United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | United Nations Foundation | Vodafone Foundation http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/VVOS-8FDL7N/$File/full_report.pdf {UN Pulse] …a landmark publication examining how technology is reshaping the information landscape in which aid groups respond to sudden onset emergencies. The report, Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies, analyzes how the … Continue reading »
Posted on April 2, 2011 …
Supplying Biomass to Power Plants: A Model of the Costs of Utilizing Agricultural Biomass in Cofired Power Plants
Rand Corp. / by Tom LaTourrette, David S. Ortiz, Eileen Hlavka, Nicholas Burger and Gary Cecchine http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR876.html U.S. power plants seek to diversify their fuel sources. Biomass energy is a renewable resource, generally with lower emissions than fossil fuels, and has a large, diverse base. To make decisions about investing in a facility that utilizes … Continue reading »
National Earthquake Resilience: Research, Implementation, and Outreach
National Academies Press (free download of prepublication version with registration) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13092 [Summary] The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future, and some of those earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas. Just as hurricane Katrina tragically demonstrated for hurricane events, coping with moderate earthquakes is not a reliable … Continue reading »
H.R. 910: Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011
House of Representatives, US congress http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12122/HR910.pdf [From Summary] H.R. 910 would amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) to address climate change. The bill would create exceptions for various programs in current law, including emission standards for vehicles and EPA’s renewable fuel standard. Because certain … Continue reading »
