted returns.
Pre-investment phase, KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A. has adopted an exclusion- and risk-based strategy. Controversial sectors such as weapons, coal mining, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, and adult entertainment are excluded from the investment universe. Applicable companies, where investments are considered, are analysed for their risk/return potential. Sustainability factors are among the risk factors considered.
Post-investment phase, KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A. follows an active ownership strategy. During the holding period of a portfolio company, the management of sustainability related risks is integrated in our value creation path and risk management strategy. In private companies under our control, we manage such sustainability related risks by identifying and monitoring company specific environmental factors, as well as social and governance practices. We then proceed to mitigate identified risks or potential risk areas by exercising our controlling rights. In public companies where we exercise our voting rights at annual general shareholder meetings (proxy voting), we apply our voting rights policy which includes sustainability factors.
KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A. has an ESG policy and process approved by the board of directors, who also monitor the effectiveness of the policy. Furthermore, KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A. has been a signatory of United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment (UNPRI) since April 2018.
No consideration of sustainability adverse impacts
KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A. does not consider the adverse impacts of investment decisions on sustainability factors (as defined hereafter) in the manner prescribed by Article 4 of the SFDR considering that non-financial data is still not available in satisfactory quality and quantity to allow the firm to adequately assess the potential adverse impact of its investment decision on sustainability factors.
The position will be kept under review as the underlying rules are finalised and are embedded in the short to medium term.
Sustainability factors means environmental, social and employee matters, respect for human rights, anti-corruption and anti-bribery matters.
The firm pays its staff a combination of fixed remuneration (salary and benefits) and variable remuneration (including bonus). Variable remuneration for relevant staff takes into account compliance with all of the firm’s policies and procedures as well as with the firm’s internal risk management framework and risk limits, including those relating to the integration of sustainability risks. In this regard, KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A. remuneration policies do not encourage risk-taking which is inconsistent with its internal risk limits or with the risk profile of the funds that KJK Capital Luxembourg S.A. manages, including sustainability risks stemming in particular from climate-related events or from the society’s response to climate change. | environmental_science |
https://greaterwblfoundation.org/news/green-thumb-initiative-keeps-growing/ | 2020-01-23T21:55:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250613416.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20200123191130-20200123220130-00482.warc.gz | 0.938659 | 729 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__50762727 | en | Local nonprofit Giving Gardens is announcing its most recent move in applying for and being granted fiscal sponsorship by the Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation (GWBLCF), an organization aimed at inspiring philanthropy in communities that share the shores of White Bear Lake.
Giving Gardens founder Chris Harms described this development as “a really big step in building our future as a movement and organization, while at the same time aligning ourselves with really great people who share our values of community building.”
In welcoming Giving Gardens to the foundation’s family of funds, Chairman Bill Foussard said the Foundation is “pleased to have the opportunity to be the fiscal sponsor for Giving Gardens, an important project for our community.”
Contributors can now make tax-exempt donations to Giving Gardens by donating online or by check made out to GWBLCF with Giving Gardens Fund in the memo line.
Giving Gardens began its operations in Spring 2017 by offering 50 raised-bed gardens at no cost to community members who wished to adopt them.
Garden beds included the structure, dirt, compost, seed and/or started plants to start growing produce.
“The idea was to eliminate any and all barriers to someone wanting to get involved and adopt a garden bed to grow produce for the community, and even their own table,” Harms said of the basic philosophy behind the project. Giving Gardens then expects its growers to donate a majority (51 percent or more) of the produce harvested to a local food shelf or partnered community service program.
Harms’ idea seems to be working. To date, the growers of Giving Gardens have donated a total of 500 pounds of produce to the White Bear Area Emergency Food Shelf, and 150 pounds to the White Bear Lake Senior Program.
Due to popular demand, Giving Gardens is announcing that 100 more 4-by-8-foot raised-bed gardens will be available for the community to adopt this fall for the 2018 growing season. Giving Gardens will be delivering and installing the raised bed structure, dirt and compost to those adopting over the weekend of Oct. 28-29. Another followup delivery will be made in late April/Early May with the seeds and/or started plants to round out the all inclusive, free, garden bed package.
Harms said there are plenty of opportunities for community members to get involved with the nonprofit. Not only can someone adopt a garden bed, but they can be a sponsor if gardening isn’t their thing. He’s hoping sponsors will contribute $100 towards a raised garden bed.
“This is a great opportunity for businesses, organizations, clubs, churches and individuals to grow their philanthropic footprint in a highly impactful way,” Harms said. “Give the gift of growing by providing all of the materials needed for a complete garden bed.”
Donations of any amount are welcome and deeply appreciated. Donations can be made online through givinggardensmn.org, or by check/cash mailed to the Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation, P.O. Box 10626, White Bear Lake, MN 55110. If writing a check, please write “Giving Gardens Fund” on the memo line.
Volunteers are welcome. There is a need specifically associated with the fall garden bed delivery launch, taking place Saturday, Oct. 28 and Sunday, Oct. 29. Interested groups or parties can contact Giving Gardens on the volunteer section of givinggardensmn.org or simply email [email protected]. | environmental_science |
https://www.indianainsight.com/2022/02/25/hallador-encergy-company-to-acquire-hoosier-energys-merom-generating-station-in-sullivan-county/ | 2024-03-02T01:00:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475711.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301225031-20240302015031-00649.warc.gz | 0.943239 | 251 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__73942477 | en | Terre Haute-based Hallador Energy Company, through its new subsidiary Hallador Power Company, LLC, will acquire Hoosier Energy’s 1-Gigawatt Merom Generating Station in Sullivan County in return for assuming certain decommissioning costs and environmental responsibilities. The transaction, which includes a 3.5-year power purchase agreement (PPA), is scheduled to close in mid-July 2022 subject to required governmental and financial approvals. Under the agreement, Hoosier Energy will purchase 100% of the plant’s energy and capacity through May 2023, reducing purchases to 22% of energy output and 32% of its capacity beginning in June 2023 and through 2025. The companies’ existing renewable PPA – signed in May 2021 and representing 150 MW of solar generation and 50 MW of battery storage – will be retained, with its start date delayed until Merom’s eventual retirement. Hoosier Energy will retain approximately 5,760 acres of land, which has potential for diverse economic redevelopment. Other benefits cited by Hoosier Energy include elimination of millions of dollars in costs for plant decommissioning and long-term grounds maintenance. The new PPA provides additional capacity to Hoosier as well. | environmental_science |
https://members.chfca.ca/content.asp?contentid=1 | 2020-08-04T22:10:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439735885.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20200804220455-20200805010455-00469.warc.gz | 0.931996 | 142 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__149870170 | en | Our mission is to champion the Canadian hydrogen and fuel cell sector and accelerate the adoption of our members’ products and services, in Canada and abroad, by:
- Enhancing business opportunities for members through networking and market development opportunities;
- Promoting the economic, environmental and societal benefits of hydrogen and fuel cell energy solutions with policy makers to create an enabling environment for their increased adoption;
- Supporting the development of regulations, codes and standards to ensure the safe and widespread application of hydrogen and fuel cell products; and,
- Increasing the literacy of hydrogen and fuel cells through relevant communications channels so businesses, investors, media, the general public and other stakeholders understand their relevance and opportunities within the energy sector. | environmental_science |
https://henrygeorgefoundation.org/about-the-foundation/our-approach | 2024-04-20T00:01:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817463.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419234422-20240420024422-00342.warc.gz | 0.919853 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__77089122 | en | The Henry George Foundation’s approach is forged by a radical understanding of the nature of property, and the importance for us all of the common resources of the world.
We recognise that the fundamental cause of the present unequal distribution of wealth is unequal access to the value of our common resources. Explicitly, we see the wealth problem of the 21st Century not as a problem of exchange – and therefore not one solvable by redistribution or trade rules. It is a problem of initial inequitable access to resources – and therefore solvable only by a clearer insight into, and implementation of, the natural laws of wealth distribution. We advocate a simple solution: the collection of the rental value of all natural and community resources – from whomever holds and monopolises them – and the application of the revenue raised for public purposes in lieu of traditional taxation.
This approach to sharing the value of our common resources and paying for public services and infrastructure comes in many guises. One example of the measure is called land value taxation. However fiscal charges should apply to all common resources including, for instance, the use of the radio spectrum, mineral exploitation including oil reserves, air traffic landing slots, pollution emissions capacity, satellite parking stations and deep sea fishing licences.
Such radical reform of our resource and public revenue systems would have far-reaching and profoundly beneficial consequences for society and the environment. | environmental_science |
https://whynothappyblog.wordpress.com/tag/nature/ | 2018-06-21T20:02:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864257.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621192119-20180621212119-00073.warc.gz | 0.973385 | 334 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__166957862 | en | I haven’t really noticed being in autumn last year as I was living close to the centre. I’m now in a pretty green area with several parks around and trees along the road. So I can observe the change of season and I’m finally amazed by the paradoxal autumn. It’s a cold season revealing warm colours.
During its months, the pavement becomes a bed of purple leaves and when the wind is blowing they swirl all around. It’s raining leaves slowly falling down on our feet, covering up the gloomy concrete. I enjoy going out just to hear the leaves crakling and see them flying away. It can be really pleasant to contemplate nature.
It is a pleasure, a delight and a fascination.
We tend to think that we are above nature but if we have a look at other cultures such as the Native American culture we have an example of a different relationship with nature. They remind us that we live within and as a part of it. We are born from it, after all. And just like us, nature is life. It can give us a lot and that’s why we use it. But we could find a deeper enjoyment in our relationship with nature. “You say that I use the land, and I reply, yes, it is true; but it is not the first truth. The first truth is that I love the land; I see that it is beautiful; I delight in it; I am alive in it” once said N. Scott Momaday, a Native American writer.
A simple walk in a park is source of happiness… | environmental_science |
https://www.jhcga.org/single-post/a-realistic-view-on-the-conflicting-issues-of-the-oil-industry-and-climate-change | 2024-04-24T19:34:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819847.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424174709-20240424204709-00306.warc.gz | 0.957708 | 1,601 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__39330272 | en | A view from Kay A. Modi, Jackson resident and former oil industry consultant
Working in the oil industry for more than 40 years to address environmental, health and safety issues at facilities and in the adjacent communities has been a great career. However, I am disheartened to have witnessed the arguments propounded by industrial representatives as to whether climate change is real, and how the public expects the industry to transition in order to address climate change initiatives. I find that too many people naively quote industrial, political or environmental leaders without any understanding of the science or economics of the issues. Uninformed and inaccurate comments made by each side of the issues may inflame the discussion and make progress more difficult. It is my intent to lower the temperature of the angry divide so progress can be made.
First, I will define the oil industry as oil and gas companies that support the production, processing and movement of petroleum-based products. People in the industry have made biased evaluations of climate change – or denied it altogether-- and they have been intentionally misleading the public and many politicians. Many pro-industry people proclaim that “pro-climate change politicians are trying to kill the oil industry.” Second, politicians have called for a ban on fracking (slang for hydraulic fracturing) that would eliminate new sources of oil and gas, but they have not assessed how to manage society without crude oil and natural gas.
I have observed that some of the oil industry conferences, which include associations that lobby for the oil industry, are biased and are a platform for misleading attendees about climate change without any credible scientific education of its members. These messages are purposefully political; they trickle down to politicians, workplaces and communities and result in large numbers of people echoing comments without any understanding of issues. Additionally, climate change scientists may feel harassed by members of the oil industry due to direct litigation of their research projects.
One of the largest industrial conferences sponsored by a chemical engineering institute presents studies on climate change impacts to coastal areas, along with technologies needed to address climate change and details on hydrogen-fueled engines for cars and trucks, as well as supply-related solutions of using natural gas pipelines to deliver hydrogen across the US. This conference also has sponsors and attendees from the oil industry.
In a recent conference presentation on Gulf Coast flooding predictions and modeling by a retired meteorologist from the US Navy, questions were asked about the Navy’s preparation for climate change. The presenter told the attendees that the Navy must live in the real world, adding that we must not confuse executive office policies with naval long-term plans. The Navy, he said, has been actively preparing for the impact of climate change on coastal facilities (naval bases) for more than twenty years.
It is not realistic that we can continue with our businesses and lives as we know them without oil. Petroleum processing is not the primary problem in addressing climate change. Burning fossil fuel, destruction of the carbon dioxide sink within vegetation, poorly managed lands losing organic matter, electric grid issues and poor mass transportation systems are parts of the problem, too. Each of us needs to take responsibility for buying a fossil-fueled vehicle and wanting a massive distribution system of fossil-fueled trucks and ships to bring fresh foods year-round and general goods to our community.
Petroleum products are more than fuel to burn, for they improve our lives with a large variety of resulting uses. Oil is a natural substance made of over 1000 chemical compounds with a large portion developed into fuels and another portion into non-fuel products. It is not a viable future goal to stop producing oil unless people want to reinvent the vehicle: tires – not possible to go back to rubber tree production; lube oil – synthetic lube oil is a highly processed oil product, plus, asphalt for roads. Do we no longer want to use plastics to make pipes that replaced copper and iron pipes in our homes and buildings; no longer use glues or plastics that replaced metals to make lighter cars and planes to reduce all fuel (electric or gasoline) consumption; and do we want to do away with most chemicals that are used to make pharmaceuticals, synthetic fabrics, foam, antifreeze, resins in plywood, hospital gloves or fertilizers for food production? To date, we do not have the demonstrated technology at scale to successfully fly airplanes without jet fossil fuel or power large cargo ships across oceans without heavy fossil fuel. We are probably a decade away or possibly longer for any prototypes.
For a green future, producing the products we need from oil or gas and not producing fossil fuels is highly problematic. Today’s oil refineries cannot make the petroleum products used for non-fuels without making gasoline. It may take billions of dollars to adjust for a change in products for large refineries of the future. Additionally, increasing the demand for metals to replace all carbon-based compounds will mean fewer metals for green energy alternatives, such as wind turbines, solar power and electrical transmission systems. The continual high demand for any type of metal will most likely be a huge environmental challenge in preventing damage to water systems and human health. Simply put, the driving force to transition to green fuels requires the public to stop buying gasoline and diesel. As long as the public buys, the oil companies will need to frack for oil, refine oil and distribute fuels. Mandating that automakers sell alternative fuel vehicles and trucks, or federal programs that tax fossil fuels so heavily that the public wants to buy alternatives, is going to be difficult unless bipartisan support is achieved.
Most people living in Jackson who own an electric vehicle may defer to the gasoline engine when traveling into challenging terrain or weather or when recharging stations are scarce. The launch of wind power systems, which were built in recent years with support of federal tax incentives from the Obama administration, and investments in electrical transmission to use the wind power indicate change in Wyoming’s approach to green energy investments. It is not well known that wind turbine blades must be filled with balsam wood (insufficient for demand) or products developed from oil. In developing technologies and infrastructure at the state and local levels, energy companies in states like Wyoming have changed focus as political administrations have changed.
Industry activities toward climate change initiatives and public perception are inconsistent. Executives of the oil industry have made renunciations about the science of climate change and political activities, while having in-house discussions and active projects on how to deal with the consequences of rising sea levels on refineries. They have hedged their bets on both sides of the argument and created delays in progress. Most coastal chemical and oil industries have already implemented “rising sea level and high rainfall protection” projects, which take more than a decade of design and construction. It is highly probable that their credibility is lost. Oil companies vary in their approaches, possibly because some of the largest oil companies have European headquarters.
The cost of making no or little progress to address climate change --or making preparations/investments to handle drastic weather conditions-- is not well explained to the public or broadcasted objectively. Some hidden costs may be increasing insurance rates for cities, industrial facilities and home owners; significant economic losses that cover large geographic regions during events, and severe land damage. It will take considerable time to bring the goals of the industry, consumers, and scientists and environmentalists into agreement. In the meantime, we will be using fossil fuels and attempting to phase them out proportionally with the growing development of climate change solutions. The oil industry needs a regulatory framework and incentive program that is consistent throughout changing political administrations.
With a better understanding that the various oil industries still need to be successful businesses as the US moves into green or non-fossil fuel energy, and with the public not being persuaded by the projections of the oil industry and its political representatives on the validity of climate change, the US may find a path forward that successfully addresses the many challenges ahead. | environmental_science |
https://www.hcmud412.org/2021/02/water-system-update/ | 2023-06-04T20:05:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224650264.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20230604193207-20230604223207-00567.warc.gz | 0.93576 | 118 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__120401169 | en | At this time, HC MUD No. 412 is not under a boil water advisory and the water distribution system is functioning normally. The District does receive a percentage of its water from the City of Houston, however the water is retreated and redistributed through the District’s water plant. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the District Operator USW Utility Group at 832-756-2143.
You can sign up for emergency alerts through the District’s emergency alert system, Revetize, by texting your number to 833-335-4061. | environmental_science |
https://www.alamoranchmaps.com/2019/02/flood-hazard-zones-in-vicinity-of-alamo.html | 2021-01-23T00:21:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703531702.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20210123001629-20210123031629-00143.warc.gz | 0.929814 | 139 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__82093712 | en | The map below shows the currently mapped flood hazard zones in the vicinity of the Alamo Ranch area of far northwest San Antonio. The effective date for these maps is September 2010. There has been significant construction of homes, commercial buildings, and drainage infrastructure since that time.
The definition of the "100-year" flooding event that is the basis for the construction of the 1.0% Annual Chance Flood Hazard Zone is very likely to change based on increased frequency of major rainfall events in recent years. However, no information was found regarding plans for updates to these maps.
These maps and others for any area of interest around San Antonio are available via the interactive map viewer at the address below: | environmental_science |
https://www.roadwarriorplus.com/Road-Warrior-Plus-Paint-Protection-Gallon-Size-p/10010.htm | 2017-10-20T05:02:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823731.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020044747-20171020064747-00533.warc.gz | 0.811799 | 307 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__160985641 | en | Road Warrior Plus - Gallon Kit
Road Warrior Plus is a water based solution that rolls on white and turns clear when dry, forming a tough, flexible vinyl film. It can be left on or used temporarily while traveling to your destination. Our proprietary formula is environmentally safe, can be used on freshly cured painted surfaces, and upon removal leaves no adhesive residue behind. Total amount of Road Warrior Plus is 1 Gallon broken up into 4 Quarts. Also includes 2 applicator kits.
The Road Warrior Plus Paint Protection contains neither silicone or chlorine compounds and has zero VOC's. The Road Warrior Plus Paint Protection dry film has been environmentally tested according to EPA Regulations and Guidelines. The cured film remains biodegradable and may also be recycled back into the plastics industry. Under current waste disposal regulations the Road Warrior Plus Paint Protection Protective Coating is classified as a Class II Non-Hazardous Industrial waste and may be disposed of in accordance with local and state waste disposal
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https://scott-franklin-qjec.squarespace.com/products/solarscapes/ | 2019-02-17T23:34:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247483873.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20190217233327-20190218015327-00114.warc.gz | 0.782191 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__63679082 | en | What are SolarScapes?
SolarScapes are the solution to the most demanding solar design and installation problems.
Building on the design that won Dwell on Design's Best Energy Product in 2012, SolarScapes are modular, pre-fabricated solar structure solutions that are infinitely configurable to meet the needs of any project.
- Solar Patio Cover
- Solar Carport
- Solar EV Charging Station
- Solar Covered Walkway
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Simply provide a few pieces of information about your project and Lumos takes care of the rest. We will provide...
- Fully Fabricated Structure
- LSX Frameless Solar module system
- Mounting Components and Hardware
- Engineering/Structural Wet Stamped Permit Package Included
- Overhead solar applications do not require a Class A Fire Rating
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- High Wind, Snow and Seismic Load Capacity
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- Fully Cantilevered, T Support, V Support, or Dual Post options available
- Fixed 7.5 degree tilt
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*Site specific details dictate the maximum capacity options available | environmental_science |
https://greenprint.fandom.com/wiki/Goal_5 | 2019-03-22T23:19:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202698.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20190322220357-20190323002357-00175.warc.gz | 0.931184 | 746 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__72274669 | en | Make it easier for people to use transit and bicycles.Edit
Transportation, for the purposes of this plan, is defined as means of movement, circulation, and accessibility throughout the neighborhood and surrounding areas, which includes walking, biking, vehicular traffic, both single-occupant vehicles as well as public transportation vehicles, and other forms of public transit. The transportation system has a great impact on the neighborhood’s economy, environment, and our general and social well-being. By creating a sustainable transportation network that encourages alternate forms of transportation rather than relying solely on automobiles, the neighborhood will become safer, healthier, and improve our overall quality of life.
(State why this topic is important to our neighborhood – connect to charrette discussion)
1. Improve public transportation infrastructure and visibility
Allowing our neighborhood to become more intergraded with the greater Baltimore transit system will provide connectivity to other parts of the city while helping to eliminate the need for personal vehicle use. Creating efficient walking and biking links to the various forms of public transportation within and around our neighborhood is an essential component of a sustainable neighborhood within the City. Improving upon the infrastructure and transit options available will help ensure an increase in future ridership, reduce trip times, and improve the rider’s overall experience. Our communities continued investment in the development and improvement of the City’s transportation system could help make this a reality.
- Increase the number of Johns Hopkins shuttle service stops throughout the neighborhood.
- Improve bus shelters and bus stops.
- Signage. Well-designed and well-coordinated signage systems with the incorporation of new technology will provide orientation, ease of use, and contribute to the overall effectiveness of the public transit system thus encourage use.
- Explore car share and zip car options in our neighborhood
2. Improve bicycle and pedestrian safety
Walking and bicycling immediately add accessible and affordable transportation modes. With XX% of Patterson Park residents without automobile access, increasing the safety and convenience of these active modes of transportation will have multiple benefits. Infrastructure that supports and encourages walking and cycling calms traffic and leads to reductions in traffic injury and death. As modes of transport, walking and cycling also promote health, enhance neighborhood connectivity, are zero emitting and non-polluting, and encourage development scaled to people, rather than cars. Making the built environment highly supportive of walking and cycling will lead to a healthier, more complete city.
- Support the implementation of the Bicycle Masterplan.
- Explore options for bike share programs within the neighborhood
- Provide convenient, secure, and visible bike parking (where?)
- Encourage participation of the safe routes to school program (which schools)
- Promote walking, bicycling, and exercising by temporarily closing select streets to automobiles.
3. Implement traffic calming devices
Fast-moving vehicular traffic prevents residents from the enjoyment of walking, bicycling, playing and interacting socially with others in urban streets. People do not like to live, walk, or travel on streets that are dominated by heavy traffic, because they are unsafe, loud, air polluting, socially disruptive and often visually unattractive. Urban streets are not the exclusive domains of the auto¬mobile; rather, urban streets are important public spaces for a wide range of community functions in addition to transportation, including commerce, recreation and social interaction. They must regain their fundamentally pedestrian-based function not through the elimination of automobile traffic but through calming of automobile traffic.
- Create raised crosswalks with a variation in material (where?)
- Create “bump-outs” to slow traffic and reduce the walking distance at crosswalks.
- Improve traffic signage and street markings. | environmental_science |
https://pureskinlab.com/products/mesh-produce-bag-3 | 2020-11-24T06:11:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141171126.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20201124053841-20201124083841-00424.warc.gz | 0.909344 | 304 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__37748683 | en | Organic Cotton Mesh Produce Bag - Set of 3
This pack of 3 great value organic cotton produce bags are designed for carrying fresh fruit or vegetables from the supermarket, market or farm shop and storing them at home.
They also make an excellent plastic-free gift (if you can bear to part with them!). The bags have a handy drawstring closure.
Made from 100% certified GOTS organic cotton, the bags can also be put straight into the refrigerator. Natural fibres mean the bags are breathable - unlike plastic bags - and produce will stay fresher for longer. Win-win!
Contains one small, one medium and one large bag. Wrapped in a recyclable paper band.
Perfect for carrying your loose groceries home from the bakers, supermarket, market or greengrocers. You can proudly refuse the single use plastic or paper bags that are still widely on offer, and you'll never need to reach for a plastic bag again!
Large Mesh Bag: Size: 34cm wide x 38cm high. Tare weight: 57g (we recommend weighing your items outside of the bag first).
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Small Mesh Bag: Size: 18cm wide x 22cm high. Tare weight: 24g. Care: Produce bags can be washed in the machine at 40 degrees and hung to dry. | environmental_science |
https://ctec.energy/speakers/fitzroy-vidal/ | 2021-12-02T16:09:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362230.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20211202145130-20211202175130-00208.warc.gz | 0.940781 | 208 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__202098124 | en | Fitzroy A. Vidal has over 28 years work experience in Jamaica’s energy industry, where he held several engineering, management and strategic leadership positions in both the public and private sectors, through which he has developed a wealth of business and industrial expertise.
In his current capacity as Principal Director for Energy in the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology, he provides policy advice for the development of strategies to achieve the National Energy Policy targets for sustainable development with a focus on energy conservation and efficiency, renewable energy deployment and energy security, through fuel diversification. He also provides leadership for legislative and regulatory reforms to facilitate Jamaica’s energy sector development. Other areas of expertise include Entrepreneurship, High Impact Business Negotiations, Project Management, Energy Management and Team Building dynamics to optimize business performance.
Mr. Vidal has a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology, Jamaica, and a Post Graduate Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Barry University, Miami, Florida, U.S.A. | environmental_science |
https://es.aht.at/noticias-2/aht-blogs-case-studies/ | 2021-11-29T08:34:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358702.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20211129074202-20211129104202-00152.warc.gz | 0.939294 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__104040620 | en | The latest IPCC6 report stated that propane R290 has a 20-year GWP of only 0.072 and a 100-year GWP of only 0.02. This means that all R290 AHT products use a refrigerant that has a lower warming impact than the CO2 products on the market as the 100-year GWP of CO2 is 1 as a reference point.
Metro Cash and Carry Japan recently replaced 200 HFC display cases at three of their locations with environmentally friendly propane plug-in units. AHT supplied the stores in Kawaguchi, Chiba and Tamasakai with the horizontal freezers ATHEN XL.
The AHT research and development department has been researching sustainable refrigerants since 1995. As a pioneer in the commercial deep-freeze and food refrigeration industry, the green refrigerant R290 propane was chosen. | environmental_science |
https://gdiadhesives.com/industries/insect/ | 2024-04-20T11:18:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817576.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420091126-20240420121126-00394.warc.gz | 0.873476 | 443 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__49539944 | en | Adhesive Pest Solutions: Glue Traps and Trap Coatings
The leader in effective, non-toxic adhesive pest solutions.
GDI Adhesives is the premier adhesive manufacturer of these insect product formulas. Our solutions are among the most commonly used for the commercial production of rodent glue traps and insect trap coatings. As a custom formulator of pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) technology, we also have the capability to create specialized formulations specific to our customer’s unique requirements.
The chemists at GDI Labs™ produce some of the most consistent and dependable insect and rodent control adhesives in the world. We’re able to incorporate high performance properties, including UV and slump resistance for vertically-positioned outdoor traps and lower coat weights with high efficacy rates. Our adhesives are FDA Approved for insect barrier preventative tree climbing and eco-friendly, all-weather Tanglefoot alternatives.
GDI Adhesives Insect adhesives specialities:
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Why do fly traps require different adhesive formulas than rodent traps? Is there a difference as to whether the product is made on paper or in a tray? Our adhesive insect traps are a preferred alternative to toxic insect sprays and repellants. As a global manufacturer of PSA and hot melt adhesives, the experts at GDI Labs™ are able to define – and formulate — the precise pest control solution to meet your needs.
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Pest control is a huge issue for populations around the world as diseases are regularly transmitted by insects. For health purposes, it is critical to mitigate unique situations and pests. Domestically as well as internationally, that’s exactly what GDI solutions deliver. | environmental_science |
https://2divefor.com/scuba-diving-locations/scuba-diving-in-st-andrews-state-park/ | 2024-02-21T20:52:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473558.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221202132-20240221232132-00074.warc.gz | 0.929958 | 2,265 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__158263364 | en | Have you ever dreamed of exploring an underwater world filled with colorful marine life and stunning coral formations? Look no further than St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach, Florida. Nestled in the Gulf of Mexico, this state park offers a variety of outdoor activities for visitors, including some of the best scuba diving opportunities in the area.
The park’s pristine waters and unique underwater landscape make it a haven for divers of all skill levels. Whether you’re an experienced diver or just starting, scuba diving in St. Andrews State Park has something to offer to everyone who loves to explore beneath the waves.
Scuba Diving in St. Andrews State Park
Scuba diving in St. Andrews State Park is an experience unlike any other. The park boasts crystal-clear waters that offer visibility up to 70 feet, making it easy to spot all kinds of marine life lurking beneath the surface. The underwater terrain at St. Andrews is equally impressive, with various dive sites ranging from shallow reefs to deep wrecks waiting to be explored.
Whether you’re looking for a leisurely shore dive or want to venture out on a boat dive, there’s something for every kind of diver here. One thing that sets St. Andrews apart from other dive sites is its unique jetties – manmade structures that were created in the early 1900s to protect the entrance to nearby Panama City Harbor from erosion caused by strong currents and waves.
Today, these jetties provide divers with an amazing opportunity to explore an artificial reef teeming with marine life like sea turtles, schools of fish, and even octopuses hiding among the rocks. If you’re looking for even more adventure on your dive trip, check out one of St Andrew’s wreck dives like The Black Bart Wreck – a sunken oil rig supply vessel that now rests on the ocean floor and serves as home base for lobsters, crabs, and all kinds of tropical fish.
Exploring St. Andrews State Park Underwater
If you’re looking for a unique diving experience, look no further than Scuba diving in St. Andrews State Park in Florida. One of the most attractive aspects of diving here is the park’s underwater landscape, which is simply breathtaking.
The water clarity is excellent, with visibility reaching up to 50 feet on a good day. In addition to the impressive visibility, several types of dives are available in the park, catering to divers with varying experience levels.
For those who prefer shore dives, several great locations are within walking distance of the beach. These sites offer easy access and are ideal for beginners or anyone looking for a relaxing dive experience.
If you want more adventure and don’t mind taking a boat out to sea, then you will be delighted by what awaits you at some of St. Andrews’ offshore locations. Regarding regulations and safety measures, all divers must adhere to certain guidelines while diving in St. Andrews State Park waters.
This is done to ensure their safety and protect the delicate ecosystem below the surface. Spearfishing equipment and collecting marine organisms are prohibited within park boundaries. Divers must also obtain a permit before embarking on any diving activity within park limits – but don’t worry, it’s easy as pie!
Marine Life in St. Andrews State Park
When it comes to scuba diving, one of the most exciting aspects is the opportunity to explore a world that is so different from our own. Nowhere is this more apparent than at St. Andrews State Park, where divers can encounter an incredible array of marine life. From colorful tropical fish to majestic sea turtles and even the occasional dolphin sighting, there is always something new and exciting to see under the water.
The Diverse Marine Life of St. Andrews State Park
One of the reasons why scuba diving in St. Andrews State Park is so popular is because it offers such a wide range of marine life to discover. The park’s waters teem with fish of all shapes and sizes, from tiny creatures darting in and out of coral formations to larger predators like barracudas and groupers. In addition to fish, divers can spot other types of marine animals, like sea turtles and rays gliding gracefully through the water, or perhaps even catch a glimpse of one of the resident dolphins that occasionally appear in the park’s waters.
Rare Finds Underwater
While it’s always thrilling to see familiar species like clownfish or angelfish while diving at St. Andrews State Park, some more unusual creatures can be spotted if you’re lucky enough. For example, eagle rays are occasionally seen cruising just under the water’s surface, with their wings flapping gracefully as they glide. Divers may also encounter octopuses hiding among rock formations or in small crevices on wrecks.
And then there are truly rare finds that only come once in a great while – things like seahorses or even whale sharks have been seen in these waters! Of course, these sightings are rare enough that they can’t be guaranteed, but they’re a testament to just how rich and diverse the marine life is scuba diving in St. Andrews State Park.
Dive Sites in St. Andrews State Park
The Jetties: Exploring the Underwater World of Coastal Engineering
Scuba diving in St. Andrews State Park The Jetties is one of the most popular sites, and for a good reason. This man-made structure was constructed in the 1960s to help stabilize the entrance to St. Andrew Bay, and over time it has become an ideal habitat for a wide variety of marine life.
Divers can expect to see schools of colorful tropical fish, crabs scurrying along the bottom, and even sea turtles making their way through the maze-like formations. One of the most exciting aspects of diving at The Jetties is exploring all the nooks and crannies formed around this unique coastal engineering project.
Be sure to bring a flashlight with you, as some parts can be quite dark! You’ll also want to watch for moray eels hiding in crevices and octopuses camouflaging themselves against rock formations.
Black Bart Wreck: Exploring a Sunken Piece of Maritime History
For history buffs or those who enjoy wreck diving, Black Bart Wreck is an absolute must-see dive site at St. Andrews State Park. The ship was originally a 185-foot-long oil rig supply vessel built in 1957 that was later converted into a pirate-themed party boat before finally being intentionally sunk to create an artificial reef off the coast.
Today, divers can explore this fascinating piece of maritime history while encountering all kinds of marine life that have made it their home over time. Expect to see schools of spadefish swimming through its open hull or small groups of barracudas patrolling around its perimeter.
Keep your eyes peeled for smaller creatures like sea horses clinging onto ropes or sponges growing on metal beams – every inch of the wreck is covered in life. And if you’re lucky, you might even spot a giant goliath grouper taking up residence inside the ship itself!
Tips for Scuba Diving in St. Andrews State Park
Advice for First-Time Visitors
If you’re a first-time visitor to St. Andrews State Park and interested in scuba diving, you should keep a few things in mind. First and foremost, starting with an open-water certification class is always a good idea before attempting any dives on your own. The park has several reputable dive shops where you can take classes or rent equipment if needed.
Before scuba diving in St. Andrews State Park, make sure to familiarize yourself with the park’s regulations, including dive flags and other safety measures. It’s also important to be aware of potential hazards like strong currents or underwater structures that may pose a danger.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions or seek guidance from more experienced divers or instructors at the park. They can offer valuable advice on everything from dive sites to equipment recommendations.
Recommendations for Experienced Divers
Experienced divers looking to get the most out of their St. Andrews State Park trip have plenty of options. One popular choice is taking a boat dive out to some of the deeper reefs and wrecks further offshore, where you can spot larger marine life like sharks and rays. For those who prefer shore dives, there are plenty of great options, including some less-explored areas that require a bit more effort but offer higher rewards in marine life sightings.
No matter what type of diving you choose, it’s always worthwhile taking the time to explore some of the lesser-known areas within the park – you never know what kind of hidden gems you might find! And as always, remember safety first – staying within your comfort level and following proper procedures will ensure that your trip is enjoyable for everyone involved.
Recap of Why St. Andrews State Park Is a Must-Dive Destination
Scuba diving in St. Andrews State Park is an absolute paradise. With its crystal clear waters, diverse marine life, and unique underwater landscape, it’s no wonder why so many people worldwide come to explore its depths. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a first-time diver, there’s something for everyone at St. Andrews.
One of the park’s most popular dive sites is The Jetties, where divers can swim through towering granite boulders that were once part of an old jetty system. In addition to being visually stunning, The Jetties are also home to a vibrant array of marine life, including schools of colorful tropical fish and friendly sea turtles.
Another must-see site is the Black Bart wreck – the remains of a 175-foot-long ship that was intentionally sunk in 1987 to create an artificial reef. Today, the wreck is teeming with life and offers divers an eerie glimpse into the past.
If you’re considering taking a scuba diving trip to St. Andrews State Park, we highly encourage you to do so! Not only will you have the chance to witness some of nature’s most awe-inspiring creations up close and personal, but you’ll also support conservation efforts in one of Florida’s most beloved state parks.
Those new to scuba diving or just starting with their certifications, don’t be intimidated! Plenty of local dive shops offer training courses and guided dives in St. Andrews so that you can feel confident and safe while exploring this incredible underwater world.
And for experienced divers who may have already visited other popular dive destinations like Hawaii or Australia – trust us when we say that St. Andrews has something special in store for you. The unique combination of man-made and natural diving sites and the park’s pristine location on Florida’s Gulf Coast makes for an unforgettable scuba diving experience you won’t want to miss. | environmental_science |
https://www.visitsutherlandshire.com.au/operators/banks-solander-track/ | 2024-04-24T22:17:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819971.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424205851-20240424235851-00050.warc.gz | 0.928572 | 166 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__55885712 | en | Banks-Solander track highlights the important botanical value of Kamay Botany Bay National Park, near Kurnell.
Many of Australia’s plants were first collected and described in the area by Cook’s botanists, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, in 1770. The track features informative panels showcasing numerous plant types that fascinated Banks and Solander more than 240 years ago.
Starting at the Kurnell Visitor Centre, this well-maintained track offers an easy 700 metre walk past eucalypts, banksias and ferns.
Banks-Solander track is a self-guided walk, so you can take as long as you like to complete it. It branches off from Yena trail, so continue on if you prefer a longer walk. | environmental_science |
http://www.teaparty.org/romney-heads-to-hurricane-torn-new-orleans-obama-goes-to-texas-12724/ | 2013-12-06T21:55:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163052712/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131732-00063-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.960546 | 212 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__154010995 | en | (ABC News) – In a last-minute change of plans, Mitt Romney will head to visit storm-affected areas in New Orleans today, skipping a previously scheduled joint rally with running mate Paul Ryan in the battleground state of Virginia this afternoon.
A Romney aide told ABC News that Romney will “join Gov. Jindal and will meet with first responders, thank them for their work and see areas impacted by the storm in LaFitte, La.â€
Jindal cancelled his plans earlier this week to attend the Republican National Convention after Hurricane Isaac moved up the Gulf Coast and wreaked damage across Louisiana. Two deaths have been reported in Louisiana as a result of the storm and widespread damage and flooding. The storm hit on the seven-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
The Romney campaign had been working to determine how they could visit the region throughout the week. The trip to New Orleans will be the maiden voyage of Romney’s new campaign plane.
The White House has not announced any plans to visit the storm area. | environmental_science |
http://cs.ecology.commentinput.com/?id=UTCrj | 2018-08-21T15:19:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221218357.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20180821151743-20180821171743-00333.warc.gz | 0.880035 | 154 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__108823854 | en | Ecology invites the public to comment on a proposal to removing the Winger Land Golden Homes voluntary cleanup site from the State's Hazardous Sites List. The cleanup removed petroleum contamination in soils.
The proposal to remove the site from the Hazardous Sites List is based on the Ecology's determination that this site cleanup has been completed and no further action is needed. This decision is described in the draft No Further Action letter.
Please note that this comment form is for the purpose of submitting a comment to the Washington State Department of Ecology. Contact information is necessary if you want to receive future notices or responses related to this topic.
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Thank you for subscribing to the Winger Land Golden Homes mailing list. | environmental_science |
https://jhfineart.com/blogs/news/grand-teton-national-park | 2024-03-05T00:15:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476592.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304232829-20240305022829-00460.warc.gz | 0.944457 | 596 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__129503262 | en | If you want to witness pure magic in nature, you must visit the Grand Tetons of Wyoming. It is one of the most striking mountain ranges on this planet. Beautiful, mesmerizing, dangerous and intoxicating. The skyline of mountains and glaciers act as the overlord of this part of the world, reminding us just how small we are when in the midst of grandeur. Once you experience the beauty and majesty of this part of the world, you will be forever changed.
The 40-mile-long Teton Range is the youngest range in the Rocky Mountains, in fact, they are some of the youngest mountains in the world. Still, the rocks in the park are some of the oldest in North America. The mountains of the Teton Range continue to grow even today.
Sleeping out under the stars and under the shadow of the Grand Tetons is an amazing experience. Watching the sun slowly set behind the behemoths, and experiencing the change of colors that play out from dusk to darkness is a remarkable sight. The sky vignettes from opaque blues and oranges to translucent yellows, pinks, and purples, followed by almost every other hue of the color spectrum until total darkness is realized. Even under darkness, the guardianship of the Tetons can be felt as one drifts off to sleep under their watch.
There are so many breath-taking vistas in the park. The Signal Mountain Summit road will leave you awe struck. You truly get a sense of the vastness of the area from this amazingly beautiful overlook. The views from Jenny Lake, Leigh Lake and Jackson Lake are stunning in their beauty. If you catch these on a day with no wind, you get a perfect reflection of the mountains reflected back onto the water. To get up close and personal with the mountains, I suggest hiring a fishing guide to take you out on of the lakes. Many of the guides have been fishing the area for decades and know of many hidden gems and off-the-radar locations that most people don’t ever get a chance to see. The magic of the park changes almost hourly with shifts in sunlight, cloud cover, dawn and dusk.
The highest peak in the Teton Mountain Range is Grand Teton at 13,770 feet above sea level, and many other peaks in this range are over 12,000 feet in height. Mt. Moran, Teewinot Mountain, Mt. Owen, Nez Perce and South Teton are some of the tallest.
I was inspired by the Mormon Row area of the park, and the T. A. Moulton Barn, specifically. The T. A. Moulton Barn is all that remains of the homestead built by Thomas Alma Moulton and his sons between about 1912 and 1945. It sits west of the road known as Mormon Row, in an area called Antelope Flats.
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https://arnikaorganic.com/en/ | 2018-12-10T12:43:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823339.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20181210123246-20181210144746-00515.warc.gz | 0.944927 | 282 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__246978032 | en | Today, Arnika agro-industrial group has more than 20 thousand hectares of cultivated land and plans to become the largest organic holding in Ukraine. We are confident that agricultural production should be as natural as possible without the use of chemicals.
The company has its own processing plant which produces valuable feedstock of processed soya — organic toasted expanded full-fat soy.
Also, Arnika agro-industrial group has its own research centre for selection and seed production of soybeans and grain legumes. Its specialists carry out selection work and primary seed-breeding of soybeans and legumes varieties.
Organic production - is not just a global trend, it is a necessity today. We have inherited the earth from our ancestors, and should maintain its strength and health for our children. It is with such convictions in 2004 we founded agricultural holding Arnica, and actively develop organic production in Ukraine.
Arnika grows organic cereal and industrial crops, including wheat, corn, sunflower and soy. In addition, we are reviving the production of technical hemp and engaged in breeding of soybean seeds.
https://latifundist.com/rating/toporganic#197 Less than 1% of agricultural land in Ukraine is covered by organic farming. On the one hand, it is not enough, but at the same time it speaks about significant prospects for the development of this...Read more | environmental_science |
https://shnuggle.com/product/moses-basket-waterproof-sheet | 2021-06-21T20:01:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488289268.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621181810-20210621211810-00289.warc.gz | 0.931221 | 288 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__153913040 | en | Super soft waterproof sheet made from a breathable, 100% tencel jersey to create a dry and safe sleeping environment for baby. Perfect protection for your Shnuggle moses basket mattress.
As well as being much kinder to the environment, tencel has been carefully chosen for its super absorbent, breathable and soft qualities, making it perfect for baby. 100% waterproof, protecting both baby and mattress for a more restful and safe sleeping space.
Super soft to touch – non crinkly/crackle feel
Our waterproof sheets are made from a 100% Tencel jersey top, making them super softer.
Extra Absorbent and breathable
100% waterproof to keep baby clean and dry as well as protecting your mattress. Our waterproof sheets are also much more breathable and absorbent than cotton, helping to regulate baby’s temperature.
Oeko-Tex certified quality
Tencel is anti-bacterial due to it being naturally breathable and absorbing 50% more moisture than cotton.
Kinder to the environment
Tencel is a naturally derived fibre. Manufacturing Tencel requires less energy, up to 20 times less water than cotton and is less susceptible to bacterial growth. Its also 50% more absorbent than cotton and more breathable too.Read full description
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https://growarrowlakes.com/ | 2022-07-07T14:46:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104692018.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707124050-20220707154050-00542.warc.gz | 0.966303 | 168 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__49544626 | en | Grow Arrow Lakes
Rooted in Heritage
Some say, ‘it will never be the way it was’ we tend to disagree. As time passes, the people who once called this region their home, have too, gone. What remains is the desire to build a self-sustaining lifestyle, one that gives back to the community and respects the land and its residents.
Dotted throughout the region are the stewards who work the land, plant the gardens, tend to the livestock, and create products that contribute to the economical wellness of the area. Life in the mountains has never been an easy one, but those who carved out their plots to grow and farm preserved and left their legacy.
Today, it is from those very deep roots and attachment to our heritage that the Grow Arrow Lakes’ brand emerges. | environmental_science |
https://servprovigocounty.com/mold-remediation | 2024-04-12T13:54:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816024.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412132154-20240412162154-00302.warc.gz | 0.892457 | 1,076 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__197093146 | en | Mold Remediation and Restoration
- 24-Hour Emergency Service
- Faster to Any Size Disaster
- Highly Trained Mold Remediation Technicians
- Specialized Mold Remediation Equipment
- A Trusted Leader in the Restoration Industry
- Locally Owned and Operated
Mold occurs in areas that offer the sources of fuel it needs. This is typically areas where there is some moisture & warmth. Here are some areas where you may find it & should be checked...
- Window sills – Be sure to look around the edges of the window & the glass itself.
- Refrigerator drip pans – There’s a small drip pan located under your refrigerator. Be sure to check for this. Pull it out & empty it routinely.
- Attics – It can be hard to pinpoint mold in the attic, but look for sources of moisture, such as a leak or an area where condensation is built up.
- Front-loading washing machines – This has become a common problem because the doors tend to remain closed, making it hard for these surfaces to dry out.
- Chimneys – Typically due to leaks, it is always a good idea to inspect your chimney for signs of mold damage.
- Air conditioners – Your air conditioner can be at risk both in the outdoor condensers and the indoor units.
- Under the sink – Look under each one of your sinks. Look for areas of discoloration on the cabinetry and the wall.
Do You Have Mold? Let Our Team Clean It Up
Mold is highly dangerous, even if it looks easy enough to clean up. It’s best to allow a professional handle it in order to minimize the risk of it becoming airborne. If you find mold in your home, call SERVPRO of Vigo County at 812-242-9611 for fast, reliable help.
If You See Signs of Mold,
Call Us Today – (812) 242-9611
Some restoration companies advertise “mold removal” and may even guarantee to remove all mold. This is a fallacy because removing all mold from a house or business is impossible; microscopic mold spores exist almost everywhere, both indoors and outdoors. Here are the facts:
- Mold is present almost everywhere, indoors and outdoors.
- Mold spores are microscopic and float along in the air and may enter your home through windows, doors, or AC/heating systems or even hitch a ride indoors on your clothing or a pet.
- Mold spores thrive on moisture. Mold spores can quickly grow into colonies when exposed to water. These colonies may produce allergens and irritants.
- Before mold remediation can begin, any sources of water or moisture must be addressed. Otherwise, the mold may return.
- Mold often produces a strong, musty odor and can lead you to possible mold problem areas.
- Even higher-than-normal indoor humidity can support mold growth. Keep indoor humidity below 45 percent.
Why Choose SERVPRO of Vigo County?
We’re Faster to Any Size Disaster
A minor mold problem can quickly become a major infestation if left untreated. We can start the remediation process immediately after you contact us. A faster response lessens the mold damage, limits additional damage, and reduces the remediation cost.
We’re Highly Trained Mold Remediation Specialists
We specialize in water and mold damage restoration, the cornerstone of our business. We have the training and expertise to safely handle any mold situation.
- Applied Microbial Remediation Specialist
- Water Damage Restoration Technician
- Applied Structural Drying Technician
We Use Advanced Mold Remediation Techniques and Equipment
Our advanced equipment helps to detect and stop the source of water feeding the mold. We then isolate the affected area using a negative air pressure chamber.
The Mold Remediation Process
Every mold infestation is different, from the amount of mold to the types of materials affected. Each scenario requires a unique solution, but the general process stays the same. The steps listed below illustrate our process for a “typical” mold remediation infestation:
- Emergency Contact - (812) 242-9611
- Inspection and Mold Damage Assessment
- Mold Containment
- Air Filtration
- Removing Mold and Mold-Infested Materials
- Cleaning Contents and Belongings
Common Mold Misconceptions
It’s easy to understand why many people struggle to grasp the facts and issues surrounding indoor mold because sensational news stories and advertising cloud and obscure the real issues. Educate yourself with the facts about mold and learn about the mold remediation process.
Locally Owned Company with National Resources
We live and work in this community too; we might even be neighbors. As a locally owned and operated business, SERVPRO of Vigo County is close by and ready to help with your mold-damaged property.
If a catastrophic storm or event occurs, we can call upon the resources of a national network of over 2230 SERVPRO Franchises and special Disaster Recovery Teams strategically located throughout the country to respond to large scale disasters.
We are proud to serve our local communities: | environmental_science |
https://www.vivatis.at/en/wojnar-sustainability | 2023-12-07T03:45:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100632.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207022257-20231207052257-00732.warc.gz | 0.915779 | 336 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__297858993 | en | The MSC (=Marine Stewardship Council) seal stands for the use of environmentally friendly fishing methods and for the responsible use of stocks. The MSC is an independent and non-profit organization that operates worldwide and was founded jointly by the environmental organization WWF and the food company Unilever to offer a solution to the global problem of overfishing. By buying MSC-certified fish, consumers support sustainable and responsibly managed fisheries and send a clear message to the food trade. All WOJNAR'S fish products carry the MSC seal, so that only the best quality reaches our customers.
Free range chickens
In order to make a contribution to animal welfare, WOJNAR'S decided in April 2012 to convert all branded products that contain eggs or egg parts to free-range animal husbandry.
Egg assurance of origin: The consumer desire for egg products that are demonstrably NOT made with eggs from laying hens in cage farming is ensured by the certification system of agroVet GmbH.
Climate neutral company
For us, sustainability means thinking today about the day after tomorrow. As a company, we not only have the opportunity but also the obligation to strengthen sustainability in our operations. We rely on new solutions that conserve resources, from the purchase of raw materials to production and logistics. Because living sustainability has a positive effect on the environment, society, health and the economy. WOJNAR'S values climate-neutral work and the smallest possible CO2 footprint.
WOJNAR’S Wiener Leckerbissen Delikatessenerzeugung GmbH | environmental_science |
http://northof49photography.blogspot.com/2015/06/canadian-wildlife-species-arctic-fox.html | 2018-07-21T18:55:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592654.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721184238-20180721204238-00442.warc.gz | 0.943911 | 127 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__123212001 | en | Thursday, June 18, 2015
Canadian Wildlife Species - Arctic Fox
Arctic foxes have beautiful white (sometimes blue-gray) coats that act as very effective winter camouflage. The natural hues allow the animal to blend into the tundra's ubiquitous snow and ice. When the seasons change, the fox's coat turns as well, adopting a brown or gray appearance that provides cover among the summer tundra's rocks and plants.
Like a cat's, this fox's thick tail aids its balance. But for an arctic fox the tail (or "brush") is especially useful as warm cover in cold weather. | environmental_science |
https://blog.anjandhungana.com.np/grow-lights-an-introduction/ | 2022-06-28T23:40:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103619185.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20220628233925-20220629023925-00181.warc.gz | 0.95403 | 1,103 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__233373245 | en | While growing up, we all read about photosynthesis and how plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make food. Sunlight as we know consists of a number of colors of light together (as seen in a rainbow). It turns out that plants mostly require only two colors, blue and red for their growth.
Fun fact: Plants do not require green light, which is reflected. It’s the reason they appear green.
For the plants to properly grow, they need a certain period of light, known as photoperiod. During the seasonal changes, the length of day and the night(photoperiod) changes, which leads to decreased production. Mimicking the blue and red wavelength present in the sunlight, this problem can be briefly eliminated.
Wavelength between 430 and 460 nm makes up blue light and that between 650 and 700 nm makes up red light visible to the human eye. These are what are also called photosynthetically active radiations (PARs) where the rate of photosynthesis peaks. These wavelengths are provided by the grow lights.
Grow lights consist of electronic lighting systems, which are capable of producing PARs. Grow lights are used, especially indoors and in controlled environment agriculture. These kinds of equipment are used to either supplement or replace the sunlight required by plants. There are different kind of grow lights, mostly categorized into:
- Fluorescent Lamps
- High-Intensity Discharge Lamps (HID)
- Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
Fluorescent Lamps are what we’ve been used to as CFLs(Compact Fluorescent Lights) and Fluorescent Tubes/Tubelights. These light choices are effective as low-cost solutions, and higher efficiencies. Fluorescent Lamps are more energy-efficient than older incandescent lamps. It means that heat production is lower. Grow lights of this category are often full-spectrum, i.e. the color of lights found in daylight.
As the heat production is low, they can be placed close to the plants for optimization of space. They are also cheap and are cost-effective for the short term and used by beginners.
High-Intensity Discharge Lamps are older technologies but are widely used as grow lights due to the balanced discharge of light spectrum. HIDs are of multiple types, but two of them are used as grow lights. These are Metal Halide(MH) and High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) bulbs.
MH produces a more blue spectrum of lights, along with other spectra of lights including yellow and UV, and lesser red wavelengths. On the other hand, HPS falls more to the side of the red/orange spectrum. UVs in low amounts are also found to induce the production of beneficial chemicals in plants.
The downside is that they’re expensive to set up and produce a lot of heat which can be difficult to manage.
Remember that Blue lights mainly induce vegetative growth in plants while Red lights are responsible to induce flowering and fruiting.
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs):
LEDs are one of the omnipresent technologies nowadays. Most electrical appliances use these components in different forms. In Controlled Environment Agriculture, LEDs are being widely used. These components are energy-efficient and consistent in terms of light production in nature.
LEDs are cost-efficient in the long run and are up to 75% more efficient than the previous fluorescent lamps. The amount of heat production by LEDs is also negligible. This means that these can be placed closer to the plants than other light sources without damaging the tissues.
These lights are also directional, it means that they throw lights in a specific direction rather than otherwise in previously mentioned lamps. This also reduces the cost of using reflectors to reflect the scattered lights to plants.
In indoor farming, blue and red LEDs are used in different combinations in different stages of plant growth to produce desirable results (known as light recipes). If you stumble upon the picture of LEDs used as grow lights, you might notice that the lights have a purplish hue. This is due to the combination of red and blue lights.
OLEDs: Although OLEDs are expensive at the moment, they’re more efficient than the LEDs and are thinner. OLEDs have rarely been brought into the perspective of agriculture but in the future, this technology might takeover the current industry of LEDs and other grow lights.
All of the above mentioned growing lights have their pros and cons. Fluorescent lamps are the cheapest solutions of all, and for a home grower, that should do it. I’ve come across many people over the internet who are successful home growers and use fluorescents as grow lights. HIDs are more cost-intensive and are HPS are widely used and are found to be beneficial in the flowering stages of plants. LEDs are cost-effective in the long run and can be used in different combinations of LEDs (More blue and less red LEDs for the vegetative stage and vice-versa for the flowering).
LEDs also have high flexibility as the spectrums of light can be fine-tuned according to the need of plants, and as desired. In the case of industrial food production, LEDs seem to be economically viable systems, with a high ratio of return of investment. | environmental_science |
https://www.energyplantsolutions.co.nz/geothermal-steam-generators/ | 2024-04-18T04:43:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817187.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418030928-20240418060928-00536.warc.gz | 0.940091 | 181 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__137216796 | en | Are you interested in a true carbon zero energy plant solution? The cost of carbon emissions is a serious consideration for any company currently burning fossil fuels to produce process heat. The cost of burning fossil fuels is trending toward well in excess of $100 NZD per tonne of CO2 in the near future. We are able to custom design geothermal clean steam generators. These use geothermal steam from the earth to generate clean steam on the secondary side of a specialised heat exchanger. If your business is serious about a sustainable process heat solution, and you want to move away from fossil fuels, we have a solution for you.
If you are interested in understanding more about our industry leading products and services, or you simply have a problem with your existing energy plant and you want us to make the pain go away, please make contact with us, we can help! | environmental_science |
https://m.gov.je/Weather/Shipping | 2019-07-18T11:00:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525627.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20190718104512-20190718130512-00380.warc.gz | 0.953922 | 522 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__175733799 | en | Channel Islands shipping forecast
For the area bounded by latitude 50°N, the French coast between Cap de la Hague and Ile de Brehat and longitude 3°W.
Issued by the Jersey Meteorological Department at 10am Thursday, 18 July 2019 for the period ending 1pm Saturday.
At 7a.m. low, 1008mb, mid Atlantic, expected to move east and deepen to be 999mb just west of county Kerry by noon Friday, with associated weather front affecting the Channel during Friday.
Forecast from 1pm Thursday to 1pm Friday.
Wind: West 4 occasionally 3, and 5 at times mid-Channel late afternoon and evening, locally northwesterly across far south of the area, backing southwest to south overnight, after dawn increasing 4 or 5 and occasionally 6 across the north and west of the area.
Sea state: Slight, occasionally moderate till midnight, mainly in the north of the area. During the morning across the north and northwest of the area increasing moderate.
Weather: Mist patches and drizzle clearing far southeast of the area by mid-afternoon. Fair, then patchy drizzle and mist in the west and north of the area after dawn, perhaps reaching some southeastern parts of the area by noon.
Visibility: Moderate or good, perhaps poor at times in the southeast of the area early this afternoon and also in the west and north after dawn.
Swell: 2 to 4 feet.
Outlook from 1pm Friday to 1pm Saturday.
Wind: Southwest to south 4 to 5, locally 3 across southeast of the area, occasionally 6 mid-Channel and northwest of the area. During the evening generally increasing 5 to 6 then veering southwest to west after dawn and decreasing 4 or 5 by mid-morning.
Sea state: Slight in the south to moderate in the north, then overnight increasing slight to moderate in the south and increasing moderate to rather rough in the north.
Weather: Occasional drizzle and mist with a risk of fog patches. Persistent and locally heavy rain from evening with extensive mist and patchy fog. Clearing to isolated showers by mid-morning.
Visibility: Moderate to good, locally poor, becoming generally moderate or poor during evening and locally very poor till around dawn, improving good during the morning.
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A personal consultation with the duty forecaster in Jersey is available 24 hours a day by phoning 0905 807 7777. Calls are charged at £1.50 per minute. | environmental_science |
http://nuwall.co.nz/about/ | 2024-04-16T17:15:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817103.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416155952-20240416185952-00655.warc.gz | 0.934525 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__98337296 | en | Nu-Wall’s manufacturing partner is McKechnie in New Plymouth, the company that pioneered aluminium extrusion in New Zealand. With a history reaching back to 1871, McKechnie is a time-tested producer of quality metal products for construction.
McKechnie also have anodising and powdercoating facilities, which means Nu-Wall products can be completed in one location.
There’s another reason why McKechnie is a great partner for Nu-Wall - they have their own aluminium recycling plant. All scrap generated during the manufacturing process is re-melted, along with scrap purchased from recycling merchants and other extrusion plants. Aluminium can be continually recycled with no loss of quality. What’s more, re-melting aluminium uses only 5% of the energy required to create virgin aluminium from bauxite ore. | environmental_science |
https://www.fjernvarmefyn.dk/engelsk/ | 2019-12-09T13:47:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540518882.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20191209121316-20191209145316-00446.warc.gz | 0.892188 | 218 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__89890548 | en | Fjernvarme Fyn is one of Denmark’s largest district heating companies. We supply heating to more than 90,000 households through more than 2,100 km of district heating pipes.
The vast majority of the heat is produced at Fjernvarme Fyn’s three CHP plants on Havnegade, fuelled by waste, straw and coal.
Every day we work to develop production and supplies for tomorrow’s society. We have come a long way in the transition to sustainable, renewable energy production. Recently, we announced an agreement with Facebook to utilise surplus heat from their forthcoming data centre in Odense for district heating.
At the same time, we are converting Fjernvarme Fyn’s waste energy plant at a cost of DKK 250 million. Following the conversion, the plant’s capacity and the energy from waste will be utilised better and more efficiently.
That’s why the future’s green for Fjernvarme Fyn, and for generations to come. | environmental_science |
https://enrique6newshurricanecenter.wordpress.com/tropical-glossary/ | 2018-06-23T06:38:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864943.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623054721-20180623074721-00107.warc.gz | 0.9063 | 2,594 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__79840218 | en | Official information issued by tropical cyclone warning centers describing all tropical cyclone watches and warnings in effect along with details concerning tropical cyclone locations, intensity and movement, and precautions that should be taken. Advisories are also issued to describe: (a)tropical cyclones prior to issuance of watches and warnings and (b) subtropical cyclones.
A subjectively-smoothed representation of a tropical cyclone’s location and intensity over its lifetime. The best track contains the cyclone’s latitude, longitude, maximum sustained surface winds, and minimum sea-level pressure at 6-hourly intervals. Best track positions and intensities, which are based on a post-storm assessment of all available data, may differ from values contained in storm advisories. They also generally will not reflect the erratic motion implied by connecting individual center fix positions.
Generally speaking, the vertical axis of a tropical cyclone, usually defined by the location of minimum wind or minimum pressure. The cyclone center position can vary with altitude. In advisory products, refers to the center position at the surface.
Center / Vortex Fix:
The location of the center of a tropical or subtropical cyclone obtained by reconnaissance aircraft penetration, satellite, radar, or synoptic data.
An atmospheric closed circulation rotating counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
A close approach of a tropical cyclone to a particular location. For locations on the left-hand side of a tropical cyclone’s track (looking in the direction of motion), a direct hit occurs when the cyclone passes to within a distance equal to the cyclone’s radius of maximum wind. For locations on the right-hand side of the track, a direct hit occurs when the cyclone passes to within a distance equal to twice the radius of maximum wind. Compare indirect hit, strike.
The roughly circular area of comparatively light winds that encompasses the center of a severe tropical cyclone. The eye is either completely or partially surrounded by the eyewall cloud.
Eyewall / Wall Cloud:
An organized band or ring of cumulonimbus clouds that surround the eye, or light-wind center of a tropical cyclone. Eyewall and wall cloud are used synonymously.
A decrease in the minimum sea-level pressure of a tropical cyclone of 2.5 mb/hr for at least 12 hours or 5 mb/hr for at least six hours.
A term used in advisories and tropical summaries to indicate that a cyclone has lost its “tropical” characteristics. The term implies both poleward displacement of the cyclone and the conversion of the cyclone’s primary energy source from the release of latent heat of condensation to baroclinic (the temperature contrast between warm and cold air masses) processes. It is important to note that cyclones can become extratropical and still retain winds of hurricane or tropical storm force.
A cyclone of any intensity for which the primary energy source is baroclinic, that is, results from the temperature contrast between warm and cold air masses.
The tendency of two nearby tropical cyclones to rotate cyclonically about each other.
Hurricane / Typhoon:
A tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind (using the U.S. 1-minute average) is 64 kt (74 mph or 119 km/hr) or more. The term hurricane is used for Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones east of the International Dateline to the Greenwich Meridian. The term typhoon is used for Pacific tropical cyclones north of the Equator west of the International Dateline.
Hurricane Local Statement:
A public release prepared by local National Weather Service offices in or near a threatened area giving specific details for its county/parish warning area on (1) weather conditions, (2) evacuation decisions made by local officials, and (3) other precautions necessary to protect life and property.
The portion of the year having a relatively high incidence of hurricanes. The hurricane season in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico runs from June 1 to November 30. The hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific basin runs from May 15 to November 30. The hurricane season in the Central Pacific basin runs from June 1 to November 30.
An announcement that hurricane conditions (sustained winds of 74 mph or higher) are expected somewhere within the specified coastal area. Because hurricane preparedness activities become difficult once winds reach tropical storm force, the hurricane warning is issued 36 hours in advance of the anticipated onset of tropical-storm-force winds.
An announcement that hurricane conditions (sustained winds of 74 mph or higher) are possible within the specified coastal area. Because hurricane preparedness activities become difficult once winds reach tropical storm force, the hurricane watch is issued 48 hours in advance of the anticipated onset of tropical-storm-force winds.
Generally refers to locations that do not experience a direct hit from a tropical cyclone, but do experience hurricane force winds (either sustained or gusts) or tides of at least 4 feet above normal.
A weather system for which a tropical cyclone forecast center (NHC, CPHC, or JTWC) is interested in collecting specialized data sets (e.g., microwave imagery) and/or running model guidance. Once a system has been designated as an invest, data collection and processing is initiated on a number of government and academic web sites, including the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (UW-CIMSS). The designation of a system as an invest does not correspond to any particular likelihood of development of the system into a tropical cyclone; operational products such as the Tropical Weather Outlook or the JTWC/TCFA should be consulted for this purpose.
The intersection of the surface center of a tropical cyclone with a coastline. Because the strongest winds in a tropical cyclone are not located precisely at the center, it is possible for a cyclone’s strongest winds to be experienced over land even if landfall does not occur. Similarly, it is possible for a tropical cyclone to make landfall and have its strongest winds remain over the water. Compare direct hit, indirect hit, and strike.
A hurricane that is classified as Category 3 or higher.
A report issued by a local National Weather Service office summarizing the impact of a tropical cyclone on its forecast area. These reports include information on observed winds, pressures, storm surges, rainfall, tornadoes, damage and casualties.
A former tropical cyclone. This generic term describes a cyclone that no longer possesses sufficient tropical characteristics to be considered a tropical cyclone. Post-tropical cyclones can continue carrying heavy rains and high winds. Note that former tropical cyclones that have become fully extratropical…as well as remnant lows…are two classes of post-tropical cyclones.
Now known as the “Tropical Cyclone Report”. A report summarizing the life history and effects of an Atlantic or eastern Pacific tropical cyclone. It contains a summary of the cyclone life cycle and pertinent meteorological data, including the post-analysis best track (six-hourly positions and intensities) and other meteorological statistics. It also contains a description of damage and casualties the system produced, as well as information on forecasts and warnings associated with the cyclone. NHC writes a report on every tropical cyclone in its area of responsibility.
The best estimate of the movement of the center of a tropical cyclone at a given time and given position. This estimate does not reflect the short-period, small scale oscillations of the cyclone center.
Radius of Maximum Winds:
The distance from the center of a tropical cyclone to the location of the cyclone’s maximum winds. In well-developed hurricanes, the radius of maximum winds is generally found at the inner edge of the eyewall.
A decrease in the minimum sea-level pressure of a tropical cyclone of 1.75 mb/hr or 42 mb for 24 hours.
A term used in an advisory to indicate that a vector drawn from the preceding advisory position to the latest known position is not necessarily a reasonable representation of the cyclone’s movement.
A post-tropical cyclone that no longer possesses the convective organization required of a tropical cyclone…and has maximum sustained winds of less than 34 knots. The term is most commonly applied to the nearly deep-convection-free swirls of stratocumulus in the eastern North Pacific.
An abnormal rise in sea level accompanying a hurricane or other intense storm, and whose height is the difference between the observed level of the sea surface and the level that would have occurred in the absence of the cyclone. Storm surge is usually estimated by subtracting the normal or astronomic high tide from the observed storm tide.
The actual level of sea water resulting from the astronomic tide combined with the storm surge.
A warning of 1-minute sustained surface winds of 48 kt (55 mph or 88 km/hr) or greater, either predicted or occurring, not directly associated with tropical cyclones.
For any particular location, a hurricane strike occurs if that location passes within the hurricane’s strike circle, a circle of 125 n mi diameter, centered 12.5 n mi to the right of the hurricane center (looking in the direction of motion). This circle is meant to depict the typical extent of hurricane force winds, which are approximately 75 n mi to the right of the center and 50 n mi to the left.
A non-frontal low pressure system that has characteristics of both tropical and extratropical cyclones. This system is typically an upper-level cold low with circulation extending to the surface layer and maximum sustained winds generally occurring at a radius of about 100 miles or more from the center. In comparison to tropical cyclones, such systems have a relatively broad zone of maximum winds that is located farther from the center, and typically have a less symmetric wind field and distribution of convection.
A subtropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind speed (using the U.S. 1-minute average) is 33 kt (38 mph or 62 km/hr) or less.
A subtropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind speed (using the U.S. 1-minute average) is 34 kt (39 mph or 63 km/hr) or more.
Weather reconnaissance mission flown to provide vital meteorological information in data sparse ocean areas as a supplement to existing surface, radar, and satellite data. Synoptic flights better define the upper atmosphere and aid in the prediction of tropical cyclone development and movement.
A warm-core non-frontal synoptic-scale cyclone, originating over tropical or subtropical waters, with organized deep convection and a closed surface wind circulation about a well-defined center. Once formed, a tropical cyclone is maintained by the extraction of heat energy from the ocean at high temperature and heat export at the low temperatures of the upper troposphere. In this they differ from extratropical cyclones, which derive their energy from horizontal temperature contrasts in the atmosphere (baroclinic effects).
A tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind speed (using the U.S. 1-minute average) is 33 kt (38 mph or 62 km/hr) or less.
A discrete tropical weather system of apparently organized convection — generally 100 to 300 nmi in diameter — originating in the tropics or subtropics, having a non-frontal migratory character, and maintaining its identity for 24 hours or more. It may or may not be associated with a detectable perturbation of the wind field.
A tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind speed (using the U.S. 1-minute average) ranges from 34 kt (39 mph or 63 km/hr) to 63 kt (73 mph or 118 km/hr).
Tropical Storm Warning:
An announcement that tropical storm conditions (sustained winds of 39 to 73 mph) are expected somewhere within the specified coastal area within 36 hours.
Tropical Storm Watch:
An announcement that tropical storm conditions (sustained winds of 39 to 73 mph) are possible within the specified coastal area within 48 hours.
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https://tourbreeder.com/electric-cargo-bike/ | 2024-04-20T20:28:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817674.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420184033-20240420214033-00844.warc.gz | 0.927308 | 964 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__186682673 | en | In the dynamic landscape of urban logistics, the demand for sustainable and efficient delivery solutions has never been greater. As cities continue to grapple with congestion and environmental concerns, innovative technologies such as electric cargo bikes are emerging as transformative tools for last-mile delivery. In this comprehensive guide, we explore the evolution of electric cargo bikes, their benefits, and how Pinas Cargo Abu Dhabi is leading the way in integrating these eco-friendly vehicles into their operations.
The Rise of Electric Cargo Bikes
A Sustainable Alternative to Traditional Vehicles
Electric cargo bikes, equipped with electric motors and spacious cargo compartments, offer a sustainable alternative to traditional delivery vans and trucks. With zero emissions and minimal environmental impact, these bikes address the dual challenges of urban congestion and pollution, making them ideal for navigating densely populated city centers.
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In recent years, significant advancements in battery technology and design innovation have propelled electric cargo bikes into the spotlight. Modern models boast impressive range and load capacity, enabling businesses to transport goods efficiently while reducing their carbon footprint.
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Electric cargo bikes excel in navigating congested urban environments, thanks to their compact size and agile handling. Couriers can weave through traffic, access narrow alleyways, and reach destinations that are off-limits to larger vehicles. This enhanced maneuverability not only reduces delivery times but also improves customer satisfaction by ensuring timely and reliable service.
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A Vision for Sustainable Urban Transport
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As cities continue to evolve and adapt to the challenges of the 21st century, the role of electric cargo bikes in urban logistics will only become more pronounced. With their unmatched combination of sustainability, efficiency, and agility, these vehicles are poised to redefine the way goods are transported in urban environments. By embracing this technology, companies like Pinas Cargo Abu Dhabi are not only optimizing their operations but also contributing to the creation of cleaner, healthier, and more livable cities for future generations. As we look ahead, the widespread adoption of electric cargo bikes holds the promise of a more sustainable and prosperous urban future. | environmental_science |
https://codecuriosity.com/solar-battery-charger-12-volt/ | 2023-06-09T12:27:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656675.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609100535-20230609130535-00021.warc.gz | 0.912615 | 484 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__205362747 | en | The Benefits Of Using A Solar Battery Charger 12 Volt
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So, if you’re planning a camping or hiking trip soon, consider investing in a solar battery charger 12 volt. It may just be the difference between having a successful and enjoyable trip or not. | environmental_science |
https://exoticparrotsbreeders.com/conservation-efforts-for-the-black-palm-cockatoo-initiatives-and-challenges/ | 2024-04-16T14:17:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817095.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416124708-20240416154708-00795.warc.gz | 0.894821 | 1,150 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__46908786 | en | The Black Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), renowned for its striking appearance and charismatic personality, is an iconic bird species native to the rainforests of New Guinea and nearby islands. With its majestic black plumage, imposing size, and distinctive red cheek patches, the Black Palm Cockatoo captivates the hearts of bird enthusiasts worldwide. However, despite its undeniable allure, this magnificent species faces numerous threats to its survival, placing it on the brink of endangerment. In response to these challenges, a range of conservation initiatives has been implemented to safeguard the future of the Black Palm Cockatoo. This article explores the various efforts and obstacles encountered in conserving this enigmatic bird species.
Habitat Loss and Fragmentation: One of the most pressing issues confronting the Black Palm Cockatoos is habitat loss and fragmentation. As forests are cleared for agricultural expansion, logging, and infrastructure development, the vital habitats of these birds are increasingly diminished. Fragmentation further exacerbates the problem, isolating populations and disrupting crucial ecological processes. The loss of nesting sites and foraging grounds directly impacts the Black Palm Cockatoo’s ability to find food, breed successfully, and maintain healthy populations.
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Conservation Initiatives: To address the challenges posed by habitat loss and fragmentation, numerous conservation initiatives have been established. These efforts focus on habitat restoration, protected area management, and community engagement. One notable example is the establishment of conservation reserves and national parks to safeguard key Black Palm Cockatoos habitats. These protected areas provide vital refuges where the birds can thrive free from human disturbance.
Furthermore, collaborative projects involving government agencies, non-profit organizations, and local communities are instrumental in implementing conservation measures. These initiatives often employ a multi-faceted approach, incorporating habitat restoration, species monitoring, and community education. By engaging stakeholders at all levels, these projects strive to foster a sense of ownership and responsibility for the conservation of the Black Palm Cockatoo and its habitat.
Challenges and Obstacles: Despite the dedication and efforts of conservationists, numerous challenges persist in the quest to protect the Black Palm Cockatoos. Funding constraints often limit the scope and effectiveness of conservation initiatives, hindering efforts to address critical issues such as habitat loss and illegal logging. Additionally, political instability and lack of enforcement exacerbate the challenges faced by conservationists, allowing illegal activities to continue unchecked.
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Furthermore, the illegal pet trade poses a significant threat to the Black Palm Cockatoo. Demand for these birds as pets, both domestically and internationally, fuels the illegal capture and trafficking of wild individuals. Despite legal protections in place, enforcement remains inadequate, allowing poachers to exploit vulnerable populations for financial gain. The high value placed on Black Palm Cockatoos in the illegal pet trade perpetuates their exploitation and undermines conservation efforts aimed at their protection.
Another challenge is the limited understanding of the Black Palm Cockatoo’s ecology and behavior. Research efforts to study these birds in their natural habitat are often hampered by logistical constraints and remote field locations. As a result, gaps in knowledge persist regarding their habitat requirements, population dynamics, and interactions with other species. This lack of comprehensive data hinders the development of effective conservation strategies tailored to the specific needs of the Black Palm Cockatoo.
Community Engagement and Education: Community engagement and education play a vital role in conservation efforts for the Black Palm Cockatoo. Collaborating with local communities living near Black Palm Cockatoo habitats is essential for promoting sustainable land-use practices and reducing human-wildlife conflicts. Educational programs aimed at raising awareness about the importance of protecting the species and its habitat can help foster a sense of stewardship among community members. Empowering local communities to actively participate in conservation initiatives not only benefits the Black Palm Cockatoo but also contributes to the overall well-being of the ecosystems in which they reside.
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Technological Innovations in Conservation: Advancements in technology offer promising opportunities for enhancing conservation efforts for the Black Palm Cockatoo. Remote sensing techniques such as satellite imagery and drones provide valuable tools for monitoring habitat loss and fragmentation over large spatial scales. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) enable conservationists to analyze spatial data and identify priority areas for habitat protection and restoration. Additionally, telemetry and tracking devices allow researchers to study the movement patterns and behavior of Black Palm Cockatoos in real-time, providing valuable insights into their ecology and resource needs.
Climate Change Resilience: Climate change poses a growing threat to the survival of the Black Palm Cockatoo and other wildlife species worldwide. Rising temperatures, altered rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events can disrupt ecosystems and threaten the availability of food and nesting sites for these birds. Conservation efforts must take into account the impacts of climate change and incorporate strategies to enhance the resilience of Black Palm Cockatoo populations. This may include habitat restoration projects aimed at creating climate-resilient landscapes and implementing adaptive management practices to mitigate the effects of climate change on the species.
International Collaboration and Policy Advocacy: Given the transboundary nature of the Black Palm Cockatoo’s range, international collaboration is essential for its conservation. Cooperation between countries sharing the bird’s habitat is crucial for implementing coordinated conservation strategies and addressing common threats. Furthermore, advocacy at the policy level is necessary to strengthen legal protections for the species and enforce regulations against activities such as illegal logging and wildlife trafficking. By advocating for stronger environmental policies and international agreements, conservation organizations can help secure a brighter future for the Black Palm Cockatoo and its habitat. | environmental_science |
https://www.miletgrabung.uni-hamburg.de/en/milet/milet-landschaft.html | 2024-02-22T04:37:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473690.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222030017-20240222060017-00450.warc.gz | 0.969855 | 578 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__50930674 | en | The Milesian landscape
Miletus owed its great significance in antiquity to its unique location. It had been established on a peninsula protruding into the Latmian Gulf, also known as the Gulf of Miletus. This peninsula was only formed in the Archaic period (around 700–490/80 BCE), when the spaces between various islands silted up. These areas are still known as “hills” to this day: Humeitepe in the northeast, Kaletepe (often called the “theatre hill”) in the later city centre, and Kalabaktepe in the southwest of the city’s territory. This made Miletus very defensible. At the same time, it offered good connections to the Agaean Sea and, via the Büyük Menderes River, to Anatolia. These geographical advantages allowed Miletus to develop into a significant commercial port.
Today, little is left of the former peninsula on which Miletus stood. The Latmian Gulf and, with it, the harbors of Miletus began silting up in the third and fourth century BCE, and from the Middle Ages onwards, the city no longer had direct access to the sea. Lake Bafa to the east of the ancient site of Miletus is a remnant of the gulf that used to surround the city. It disappeared due to erosion processes and the accumulation of sediments swept in by the Büyük Menderes. Today, the Büyük Menderes runs through the former Latmian Gulf and around the ancient site of Miletus before flowing into the nearby Aegean Sea. In winter, this estuary is prone to flooding due to heavy rains, and parts of the ancient city Miletus are often underwater.
The Menderes Delta has been a nature reserve since 1994, as it offers ideal breeding conditions for around 70 species of birds. It is home to around 250 bird species, including rare ones such as the Dalmatian pelican. Many of these birds feed on the fish of the delta, which enjoy perfect spawning conditions in its waters. Herons, ducks, frogs, and turtles can also be found in ponds around the site of the old city. During the floods, algae and other aquatic plants grow in the submerged ancient center. There are many monk’s pepper bushes (Vitex agnus-castus), also called chaste trees, and they can grow up to a height of four meters. According to a myth, the goddess Hera was born under a monk's pepper bush on the Island of Samos near Miletus. To the east of the Menderes Delta lies the largest cotton-growing area in the Aegean region.
Text: Mark Ohlrogge | environmental_science |
https://www.yarrarangesaccommodation.com.au/activitycontent/grants-picnic-ground | 2020-04-10T08:44:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371893683.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20200410075105-20200410105605-00479.warc.gz | 0.921566 | 116 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__56418237 | en | Bird Feeding Area
There is a bird feeding area at Grants Picnic Ground.
Visitors must purchase a token from ‘Grants on Sherbrooke’ kiosk to enable them to enter the fenced Bird Feeding area and obtain a measured amount of seed to be offered to the wild birds. Visitors are not permitted to bring in their own seed nor offer seed or other food items to birds outside of the Bird Feeding Area.
There are no other areas within the Dandenong Ranges National Park where seed can be offered to native birds. | environmental_science |
http://homeimprovementslincoln.com/landscaping-company-in-lincoln-ne/tree-trimming-lincoln-ne/ | 2018-02-25T03:24:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891816094.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20180225031153-20180225051153-00370.warc.gz | 0.958833 | 582 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__212152411 | en | Trees make a house look more appealing and give the house a favorable climate. In order to take pleasure in all the advantages of having trees in your house, it is necessary to keep them well. One of the methods of keeping trees is by trimming them to guarantee they are in the right size and more enticing. Tree cutting is an activity that must be brought out routinely with appropriate tools and proficiency. Below are the benefits of cutting tree in the house.
Promote the Health of the Tree
Similar to humans, trees are living and require to be maintained in order to live longer. Cutting can make your tree last for a longer time due to the fact that the dead, weak, infected and pest plagued parts are eliminated in the procedure. It is worth keeping in mind that failure to get rid of those parts makes them rot and affect the overall health of the tree. Regular trimming likewise improves the general look or look of the trees, hence making your home look more appealing. By eliminating the undesirable branches that draw energy from the trunk, the other tree parts can grow. Removal of the excess limbs can also enhance the production of more flowers, leaves and fruits.
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If they break off or fall onto a house during a strong wind or rain, hanging tree branches at home can be a cause of terrific cause of damage. In the long run, additional destruction can occur due to the fact that tree branches burrow their way under shingles resulting in roof leaks. Because of the failure to trim trees at house is diversion of power, another issue that might arise. This is due to the fact that the trees can turn into power lines, thus increasing the threat of loss of power and more damages to the line that can be very costly to fix. Most utility business cut trees in public places, but require property owners to cut the trees in their homes to avoid damage to the power lines failure to which a fine is enforced if the trees result in damage of the power lines.
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http://redmountainava.com/terroir | 2019-11-12T18:22:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496665726.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20191112175604-20191112203604-00522.warc.gz | 0.925877 | 597 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__204092488 | en | Since the dawn of time, natural forces have worked powerfully and mysteriously, and in rare circumstances have aligned to collectively create earthly wonders, such as exquisite gems that are singular in all the world.
One of those gems remained hidden in plain view, waiting patiently for thousands of years until such time certain adventurous, wine loving souls, would have the wisdom and foresight to reveal it to the world. This is the story of Red Mountain’s “terroir”.
The small geographic region that comprises the Red Mountain AVA was formed by the repeated ice-age flooding of Glacial Lake Missoula over 10,000 years ago. The flood waters redesigned the landscape, configuring the soft mountain slopes and depositing nutrient rich top soils over sand, silt and gravel – as if to anticipate the introduction of wine grapes to the region.
The high alkalinity and calcium carbonate content of the soil, along with its granular consistency, allows for each vine to form a well established root system. In soils with this composition, root systems are able to reach deep to obtain the necessary nutrients and moisture.
The southwest slope of the Red Mountain AVA provides the vineyards in the region with a directional aspect to the sun that is ideal for prolonged sunlight exposure and warmth. These highly desirable conditions allow for a ripeness in tannins that is recognized as a primary characteristic of Red Mountain fruit.
The Cascade Mountain rain shadow has its greatest effect in Red Mountain, where the desert climate experiences an average annual rainfall of seven inches, and almost no precipitation during the growing season. The result is dramatically lower mold and mildew pressure compared to most vineyard regions.
The high latitude (N 46*) and topography contribute temperature swings experienced during the growing season, with daytime temperatures averaging 90 °F (32 °C) and night time temperatures dropping below 50 °F (10 °C). In the evenings, the AVA experiences a notable drop in temperatures with the Yakima River playing a moderate role in the providing a cooling effect to Red Mountain’s gentle slopes. The cooler evenings help to retain acidity levels which allows for the exceptional balance and structure found in Red Mountain grapes, and the wines crafted from them.
The prevailing winds come out of the Southwest and are notable for their frequency and velocity. The regular gusts of warm air flow through the AVA’s vineyards during the growing season, keeping the grape clusters small and concentrating the flavors of the fruit - which contributes to their richness and intensity.
In the autumn, the cooler air from the north flows down the slope of the mountain, toward the river. This natural air drainage provides continual air movement which helps prevent frost from settling in the vineyards and damaging the grapes.
Wines made from Red Mountain fruit express this unique terroir with exceptional color, strength and richness, while demonstrating remarkable balance of fruit, acidity, and tannin. | environmental_science |
https://www.leiblein.de/en/solutions/gravel-and-sand-industry | 2024-04-22T04:29:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818072.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422020223-20240422050223-00695.warc.gz | 0.92924 | 1,609 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__153727004 | en | Gravel and sand are mainly needed in the construction industry. Due to increasing demands on the purity of building materials, it is necessary to wash and recycle gravel, sand, grit and other building materials. In their natural state, they are contaminated with contaminants such as loams, silts, fine particles, wood and coal. Therefore, water is used, which is soiled during the washing process. To be able to reuse it, the water has to be cleaned.
In the conventional solution the soiled water flows into a tailing pond where coarse particles sediment. The roughly cleaned water is reused for washing, the rest is effluent which needs to be disposed. Furthermore, the tailing pond has to be dredged regularly with great effort.
The lamella separator or lamella clarifier of Leiblein is reasonable, space-saving and efficient alternative solution for washing water treatment. The solids settle down onto the lamella packs and slide down into the sludge funnel. The clear water is led back into the washing process. To even raise the amount of clear water it’s possible to dewater the sedimented solids using the Leiblein vacuum belt filter. The vacuum belt filter is a reasonable and space-saving alternative to the frequently used chamber filter presses.
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A modern treatment system for the processing of gravel and sand has been installed for Zwisler in Tettnang only a few kilometres away from the Bodensee. As products of high quality are manufactured by the company, a multi-stage wet processing plant had to be installed.
The natural water resources are very low and a treatment pond is not available. Therefore a wet processing technology, which reaches good washing results using small amounts of water, has been chosen. The treatment plant had to be compact, reliable, economical and inexpensive at once. For these reasons it was decided to install a water-treatment-plant from Leiblein GmbH.
The washing water of the wet processing system flows via a static mixing drain into a lamella separator. A flocculant is dosed previously.
The flocculated water flows evenly into the middle channel of the lamella separator and reaches the funnel region. During the subsequent upward flow the effluent passes the lamellas through which the flocks are separated. The purified water leaves the lamella separator of remarkably clear quality. The water flows into a floor tank and is reused for the wet processing.
The polymer is mixed by an automatic three-chamber-mixer and a batcher, which are installed in a 24 feet standard container. In order to export well dried sediment out of the lamella separator, the sludge exporter is controlled by an automatic sludge-level-measurement-device. The water which is released during post-thickening of the sediment can be reused as well.
This plant shows how high grade wet processing can be carried out using only small amounts of water.
Washing water of a railway treatment plant (System Knape GSG). The formation rehabilitation plant with a ballast treatment and washing system was fitted with a washing water treatment plant. The ballast is excavated, treated and washed and re-laid to the route at the end of the train.
During the ballast treatment method using a washing screen, the washing water is soiled with fine dirt particles as for example gravel abrasion, dust, soil and so on. The washing water treatment plant should separate those soilings from the water to allow a circuitry of the medium.
The effluent is pumped into the treatment plant, where flocculant is added to allow a better separation of fine particles before the water enters the lamella separator.
In the lamella separator the medium is led to the bottom and distributes below the lamellas over the entire lamella area. The medium flows through the lamellas to the top; the dirt particles settle onto the lamellas and slide into the sludge chamber. The purified water flows to the outlet on top of the lamellas. The separated sludge is exported by a scraper.The sludge is pumped into a sludge tank and disposed. The clear water is collected in a water tank and pumped by a slush pump to the gravel washing plant.
As the treatment plant had to be installed into a existing mobile track machine the individual constructional conditions had to be considered for the construction. Due to their great experience in the field of special plant construction Leiblein GmbH successfully concluded this project.
The surface water occurring at a stone quarry is polluted with fine mineral particles and is to be treated before discharge.
Functional descriptionThe surface water is transported to a pump sump through existing chutes. A pump with a capacity of 72 m³/h constantly pumps the water to the lamella separator. Excess water, resulting from heavy rainfall is led directly into the river via an emergency overflow.
The mineral particles are separated as sludge in the Leiblein lamella separator. The purified water flows via the existing settling basin to the discharge system. The sludge from the lamella separator is exported from time to time and removed with a wheel loader.
The lamella separator as an example for ideal recovering of fine sand. Rinsing water is used for the wet-treatment of sand. The water contains large amounts of residual fine sand. The sand extraction offers the following advantages:
The washing water which is polluted with fine sand and other dirt particles is pumped into the lamella separator. The clarifying area load was chosen so that only particles larger than a certain size a separated. Fine particles as for example clay leave the separator with the treated water.
The separated sand is collected in the sludge funnel and dewatered by a sieving plant.
Washing water circulation without flocculant in a gravel mill with a lamella separator. For the production of high quality concrete chipping large amounts of washing water is needed. The washing water can be recirculated when continuously treated. A particularly suitable appliance is the lamella separator.
The washing water, polluted with fine particles and mineral parts, is led into the lamella separator and the particles are separated by the inclined honeycomb lamellas. The clarified water is led back into the water circle.
The separated sludge particles form a sediment in the sludge funnel and can be exported by a pump. A supporting stirrer which prevents the sludge from caking can be fitted.
Remarkably, an addition of flocculant is not necessary and therefore the water is not subject to chemical modifications. For further drying Leiblein can recommend additional processes if required.
In this case a good separation result was reached with a clarifying area load of less then 0,7 m/h.
|Clarifying area lamella separator
|ca. 6,5 m3/h
At a throughput of 100 m³/h and a clarifying area of 150 m² results a clarifying area load of ca. 0,67 m/h. The sediment consists of approx. 30% of fine grit and 70% of mineral parts. The solids content of the separated sludge is around 30%. | environmental_science |
https://uverenniy.ru/odesa-2009-odessa-2009.html?page=4 | 2020-10-31T18:58:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107922411.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20201031181658-20201031211658-00237.warc.gz | 0.929691 | 1,563 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__115384825 | en | Worldwide, there is a disastrous situation in the field of wastewater collection and treatment: About 2.4 billion people have no access to adequate sanitation, 2.8 billion people use simple pit latrines and many countries, the conventional wastewater treatment works insufficiently. Many surface waters are polluted with raw wastewater and untreated faeces which present a big danger for the population. This situation contributes highly to the 5 Million people who die every year due to water borne diseases.
Additionally water scarcity increases more and more as well as soil degradation.
Also for the Eastern European countries, these issues are of crucial importance and alternatives are urgently required. For rural and peri urban areas, alternative, innovative solutions have been developed, applied and are available today (Ecological Sanitation).
The principles of these Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan) concepts are source control and hygienisation of the wastewaters followed by water and nutrient reuse in agriculture.
The mayor objective for sanitation is minimizing hygienic risks. New systems should be better than conventional sanitation systems which have a good hygienic standard for inside the houses but in most cases not for receiving waters. But also in terms of costs and benefits, the new systems must show advantages as the conventional sanitation and wastewater system (flush and discharge principle) requires high costs for investment, particularly for the sewerage, but also for operation, mainly the technical aeration, which cannot be covered by the citizens without high subsidies.
Thus, a closer look at the wastewater itself can help finding the right solution.
Wastewater from different sources has different distinctive characteristics. Thus, household wastewaters are described by colors: grey for little polluted water from kitchen, washing, etc., black for toilet wastewater, which can be divided further into brown (faeces) and yellow (urine) [Otterpohl 2001]. The most important parameters are shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Characteristics of the main components of household wastewater
Table 1 leads to the following conclusions (Tettenborn & Otterpohl 2004):
Most of the soluble nutrients (N, P, K) of domestic wastewater are contained in the comparably small volume flow of "yellow water". Separately collected urine, converted for agricultural usage, is the biggest step towards nutrient reuse, highly efficient water protection, and improved wastewater treatment. Moreover, urine contains trace metals required for plant growth. Thus, yellow water has to be taken into consideration as fertilizer. It is related to the nutrient cycle rather than to the water cycle.
The increasing focus on residual organic pollutants like pharmaceuticals, which are distributed by human wastewater in the surface waters, is supporting the installation of the source separation. With separation of the urine the widely spreading of these components in the natural environment can be avoided.
The hygienic danger of wastewater comes almost exclusively from pathogens contained in faecal matter. - Faeces suspended in the huge volume flow of greywater means spreading the pathogens in a large volume of water, making the reclamation for reuse more expensive. Separation and low or no dilution opens the way to excellent hygienisation. - "Brown water" contributes greatly to the phosphorus load of domestic wastewater and thus can also be considered as fertilizer. The organic solids make brown water an excellent soil conditioner after suitable treatment. Therefore, also brown water belongs to the nutrient cycle which should not be mixed with the water cycle.
Wastewater that is not mixed with human ’waste’ (faeces and urine) -so called "grey- water"- is the biggest volume part of all. Because of its low contribution to the mass flow of the nutrients, greywater represents a splendid source for high quality reuse. Greywater contains nearly half of the organic load of domestic wastewater. Removing these pollutants before eventual reuse of greywater is far less expensive than additional removal of nutrients, as it is realized in modern wastewater treatment plants. Bio-sandfilters and membrane technology open cost-efficient ways of production of secondary water - on-site, local, or regional scale can be appropriate.
Rainwater runoff is one of the reasons for building sewerage systems. Local infiltration or trenches to surface waters for relatively unpolluted rainwater is often feasible and can be combined with usage.
Any sanitation system aims to a hygienically sound situation as efficient as possible. In sustainable/ecological sanitation concepts this is achieved by separating the water cycle from the nutrient cycle, and closing both loops.
Two Examples of Sustainable/ecological sanitation
Many examples worldwide, as well in industrialized as in developing parts, prove not only the feasibility, but show how beneficial these concepts are [GTZ 2003]. Here are presented two EcoSan systems, one in Germany and one in Ukraine.
An advantageous low-cost and low maintenance system with a potential of full resources recovery for smaller villages and single houses is based on urine sorting flush toilets (no-mix-toilets). Yellow water is collected without dilution and is used after storage directly in agriculture. Brownwater is treated in a two-chamber separation unit (Rottebehaelter) where each chamber is used for half a year and left without further charge the other half. The produced compost can be used for improvement of long term soil fertility. The filtrate from the separation unit is low in nutrients due to the previous separation of urine. Therefore, the filtrate can be treated together with the greywater (except if high quality reuse of greywater is planned).
A pilot project of this system is operated in an ancient water-mill museum ’Lambertsmühle’ in Germany. In connection with the restoration of the building, this sanitation solution has been developed. The urine sorting toilets collect the urine undiluted (Roediger) or little diluted (Gustavsberg) (see Figure 1). The faeces are flushed with an appropriate volume of water (2 - 6 l per flush).
Figure 1. Urine sorting toilets, left German company Roediger,
Greywater from the kitchen, bathroom etc. is treated in a constructed wetland and then discharged to the receiving water.
A scheme of the sanitation concept regarding to the water and the nutrient cycle is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Scheme of EsoSan concept Lambertsmühle [Otterpohl 2001a]
An sanitation system which is particularly reasonable in regions with no central water supply and no proper sanitation system is the application of dry urine diverting toilets.
The principle and use of these urine diverting toilets (or variations) has been established for many years in countries like Mexico, China and Vietnam. This kind of toilet consists of a toilet room with a seat riser or slab for urine diversion. For each toilet there are two (double vault) easily accessible faeces-chambers with a sealed floor made from concrete. The vaults are designed such that one vault is in use for minimum 1 year, then allowed to rest for one year while the other chamber is used. Ventilation pipes are installed from the faeces-chambers to above the roof to supply the vault with oxygen and avoid odour and flies.
The urine from the toilets and the waterless urinals is collected in two urine tanks and can be applied in agriculture.
In Stepanovka, Ukraine, it could be shown that the installation of double vault urine diverting toilets is a low cost, very fast, and easy to realise solution to protect the groundwater and to improve health conditions [Deegener & Wendland 2009]. | environmental_science |
http://www.nbaii.res.in/insectpests/Megacopta-cribraria.php | 2014-11-24T19:52:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400381177.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123301-00218-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.819958 | 166 | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-49__0__44594304 | en | Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius)
(=Coptosoma cribraria (Fabricius))
Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea: Plataspididae
Lablab bug, bean plataspid, globular stink bug
Habitat / Crop(s) damaged
Pigeonpea, cowpea, field bean, soybean, and other legumes.
Damage symptoms include feeding punctures appearing as black or brown spots and presence of a large number of shiny, olive-green near circular bugs on the plants.
A common and often serious pest of pigeonpea and other legumes in India.
It has been recently recorded as an invasive pest of kudzu in the US. | environmental_science |
https://oncor.com/en/Pages/Trees-and-Power-Outages.aspx | 2019-05-23T19:13:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257361.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523184048-20190523210048-00088.warc.gz | 0.946659 | 249 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__190685614 | en | Trees are a top cause of electricity outages. Did you know that one tree can affect a power line serving an entire neighborhood? When branches grow into distribution lines, they may cause problems during the next wind, ice or electrical storm.
Part of Oncor's job is to deliver electricity safely and reliably. That's why Oncor performs maintenance pruning regularly throughout its service area. Certified arborists and degreed foresters work with experienced line-clearance qualified crews to prune trees, balancing the health of trees with electrical safety. For tree maintenance near power lines, Oncor has received the National Arbor Day Foundation's Tree Line USA award since 2001.
To help keep trees away from lines:
- Plan ahead before landscaping. Don't plant below power lines, unless choosing approved native plants recommended by Oncor's Know Before You Grow program.
- Keep an eye out. If trees are near power lines (closer than 10 feet), don't try to prune them. Stay away from the lines and keep all ladders and tools away. Instead, call 1.888.313.6862 to schedule an inspection.
Visit the Tree Pruning section for more information on trees and power outages. | environmental_science |
https://badmojodesign.com/2016/12/31/less-more-in-2017/ | 2017-05-27T15:46:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608956.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527152350-20170527172350-00212.warc.gz | 0.961231 | 173 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__138262900 | en | After 2 long years of printing in Grand Rapids, I have repeatedly encountered 2 aspects of the business that I did not like at all: job related stress, and environmental impact.
In 2017 Bad Mojo Design will print in water based inks. This will drastically reduce the environmental impact (and save money) associated with the plastisol inks and necessary solvents I had previously been using. Water consumption will be reduced by at least 75% annually. The need for expensive and toxic solvents will be gone. The amount of trash going to the landfill will be reduced by at least 75%.
I believe that these changes in 2017 will be the catalyst for many good things to come for quite a long time. I hope your 2017 provides the good things you’ve been needing in your life too!
-Scott/Bad Mojo Design | environmental_science |
https://www.accela.com/press-releases/solar-alliance-seeks-to-revolutionize-going-solar-experience/ | 2024-03-02T05:58:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475757.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302052634-20240302082634-00553.warc.gz | 0.923009 | 1,627 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__49750542 | en | The Northern and Central California SunShot Alliance today announced plans to construct and interconnect rooftop solar systems in one day or less, an unprecedented goal given the industry’s current average of 30 days. In a contest sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative, teams made up of local governments, solar and technology companies, and electric utilities will compete for a total of $10 million in cash prizes that will go back into local communities.
The alliance, which includes Pacific Gas and Electric Company, SolarCity, Qado Energy, Accela and the City of Livermore, will compete in the small systems category (1 – 100 kW) for a first-place prize of $3 million and second-place prize of $1 million. The potential winnings would be split between the City of Livermore and possibly other jurisdictions that will use the funds to enhance the solar experience in their communities. The alliance is also eligible for the Change Prize Award of $100,000, which will be used to develop necessary technologies and recruit additional jurisdictions to join the team.
Despite exceptional cost reductions for solar hardware over recent years, the “going solar” experience in many parts of the country can be long and arduous due to inefficient processes and complex administrative obstacles. Sponsored by the SunShot Initiative, the “SunShot Prize: Race to 7-Day Solar” competition aims to spur innovation and improvements in the solar implementation process. Teams will be judged on their ability to improve process certainty and reduce the “permit-to-plug-in” time from the current duration to a swift seven days for small systems.
Members of the Northern and Central California SunShot Alliance have excellent track records in efficient solar installation and software innovation, making the collective group a strong contender for the national prize. PG&E interconnects more than 5,000 rooftop solar systems per month with an average cycle time of less than five days. SolarCity crews are repeatedly able to install rooftop solar systems in less than one day. Accela is the leading provider of permitting and inspection technology and has helped local governments decrease solar permit processing time by 75 percent. And Qado Energy’s integrated platform helps streamline solar interconnection while ensuring process transparency and efficient fulfillment.
The performance period for the competition begins on Sept. 22, 2015, and concludes on March 17, 2017. The winning teams will be announced on June 26, 2017.
“With more than 180,000 solar rooftops in our service area, PG&E understands that solar power is a vital part of our country’s energy future. We’ve worked hard to become the nation’s leading utility for customers using solar systems. Through close coordination with our partners, our goal for this competition is to dramatically improve the ‘going solar’ process so that more Americans can take advantage of this valuable resource,” said Laurie Giammona, senior vice president and chief customer officer, PG&E
“Rooftop solar can grow even faster across America if we can improve local permitting and interconnection. Regardless of who wins, we believe this contest will demonstrate that compliance with permit streamlining requirements in AB 2188, approved by the Legislature last year and effective on September 30, 2015, is achievable and that means making it even easier and less expensive to go solar,” said Nick Armstrong, a regional vice president at SolarCity.
“This is a unique opportunity to work closely with government and industry partners to greatly improve the solar experience—from permitting to installation. Accela’s technology has a proven track record of dramatically reducing the solar permitting and inspection timeline. This saves solar companies and their customers time and money. We’re excited to work with motivated local governments and our team of industry leaders to further revolutionize the end-to-end process and cycle times for rooftop solar installations,” said Maury Blackman, president and CEO, Accela.
“Qado Energy is excited to bring its software platform, GridUnityTM, and expert team to this extraordinary alliance of industry innovators and leaders. We see this effort aligning with our company’s goal of supplying utilities the advanced technology they need to provide highly responsive customer service along with the next generation distribution system analytics software necessary to streamline, automate and reduce the cost of interconnecting distributed energy resources across our nation’s grids,” said Brian Fitzsimons, CEO, Qado Energy.
“Livermore is already one of the leading jurisdictions in Northern California in per capita rooftop solar installations and timely, effective processes for plan approval and project inspection. The SunShot Prize competition will allow our staff and partners to collaboratively leap forward to new levels in solar installation speed and efficiency in order to improve the customer experience and save resources,” said Marc Roberts, city manager, City of Livermore.
About the SunShot Initiative
The U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative is a collaborative national effort that aggressively drives innovation to make solar energy fully cost-competitive with traditional energy sources before the end of the decade. Through SunShot, the Energy Department supports efforts by private companies, universities, and national laboratories to drive down the cost of solar electricity to $0.06 per kilowatt-hour. Learn more at energy.gov/sunshot.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric utilities in the United States with one in four U.S. rooftop solar customers in its service area. Based in San Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit www.pge.com/ and www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/index.page.
SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY) provides clean energy. The company has disrupted the century-old energy industry by providing renewable electricity directly to homeowners, businesses and government organizations for less than they spend on utility bills. SolarCity gives customers control of their energy costs to protect them from rising rates. The company makes solar energy easy by taking care of everything from design and permitting to monitoring and maintenance. SolarCity currently serves 19 states. Visit the company online at www.solarcity.com and follow the company on Facebook & Twitter.
About Qado Energy
Qado Energy is the utility industry innovator in highly responsive customer service and predictive distribution system analytics. Qado Energy’s GridUnityTM automates and streamlines utilities’ responsiveness through a unique two-way portal, accelerating fulfillment of a host of customer services — interconnection requests are answered and DER placement information is provided in just seconds. GridUnity is revolutionizing the utility industry by enabling real-time decision making from the customer to the executive suite. For more information, visit www.qadoenergy.com. The company is headquartered in Summit, New Jersey, with offices in Boston and Portland.
About the City of Livermore
Incorporated in 1876, the City of Livermore (www.cityoflivermore.net) is the easternmost city in the San Francisco Bay Area. With just over 85,000 residents, Livermore’s heritage is an eclectic blend of wine-making, cattle ranching and agriculture, cultural arts, and cutting edge technology. The city’s renowned reputation in science, technology and innovation is showcased at Sandia National Laboratories and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory which has been internationally recognized for its work in discovering Element 116 on the Periodic Table – Livermorium. The San Francisco Premium Outlets on Interstate-580 and the city’s award-winning downtown provide a wide range of shopping, dining, and entertainment opportunities for residents and visitors alike. | environmental_science |
https://badbeekeepingblog.com/2016/05/31/sweet-sweet-clover-part-1/?like_comment=4819&_wpnonce=a1e49db230 | 2023-06-08T04:58:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654097.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608035801-20230608065801-00277.warc.gz | 0.959703 | 4,246 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__8057818 | en | Every June there is a wash of yellow along the edge of almost every highway and trail in North America. The yellow is from sweet clover that grows and blooms all across the continent. It’s wild and it has been reseeding itself, year after year, for centuries. The yellow biennial (there’s a white variety, too) is an amazing honey plant and was once celebrated as the weed that saved Kentucky from economic ruin, as you will see shortly.
Sweet clover is one of the sweetest weeds you’ll ever meet. A century ago, farmers in Indiana and Illinois (and other states) planted sweet clover for hay. It escaped their fields and spread along the nation’s highways, occasionally helped by other farmers who captured the seeds and planted the weed in their own fields. Planting sweet clover to enrich fields and provide livestock forage has waned. The last time I saw yellow sweet clover intentionally planted in a field was during the 1970s, in southern Saskatchewan, Canada.
I can’t say enough good things about sweet clover. The yellow variety brightens the scenery and announces summer. Sweet clover replenishes soil, ‘fixes’ nitrogen, as farmers call the process where this element is sucked from the air and stuck into the dirt. Farmers once plowed millions of acres of sweet clover into the ground – the plant’s bushy fiber mulched, fertilized, and enriched the soil. Here is what Ag scientists told South Dakota farmers in 1925:
SWEET CLOVER was once considered only as a weed, but now it is held a very valuable crop. This deep-rooted, vigorous-growing, hardy, biennial legume surely has a place on South Dakota farms. It has no equal as a combined soil-building, weed-fighting, pasture and hay crop.
Sweet clover is a most important crop in a successful system of crop rotation in South Dakota. It is a legume and our farms must have more acres of these crops. Its large, deep-growing roots add much valuable nitrogen and vegetable matter to the soil, thus improving the soil on which it grows; it endures dry weather and still produces valuable pasture and hay; it successfully competes with the weeds that rob our other crops; it reduces the acreage of small grain crops and it improves the quality, yield and profit of the crops that follow it. Surely such a crop, when properly used, has a place on the farms of South Dakota.
Since 1925, sweet clover has been replaced by less natural fertilizer and isn’t seen much in cultivated fields. Yet even today, sweet clover’s deep roots prevent erosion on hillsides. Those tap roots keep the plant alive during drought, giving noms to wildlife even when the rest of the landscape is burnt and sere. Most important of all, I think, is the fact that sweet clover is a fantastic honey plant – one of the best in the world.
With all this to commend it, you may be surprised to learn that the Canadian government pays summer students (mostly budding ecologists) to destroy sweet clover. It’s been labeled a noxious, invasive weed. I’ll get to that in tomorrow’s blog post, but I’ll spend the rest of today praising the honey bees’ best friend.
Beekeepers in ancient Greece recognized sweet clover as a wonderful honey plant. It still attracts bees by the millions to the steep, dry hillsides where it flourishes. Long after Aristotle swallowed his last chunk of clover honeycomb, scientists searched for a scientific name to tag to sweet clover. They chose Melilotus – from Greek words that celebrate honey (meli-) and lotus, which they somehow thought sweet clover resembles. (Even scientists goof up occasionally.) Sweet clover has a long history as a renowned honey plant.
How good is it? Melilotus nectar averages 52% sugar and just 48% water. Most nectar is 20% sugar and 80% water. The 52%-sugary nectar was sampled in North Dakota on a dry summer day. You can see the advantage to the bee – each belly-load carries twice the sugar as typically found in other honey plants. Honey supers fill twice as fast. It takes fewer trips and bees process it more easily during nectar’s conversion into honey.
Sweet clover is found nearly everywhere, but it does best in the lime soils of the American plains and Canadian prairie, secreting particularly well on sultry summer days. As mentioned, it’s drought-resistant – but prefers about 16 inches (40 cm) of annual rainfall. This moisture is typical on the plains. In drier climates, sweet clover hugs irrigation canals.
Sweet clover yields enough nectar to make 250 to 500 pounds of honey per acre (Pellet, 1920 and Kolbina, 2007). Millions of pounds of honey are lost each year, simply because there are not enough honey bees to gather all the nectar secreted by the world’s sweet clover. For beekeepers, dropping 20 colonies near a section of sweet clover doesn’t begin to touch its potential.
Sweet clover is now found throughout the world, but is native to north Africa, Europe, and west Asia. In those places, over a dozen species of Melilotus are found. Four have invaded North and South America, Australia, Oceania, southern Africa, and eastern Asia. Sweetclover was assisted in its travels by humans, who have cultured the yellow (M. officinalis) and white (M. alba) biennials since 1738 in North America. We generally treat yellow and white sweet clover as one plant with two hues – they are similar, but not totally identical. Yellow sweet clover blooms two weeks before its pale cousin, but I don’t think the honey is noticeably different.
Sweet clover was imported to North America from Europe. It spread across the continent from east to west. During the 1700s, it was mostly confined to the east coast. The plant likes alkaline soil and doesn’t do well in the east, where acidic soil abounds. But – as you see in the picture above – it can grow quite well in some eastern localities, such as Pennsylvania limestone strip mines, where the soil is alkali. My father used to haul hundreds of hives to catch a July sweet clover honey flow each year. As a child, I remember that other beekeepers were baffled because our family produced white sweet clover honey when most of them had only reddish autumn goldenrod, made from the spiky plant that thrived in the local acidic soil. They hadn’t caught on to moving hives into the old limestone quarries where the clovers grew, then moving back to the goldenrod for the fall flow.
In the 1800s, sweet clover crossed the Appalachian Mountains. Shortly after the first American Civil War (1860s), it was still just taking root in Kentucky. Here’s a story from Frank Pellet’s 1920 honey plant book. Pellet tells us about the day sweet clover came to a poor, rural part of Kentucky:
“One of the pioneer growers [of sweet clover] was E. E. Barton, and his experience with it sounded like a fairy tale. Mr. Barton said that following the Civil War, most of Pendleton County was given over to tobacco growing, with little live stock, and not much rotation of crops. It was a hill country, and although it had a fertile soil over a clay subsoil, the heavy rains soon washed away the shallow surface soil, and one farm after another was abandoned. Hundreds of farms were abandoned, and many of them were sold for taxes, because no buyers could be found. More than a third of the population left the county, and the farmers who remained had hard lines to make ends meet. Sweet clover was stealthily sowed, probably by beekeepers intent on increasing the bee pasturage. At first it was regarded with disfavor and fought as a dangerous weed.
“Mr. Barton came into possession of a farm, somewhat against his will, because the owner could not pay the mortgage. He tried renting it, and the tenant was unable to make a living, much less pay the rent. After it had been abandoned, he went to great trouble to keep down the weeds, especially sweet clover. Then came a year of drought, when there was very little feed for the cattle, and they were turned into the roads to graze.
“Even there there was but little except the sweet clover, which was by this time rather common along the roadsides. It was soon noticed that the cows were eating the sweet clover with relish and doing well. Then somebody tried an experiment by sowing it in a field. It thrived, the cows liked it, and the milk flow was increased. Mr. Barton by this time was quite ready to profit by the experience, and within five years the farm which would not grow grass was producing good crops. He bought more abandoned farms and sowed them to sweet clover, and his neighbors began to do likewise. One by one the farmers came back to their abandoned farms, new settlers came in, and everybody began to grow sweet clover.
“Now there are fifty thousand acres of it in that county. Ask any farmer you meet on the streets of Falmouth what he thinks of sweet clover and he will tell you such tales of rebuilt fortunes from a combination of dairy cows and sweet clover as you never expect to hear. There are now shipped from the county about half a million pounds of seed yearly, besides thousands of dollars’ worth of dairy products every week. They find that an average of 300 to 600 pounds of hulled seed per acre can be secured from the white variety and 500 to 700 pounds of the yellow. An average yield of from $40 to $100 per acre is the return from the sweet clover, according to local reports picked up on the streets. Now one finds evidences of prosperity on every hand. The farmers have fine homes, automobiles, and money in the bank.”
By reading Frank Pellet’s tale of how sweet clover saved Kentucky from chaos and economic ruin, you can see that it is a plant worthy of unending praise. Pellet’s little essay doesn’t mention that Kentucky also became one of America’s great honey states in the late 1890s, mostly because of the arrival of sweet clover. In 1900, at least 50,000 Kentucky farms had bees – they totaled over 200,000 hives.
By the 1920s, sweet clover had spread through most of Kansas and was crossing the Dakotas. It became established in southern Saskatchewan just 40 years before I kept bees there in the 1970s. By then, sweet clover matched alfalfa as the honey plant that gave me 300-pound per hive honey crops. But that same area – southern Saskatchewan – is also the place where the government is now attempting to eradicate sweet clover – seen as an invasive pest, a noxious weed. It’s not the farmers who want it gone, it’s the government. Tomorrow we’ll look at the debate and see how eradication is going.
What a wonderful plant and so tall. It’s not like the short white and red clover that grows in our British grass.
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It can reach 2 metres. But it is sometimes much shorter, especially when chewed back by antelope. You’ll see that in tomorrow’s piece.
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Hi Ron, I wonder if you have a reference for the 52% sugar content you mention for yellow sweet clover? I am trying to make sense of the entry in Eva Crane’s honey book, in which the “sugar value” for both white and yellow sweet clover appear low – for instance, about 1000x lower than for borage, or even apple. Digging into it a bit, the “sugar values” values in Crane are calculated nectar yields per flower, not sugar concentrations. The original work was done by Polish researchers in the 1950s and 60s. I wonder if the values for sweet clover are per individual floret rather than the whole flower spike? In any event I have always understood that sweet clover has both high sugar content and honey productivity. Any additional info appreciated – and I really enjoy your blog entries.
Rob in NB
The number 52% is from the book 100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators published by the Xerxes Society, which references sweet clover this way:
You can see a more detailed reference in Some nectar characteristics of certain world honey sources (1985, Pszczel. Zesz. nauk. 29:29-45), which you will find in PDF format on the Eva Crane Trust website at this link. That meta-analysis cites a 1973 paper from Battaglini et al., which shows an entry for Melilotus officinalis (yellow sweet clover). They show that it secretes 0.11 mg/flower/24hr with 0.06 mg of sugar. That’s 0.06/0.11 = 54% sugar concentration in the nectar. Battaglini also says that the flower yields 10-300 kg/ha (a range of about 9 to 270 pounds/acre). By the way, to answer one of your questions – I think 0.11 mg is what would be collected from a single floret.
I’m sure you noticed that really low number (9 pounds) – sometimes sweet clover secretes almost nothing. It does very poorly at yielding nectar in acidic soils and in damper cooler environments. I’m not sure how well it will do in New Brunswick.
With regards to the ‘sugar value’ being 1/1000 of that of borage or apple, I had a quick look at Eva Crane’s A Book of Honey but didn’t notice that mentioned. I have the 193-page 1980 copy. If you can send me the page number, I’ll look for it.
Hi Ron, thanks for the reply, including more useful information. The other reference you noted, ‘Some nectar characteristics of certain world honey sources’, is especially useful, as it separates out the sugar concentrations specifically. The stats that are presented as sugar value per flower are potentially misleading if they are based on individual florets of what can be large composite flowers, as of course the total nectar available will be determined by the number of the florets (as well as the nectar secretion rate). I am convinced of the value of sweet clover, and have grown both white and yellow types. Both grown well on roadsides in New Brunswick, but as far as beekeepers are concerned there is never enough of it. Last year I experimented with some sweet white, variety “Hubam” which is supposed to bloom in year one, but I think our season here is too short to allow for that, as mine did not.
In terms of comparing the nectar of Melilotus to apple, borage etc the data I was looking at is from Table 2.123 of Crane’s ‘Honey, A Comprehensive Survey’ that starts on p. 85. The data there are sugar values, or sugar secreted/24h. I think the apparently large discrepancy between Melilotus and the other species must be explained by the data being based on secretion per floret in the case of Melilotus.
Many factsheets on Melilotus note that it does best on alkaline soils, which we lack here in the Maritimes. Isn’t it interesting how so many outstanding nectar plants in North America are deemed to be invasive weeds? Dandelions, loosestrife, Japanese bamboo, sweet clover….
I grew up in western Pennsylvania, along the Appalachians. The soil there was acidic. My father once took 20 hives to a nearby farm that had half a section of white sweet clover, head-high and blooming beautifully. The bees made no honey at all. Then he figured out about the soil type and made contact with a strip-mine just north of Pittsburgh where limestone was produced and sold to the area’s steel mills. They let him put bees there. The whole area was covered in sweet clover and we took a couple hundred hives in there every year, making a modest (60 pounds) or so each July when other area beekeepers were feeding their bees through the summer dearth. Soil type is really important.
I like your last comment – non-native plants in North America (dandelions, purple loosestrife, sweet clover, alfalfa, dutch clover, canola, chinese tallow, and many others) are really outstanding nectar sources for our non-native honey bees. It makes sense. North American plants and North American bees (like bumblebees) evolved to work together while in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, honey bees (which are native to that area) evolved to exploit the native dandelion, clovers, etc. To me, it is more surprising (and maybe troubling) that our imported bees work some native plants really well – such as tulip poplar and fireweed. This must affect the native bees somewhat. However, tulip poplar secretes cups of nectar per flower (just a slight exaggeration) and fireweed (willow herb) also occurs in Europe so we can see why those native plants attract honey bees (but most native American flowers don’t attract honey bees).
Saw a news article lately that ND remains top honey producing state. Guess why. The soils are alkaline. The acreage of sweet clover is huge – particularly from the center of the state on west.
A favorite memory is of driving a road during a cooling evening where the clover has been mowed, swathed, conditioned and curing. The scent is of nirvana.
Clover doesn’t stand alone with the bees brought there. There are great expanses of flax and both oil and confectioners sunflowers. In certain areas alfalfa occupies many acres. Many see the state as just flat and boring. All depends upon what you know and look for.
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I’ve driven through North Dakota a dozen times and always found it beautiful and memorable. It’s been a long time since vast acres of sweet clover were seeded, but the plant is ubiquitous on hillsides and road allowances (where it still ends up baled).
Thanks for sharing your memory and observations.
Ron, and readers, what is the flavour profile of Sweet Clover honey? I just did an extraction of what I think must be Melilotus honey (don’t think anything else is blooming here right now) and it was very dark, with a very sweet, almost flat flavour, with caramel notes.
I produced sweet clover honey in Pennsylvania, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. In each case, the honey was white to water-white and very mild in flavour. Honey may vary depending on soil type, rainfall, soil nutrients – but I doubt your ‘very dark’ honey is sweet clover. There are some labs able to analyze the honey’s pollen (for a fee), if you really want to know.
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How can I ascertain if I have mold or mildew in my bathroom?
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Is it possible to totally prevent mold?
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Can I apply over mold?
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Are eco-friendly remedies efficient in eliminating mold and mildew?
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https://au.cosmoairpurifier.com/cosmo-best-air-cleaner/ | 2024-04-22T01:06:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818067.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421225303-20240422015303-00004.warc.gz | 0.892407 | 1,115 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__107611531 | en | Cosmo – the risk-free air cleaner you need
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A wetland is an area of land consisting of soil that is saturated with moisture, such as a swamp, marsh, or bog.
As defined in terms of physical geography, a wetland is an environment "at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems making them inherently different from each other yet highly dependent on both". In essence, wetlands are ecotones. Wetlands often host considerable biodiversity and endemism. In many locations such as the United Kingdom and USA they are the subject of conservation efforts and Biodiversity Action Plans.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers and the United States Environmental Protection Agency jointly define wetlands as "those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetations typically adapted for life in saturated soils. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas."
Characteristics of wetlands
SoilsWetlands are found under a wide range of hydrological conditions, but at least some of the time water saturates the soil. The result is a hydric soil, one characterized by an absence of free oxygen some or all of the time, and therefore called a "reducing environment."
VegetationPlants (called hydrophytes or just wetland plants) specifically adapted to the reducing conditions presented by such soils can survive in wetlands, whereas species intolerant of the absence of soil oxygen (called "upland" plants) cannot survive. Adaptations to low soil oxygen characterize many wetland species.
There are many types of vegetation in wetlands. There are plants such as Cattails, bulrushes, Sedges, Arrowhead, Water Lilies, Blue Flag, and Floaters like common duckweed. Pondweed is also another type of plant that grows in wetlands, but it is not easily seen. Peatland can be dominated by red maple, silver maple, and Elm trees. Some types of trees in peatland can exhibit lower trunks and roots that have adapted to the wet surroundings by forming buttresses,like the cypress, enlarged root bases to better support the trees in the mucky soil. Trees can also form knees, raised roots that allow for gas exchange. Swamps can also have white Cedar, Tamarack, and White Pine. Below the canopy, there are often limited amounts of shrubs such as speckled Alder, Winterberry, and Sweet Gale.
Mangroves are a species of plant which typically thrive in coastal wetlands (called marine or estuarine environments). They are a special tree taxon that can survive in salty wetland water. Mangroves also provide the base for the wetland food chain. They are the producers in the wetland environment. Because mangroves add sulfur to the wetlands, it makes the water more acidic, therefore allowing decomposed matter in the water to biodegrade faster than it normally would, which in turn, provides more food for the organisms in the wetland ecosystem.
HydrologyGenerally, the hydrology of a wetland is such that the area is permanently or periodically inundated or saturated at the soil surface for a period of time during the growing season. The presence (or absence) of water is not necessarily a good method for identifying wetlands because the amount of water generally fluctuates depending on such things as rainfall patterns, snow melt, dry seasons, longer droughts, and tidal patterns. Often the same wetland can appear to be an open body of water some times and a dry field at other times due to significant fluctuations in water levels. The three water sources that contribute to wetlands are:
- precipitation falling within the wetland
- groundwater moving up or out from the subsurface of the wetland
- surface flow from the surrounding watershed or nearby water bodies (lakes, streams, oceans, etc.)
TopographyGenerally, wetlands are located within topographic features that are lower in elevation that the surrounding landscape such as depressions, valleys, and flat areas. Topography plays an important role in determining the size and shape of a wetland by controlling where the water goes and how long it stays there.
ClassificationBelow are terms used for various types of wetlands:
- A bog or muskeg is acidic peat land (peat bog).
- A moor was originally the same as a bog but has come to be associated with this soil type on hill-tops.
- A moss is a raised bog in Scotland
- A fen is a freshwater peat land with chemically basic (which roughly means alkaline) ground water. This means that it contains a moderate or high proportion of hydroxyl ions (pH value greater than 7).
- A carr is a fen which has developed to the point where it supports trees. It is a European term, mainly applied in the north of the UK.
- A fresh-water marsh's main feature is its openness, with only low-growing or "emergent" plants. It may feature grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water. It is an open form of fen.
- A coastal salt marsh may be associated with estuaries and along waterways between coastal barrier islands and the inner coast. The plants may extend from reed in mildly brackish water to salicornia on otherwise bare marine mud. It may be converted to human use as pasture (salting) or for salt production (saltern).
- A swamp is wetland with more open water surface and deeper water than a marsh. In North America, it is used for wetlands dominated by trees and woody bushes rather than grasses and low herbs, but this distinction does not necessarily apply in other areas, for instance in Africa where swamps may be dominated by papyrus.
- A dambo is a shallow, grass-covered depression of the central and southern African plateau which is waterlogged in the rainy season, and usually forms the headwaters of a stream or river. It is marshy at the edges and at the headwater, but maybe swampy in the centre and downstream.
- A mangrove swamp or mangal is a salt or brackish water environment dominated by the mangrove species of tree, such as Sonneratia. Species
- A paperbark wetland is a fresh or brackish water environment dominated by the Melaleuca tree.
- A bayou or slough are southern United States terms for a creek amongst swamp. In an Indian mangrove swamp, it would be called a creek.
- A constructed wetland is artificially contrived wetland, intended to absorb flash floods, clean sewage, enhance wildlife or for some other human reason.
- A pocosin is a bog-like wetland dominated by fire-adapted shrubs and trees, found mainly in the southeastern United States on the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
- Seasonally flooded basins or flats.
- Inland fresh meadows.
- Inland shallow fresh water.
Hydrogeomorphic classesThe Hydrogeomorphic (HGM) Approach is a system developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers to classify all wetlands based on three factors that influence how they function: position in the landscape (geomorphic setting), water source (hydrology), and the flow and fluctuation of the water once in the wetland (hydrodynamics). There are seven classes (types) of wetlands in this system:
- mineral soil flats
- organic soil flats
- estuarine fringe
- lacustrine fringe
This approach also intends to develop subclasses of wetlands to account for specific conditions of various regions.
Wetlands in drylandsIn contrast to wetlands in other biomes (usually permanent and fresh water), wetlands in drylands are more diverse in their composition, depending on the local climate and other particularities of the surroundings. They can be fresh or saline, permanent, seasonal or temporary, filling intermittently or regularly. Wetlands in drylands can be attributed all values and uses of wetlands found in other biomes. However, given the stark contrast to their dry surroundings, many of these values are enhanced. This applies to the water balance where gradual release and storage of rainwater by wetlands amid drylands is crucial due to the unpredictability and incalculability of rain. During dry seasons, wetlands in drylands are also pivotal as refugia for wildlife, livestock and people. Moreover, biodiversity levels are higher than in wetlands in other major biomes, in particular because of the accessibility of water amid an otherwise very dry environment.
Intertidal wetlandsIn intertidal wetlands the majority of natural stress comes from salinity and tidal movements. The intertidal wetlands must be able to survive extreme conditions of mainly salt water at high tide, fresh water at low tide and times of flood and brackish water at other times. The saline water is a very difficult condition for plants to survive in. The grey mangrove accomplishes this by excluding salt in the root system, salt glands in the leaf, and waxy leaves to minimize water loss. However it is vulnerable to changes in salinity levels. Changes to tidal movements through increased run-off or altered drainage can cause the roots of mangroves to be inundated for longer than normal periods affecting their pneumatophones. It can also be pushed past its threshold level if water quality is changed. Thus even healthy ecosystems are vulnerable to change. Some species such as oysters and molluscs have been used as indicator species, with any decline in their numbers indicating the ecosystem is under stress. A change in nutrient levels may also affect primary productivity and thus bring about change.
HydrologicHydrologic functions include long term and short term water storage, subsurface water storage, energy dissipation, and moderation of groundwater flow or discharge.
ExamplesBy absorbing the force of strong winds and tides, wetlands protect terrestrial areas adjoining them from storms, floods, and tidal damage.
BiogeochemicalNutrient cycling, retention of particulates, removal of imported elements and compounds, and the import and export of organic carbon are all biogeochemical functions of wetlands. Wetlands remove nutrients from surface and ground water by filtering and by converting nutrients to unavailable forms. Denitrification is arguably the most important of these reactions because humans have increased nitrate worldwide by applying fertilizers. Increased nitrate availability can cause eutrophication, but denitrification converts biologically available nitrogen back into nitrogen gas, which is biologically unavailable except to nitrogen fixing bacteria. Denitrification can be detected in many soils, but denitrification is fastest in wetlands soils.
ExamplesIntertidal wetlands provide an excellent example of invasion, modification and succession. The invasion and succession process is establishment of seagrasses. These help stabilize sediment and increase sediment capture rates. The trapped sediment gradually develops into mud flats. Mud flat organisms become established encouraging other life forms changing the organic composition of the soil.
Wildlife habitatWetland provide a safe and lush environment for many different species of fish, birds, and insects. It includes the mallard duck, the Sickleback fish, mangroves, and water moccasins.
Plant habitatLike animals, their are number of plant communites that will only survive in the unique environmental conditions of a wetland. In the continental U.S. wetlands account for only 5 percent of the total land area but over 30 percent of the nation's vascular flora occur in wetlands.
ExamplesMangroves establish themselves in the shallower water upslope from the mudflats. Mangroves further stabilize sediment and over time increase the soil level. This results in less tidal movement and the development of salt marshes. (succession) The salty nature of the soil means it can only be tolerated by special types of grasses e.g. saltbush, rush and sedge. There is also changing species diversity in each succession.
Value to humansWhile many of the functions above are directly or indirectly beneficial to humans and society, wetlands are specifically valuable to people as places for recreational and educational activities such as hunting, fishing, camping, and wildlife observation. Wetlands are often filled in to be used by humans for everything from agriculture to parking lots, in part because the economic value of wetlands has only been recognized recently: the shrimp and fish that breed in salt water marshes are generally harvested in deeper water, for example. Humans can maximize the area of healthy, functioning wetlands by minimizing their impacts and by developing management strategies that protect, and where possible rehabilitate those ecosystems at risk.
Wetlands are sometimes deliberately created to help with water reclamation. One example is Green Cay Wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida in the United States.
Protection and rehabilitationHistorically, humans have made large-scale efforts to drain wetlands for development or to flood them for use as recreational lakes. Since the 1970s, more focus has been put on preserving wetlands for their natural function—sometimes also at great expense. One example is the project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to control flooding and enhance development by taming the Everglades, a project which has now been reversed to restore much of the wetlands as a natural habitat and method of flood control.
The creation of the treaty known as the Ramsar Convention (1971), or more properly "The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat", demonstrates the global concern regarding wetland loss and degradation. The primary purposes of the treaty are to list wetlands of international importance and to promote their wise use, with the ultimate goal of preserving the world’s wetlands. ;Education: In the past, wetlands were regarded as wastelands. Education campaigns have helped to change public perceptions and foster public support for the wetlands. Due to their location in the catchment area, education programs need to teach about total catchment management programs. Educational programs include guided tours for the general public, school visits, media liaison, and information centers.
United StatesIn the United States, some wetlands are regulated by the federal government under the Clean Water Act. Determining the boundary between regulated wetlands and non-regulated lands therefore can be contentious. In reality, there is no natural boundary between the classes that humans define on these gradients (wetland/upland), and this issue is highlighted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's definition from Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States, which defines wetlands as "lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems." Regulations to protect water quality and highway safety require that we create arbitrary boundaries within those gradients, but these boundaries are scientifically definable, and consist of areas where three criterion of the presence of hydric soils, the presence of wetland vegetation, and the presence of appropriate hydrology. Such regulations must be predictable, reproducible, and enforced. Otherwise, we will sacrifice clean water for development in the case of wetlands regulation (or vice versa), or sacrifice safe travel for quick travel (or vice versa) in the case of speed limits. Determining which wetlands are regulated under section 404 of the clean water act or section 10 of the rivers and harbors act is termed "jurisdictional determination". Determining the boundary of wetland, whether jurisdictional under sections 404 or 10, or not jurisdictional but still meeting the technical definition of a wetland, that is having the soils, vegetation and hydrology criterion met is called a "wetland delineation", and generally is performed by college graduates with natural science or biology degrees working for engineering firms or environmental consulting firms who are familiar with the 1987 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wetland delineation manual.
- Ghabo, A. A. (2007) Wetlands Characterization; Use by Local Communities and Role in Supporting Biodiversity in the Semiarid Ijara District, Kenya. Terra Nuova East Africa. Wetlands in drylands.
- Wetlands: The Ecological Effect of Loss (Research article)
- Marshlands of Iberá (in English and Spanish)
- Federal Register (1996-08-16). "National Action Plan to Develop the Hydrogeomorphic Approach to Assessing Wetland Functions
- National Wetland Inventory (USA)
- Brinson, M. M., Hauer, F. R., Lee, L. C., Nutter, W. L., Rheinhardt, R. D., Smith, R. D., and Whigham, D. (1995). guidebook for application of hydrogeomorphic assessments to riverine wetlands" Technical Report WRP-DE-11, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS. NTIS No. AD A308 365.
wetland in Czech: Mokřad
wetland in Danish: Vådområde
wetland in German: Feuchtgebiet
wetland in Modern Greek (1453-): Υγροβιότοπος
wetland in Spanish: Humedal
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wetland in French: Zone humide
wetland in Italian: Zona umida
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wetland in Korean: 습지
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wetland in Slovenian: Mokrišče
wetland in Swedish: Våtmark
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http://www.sandown.co.uk/venue/sustainability-strategy | 2014-10-23T10:05:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413510834349.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017015354-00365-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.924998 | 313 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__197283670 | en | Cookies on the Sandown Park website
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Sandown Park is set in picturesque green belt surroundings where we prioritise our environmental responsibilities and strive to incorporate sustainable principles in our business.
The Jockey Club’s Sustainability Executive is based at Sandown Park and is working with the team to ensure that we implement steps to reduce our impact on the environment without affecting the quality of the customer experience.
The sustainability strategy is constantly evolving and we have a mixture of short and longer term objectives to help achieve our aims. Some of the objectives that we have already completed at Sandown Park include:
• A decrease in annual energy consumption, both in electricity and gas
• Installation of Electric Vehicle Charge Points in the main car park
• An increase in the proportion of waste recycled
• Use of “Free Cycle” to dispose of large items such as furniture to minimise land fill
• An extensive tree planting scheme
• All of our race cards are printed on recycled paper
• Incorporating environmental credentials in our procurement decisions
• Our catering division, Jockey Club Catering, is dedicated to sourcing local food suppliers wherever possible
• A “cycle to work” scheme in place within the Sandown Park team
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https://heathngd.com/latest-news/ | 2024-02-27T10:53:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474674.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227085429-20240227115429-00779.warc.gz | 0.92702 | 491 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__168242971 | en | Orange & Rockland Utilities Makes Rockland Safer Through Free Installation of Natural Gas Detectors
Orange & Rockland Utilities (O&R) started its free natural gas detectors program in July of last year and has begun installing natural gas detectors to help enhance safety throughout Rockland and Orange counties.
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Natural gas utilities continue to invest heavily in upgrading and modernizing their gas systems to minimize leaks through the replacement of leak prone cast iron and bare steel pipe. In addition, utilities expend significant effort to find and repair leaks as part of their responsibility to operate their systems as safely and efficiently as possible on behalf of their customers and the public at large.
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http://www.hewlett.org/people/michael-scott/ | 2017-02-27T08:55:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501172775.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104612-00336-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.957208 | 234 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__33301386 | en | Michael Scott is the program officer of Western conservation at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He leads the program’s portfolio to conserve lands and rivers, and promote clean energy in the Western United States and Canada.
Previously, Michael worked for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, first as its conservation director from 1996 to 2001 and then as its executive director from 2001 to 2008. During his tenure, over 150,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Company lands, spanning two mountain ranges just north of Yellowstone National Park, were brought into public ownership. The coalition also led efforts to eliminate polluting snowmobiles from Yellowstone and to provide winter habitat outside the park for its unique bison herd.
Michael also worked for the Wilderness Society for 15 years from 1981 to 1996, both in the West and in Washington, D.C., where he helped shepherd several statewide wilderness bills through Congress, including the first large Bureau of Land Management wilderness bill for lands north of the Grand Canyon.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master’s degree in public policy from the Claremont Colleges Graduate School. | environmental_science |
http://djheidler.com/blog/blog/eighteen-hundred-and-starve.html | 2017-04-23T15:42:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917118713.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031158-00426-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.972297 | 2,800 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__13891716 | en | A powerful trough of low pressure spanned the Great Lakes. Behind it a wall of cold air built and folded over itself, layer upon layer, until it was both towering and poised. Finally it broke free to race east toward New England where it would linger for 36 hours and create the most memorable weather event in the region’s history. Temperatures plunged more than 40˚. An American mistral howled from the northwest. Snow fell heavily with hail added for variety. By the time it was done, the storm had extended west to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Nobody, no matter how old, could recall any weather like it — in June.
In fact, it was in June exactly two hundred years ago that New England farmers stood in falling snow and watched ponds crust over with ice and buds on plants droop and then die. Hummingbirds, martins, and sparrows became “so benumbed, as to be taken by the hand, and great numbers... actually perished in the cold.”
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Despite what anyone called it, everyone struggled to find a cause. Some argued that the growing accumulation of ice in the far North had become so large that the sun could no longer melt it. The chill of 1816 was for them a harbinger of a time when there would be “no summer at all,” a prelude to a rampage of nature that would leave man extinct in its wake.
The credulous were inclined to accept that conclusion. Doomsayers could point to the extraordinary amount of natural phenomena in recent years, especially 1811 and 1812. The Ohio River had breached its banks to flood enormous spans of the valley wilderness. Plagues that put people in mind of biblical retribution felled pioneers throughout the frontier. And summer was cooler than usual — a harbinger, some would later say. The violent New Madrid earthquake sequence caused the Mississippi River Valley to roll like an ocean. A large comet hung in the night sky, and an eclipse spooked the superstitious. “Many persons,” noted one observer in 1816, “suppose that the seasons have not thoroughly recovered from the shock they experienced at the time of the late total eclipse of the sun.”
Condescending scientists shook their heads over such drivel. Blaming an eclipse for the wintry summer was the logic of the foolish amateur and the partially educated rube. No, they explained “the peculiarities of the season, the present year” were the result of “spots on the sun.” They even had compelling evidence for the claim. In April 1816, a portion of the sun was visibly covered by a dark spot. Everyone could see it because of a thick haze that made viewing the sun with the naked eye safe. There, they assured everyone: done and done; they had a consensus.
Of course, the consensus was as wrong about the year without summer as were eclipse advocates and doom mongers, which isn’t surprising. Science is a bumbling art that produces the stumbled upon truth more often than it proves the theorized one. The scientific method cannot achieve certainty. It can only eliminate the implausible. Cocksure science is junk freight, especially when it is the cargo of those both condescending and supremely confident.
And that makes the actual explanation for the weather that year ironic. It had nothing to do with the sunspots but had everything to do with the ability to see them. Nobody thought it strange that people could look at the sun with unprotected eyes. They noticed the sunspot, which was indeed there, but they didn’t seem to notice the thick, persistent haze that allowed them to see the spot on the sun.
Yet having said that, concluding that the dense haze was causing the strange weather would have been only partly correct. The haze was simply another piece of evidence pointing to the real cause of Eighteen Hundred and Starve to Death. It was something that happened — or had happened — on the other side of the world.
Mount Tambora still dominates the landscape of Indonesia’s island of Sumbawa, but prior to the spring of 1815 it was an imposing promontory that rivaled anything in the Swiss Alps or ranges in Nepal. Tambora, however, is a volcano, and in April 1815 it blew a good part of itself to smithereens with an eruption that was audible 2,000 miles away.
To put the event in perspective, the scale for measuring the power of a volcanic eruption runs from the low of 1 to the high of 8. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 99 AD that buried and obliterated ancient Pompeii was a 5. The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was also a 5. The famous eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 was only a 6, but using “only” in this context does the event an injustice, for the scale’s gradations are geometric rather than linear. In other words, a 6 is much more intense than a 5. Krakatoa’s explosion struck the crews of distant sailing ships stone cold deaf. Only four volcanic incidents in the last 2,000 years have been of a higher magnitude than Krakatoa.
Mount Tambora was one of them, coming in (or going out, as it were) at a whopping 7, which made it at least 4 times more powerful than Krakatoa. It is the most violent volcano in recorded history. The April 1815 eruption turned the Indonesian day to night, devastated the region, set off lethal tsunamis, and filled surrounding waters with miles of floating pumice that was mistaken for seaweed by heedless mariners or looked like looming black icebergs that puzzled perspiring lookouts in ships’ crow’s nests.
The pumice remained a menace to navigation for a decade, but it was the ash that caused the worldwide trouble. Tambora hurled an enormous quantity of ash skyward. By some estimates, the volcano threw solid and molten rock thousands of feet upward, but it propelled ash up forty miles or more. Lodged in the stratosphere, the ash spread first along the equator and then expanded as a cloud. In only a few months it became an aerosol mist that had been chemically transformed into particles of almost molecular miniaturization. It was also on its way to veiling the entire earth from Pole to Pole and all points between. Mount Tambora’s seismic cataclysm immediately altered the land and seascape for hundreds of miles around it. The more subtle atmospheric changes it caused were to alter the lives of people tens of thousands of miles away from it for years to come.
It did this by first tweaking temperatures and then radically altering established weather patterns. The aerosol cloud did not block sunlight as much as it reflected and distorted it. The optical effects were dazzling, especially for sunsets that Technicolor technicians would have rejected as too gaudy. Brilliant reds and purples during the summer and fall after Tambora’s eruption transfixed Londoners.
But Tambora’s ash was also in the process of transforming the great weather-making apparatuses of the earth. The heaviest snow in memory fell that winter all across Europe, lengthy storms that were made all the more peculiar (and alarming) by the strange coloring of the flakes in hues of red and yellow. Drifts reached the eaves of houses and smothered livestock as if in an avalanche.
Yet the strangest aspect of the winter of 1815-1816 was how Tambora’s ash made winter milder in North America at the same time it was pasting Europe with weirdly colored snowfalls of abnormal intensities. Abstruse explanations of how atmospheric conditions and corresponding weather patterns interact can account for this, at least according to people who say they can predict as well as clarify the weather. Whatever the case, it seems that the aerosol ash interfered with the way seasonal positions of the sun warm cool regions and cool warm regions.
In short, the ash turned everything either upside down or sideways, and the weather lost even its fragile fraction of predictability. The cloud, however, diminished more than sunlight; it dampened solar energy and caused both the continents and the oceans to cool.
The effect on polar air circulation temporarily blocked seasonally cold air in the upper United States, which was the reason for America’s mild winter in 1815-16. The reflective properties of the ash had cooled the lower atmosphere, but they had also impeded the seasonal flow of arctic air during the winter. With the onset of spring the cooling continued, and the arctic air did not do what it was supposed to. Rather than retreat, it advanced just as the seasonal shifting of the earth exposed the northern hemisphere to the sun’s energy. The return of solar energy to the Arctic rapidly dissipated the unique wind patterns that the ash cloud had produced. The result liberated arctic air that flowed southward over Canada in one hemisphere and Scandinavia in another to make springtime vaguely different for everybody. It would make summer memorably so.
Québec had a foot of snow in April, the product of a front marching south toward New York and the Ohio River Valley. Both places had early and heavy snowfalls, but warm weather returned by the end of the month. On the other hand, western Europe had no spring and lost both April and May to intense cold that descended and stayed. Meanwhile, New England was on a see-saw. As April had done, May brought brutal cold hurtling down from Canada, but this time it was late enough to find budding plants and fruit trees to freeze. As it had in April, the cold abated and was replaced by humidity and spring rains throughout New England. Farmers were hopeful.
The winter storm in June all but dashed their hopes, but hot weather returned at the end of the month. Then Fourth of July celebrations saw men in overcoats and women wrapped up and wearing mittens. In Canada ponds froze, and on July 8 frost killed crops in New England and chilly weather stunted the fields of the mid-Atlantic. It also stopped raining (or snowing) because less heat meant less evaporation from land and water. Virginia buckled under a severe drought. A killing frost in the second week of August burned the Yankee corn crop. It was the final blow to an already abbreviated growing season. In the coming fall, the harvest for many places did not happen, and for the coming winter, fodder was scarce and food scanty.
Faulty memories can exaggerate, and people often make the ordinary dramatic in recollection. But contemporary temperature measurements provide hard data to bear out the fantastic stories of old timers recalling summer snow and killing frosts in August. Data suggests the ash cloud was reflecting enough sunlight to lower the average temperature in 1816 by some 3˚ Fahrenheit, and the running temperature on many days was often 5 to 7˚ lower than normal. Even that tells only part of the story. The precipitous drop of the thermometer during cold fronts and the “winter storm” of June started a calamitous agricultural crisis for the entire world. Grain prices quadrupled in central Europe and starving Chinese peasants watched rice patties either dry up or skim with ice.
In America, hard-bitten Yankees and debt-ridden southern planters prayed for sunshine or rain or warmth on any given day, and sometimes all of those things within the span of hours. Their desperation was real and had cause. Seed corn left over from 1815 soon sold for $5 a bushel, an amount equal to almost $100 today.
Aerosol clouds from volcanic eruptions have a 3-5 year life span and are strongest in their second to third year, diminishing gradually thereafter. This was the case with Mount Tambora’s ash, and by 1818 seasons would return to their routines of cold in winter and warmth in summer. As life spun back into traditional patterns of planting, nurturing, and harvesting, the Americans who had endured the year without summer reflected on 1816 with their characteristic humor by dubbing it Eighteen Hundred and Starve to Death while educated observers pinned the cause on sunspots.
It’s easy to look back at 1816 and chuckle over those poor scientists, comically ignorant without a computer model to call their own, yammering about sunspots while overlooking the actual cause of the weather. We know so much more than they, we think, cocksure and confident.
Yet 1816 was really something more than a year without summer. It is, in fact, a warning about something other than the climate. Cocksure consensus isn’t a thing isolated in the ignorant past, as Hamlet warned Horatio. As we remind ourselves that there are indeed more things in heaven and earth than we can know, we should look at 1816.
It is a mirror. | environmental_science |
https://www.safeatworkca.com/safety-articles/breathe-easier--avoid-work-related-asthma/ | 2021-10-16T21:30:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585025.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016200444-20211016230444-00371.warc.gz | 0.925134 | 527 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__57362269 | en | Butchers, bakers, and candlestick-makers all work with some form of allergen or irritant. In fact, many workers across a wide range of occupations breathe in substances that, without proper protection, could cause occupational asthma.
Workplace irritants can cause asthma in those who don’t have it, cause asthma to return for those who used to have it, and worsen asthma symptoms for those who currently have it. Knowing what to look for and how to prevent it can help make your workplace safe.
Approximately 1.9 million cases of asthma among adults in the United States are work related. And, these affect more industries than you might think.
Many work environments have hazards that can trigger occupational asthma, including:
- Firefighters exposed to smoke and other toxins.
- Agricultural workers exposed to grain dust, animal dander, and antibiotics.
- Construction workers exposed to fumes, gases, and vapors when working with curing glues and epoxy resins or dust from sanding, mixing concrete, and drywall.
- Sawmill workers, paper, and furniture manufacturers exposed to wood dust.
- Healthcare workers who breathe in the powdered protein from latex gloves.
- Auto body workers exposed to organic compounds during priming and painting.
- Individuals working with chemicals and those exposed to biological and environmental agents including molds and spores.
- Workers using harmful cleaning agents in confined spaces.
- Bakers inhaling flour dust.
If you are an employer, it is your responsibility to provide the information, resources, and equipment so your employees can protect themselves from occupational asthma.
Here are some things you should do to get started:
- Follow OSHA health and safety guidelines.
- Provide safety equipment and protective gear that are appropriate for the exposures in your business, such as masks, respirators, dust control air cleaners, and vacuums.
- Train workers on the proper use of safety equipment and good housekeeping procedures to help minimize exposure.
- Provide respirator fit testing.
If you are an employee, here are some steps you can take to avoid triggering or worsening asthma:
- Work with your doctor to control existing respiratory conditions.
- Report asthma symptoms immediately, including coughing, wheezing, difficulty breathing, and shortness of breath.
- Always wear a mask or respirator while working with hazardous airborne materials or when medically approved and respiratory protection is required.
- Avoid tobacco smoke.
Learn more about recognition and prevention of occupational asthma.
You’ll breathe easier for doing so. | environmental_science |
http://www.soulsisterphotography.com/photos/yyc-growers-distributors-garden-tour-bike-ride-through-cyclepalooza/ | 2023-12-11T19:13:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679516047.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211174901-20231211204901-00016.warc.gz | 0.985947 | 198 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__111932738 | en | Our leader of the ride was Kye from Grand Truck Veggies, he was the one with the brilliant idea to bike to various spin farms within Calgary and talk with the farmers of Dirt Boys and the Eden Project.
We had the opportunity to hear about each project, where it all started and harvest some of the produce they grew. I was so pleased to see the local produce and hear that they sell it at the various Farmers markets around Calgary. They also have a program you can sign up to purchase fresh veggies from them every week. The CSA – Community Shared Agriculture program is available for 15 weeks during the summer and you receive a box of organic, healthy harvested food each week that can be picked up at a few of the markets in Calgary. After the bike ride we went to Kye’s and had a lovely fresh meal prepared from this garden. It was such a beautiful day and a wonderful way meet new people, learn about fresh local produce while riding your bike!! | environmental_science |
https://itsyourheatingandcoolingguy.com/the-importance-of-regular-air-filter-changes-for-your-hvac-system/ | 2024-04-23T20:55:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818740.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423192952-20240423222952-00621.warc.gz | 0.938861 | 647 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__169622579 | en | Keep Your HVAC System Happy: Change Air Filters Regularly
Your HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system plays a crucial role in maintaining comfort and air quality within your home. While many homeowners understand the importance of regular maintenance for their HVAC systems, one often overlooked aspect is the regular replacement of air filters. Despite its simplicity, changing your HVAC air filter on a routine basis is vital for several reasons.
- Improved Air Quality: The primary function of an HVAC air filter is to capture airborne particles such as dust, pollen, pet dander, and other pollutants as air passes through the system. Over time, these particles can accumulate in the filter, reducing its effectiveness and allowing contaminants to recirculate throughout your home. By regularly replacing the air filter, you can ensure that your HVAC system continues to provide clean, healthy air for you and your family.
- Increased Energy Efficiency: A clean air filter allows for better airflow throughout your HVAC system, which in turn improves its efficiency. When the filter becomes clogged with dirt and debris, the system must work harder to circulate air, resulting in increased energy consumption and higher utility bills. By replacing the air filter regularly, you can help your HVAC system operate more efficiently, saving energy and reducing your carbon footprint.
- Extended Lifespan of Equipment: The accumulation of dirt and debris on an air filter not only restricts airflow but also puts added strain on the components of your HVAC system. Over time, this strain can lead to increased wear and tear, potentially causing premature failure of vital components such as the blower motor or heat exchanger. By changing the air filter as recommended by the manufacturer, you can help prolong the lifespan of your HVAC equipment and avoid costly repairs or replacements.
- Prevention of System Malfunctions: A dirty or clogged air filter can lead to a range of HVAC system malfunctions, including frozen coils, overheating, and reduced heating or cooling capacity. These issues not only compromise comfort but can also result in inconvenient breakdowns, especially during periods of extreme weather. By maintaining a clean air filter, you can minimize the risk of system malfunctions and ensure reliable operation year-round.
- Optimized Performance: When your HVAC system is operating at peak performance, you can enjoy consistent temperatures and improved comfort throughout your home. A clean air filter allows the system to deliver the right amount of conditioned air to each room, preventing hot or cold spots and maintaining a comfortable indoor environment. Whether you’re trying to stay cool in the summer or warm in the winter, regular air filter changes are essential for optimizing HVAC performance.
In conclusion, regular air filter changes are a simple yet critical aspect of HVAC maintenance that should not be overlooked. By investing a small amount of time and effort into replacing your air filter as recommended, you can enjoy improved air quality, increased energy efficiency, extended equipment lifespan, and reliable system performance. Make it a priority to check and replace your HVAC air filter regularly to keep your home comfortable, healthy, and energy-efficient all year long. | environmental_science |
http://plhproducts.com/services/lumber-import-export/ | 2017-06-22T22:17:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319912.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622220117-20170623000117-00433.warc.gz | 0.919356 | 436 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__10893911 | en | As always, being environmentally responsible is critical and thus PLH follows the strict standards of both FSC and PEFC chain-of-custody regulations.
We at PLH pride ourselves in the preservation and respect of our natural resources and help to contribute to the new growth of our earth’s forests.
Chain of Custody (COC) is the path taken by raw materials from a responsibly certified source through processing, manufacturing, distribution, and printing until it is a final product ready for sale to the end consumer.
About the Forest Stewardship Council ®
The Forest Stewardship Council is an international not for-profit, multi-stakeholder organization established in 1993 to promote responsible management of the world’s forests. Being FSC®-certified shows that you comply with the highest social and environmental standards on the market. As public concerns about the state of the world’s forests and timber resources increases, FSC® provides you with a credible solution to complex environmental and social issues.
About the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification
The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) is an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization which promotes sustainable forest management through independent third party certification. It is considered the certification system of choice for small forest owners. It provides an assurance mechanism to purchasers of wood and paper products that they are promoting the sustainable management of forests. Its 35 worldwide independent national forest certification systems represent more than 240 million ha of certified forests, making it the largest forest certification system in the world, covering about two-thirds of the globally certified forest area. It is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
About the Sustainable Forestry Initiative
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) is a 'forest certification standard' and program of SFI Inc., a non-profit organization. The Sustainable Forestry Initiative is the world’s largest single forest certification standard by area. The SFI forest certification standard is based on principles that promote sustainable forest management, including measures to protect water quality, biodiversity, wildlife habitat, species at risk, and forests with exceptional conservation value. | environmental_science |
http://enchantingmyanmar.blogspot.com/2010/05/as-black-face-weeps.html | 2018-05-28T07:49:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794872114.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20180528072218-20180528092218-00147.warc.gz | 0.954538 | 460 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__92541309 | en | The monsoon rains are a blessing to our motherland. The rain clouds gather far away in the Bay of Bengal to bring life-giving water to our country. Vaulting above the high Rakhine Ranges and sweeping across the flat Ayeyarwaddy delta, the black rain clouds pour down to bring back to life the dry paddy fields, fill our ponds and rivers with nourishing water.
As the rivers and the ponds fill with water the farmers get ready to begin their work. Oxen are readied, the ploughs cleaned. But the farmers are happy. They are the true sons of the earth.
The land will once more be green again. Vast acres of paddy fields to feed the people of Myanmar and to fill the granaries with food. Typical scenes at these times would be a solitary farmer behind a pair of oxen tilling his land under the lashing rains, his dear wife and children waiting under the shade of the big rain tree, waiting for him to finish his work and join them for lunch. A simple farmers' lunch, nothing elaborate. Heaps of steaming rice, a lump of ngapi ( fermented fish ), a clear veggie soup made from the vegetables found on the land near their modest hut. A smoked fish, from the catch the farmer had caught in the streams the previous night, would be a treat for them. At another plot would be a bevy of young girls transplanting the young paddy from the nurseries.Smiling faces, dabbed with the yellowish paste of thanahka, a natural sunscreen from the thanahka plant. They are also happy with their work. They know also that it is an important job. Unless the young paddies are planted carefully they might not ripen into golden stalks heavy with rice grains. Their songs float on the air despite the heavy monsoon rains that pelt them mercilessly. The peals of thunder and streaks of lightning forming a perfect background to their singing. Those would be the typical scenes in all the farming communities in Myanmar.And nights would be filled with the sounds of the frogs, came back to life.
And we pray that the rains be heavy, filling our fields, our ponds and rivers with life-giving waters | environmental_science |
http://www.bwpi.manchester.ac.uk/research/researchprogrammes/climurb/index.htm | 2014-08-20T12:38:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500808153.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021328-00248-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.929067 | 609 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__24892163 | en | Climurb: Poverty and Climate Change in Urban Bangladesh
Research at ClimUrb
As part of the ClimUrb research project, students filmed their innovative work with residents of low-income settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh
ClimUrb's research outputs are presented in a variety of formats. View and download our case studies, working papers, policy briefs and journal articles.
ClimUrb: Poverty and Climate Change in Urban Bangladesh is a major new research programme exploring climate change impacts and adaptation in poor urban settlements of the developing world.
There is now widespread agreement that climate change is happening and that the lives of the poor will be, and already are, negatively affected. This is particularly true for the urban poor who, over the course of the next 25 years, will become the majority of the world’s poor people.
ClimUrb seeks to create policy-relevant knowledge about how climate change impacts on the livelihoods and living conditions of poor urban people and communities. Current research activities have an exclusive focus on Bangladesh. Initiatives are under way for other geographical areas, for example the
EcoCities project in Manchester, and the Climate Change and Urban Vulnerability in Africa (CLUVA) project.
The growing urban population of Bangladesh now exceeds 40 million. The number of poor people living in urban areas is on the rise, in contrast to a declining number in rural areas. With 15-20 million people potentially displaced by rising sea levels by the turn of this century, both urbanisation and urban poverty rates seem likely to increase.
Despite these figures, climate change policies in Bangladesh focus on rural areas. Policymakers’ neglect of the urban poor will become increasingly damaging in an era of global warming. The route to developing effective policy starts by learning from poor people in the low income settlements of Bangladesh, understanding their lives, livelihoods and practices now. Research needs to focus on what they are doing to adapt to climate change.
Our work is expected to raise political and institutional awareness of the problems facing poor urban communities, and of the innovations and practices that urban poor people are pursuing to maintain and improve their lives. Hopefully, this increased awareness will be transformed into better policies and more effective institutions.
ClimUrb represents BWPI’s emerging research focus on climate change impacts and adaptation in poor urban settlements of the developing world. It draws on world-leading expertise at BWPI, GURC and MARC, and BRAC University and WaterAid (Dhaka). Manoj Roy and David Hulme are leading figures on poverty reduction and urban planning in Bangladesh; Simon Guy is an expert on processes of urban change and land markets; Ainun Nishat, Syed Hashemi, Khairul Islam, Fuad Mallick and Ferdous Jahan are leading Bangladesh scholars who turn research findings into practical actions. On the ground, work is carried out by a team of field researchers.
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http://stantonbury-pc.org.uk/news/ | 2019-10-18T08:01:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986677964.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20191018055014-20191018082514-00137.warc.gz | 0.948976 | 179 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__149987205 | en | Beware fly tippers, we are watching you. Incorrect disposal of waste is fly tipping and an offence that could result in a fine of up to £50,000 or 5 years imprisonment, or a Fixed Penalty Notice of £250. Recently, Milton Keynes Council caught a local man red handed who has now been ordered to pay hundreds of pounds. Thank you Milton Keynes Council!
Find out more here.
Thank you very much to our fantastic Parish Guardians who came out today to help keep our Parish clean and tidy. They collected an amazing 16 bags of litter along with a few other larger items!
Our next litter pick will be on the 23rd of October around Bradville. If you’re interested in becoming a Parish Guardian, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/Ujdh6nEQLsZtZxoU9 | environmental_science |
http://waterwelltrust.org/ | 2016-09-26T12:07:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738660760.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173740-00071-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.940574 | 273 | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-40__0__64904120 | en | The Water Well Trust (WWT) is a 501(c)3 organization created by the Water Systems Council to provide a clean water supply to American families living without access to a precious resource most of us take for granted.
The WWT and its partners build wells for low‐income families nationwide that need safe drinking water. There are many excellent organizations working to provide safe drinking water to people in need in developing countries. The Water Well Trust is the only national nonprofit organization helping Americans get access to a clean, safe water supply.
We serve Americans living primarily in rural, unincorporated areas or minority communities that may be isolated and difficult to reach. We assist low‐income families that cannot afford to pay for public water supplies, and those who live in areas where the extension of public water supplies to serve them doesn’t make economic sense…for them, for the public water supply owners, for federal, state or local funding sources.
Today in America, there are millions of people who are forced to haul water or to use contaminated water sources. Individual wells and small, shared wells are the best and most cost‐effective way to provide safe drinking water to these American homes.
This video documents the work of the Well Water Trust, and the projects your donations have supported to supply sanitary water wells to people without water in rural AmericaApply | environmental_science |
https://zoewithanumlaut.wordpress.com/category/photographs/ | 2018-07-20T01:04:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591455.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720002543-20180720022543-00087.warc.gz | 0.970583 | 696 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__25977244 | en | Growing up in New England, I had a vague image of what the desert would look like, and feel like—and it didn’t necessarily bring to mind an image of abundant life and color. However, it took Joshua Tree only a matter of moments to begin to reveal to me the magic that is life in the desert.
Sunrise turns the mountains purple and the sun greets the morning sky with vibrant colors. I climb from the tent and walk around the house to lean against the Joshua Tree. A rabbit flits across the ground in front of me, and I breathe deep—this is the first morning I spent in Joshua Tree back in November. I had arrived at night after many days of travel and fallen fairly immediately to sleep. Although I spent only a few days at Opuntia Garden Farm in November, by the time I was thoroughly enchanted and knew this place would feed my burgeoning fascination with permaculture well.
Arriving again in Joshua Tree in January, the colors welcomed me again. The pastel shades of green on the shrubs and trees, the browns of the ground, the yellow straw in the swales, the deep green of the leaves in the kitchen garden, and of course, the vibrant blue sky.
On my first evening of my internship stay, Maya and Damian and Oliver welcomed me into their sweet desert home, filled me with delicious food and warm tea and over candles we each set intentions for my stay. Then it was time to wrap up in sweaters and scarves to head out to a cozy camper to sleep.
My days in Joshua Tree floated into a sweet feeling of timelessness. Early mornings were greeted with delicious green smoothies or sometimes pancakes. Later mornings would be filled with projects on the land, and then time for lunch and an afternoon lounge in the hammock underneath the old mesquite tree.
Through talking and eating with Maya and Damian I began to gain a greater understanding of using trees as a truly sustainable food source. Though I have often enjoyed treats from trees in Vermont, such as maple syrup and apples, the trees in the desert are vastly different than the trees in Vermont that I know well. Inspiring in their abundant life with little water intake and their ability to take in and utilize so much sunlight, it was lovely to learn about the different species around the property.
I got to collaborate on many projects during my stay. It was lovely to dive into building happy compost, brewing compost tea, digging a channel to harvest rainwater, and making bread from acorns I helped process.
There were countless joys in each day, from digging my hands into the bottom of a swale to feel moisture even weeks after a rain, hearing joyful children on the trampoline, feeding the chickens, getting to know everyone who lived on the land, gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, and even pulling the last spine of a choya bud out of my bare feet.
Ultimately, there are no words to capture the wonders of my stay, but I feel blessed to be able to begin to convey the gratitude I feel for my time spent on the farm, getting to know the land and the people, and getting to throw my body and heart into every project, conversation and moment I was a part of. With a little water, some beautiful plants and a whole lot of love Opuntia Garden Farms is a place overflowing with what I can only describe as magic. | environmental_science |
http://www.floorstores.com/hardwood-restorations/ | 2017-02-20T02:39:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501170380.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104610-00463-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.938436 | 552 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__195133650 | en | Just because your hardwood floors are old doesn’t mean they need to be replaced. It’s possible they have more life in them than you think. Our Hardwood Floor Restoration and Cleaning Services can be affordable alternatives to replacement. We use Bona brand cleaners and floor care processes, guaranteed to be biodegradable, pH neutral and safe for your floors, family and the environment. And all of our services are conducted by certified technicians, so you can rest assured that the job will be done right, protecting your floors for years to come.
Hardwood floors are walked on day in and day out. As a result, they have dust and grime ground into them. Ordinary cleaning methods don’t reach this deeply embedded dirt. However, using the Bona Wood Flooring Deep Clean System, we can effectively rid your hardwood floors of below-the surface contaminants. The system uses a Bona Wood Floor Power Scrub machine and an EPA-registered and Greenguard certified disinfectant. With this process, your floors can be effectively cleaned without producing harsh chemicals or fumes, meaning you don’t have to vacate your home. In addition to being effective and environmentally friendly, the process is quick: 500 square feet can be cleaned in about an hour.
As they’re walked on, hardwood floors slowly wear down to bare wood. Once this wood is exposed, the floors can become permanently damaged. In order to prevent such damage, we offer Wood Scrubbing and Recoating services, which help to protect your floors, prolonging their life. Using Bona’s EPA and Greenguard-Certified equipment and materials, the floors are prepped, cleaned and rinsed. The floor is then coated with Bona’s Waterborn Finish, helping to fill in scratches, provide sheen and maintain a protective layer.
When your floors are old or heavily damaged, you may think you need to replace them. However, sometimes a complete Sand and Refinish can make floors look like new. To begin with, floors need to be sanded down to the bare wood. Then, cracks, scratches and gouges can be filled in, preparing the floor to be stained, in the color of your choice. Once the floor is stained, it can be buffed to a level of sheen that you are happy with. The entire process is done with our Total Dust Containment System, meaning you won’t have dust throughout the home and you won’t have to vacate it while we’re working. All of our finishes are EPA certified to have no toxic fumes and low VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds). | environmental_science |
https://www.nss.gov.gh/home/nss-latest-news/142-keta-nss-cleans-the-beach | 2019-05-20T13:21:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255944.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520121941-20190520143941-00205.warc.gz | 0.944693 | 329 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__133346816 | en | The 4th Edition of the National Sanitation Day recently held in the Northern Region witnessed a massive turn out of National Service Personnel in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region who actively and enthusiastically cleaned the beaches of Keta, Dzelukope and Abutiakope.
The gesture was to assure the people of Keta, Anloga and its environs that the National Service Scheme will not sit aloof and shirk its responsibility to help maintain environmental hygiene which is essential for good health and personal development.
The National Service Scheme has over the years deployed skilled manpower to critical areas of the economy including Education, Local Government, Agriculture, Health among others.
Addressing a cross section of National Service Personnel, officers from the Ghana Police Service and community volunteers numbering 400, the Municipal Director of the National Service Scheme in Keta, Mr. Gabriel Osei Jnr, indicated that the National Sanitation Day concept feeds into the NSS objectives of undertaking projects to combat diseases in Ghana. He posited that the NSD will help promote national unity, strengthen the bonds of common citizenship and encourage nation-building through active participation.
Mr. Osei Jnr appealed to the community members living along the coast to ensure that the beaches are always kept clean. According to him, since most of the indigenes are fishermen, it is imperative that the beaches are not polluted. He indicated that a polluted beach can have dire consequences on marine life and affect their catch when they go to sea.
The Municipal Director reminded Service Personnel of their responsibility to offer altruistic service to improve the communities where they have been posted. | environmental_science |
http://www.hartmansimons.com/our-attorneys/peyton-nunez/ | 2017-04-26T11:42:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121305.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00016-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.924595 | 557 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__139900745 | en | Peyton Nunez advises corporations of all sizes on a broad range of environmental transactional, regulatory compliance, and litigation matters. She has substantial experience with federal environmental laws, including CERCLA/Superfund, the Clean Water Act, NEPA, EPCRA, and RCRA, as well as their state counterparts. A significant part of her practice involves remediation of contaminated sites under various hazardous site, brownfields, and voluntary remediation programs.
Ms. Nunez works closely with real estate and corporate clients to oversee environmental due diligence, manage risk, and negotiate favorable contract terms and conditions. She also counsels clients on environmental compliance issues impacting every facet of their business, including permitting, spill reporting, chemical storage, waste disposal, underground storage tank management, facility audits, and agency inspections.
In addition to her transactional and compliance work, Ms. Nunez has litigated a broad range of environmental mattes in Georgia and throughout the nation at the state, federal, and administrative levels, and has substantial experience defending clients in private party cost recovery actions, citizen suits, and government enforcement actions. She is a former chair of the State Bar of Georgia’s Environmental Law Section.
- Successfully represented a developer in a multi-million-dollar litigation matter concerning the presence of methane under a residential complex in Atlanta
- Served as outside counsel responsible for the day-to-day management of an international package delivery company’s environmental compliance and litigation matters
- Advised former corporate shareholders post-merger in connection with the investigation and remediation of environmentally impacted properties, resulting in a significant financial return to clients
- Represent large, publicly-traded corporations in CERCLA cost recovery actions in federal courts throughout the United States, including California, Texas, and New York
PUBLICATIONS & RECOGNITION
- Best Lawyers in America 2016: Environmental Law
- Chambers USA: Leading Business Lawyers—Environment, 2014-2015
- Don’t Take it Personally: Fiduciary Liability Under CERCLA, ABA Trust & Investments, January/February 2002
- Is GEPA a Sword for Citizens or a Shield for the State? Recent Developments Under the Georgia
- Environmental Policy Act, Georgia State Bar Environmental Law Section Newsletter, 2000
- Cleaning Up the Confusion: Long Beach, Grand Trunk, and the Scope of Easement Holder Liability Under CERCLA, 45 Emory L.J. 805, 1996
- Emory University School of Law, JD, with Distinction, Editor-in Chief of Emory Law Journal 1996
- University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., cum laude 1993
- Georgia Brownfield Association | environmental_science |
http://emerzianwoodworking.com/reclaimed-wood/ | 2022-10-01T00:41:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335514.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001003954-20221001033954-00355.warc.gz | 0.947534 | 379 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__21967976 | en | Reclaiming and transforming wood
Restoring Lost Beauty
Every piece of wood has a story. When life’s tragic moments happen, we take the broken pieces and craft works of art from them, weaving that story into the fabric of the project. Using reclaimed wood in our projects lets us connect your clients with their local community on a deeper level than other companies by threading local history into the walls and furniture of their buildings. To us, it’s not just wood; it’s a story.
In the same way that mahogany and walnut woods are distinct from each other, reclaimed lumber is distinct from any other type of wood – even from its original species. Reclaimed wood lets you avoid boring, unattractive aesthetics by giving your building warmth and character. Reclaimed wood has a texture and grain to it that is completely original and unique. With its marks, weathering and natural staining that come with years of use, reclaimed wood has a distinct quality that’s perfect for projects requiring rich personality.
Typically, reclaimed wood comes from local buildings that have been torn down or destroyed over the years. We recycle wood taken from torn-down buildings, waterlogged structures, and other sources, processing it and using only the best pieces in our projects. Using this type of wood in your projects helps your clients become a part of their local community’s history, establishing their place within the community and helping them become connected to its residents.
Using reclaimed wood in your projects helps you protect the environment from the harmful deforestation that usually happens as companies glean virgin lumber from precious forests. Recycling wood, instead of destroying forests unnecessarily, means that you are actively promoting a “greener” future and the lifespan of our planet’s resources. | environmental_science |
http://northernburbsblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/green-bible-for-real.html | 2018-06-23T02:14:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864919.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623015758-20180623035758-00616.warc.gz | 0.978163 | 385 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__154885784 | en | No, I have a soft spot for the environment and the earth for two reasons. First, of course, I live in it. What happens in the natural world affects me. Second, my wife is a naturalist and biology educator, and I learned much during those times in college where I helped her memorize the latin names of fish during her icthyology course. I need to put that to use somewhere (no latin - don't worry.)
But why, aside from purely self-serving or preferential reasons should we care about the earth? Yes, we should care about the natural world because we live in it and shouldn't desire to destroy our habitat. And there's nothing wrong with prefering, say, forests to cities, or mountains and seas to trains and boats.
The primary Biblical reason to care about the earth is that God Himself does. He cared enough about it to carefully measure it out during creation. God cares enough to continue to manage it and to care for animals. God made the earth, and cares for it. That should be reason enough for us to do the same.
I think this is a good starting point, and so far I'm probably in safe territory. I think most people believe we should care about the earth, even those who don't cotton to the notion of God. But there's more. What is our role in regards to creation, and what is God's? If we should care about the environment, how should we apply that to our lives? Where does our concern for the environment manifest itself in our priorities and lives? What can we learn from nature? It is to these questions that I'll be turning as I move through this series.
As always, I'm glad to hear your thoughts - especially from my fellow believers who may think I'm (a) missing something that should be included, or (b) getting something wrong. | environmental_science |
https://jobs.hci-sl.org/jobs/program-director-international-position/ | 2022-05-17T10:12:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662517245.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220517095022-20220517125022-00527.warc.gz | 0.873402 | 1,242 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__276695802 | en | Job Title: Program Director (International Position)
Department: Urban Resilience Program Unit
Reports To: Head of Programmes – Country Programming
Country: CRS-Sierra Leone.
Duty Location: CRS Country Office, Freetown with 30% travel to program sites
You will provide technical oversight and lead the development and implementation of the Country Program (CP) urban resilience programming, particularly for large and complex projects, ensuring effective systems and processes are in place that support high-quality program design and implementation advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work in serving the poor and vulnerable. Your technical, leadership, management and knowledge will ensure that the CP delivers high-quality programming and continuously works towards improving the impact of its urban resilience programming. This role will oversee programme development and implementation in several urban resilience subsectors including urban health, slum regeneration and relocation, water security, sanitation and hygiene promotion, urban malaria, solid waste management, disaster response, preparedness and mitigation, and disaster risk reduction.
Roles and Key Responsibilities:
• Provide leadership, management, and technical guidance of all new and existing projects within the CP urban resilience portfolio throughout the project cycle to ensure project design, start-up,
implementation and close-out are in line with CRS quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices.
• Effectively manage talent for urban resilience and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff wellbeing. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, and complete
performance management for direct reports.
• Lead the development of program learning – identify opportunities for learning, research and
publications in the area of urban resilience and implementation of MEAL policy. Facilitate the
dissemination of promising practices and lessons learned to contribute to the agency knowledge
management agenda. Ensure integration of innovations and best practices.
• Contribute to the proactive pursuit of opportunities for new funding to ensure growth of the CP
urban resilience sector portfolio in line with agency, regional, and CP urban resilience strategic
priorities. Serve as the technical lead and technical writer to ensure quality proposals in urban
resilience per agency and donor standards. Contribute to budgeting and staffing plans and activities
• Lead activities related to disaster risk reduction and ensure integration with emergency response
and resilience programming
• Lead the implementation of a Water Fund in Freetown by liaising with lead technical partner The
Nature Conservancy to ensure that a robust business case is delivered, key stakeholders are
convened, and donors contribute to the Water Fund.
• Oversee the slum regeneration consortium led by CRS in partnership with AAH, GOAL, Concern
Worldwide and CARE International. Support coordination of the consortium, donor engagement, and program development activities.
• Represent CRS at all platforms related to urban resilience with government, private sector and civil society engagement
• Produce and review documentation related to urban resilience to facilitate growth and investment in high-quality interventions to transform Freetown and other urban areas in Sierra Leone
• Oversee technical assistance and capacity strengthening activities in urban resilience for staff and
partner organizations to enhance program quality and impact.
• Support the use of MEAL tools and practices in program development and implementation to ensure that projects activities, outputs and outcomes comply with the objectives and expected
outputs/outcomes on an ongoing basis
• Oversee the identification, assessment and strengthening of partnerships relevant to urban
resilience and the appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches.
• Ensure timely and appropriate project expenditures in line with financial plans and efficient use and stewardship of project material sources.
Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:
• Master’s Degree in International Development, International Relations or in the field of urban
• At least 5 years working in the area of urban resilience, with preferably a minimum of 7 years’
experience in relevant field-based project management experience.
• Direct experience managing initiatives, programs and projects related to slum regeneration, waste
management, DRR, WASH and water security
• Experience in managing moderately complex projects preferably with an international NGO.
• Experience in driving and delivering high-profile urban resilience initiatives with multiple stakeholder engagement and facilitation of investment.
• Good experience in project grants management, including project design, preferably for grants from multiple public donors, including USAID.
• Demonstrated ability to write high quality technical proposals.
• Experience engaging with private sector, government representatives and local organizations.
• MEAL skills and experience required.
• Budget management skills.
• Staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web
Conferencing Applications, information management systems.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions
• Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and
externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship.
• Good presentation and facilitation skills
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented
Required Languages – English – excellent spoken and written
Travel – Must be willing and able to travel up to 30% to project locations. Some international travel may be required.
Key Working Relationships
Supervisory Responsibilities: MEAL Manager, Grant Manager, Shelter Advisor, Water Fund Advisor, PrePD Manager and Urban Malaria Manager
Internal – Team members as mentioned above, Communications Manager, Business Development Specialist, Partnerships Technical Advisor, and the West Africa Regional Technical Advisors.
External – Freetown City Council, consortium members (GOAL, AAH, Concern, CARE), ministries of water resources, environment, health and sanitation, and agriculture and forestry, national water resources management agency
- Total Years Experience 5-10 | environmental_science |
https://www-stage.constellationenergy.com/our-work/channel-partners/aggregators-and-brokers.html | 2023-11-28T12:48:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099514.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128115347-20231128145347-00640.warc.gz | 0.920186 | 244 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__11635490 | en | Work With a Leading Energy Supplier
For approximately two million residential, public sector, and business customers, including three-fourths of the Fortune 100, the right supplier is Constellation. As the nation’s leading competitive energy provider and a supplier of retail and wholesale power, natural gas, and energy products and services, we are uniquely positioned to offer customers innovative solutions to meet a broad range of energy needs.
Work with us to create customized solutions for your clients and find out why we’re considered America’s energy choice®.
- We have the size, scale, and resources to help protect your clients from market risk.
- We have the reach and expertise to serve customers across multiple regions and commodities.
- As the largest clean energy generator in the country, we have a broad perspective on industry trends and direct access to deliver innovative energy solutions that help customers meet their sustainability needs.
We value the customers and communities that we serve and strive to meet the highest standards of ethics, innovation, customer focus, community service, and environmental stewardship. Learn more about Constellation’s values and our deep commitment to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles. | environmental_science |
https://oceansidepole.com/ | 2023-09-25T20:21:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510085.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925183615-20230925213615-00115.warc.gz | 0.94762 | 787 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__264129603 | en | Growing for three generations, the Singh family is the last remaining pole tomato producer in California. Since 1939, they have tended vine-ripened tomatoes on the same land with the knowledge and expertise that can only come with time. Grown on an idyllic property near the historic Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside, the Singh family has a calm, almost spiritual approach to growing their produce. The fresh, salty air and bright sunshine makes it seem like a calling—only with such a deep sense of care and determination can exceptional produce be harvested time and again.
Harry Singh Jr., the master grower, learned from his own father and has passed his passion and expertise down to his children Priya, Sattish, Jehan, Tajma, David and Omar who actively operate the business today.
The Singhs greatly value those who nurture the land and the plants alongside them. Supporting workers by offering higher than average wages and hiring veterans are just a few of the ways their stewardship of land and community is demonstrated. Affectionately growing vine-ripened tomatoes for more than 70 years speaks to their powerful legacy, daily commitment to flavor and quality, and pursuit of excellence into the future.
Juicy, flavorful and clean slicing, vine-ripened rounds are the versatile tomato perfect for sandwiches, salads and burgers. Like Oceanside Pole Romas, each tomato is shipped to custom standards every time as it is left to reach its peak flavor at its own pace. Considering ripening that will naturally take place as they travel to stores, the tomatoes are hand-picked according to each retailer’s ripeness specifications. Between the microclimate, growing practices, and precise seed selection, the Singh family are resolute in their mission to grow and pick produce the “right way.”
The Singhs diversified into Brussels sprouts in 2017. Enriching the soil health while the signature vine-ripened tomatoes are not in season, this humble little veggie keeps the Oceanside Pole team employed year-round, and year after year. The foggy salt air permeates the dense, tightly packed leaves, giving them a flavor that only coastal sprouts offer. With its own natural pole that breaks off bright green clean ends, the Singhs have already developed a reputation for wonderfully tasty Brussels sprouts.
Earning appreciation for its firm texture and intense flavor, the slender shaped Roma is picked at perfection. With fewer locules, or seed compartments, compared to round tomatoes, a Roma has a low water content that makes its hearty flesh ideal for salsa, sauces or roasted on its own. The Oceanside Pole brand represents excellence and the commitment to growing tomatoes that have been given the time to soak up the warm California sunshine and masterfully ripen on the vine—and it shines through in every tomato they grow.
Nestled between the rolling hills of the San Luis Rey Valley and the nearby Pacific Coast, Oceanside Pole has the perfect microclimate to grow bright and flavorful produce. The invigorating ocean air that graces cool, misty mornings and warm afternoons produces a hearty tomato flavor and the tastiest Brussels sprouts that simply can’t be matched elsewhere. Walking the fields each day of the season, Mr. Singh and his son Priya take pride in personally examining and tending to each plant to ensure it’s picked only when the time is right. Proving again that their dedication, precision and innovation on the land is unmistakable.
The Singh family and their team place over a million poles on the property every spring, so each one can brace a single tomato plant through the season. This system raises the fruit off the ground to improve airflow—and therefore tomato quality—to ripen to their juicy, robust taste, naturally on the vine. | environmental_science |
https://www.thenorthwestgardener.com/residentialServices/treeCareAndPruning.cfm | 2024-04-22T02:11:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818072.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422020223-20240422050223-00344.warc.gz | 0.973615 | 352 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__71459583 | en | Trees are everybody's favorite; you climb them, rest in their shade, and they can provide texture and structure to your landscape. We prune large, small and fruit bearing trees for health or form.
The Northwest Gardener has been trusted for the past 40 years by homeowners from Mill Creek and Snohomish, north to Everett, and south to Seattle with maintaining their trees in top condition.
All pruning is performed by our licensed arborist and we guarantee your satisfaction.
The Northwest Gardener, Inc. has taken care of our landscape projects for over 10 years. From annual irrigation system winterization to tree pruning (not just trimming around the tree to a smaller size) to overhauling our backyard from a big soggy mess that was left us by the builders to a wonderful sanctuary of gravel, stone tiles, water feature and raised flower beds for us people and the local urban wildlife.
We have worked with two generations of Lundstroms and they are always friendly, professional and easy to work with. We are no landscape designers but still have lots of ideas need help implement. Doug and his son, Kyle along with their team members have beared with us throughout the years with numerous projects, big and small.
As for cost, we have trusted them to always give us a fair deal.
We have been very satisfied with their work and have recommended them to our neighbors and our homeowners association for landscape work in the common areas of the neighborhood. ~ L. C. - BELLEVUE, WA
Contact us today to learn more about how we can assist you with your caring for and maintaining your trees.
Contact us today to learn more about our Residential Tree Care and Pruning Services. | environmental_science |
https://townsendtree.com/2022/09/06/who-pays-for-hurricane-clean-up-in-the-united-states/ | 2024-02-26T17:49:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474661.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226162136-20240226192136-00728.warc.gz | 0.952931 | 1,203 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__54599331 | en | Hurricanes are one of the worst disasters in terms of loss of life and damage to property. Unfortunately, some scientists are speculating that 2022 may be another bad year for hurricanes because of warmer water in the Gulf of Mexico.
Governments, municipalities and utility companies should be prepared and on alert for massive storm damage. Hurricane cleanup, including debris clearing and damaged tree removal, should ideally be budgeted for in advance, if possible.
The Risk of Hurricanes in 2022 and Beyond
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1-November 30. While the chance for hurricanes usually peaks around early- to mid-September, August can also be a big month for hurricanes. While most hurricanes hitting the United States happen during the months of June to November, 3% can still occur beyond the typical hurricane season.
Will 2022 end up being a record-breaking year for hurricanes? We won’t fully know if this year is record setting until hurricane season passes, but it looks like 2022’s weather conditions are especially good for massive tropical storms.
Why? Scientists have noted that the “Loop Current,” which is a stream of warmer water that comes up from the Gulf Stream current and warms the Gulf of Mexico, had already traveled far into the Gulf of Mexico by mid-May, much farther than usual.
A warmer Loop Current has the potential to feed larger storms and create massive hurricanes. Hurricanes need warmer water if they want to grow.
Unfortunately, the 2022 Loop Current pattern mirrors the path of the Gulf current in 2005, which is when the deadly Hurricane Katrina hit. Thus, the Northern Gulf Coast, including areas between Texas, Louisiana and Florida, are a great risk for massive storms throughout this hurricane season.
The Costs of Deadly Hurricanes
Hurricanes are extremely costly, both from a human life perspective and economically. According to NOAA, between 2019 and 2021 alone, the United States experienced 56 weather and climate disasters with costs exceeding $1 billion.
Tropical cyclones or hurricanes caused the most damage and death between 1980 and 2021, with $1.1 trillion in total damage and 6,697 deaths. The cost of all this hurricane damage averages out to $20.5 billion per hurricane (of course, some were far more damaging than others, such as Hurricane Katrina).
But who pays for hurricane clean up in the United States?
Hurricane Cleanup: Who Pays?
A variety of entities end up picking up the tab for hurricane damage, from the federal government to local municipalities. Beyond federal and state disaster relief funding, local governments are often required to tap into reserve funds or utilize credit to fund hurricane cleanup.
Insurance companies may cover some of the costs, but individual homeowners are often left with a large chunk of the cleanup bill.
Local and regional utility companies also need to dig into budgets to pay for necessary infrastructure repair, including utility line repair and tree clearing.
Vegetation Management and Tree Clearing
One of the main sources of damage during a hurricane are trees and vegetation, which can quickly get entangled in power lines or worse, become uprooted. Trees can cause a number of problems during and after a massive tropical storm including:
Fallen Branches and Debris
During a hurricane, tree branches can often fall and bring structures as well as utility lines down with them. The debris can get in roads and block travel, causing all sorts of havoc.
Uprooted and Broken Trees
It’s not uncommon for tree trunks to snap completely during a hurricane, which can cause property damage and death. These fallen trees can also be a major source of power outages. Trees are also often completely uprooted during hurricanes, especially when soil is moist from heavy rainfall.
Trees can shift after a hurricane due to the erosion of the soil as well as flooding. If the tree’s roots are saturated for a long time with water, they can drown, which can lead to root rot. Once this happens, the trees are prone to falling, which can cause problems with power lines and put people in danger.
Proactive Vegetation Management to Reduce Hurricane Costs
Because of all the dangers that can come from hurricane tree damage, it is very important for municipalities and utility companies to be proactive about cleaning up trees that might be harmed during a hurricane.
Ongoing, proactive vegetation management before a hurricane hits can help reduce the problem of trees harming power lines and transformers if a storm does barrel through the area.
During extremely strong storms, of course, even the most well-maintained, stable trees can be harmed, but if excess vegetation and sick trees are pruned prior to a storm, then there will be fewer chances of problems.
Keeping trees properly trimmed before a storm can potentially save costs, as it is far cheaper to maintain vegetation proactively than fix damage caused by a tree in a howling storm.
Tree Service Providers for Hurricane Preparedness
One of the most important entities involved in hurricane cleanup is a tree service provider (like Townsend Tree Service), which can be brought in to help municipalities and utility companies for emergency storm response. Tree service providers should also be tapped to clear vegetation proactively, on an ongoing basis.
Also, if a hurricane is forecast to hit an area, it’s a good idea to contact a tree service provider such as Townsend Tree Service ahead of time. If there is sufficient time ahead of the storm, the tree service provider can assess the trees that are close to power lines and prune or clear out any that are growing too close or at risk of falling during a massive storm.
Townsend Tree Service is a leading, multi-state provider of expert tree trimming, line clearing and vegetation management services. We have extensive expertise helping utilities get the power back on after major disasters like hurricanes. Learn more about our integrated vegetation management services here. | environmental_science |
https://www.mariannemersereau.com/post/public-service-announcement-on-bee-half-of-the-bees | 2024-04-19T08:22:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817382.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419074959-20240419104959-00488.warc.gz | 0.954844 | 263 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__112658061 | en | Happy 50th Anniversary of Earth Day! While all the attention is currently on human inhabitants of our planet and how to protect ourselves from illness and death, according to scientists, we are not the most important living creatures. This designation goes to the humble little honeybee and other wild bees. Our continued existence is directly tied to theirs, and they are currently disappearing at alarming rates. Recently, two beekeepers in my neighborhood announced that their bees did not survive due to exposure to garden pesticides! This was a shocker to me given that I live in one of the country's most environmentally aware regions but even here apparently some home gardeners aren't aware that when pesticides are sprayed on blooming flowers and a foraging bee visits those flowers, they take the toxic chemicals back to their hives and infect the entire community....very similar to community spread of Covid-19 in the human population. If we lose the honeybee and other wild pollinating bees, we will lose our food supply. If you have a garden, please "bee aware" of the danger of using pesticides. Also, please leave a few tasty dandelions for them! Honeybees must visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey!
Public Service Announcement on Bee-half of the Bees
Updated: Sep 17, 2020 | environmental_science |
https://naranglab.ucla.edu/publication/bioinspiration-in-light-harvesting-and-catalysis/ | 2024-04-17T05:28:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817144.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417044411-20240417074411-00597.warc.gz | 0.905126 | 306 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__67424950 | en | Capturing and converting solar energy into fuels and feedstocks is a global challenge that spans numerous disciplines and fields of research. Billions of years of evolution have allowed natural organisms to hone strategies for harvesting light from the sun and storing energy in the form of carbon–carbon and carbon–hydrogen bonds. Photosynthetic antenna proteins capture solar photons and funnel photoexcitations to reaction centres with high yields, and enzymes catalyze multi-electron reactions, facilitating chemical transformations not yet efficiently implemented using artificially engineered catalysts. Researchers in renewable energy often look to nature to understand the mechanisms at work and, if possible, to explore their translation into artificial systems. Here, we review advances in bioinspiration across the fields of biological light harvesting and chemical energy conversion. We examine how multi-photon and multi-electron reactions in biology can inspire new methods in photoredox chemistry to achieve novel, selective and complex organic transformations; how carbonic-dehydrogenase-inspired design principles enable catalytic reactions such as the conversion of CO2 into useful products such as fuels; and how concepts from photosynthetic antenna complexes and reaction centres can benefit artificial light-harvesting materials. We then consider areas in which bioinspiration could enable advances in the rational design of molecules and materials, the expansion of the synthetic capabilities of catalysts and the valorization of molecular building blocks. We highlight the challenges that must be overcome to realize these advances and propose new directions that may use bioinspiration to achieve them. | environmental_science |
http://www.envearth.com/seawater-farming-in-abu-dhabi/ | 2017-12-17T07:48:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948594665.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217074303-20171217100303-00477.warc.gz | 0.951157 | 217 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__176882212 | en | What if you could grow biofuels on land nobody wants, using just seawater and sunlight, and produce food at the same time? That’s precisely what a new project in Abu Dhabi is seeking to do. The Integrated Seawater Energy and Agriculture System, or ISEAS, will grow sustainable food and aviation fuel in the desert, using seawater and sunshine, in a way that is eminently transferable to similar arid regions around the world. The project was announced in January 2015 and is now under construction. So, how does the project solve the biggest environmental problems? It involves the use of salt-tolerant plants like mangroves and the oil-rich Salicornia as well as aquaculture of seafood such as shrimps and fish. The project was developed through the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium in Abu Dhabi. Partners include the airline Etihad Airways, the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, as well as corporate giants Boeing, General Electric and UOP Honeywell. These corporations provide the funding and a potentially vast market. | environmental_science |
https://lasvegas.lifetips.com/tip/102550/las-vegas-nature/las-vegas-hiking-tips/clark-county-wetlands-park.html | 2018-08-20T23:33:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221217354.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20180820215248-20180820235248-00169.warc.gz | 0.953848 | 211 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__7497944 | en | Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Las Vegas Nature and other Las Vegas topics.
Vegas locals voted this the best place to spot wildlife in the area, and it's easy to see why. Dozens of different species call the park home, from beavers to birds and beyond. There are also many miles of paved and graveled trails in the park. It really is a beautiful spot, with the Rainbow Mountains forming a vivid backdrop to the ponds and trails of the wetlands. County school children visit the park on field trips from October through April, so if you're planning a visit during that time, call ahead to make sure the park is accessible. The park is located at the end of East Tropicana just north of the Silver Bowl. It's open dawn to dusk every day, and the Information Center is open 7 days a week 9:00 to 3:00pm. For more information call 702-455-7522. | environmental_science |
https://www.pce-international.com/resin-flooring-technologies/ | 2023-12-10T10:52:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679101779.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210092457-20231210122457-00066.warc.gz | 0.94633 | 732 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__217285785 | en | The improvements in science and technology are enabling new breakthroughs for the fastmoving markets in resin floorings. Dale Banton of Sherwin-Williams Protective and Marine Coatings EMEAI examines the issues.
With the rapid changes in complex building design, new materials and tougher specification, we must continue to push the boundaries to meet these challenges. At the same time, there is increasing pressure from regulatory authorities and the government for sustainable products throughout the supply chain. Architects and specifiers want to know they can meet these new levels of compliance with the relevant products, without compromising design and safety.
For the flooring industry, the use of epoxy and polyurethane resins for industrial and commercial premises makes concrete exceptionally durable and offers robust protection, especially for food and beverage and pharma environments.
Of the diverse range and types of resin floorings, the nature and chemistry of most of these products makes them amongst the easiest and most reliable resin flooring materials to mix and apply on site, providing a durable industrial flooring system that can last for many years.
However, in using solvents which give them good wetting properties, there is also a presence to a greater or lesser degree of VOCs, which have also been linked to ‘sick building syndrome’ where there are known to be side-effects for people working in these environments.
In essence, VOCs can be natural or man-made chemicals which vaporise at low temperatures – a process known as volatility – and evaporate into the air in an enclosed area where they can cause a range of symptoms to people working in them.
There has been much debate about how damaging to a person’s health VOCs can be. They are not known to be toxic but certainly undesirable for those working at close quarters where they are found. Listening to our customers, and through our own research to understand their needs, our advances in science and technology have enabled us to meet even higher project specifications, with a dramatic effect on the levels of solvents used.
The result is the Elladur range, which represents a breakthrough for the industry, and our customers. Created by a specialist team of chemists, this takes the very best of polyaspartic technology – enabling fast curing of the coating – to new levels making it easier and safer for applicators and allowing fast return to service These products also meet Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) assessment, providing a certified score of environmental sustainability while demonstrating compliance to best practice requirements.
For the first time in the flooring industry, a product has been developed which reduces the levels of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) with rapid curing but also reduces turnaround times to hours rather than days. Customers also benefit from its UV stability which means no discolouring from its non-tainting properties with no lingering unwanted odours.
BREAKTHROUGH IN TECHNOLOGY
Using our own testing laboratory on-site, we have pushed these products through the most stringent technical and mechanical requirements. This has included tests for abrasion to assess wear and tear, and adhesion trials for performance, generating measurable data for all relevant characteristics.
For the manufacturing and industrial markets – those sectors producing goods which rely on the highest hygiene standards including food and beverage and pharma – this breakthrough in technology represents a significant leap forward.
Comprehensive and rigorous trials of this range of products provide evidence that it is possible to innovate and meet the most challenging requirements of design and specification, without compromising hygiene and durability with safe handling and application of the coating. | environmental_science |
http://www.hogdex.com/weather/?style=raw | 2019-07-18T10:50:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525627.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20190718104512-20190718130512-00101.warc.gz | 0.838221 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__93509975 | en | Toronto Weather Forecast, raw
Niagara City of Hamilton Burlington - Oakville Halton Hills - Milton Mississauga - Brampton Vaughan - Richmond Hill - Markham Pickering - Oshawa - Southern Durham Region. Today..A mix of sun and cloud. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 30. Humidex 38. UV index 9 or very high. Tonight..Mainly cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers overnight with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind becoming southwest 30 km/h gusting to 50 after midnight. Low 23. Friday..A mix of sun and cloud. 30 percent chance of showers early in the morning. 40 percent chance of showers late in the afternoon. Risk of a thunderstorm. Wind southwest 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 34. Humidex 41. UV index 10 or very high.
Friday night..Cloudy periods with 30 percent chance of showers. Low 23. Saturday..Sunny. High 33. Saturday night..Clear. Low 19. Sunday..A mix of sun and cloud. High 27. Sunday night..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Low 19. Monday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. High 27. Monday night..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Low 17. Tuesday..A mix of sun and cloud. High 26. Tuesday night..Cloudy periods. Low 15. Wednesday..A mix of sun and cloud. High 24. Normals for the period..Low 17. High 27.
As of Thu Jul 18 06:45:01 2019 | environmental_science |
http://www.bryanpd.com/severe_weather_warning_sirens.htm | 2020-02-22T13:23:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145676.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200222115524-20200222145524-00272.warc.gz | 0.909594 | 679 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__83295656 | en | Severe Weather Warning Sirens
If the sirens are activated, is
there definitely a tornado?
No. The sirens are Early Warning
Sirens. Their purpose is to inform the public as early as possible about
potentially dangerous weather conditions in our area.
When are the Early Warning Sirens activated?
received over the NOAA Weather Alert Radio which includes in the message issued
by the National Weather Service that
is under a tornado warning or that a tornado warning is issued for all of
confirmed sighting by a Public Safety Officer of property damage, injuries,
rapid rotation, wall cloud, funnel cloud or tornado.
deemed necessary by a Public Safety Officer.
Watches vs. Warning vs. Advisory
Following are the National Weather
Service definitions for watch, warning, and advisory. These terms for the basis
for each product issued to the public.
An advisory is
issued for less serious conditions that cause significant inconvenience and, if
caution is not exercised, could lead to situations that may threaten life and/or
Watch A watch is issued when
the risk of a hazardous weather or hydrologic event has increased significantly,
but its occurrence, location and/or timing is still uncertain. It is intended to
provide enough lead time so those who need to set their plans in motion can do
so. Watches evolve into warnings, advisories, or they are canceled.
Warning These products are
issued when a hazardous weather or hydrologic event is occurring, is imminent,
or has a very high probability of occurrence. A warning is used for conditions
posing a threat to life or property. The NWS is the single "official"
voice when issuing warnings for life-threatening situations.
What should you do when the
Early Warning Sirens are activated?
You should monitor local TV,
Radio, Weather Radio, or the internet in order to obtain accurate weather
information so you will be able to make an informed safety decision.
Who activates the Sirens?
The Early Warning Sirens are
activated by the Police/Fire/911 Dispatch Center. The dispatchers are instructed
when to activate the sirens.
Will the Sirens be activated again if a Severe Thunderstorm Warning becomes a
Yes. In the event that the
National Weather Service issues a Tornado Warning or A reported confirmed
sighting by a Public Safety Officer, (Firefighter, Police Officer) of a Severe
Thunderstorm with Property Damage, Injuries, Rapid Rotation, Wall Cloud, Funnel
Cloud or Tornado the sirens will be activated again.
How many Early Warning Sirens are there in the City of Bryan?
There are 12 sirens in the City
of Bryan located in various areas. The City of Bryan also controls the siren at
Norlick Place subdivision in Center Township and the 4 sirens in Pulaski
Is there an
"All-Clear" tone or sound?
No. Because our sirens make only
one sound, you will not hear an all-clear tone or sound. It is strongly
recommended that you continue to monitor local radio, television, weather radio,
or internet until you have determined weather conditions to be safe
Posted June 21, 2010
Updated October 2, 2010 | environmental_science |
https://freshonline.ie/blogs/news/fresh-joins-fight-against-food-waste-with-too-good-to-go | 2024-03-03T07:58:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476211.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303075134-20240303105134-00276.warc.gz | 0.94709 | 669 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__106435597 | en | The world’s #1 anti-food waste app, Too Good To Go, and Fresh The Good Food Market have announced their joint partnership in the fight against food waste.
The partnership means that all 8 Fresh stores are now signed up to the Too Good To Go app so that surplus food is eaten and enjoyed rather than wasted.
Leading the food waste movement, Too Good To Go lets people buy surplus food and drink from restaurants, grocery stores, pubs, cafes and producers to stop it from going to waste.
Consumers can simply download the free Too Good To Go app and search for their nearby Fresh with unsold food. They then purchase a ‘Surprise Bag’, collect it at an allotted time and enjoy it.
Too Good To Go app users can expect Surprise Bags filled with ready meals, desserts, fruit, vegetables, dairy or meat. The Fresh Surprise Bags will be available from 14 January on the Too Good To Go app for €5.99 and will contain at least €18 worth of food. Two Flagship stores - Smithfield and Grand Canal Dock - will also offer Vegan Surprise Bags priced at €3.99, while select stores will offer Deli Counter Surprise Bags priced at €3.99. These will include hot items such as chicken fillets, wings, loaded fries, pizzas, sandwiches or salads.
This launch of Fresh on the Too Good To Go app follows their latest sustainability initiative, offering its customers an easy and rewarding way to recycle their plastic bottles and cans in-store with Sensibin.
Speaking of the announcement, Co-founder of Too Good To Go, Jamie Crummie said, “I’m delighted that Fresh is joining our food waste fighting movement. Fresh is renowned for sourcing the very best produce from Ireland and around the world, and now, together, we’ll be able to ensure that all Fresh produce is eaten and enjoyed rather than wasted. Food waste is a huge global environmental and social issue so having brands like Fresh join our movement helps us to take a bite out of the one million tonnes of food that is wasted every year in Ireland.”
Echoing his sentiments, Noel Smith, Founder and Managing Director of Fresh The Good Food Market said, ”In a business so centred on fresh food and produce, anything that we can do to address food waste is always welcome. It did not take us long to decide on signing up with Too Good To Go. We support their mission and look forward to our customers enjoying Fresh Surprise Bags from any of our 8 stores in Dublin.”
With over 48,000 Irish consumers now signed up to the Too Good To Go app, Dublin alone has saved more than 22,000 bags of food from going to waste from the 304 and growing hospitality partners across the capital.
If you’re interested in fighting the good fight either as a consumer or a business, you can do so by downloading the Too Good To Go app and sign up your business by accessing the ‘Help Center’ function in the ‘More’ section.
Find out more about the app at www.toogoodtogo.ie and follow @toogoodtogo.ie on social media to stay updated | environmental_science |
https://iqpowertools.eu/about-iq/ | 2022-07-06T18:39:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104676086.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220706182237-20220706212237-00264.warc.gz | 0.923747 | 288 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__243874990 | en | 30+ Year Masonry Contractors
iQ Power Tools was founded by third generation masons Joel and Paul Guth. We owned and operated successful masonry companies for over 30 years, at times with over 100 employees.
Decades of experience taught us about dust problems. It makes a huge mess, it costs a great deal of money, and it’s a threat to the health and safety of our industry.
Experts on Dust
We started out building tools to solve our own dust problems, but we realized these problems were affecting all contractors, so we started iQ Power Tools.
Today we build smart, tough power tools that eliminate the dust problem. Using iQ contractors can clean-cut materials with virtually no dust.
iQ Builds Smart, Tough Power Tools
We’ve been studying silica dust for over 15 years.
WE KNOW DUST.
But you don’t need to be an expert on dust to know this: we in the construction industry must work to get dust out of the lungs of our people.
Our goals are 100% dust free concrete and masonry cutting, safer job sites, healthier work practices and a more sustainable construction industry.
Solving the Dust Problem
We build clean-cut concrete and masonry power tools that eliminate dust. And eliminating dust from your job site is smart: it saves time. It saves money. It saves lives. | environmental_science |
https://www.dehum.com/applications/battery-manufacture | 2021-06-20T14:53:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488249738.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20210620144819-20210620174819-00281.warc.gz | 0.935602 | 428 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__127542002 | en | Lithium Battery Manufacture – Humidity Control
Lithium batteries are high energy, longer life batteries used in a wide range of applications, including portable electronics, torches and implanted medical devices. The demand for this type of battery has been growing significantly.
In the production of Lithium batteries, very specific humidity control is required. In fact, in order to create the extremely dry air that is essential during the manufacturing process, dew points as low as -600C dp needs to be achieved. This is the equivalent of less than 0.5% relative humidity (RH) at 250C and is required to ensure that the Lithium remains stable.
Some of the problem that we have come across in this industry include:
- The degradation of the Lithium material
- Minimising infiltration
- Coping with moisture from people and the process
- Improving existing installations.
The reason that it is necessary to maintain such a low humidity environment in the production of lithium batteries is that lithium reacts negatively with water (vapor), to produce lithium hydroxide, hydrogen, and heat. This exposure to moisture has a direct detrimental impact on the quality, performance, and shelf life of the batteries.
A specialist dry room is required for such a demanding application. The production requires very specialist construction techniques and careful design of infiltration and personnel loadings to ensure that the condition is maintained.
The use of dehum equipment in this case, including dehum desiccant dehumidifiers, is essential and works closely with associated cooling and heating systems, with close tolerance control assured by utilization of high volume flow rates and usually laminar flow across the room.
The dehum equipment itself is also re-designed to ensure maximum efficiency and minimise running costs. All plants utilised for these challenging conditions are bespoke for the particular application and would be designed in conjunction with specialist contractors and consultants.
With our knowledge and experience in this field, we have achieved and maintained dewpoints lower than -700C dewpoint beyond the capability of other suppliers and exceeded our clients’ expectations. | environmental_science |
https://www.occonnect.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1079 | 2020-04-09T03:22:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371829677.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20200409024535-20200409055035-00529.warc.gz | 0.937871 | 241 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__42040154 | en | By SONYA SMITH IRVINE WORLD NEWS
The city is another step closer to finding a balance between preserving nature in south Irvine while allowing residents access to the open land.
The City Council on Tuesday received a report that outlines ways to preserve sensitive habitats, restore and maintain trails, design and build trails, and increase public access. The plan was given final approval by wildlife agencies in September.
Currently, open space is owned by the city, managed by the Irvine Ranch Land Reserve Trust and patrolled by the Police Department. A management plan will be prepared for Irvine’s 2,772 acres of open space in the city’s northern reaches to be donated by the Irvine Co. between 2008 and 2012.
Mike O’Connell, executive director of the land trust, has said that a management plan allows land to be preserved while increasing public access – what he calls a delicate balance.
The southern open space plan includes protection of endangered species such as the cactus wren and gnatcatcher and sensitive vegetation such as coastal sage scrub. The plan also will allow the city to restore and improve trails for hikers, mountain bikers, horse riders and nature programs. | environmental_science |
http://www.nashbar.com/bikes/Product_10053_10052_596943_-1___ | 2018-01-23T08:12:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891791.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20180123072105-20180123092105-00137.warc.gz | 0.901474 | 228 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__233717451 | en | DeFeet UnD Shurt Sleeveless Baselayer
SAVE 17% $24.99 $29.99
The DeFeet UnD Shurt sleeveless baselayer is made to wear under a cycling jersey. Thin and form fitting, the UnD Shurt allows cyclists to dial in their clothing for specific temperature ranges without adding much weight or bulk to their outfit. Perfectly suited for temperatures from 32 - 80 degrees Fahrenheit, the UnD Shurt has a thermal property that keeps you comfortable on cool descents but doesn't overheat on climbs. Made from post-consumer recycled polyester certified by Repreve, the UnD Shurt is easier on the environment, too. The original product in the DeFeet UnDline of base layers, the UnD Shurt has been around since 1997.
- Wicking fabric keeps you dry and comfortable
- Made from environmentally-friendly, post-consumer recycled Repreve polyester
- Thin and form-fitting so it works great under any jersey
- Perfect for temperatures from 32 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit
- Made in North Carolina | environmental_science |
https://hotexchangerates.com/commercial-pest-control-solutions-keeping-businesses-in-richmond-hill-pest-free.html | 2024-03-05T14:59:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948235171.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305124045-20240305154045-00586.warc.gz | 0.897542 | 1,345 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__126104111 | en | In the intricate tapestry of commercial enterprises, the imperative of commercial pest control solutions emerges as a linchpin for maintaining a pristine business environment. This article embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the nuanced world of pest control, delving into sophisticated methodologies, preventative measures, and the paramount importance of safeguarding businesses in Richmond Hill from unwanted intruders.
The Pest Menace: A Silent Invader
In the realm of commercial spaces, pests lurk as silent invaders, capable of wreaking havoc on the structural integrity and hygiene of establishments. The need for commercial pest control solutions becomes a sentinel against this clandestine menace.
Integrated Pest Management: A Holistic Approach
Embracing an uncommonly holistic methodology, commercial pest control solutions integrate advanced techniques of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This multifaceted approach not only targets existing infestations but also establishes preemptive measures to thwart potential invasions.
Dynamic Pest Threats: Understanding the Adversaries
To effectively counter the dynamic pest landscape, businesses in Richmond Hill must comprehend the adversaries they face. Uncommonly referred to as “fauna adversaries,” these may include rodents, insects, and other unwelcome creatures that can compromise the hygiene and reputation of commercial spaces.
Tailored Solutions: Precision in Pest Control
The efficacy of commercial pest control solutions lies in their tailored precision. Employing advanced techniques like “targeted eradication,” pest control experts address specific issues unique to each business, ensuring a bespoke approach that aligns with the distinct characteristics of the commercial space.
Proactive Measures: Fortifying Defenses
The essence of commercial pest control solutions transcends mere reactive strategies; it encompasses proactive measures to fortify defenses. Employing uncommon terms like “preventative fortifications,” pest control experts establish barriers that deter pests, preventing potential infestations before they gain a foothold.
Environmental Harmony: Eco-Friendly Pest Control
In the pursuit of pest eradication, maintaining environmental harmony is paramount. Uncommonly termed as “ecological equilibrium,” commercial pest control solutions incorporate eco-friendly methodologies that minimize the ecological footprint while effectively eliminating pests, ensuring a delicate balance in the ecosystem.
Cutting-Edge Technologies: Pest Control Innovation
The landscape of pest control is evolving, propelled by cutting-edge technologies. Uncommonly referred to as “technological entomology,” these innovations include state-of-the-art monitoring systems, smart traps, and data-driven analytics that empower businesses to stay one step ahead of potential pest threats.
Seasonal Vigilance: Adapting to Pest Cycles
The vigilance against pests requires a seasonal adaptability. Uncommonly referred to as “seasonal pest choreography,” commercial pest control solutions involve adapting strategies to the cyclical nature of pest activity, ensuring that businesses remain resilient against the varying challenges posed by different seasons.
Legal Compliance: Navigating Regulations
In the pursuit of a pest-free environment, adherence to legal regulations becomes imperative. Uncommonly termed “regulatory entomology,” businesses must navigate and comply with local regulations governing pest control, safeguarding not only their premises but also ensuring ethical and legal pest management practices.
Risk Mitigation: Safeguarding Business Interests
Beyond the immediate threat of pest infestations, commercial pest control solutions act as a form of “risk mitigation.” Businesses in Richmond Hill leverage pest control measures not only to ensure hygiene but also to safeguard their reputation and financial interests, creating a robust shield against potential liabilities.
Comprehensive Inspections: Unveiling Hidden Threats
The effectiveness of commercial pest control solutions lies in comprehensive inspections that unveil hidden threats. Termed as “meticulous infestation audits,” these inspections go beyond surface-level assessments, delving into the nooks and crannies where pests may lurk undetected.
Occupant Health: Prioritizing Well-being
The link between pest control and occupant health is pivotal. Uncommonly referred to as “health-centric pest management,” businesses prioritize the well-being of employees and customers by ensuring that pest control measures not only eliminate threats but also consider the potential health implications of pest infestations.
Data-Driven Approaches: Analyzing Pest Patterns
The realm of pest control is increasingly becoming data-driven. Uncommonly termed “pest pattern analytics,” businesses leverage data to understand pest behaviors, anticipate potential infestations, and strategically deploy commercial pest control solutions that are both efficient and effective.
Educational Outreach: Fostering Awareness
Beyond immediate interventions, commercial pest control solutions incorporate an element of “educational outreach.” Businesses engage in uncommonly termed “pest cognizance campaigns” to foster awareness among employees, tenants, and customers, creating a collective understanding of the importance of pest control.
Continuous Monitoring: A Vigilant Stance
Maintaining a vigilant stance against pests requires continuous monitoring. Uncommonly referred to as “unceasing surveillance,” businesses in Richmond Hill embrace continuous monitoring mechanisms that ensure an unrelenting watch against potential pest threats.
Emergency Response: Swift Action Protocols
In the event of a pest emergency, swift action becomes paramount. Uncommonly referred to as “emergency pest protocols,” businesses implement response strategies that involve immediate intervention, containment, and resolution to minimize the impact of unforeseen pest challenges.
Customized Treatment Plans: Adaptive Strategies
Pest control is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor. Uncommonly referred to as “adaptive pest stratagems,” commercial pest control solutions tailor treatment plans based on the unique attributes of each business, recognizing that a nuanced approach is key to success.
Certifications and Standards: Upholding Quality
Businesses in Richmond Hill seek commercial pest control solutions that adhere to industry certifications and standards. Uncommonly termed “pest control accreditations,” these certifications validate the quality and efficacy of pest control services, providing businesses with assurance in their choice of pest management partners.
Conclusion: A Pest-Protected Haven
In the intricate ecosystem of business environments, the significance of commercial pest control solutions is akin to establishing a pest-protected haven. This article, adorned with uncommon terminology, endeavors to unravel the layers of sophistication within pest control strategies, emphasizing the critical role they play in maintaining the hygiene, reputation, and overall well-being of businesses in Richmond Hill. | environmental_science |
https://www.happy.rentals/blog/homeowner/179-eco-friendly-homes:-some-useful-tips | 2022-05-18T10:39:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662521883.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220518083841-20220518113841-00292.warc.gz | 0.951274 | 671 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__9236059 | en | February, 19 2021 ( Updated February, 19 2021)
More and more houses are nowadays incorporating environment-friendly measures for a cleaner world and with an eye to the future and the environment. But that’s not all. There are also various advantages that only an eco-friendly house can offer.
Turning your home into a "green home" is certainly a good starting point for increasing your income from renting a holiday home: this is because an eco-friendly structure that cares about the environment brings significant savings on the various expenses related to housing. All this can only be a plus for revenue.
Let's take a look at some important tips for an eco-friendly holiday home.
One of the first solutions that are adopted is the installation of solar panels, an excellent alternative by producing energy through the greatest source of light i.e. the Sun. The bills to be paid will be much lower and the house will have a reduced environmental impact.
In addition to this solution, there are smaller and simpler but really useful advantages. Let's look at them:
- provide a dishwasher to avoid the use of disposable crockery
- include a smart thermostat: you can turn on the heating before guests arrive and turn it off when they leave
- add smart switches that allow you to switch lights on and off remotely. Alternatively, replace old light bulbs with LEDs which use less energy and last longer.
Solar panels are undoubtedly the most expensive investment but are also the ones that will prove to be a good deal in the long run. Your wallet will thank you! For the other solutions, everything is feasible without much difficulty.
In addition to these technological ideas, which certainly have an impact, let's also take a look at some of the more practical and easier eco-friendly ways.
The first rule we must never forget is to avoid unnecessary purchases for the home which will then perhaps be thrown away. In this sense, it is important to provide, if possible, reusable and non-disposable material.
This is certainly a good way to avoid unnecessary expenditure which will prove to be an added value not only for the environment but also for the wallet.
In fact, more and more private and public facilities are adopting this type of system: offering eco-friendly solutions that are easy to dispose of and do not pollute our planet further!
- have special bins for rubbish (paper, plastic, glass...) so that guests can have a tidy and environment-friendly house
- if possible, do not buy disposable crockery, containers and other materials, which only create an accumulation of unnecessary waste
- provide napkins, handkerchiefs and other household products such as non-disposable, washable towels
- avoid buying new furniture and if possible, restore old furniture you already have. This will reduce the cost of furnishing your home and free up landfills from old furniture.
- add a filter to the tap so that you always have fresh, drinkable water. You will not have to spend money on buying water, but above all there will be less waste to throw away.
These are small ideas to protect the environment and to have a holiday home that amazes guests with eco-friendly equipment and definitely saves you some money! | environmental_science |
https://icsegt2024.com/ | 2024-04-22T13:02:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818293.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422113340-20240422143340-00783.warc.gz | 0.912406 | 213 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__29849853 | en | A warm welcome to the "Conference on Smart Environment and Green Technologies." Our presence at this conference underlines our collective commitment to addressing crucial global challenges. This event is a unique platform for exploring the synergy between intelligent environmental solutions and cutting-edge green technologies. Hailing from various backgrounds and locations, we have the opportunity to collaborate, learn, and share knowledge. The discussions and ideas generated during this conference carry far-reaching significance, with the potential to address urgent global issues such as climate change, resource depletion, and pollution. I extend my heartfelt appreciation to our keynote speakers and the dedicated Program, Scientific and Organizing committees, whose tireless efforts have brought this conference to life. As we embark on this journey, let us remain mindful of the transformative potential of collaboration and technology to drive positive change. Let us wholeheartedly embrace innovation while seeking solutions that are both intelligent and environmentally sustainable. Thank you for gracing us with your presence. I am confident that the knowledge and insights shared during this conference will be pivotal in shaping a greener and more intelligent future. | environmental_science |
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If you want the best in burning technology, combined with the versatility of more than 200 colour variations, a low emissions burner from Pyroclassic Fires might be just what you need!
The Pyroclassic ceramic fire chamber retains heat like a kiln. This impressive heat storage capacity means you can enjoy the convenience of extended burn times and a consistent release of heat. Reload less and stay warm for longer with a fuel efficiency rate of only 1kg per hour*.
With the inception of the new Pyroclassic Mini this season, smaller homes can now reap the benefits of this unique wood burner. For medium to large homes, the Pyroclassic IV delivers up to 15kW of space heating with an extra-large cooktop and can be fitted with a high output wetback for all your domestic hot water needs.
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This fireplace is a life changer - so much easier than any other fireplace I have used. Yes, easy to light and so easy to keep ticking over and keeping the house warm day and then easy to crank up when it gets colder in the evening. Saves wood as well - not using anywhere near the same amount as other years. This is a love affair for me. Read More P Demasson
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https://thehealingherd.co.uk/alpaca-poo/ | 2024-03-04T12:09:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476442.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304101406-20240304131406-00841.warc.gz | 0.929275 | 610 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__76628757 | en | Alpaca Poo is often referred to as “beans” because it actually looks like little black beans. Some even refer to it as “magic beans” because it is such a fantastic plant food and soil conditioner.
Commercial fertilizers are labelled for their N-P-K content. These letters stand for: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium. Alpaca poo naturally has all three of these primary nutrients, but in smaller percentages than commercial fertilizers. This is good not only for plants, but for the earth.
High nitrogen levels can cause chemical burns to the root system of plants. This burn is often referred to as “heat”. Heat can damage or kill the plants in your garden and landscape. Therefore, you can safely apply large portions of alpaca poo to your plants without damaging them. Alpaca poo also contains secondary nutrients such as calcium, magnesium, and sulphur that supplement a plant’s feeding needs.
Additionally, you can make Alpaca Tea…
DO NOT DRINK IT!!
What the poo can do...
Alpaca poo loosens hard clay soil and binds sandy soil. No matter your soil type, alpaca poo will improve how water holds and moves.
Alpaca poo doesn’t burn plants. Using alpaca beans or compost won’t damage your plants. Alpaca poo carries secondary nutrients into your soil and plants that aren’t found in commercial fertilisers.
Alpaca Beans vs Compost
Alpaca Beans can be added to any soil mixture before or after planting. Food-grade plants, use beans or compost before planting. For all other plants, beans or compost can be added at any time without harming your plants.
Adding beans: place them in a ring shape around the base of your plant.
The Healing Herd alpacas work around the clock to bring you the best in alpaca poo!
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"Miracle Magic Beans"
Can I say how grateful I am for last years supply of the magic beans from your Alpacas. In the 8 years I have had my Allotment it was the best year ever. It could be applied direct without composting, watered down to make liquid fertiliser or mixed in the compost bins. My greens were fantastic, the asparagus crop was huge, onions & shallots were amazing and root vegetables simply superb. All the beds are now dug and prepared for the new season and I reckon are about 30/30/40 alpaca poo/leaf mould & compost/soil. My compost bins are filling up again ready to replenish everywhere at the end of this year. Thought you might like a few photos of how it looks now and examples of carrots and parsnips plus contents of one of my compost bins. | environmental_science |
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