Exponent for the Methanol Institute / by Tarek Saba, Farrukh Mohsen, Brun Hilbert and Michael Garry http://bit.ly/owkZri [From Press Release via Market Watch.com] A new report prepared for the Methanol Institute concludes that methanol is not expected to be a concern if it reaches groundwater or surface water when used as a component of hydraulic … Continue reading »
Posted on August 30, 2011 …
Sustainable Efforts and Environmental Concerns Around the World: A Nielsen Report
Nielsen http://bit.ly/o58E1u [From Green Car Congress] Concern about climate change/global warming among online consumers around the world took a back-seat to other environmental issues such as air and water pollution, water shortages, packaging waste and use of pesticides, according to Nielsen’s 2011 Global Online Environment & Sustainability Survey of more than 25,000 Internet respondents in … Continue reading »
Evaluation of the Use of Hindcast Model Data for Oil-Spill Risk Analysis (OSRA) in a Period of Rapidly Changing Conditions
Science Applications International Corporation for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Alaska OCS Region http://www.boemre.gov/ooc/press/2011/press0829.htm [From Green Car Congress] The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) released a new report evaluating how climate change may affect the environmental conditions measured and used in mathematical modeling for oil-spill trajectory analysis … Continue reading »
Community Managed Forests and Forest Protected Areas: An Assessment of their Conservation Effectiveness Across the Tropics
Forest Ecology and Management (2011 in press) via Center for International Forestry Research / by Luciana Porter-Bolland, Edward A. Ellis, Manuel R. Guariguata, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich and Victoria Reyes-García http://www.cifor.org/publications/pdf_files/articles/AGuariguata1101.pdf [Yale Environment 360] A new study says deforestation rates in tropical forests designated as “protected” areas are typically much higher than in community-managed forests. … Continue reading »
The Future of Photovoltaic Manufacturing in the United States
National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12724 [Description] Technological innovation and growth are critical to U.S. competitiveness in a global economy. One means of facilitating growth and improving competitiveness is to foster more robust innovation ecosystems through the development of public-private partnerships, industry consortia, and other regional and national economic development initiatives. Public-private partnerships, in particular, catalyze the … Continue reading »
Coastal Capital: Jamaica — The Economic Contribution of Jamaica’s Coral Reefs
World Resources Institute http://pdf.wri.org/working_papers/coastal_capital_jamaica_summary.pdf [MacArthur Foundation site] Tourism, fisheries, and shoreline protection represent just three of the many culturally and economically important services reef ecosystems provide in Jamaica, according to a MacArthur-supported report by the World Resources Institute, the Nature Conservancy, the University of the West Indies’ Marine Geology Unit, and the Mona GeoInformatics Institute. … Continue reading »
