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Joelle Nebbe-Mornod

The Super Chickpea, and the silent heroes in the war against hunger. | CCAFS - 0 views

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shared by Joelle Nebbe-Mornod on 19 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Joelle Nebbe-Mornod on 19 Feb 11
     
    Sufficient food, but also a balanced food intake are key to battle malnutrition. Often the world's attention goes to staple foods like rice, maize or wheat. We often forget it takes other crops too, to make a balanced diet, in a global fight against hunger. Chickpeas is one of those crops, and an important one, as they make up for more than 20 percent of the world pulse production. Chickpeas contain 22-25% proteins, and 2-3 times more iron and zinc than wheat. Chickpea protein quality is better than other pulses. … So understandably, agricultural researchers, like Dr. Pooran M.Gaur, a principal scientist and chickpea breeder at ICRISAT, make continuous efforts to develop new chickpea varieties, adapted to fast changing environmental conditions. "Super Chickpeas", as it were. Bred by -what I would not hesitate to call - "super scientists", in the quiet isolation of agricultural research centers.
Mark Kabbbash

Combine a payment system retailers phone company the Cloud consumers - 0 views

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shared by Mark Kabbbash on 18 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Technological Convergence In the Digital Marketplace provides windows of opportunity.  The socialization of data with sufficient bandwidth for the mobile handheld devices enables video to enhance the users experience to a personal level like never before.  Constantly fueling an expanding, user base with disruptive technologies and solutions right to the local environments, while monetizing that traffic flow, is the goal.
  • Mr. Harris added, "As the market enters a new era that will be driven by audience connections with each other and with brands, we will be focused on personal technology and personal media. To that end, we have also entered into negotiations to strengthen our global capabilities in social media, video and global e-commerce." VGTel anticipates that the deals under discussion will be closed before the end of the second quarter.
  • In addition to purchasing MeCoupons, VGTel is continuing to look for opportunities to strengthen its mobile and social capabilities. The power of mobile to actively engage consumers via data, voice and sound is driving innovation industry-wide and creating opportunities for companies like VGTel to develop new and compelling offers that enhance connections between consumers, content and brands. Mr. Harris added, “Mobile, along with social, video and commerce will continue to be key areas of focus as we move forward. We will look to build, buy or grow these capabilities rapidly.” VGTel noted that the deal should be completed before the end of the second quarter.
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  • Mark Kabbbash on 18 Mar 11
     
    I am so sorry I did not want to put this here. I can not figure out how to delete it!
firozcosmolance

Breaking All Records, Avengers: Endgame Pulls in $1.2 Billion in the First Week - 0 views

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Avengers: Endgame

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  • firozcosmolance on 03 May 19
     
    All the Marvel lovers out there! We have got good news for you. Avengers: Endgame, the latest blockbuster from the Marvel franchise has broken the box office records by earning a whopping $1.2 billion at the global level in its opening weekend. This is the 8th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that has crossed the mark of a billion dollar and is the fastest any movie has earned ever so far.
Benno Hansen

Deadly Environment - 6 views

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murder environmentalism

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  • Benno Hansen on 17 Apr 14
     
    This report looks at known killings of people defending environmental and land rights. It identifies a clear rise in such deaths from 2002 and 2013 as competition for natural resources intensifies. In the most comprehensive global analysis of the problem on record, we have found that at least 908 people have died in this time. Disputes over industrial logging, mining and land rights are the key drivers, and Latin America and Asia-Pacific particularly hard hit.
biodegradable123

Organic Products manufacturers - Ecoway Global - 0 views

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  • biodegradable123 on 15 Mar 23
     
    Ecoway Global use cutting-edge technology and advanced production methods to produce organic products that meet the highest standards of quality and performance.
Alex Parker

Capturing cow burps: reducing methane emissions - 0 views

www.power-technology.com/...ural-methane-emissions-4159558

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shared by Alex Parker on 30 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 30 Jan 14
     
    Researchers in Argentina have developed a method of capturing methane from cattle that they hope will lead to a reduction in the global warming impact of the agricultural sector. But is it a realistic solution or just a lot of hot air?
Alex Parker

Video - Keystone XL: A boon to the US economy - Hydrocarbons Technology - 0 views

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shared by Alex Parker on 28 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 28 Jan 14
     
    News, views and contacts from the global Hydrocarbons industry
Mark Kabbbash

INTK Stock Market News : City of Fairbanks Chooses Nansulate Insulation Coatings by Ind... - 0 views

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shared by Mark Kabbbash on 29 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Mark Kabbbash on 29 Sep 09
     
    order from the City of Fairbanks to provide the Company's patented Nansulate® energy saving and asset protection coatings for five city buildings to increase energy efficiency and reduce fuel costs. The first building to be coated with Nansulate® is the Fairbanks City Hall and that application is already underway. The other buildings in the project include the Fire Department, Police Department, Department of Public Works and a fifth city building. Nanotech Energy Solutions, Inc. estimates the amount of the product for the entire project to be approximately 12,000 gallons.
Benno Hansen

Environmental progress looks south | Blog | Ode Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 27 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • the overdeveloped nations of the world need to follow the example of their poor neighbors to the south, which dump far fewer pollutants into the global commons
  • these are the places where precious biodiversity, rainforests and other ecological treasures still exist - the natural ecosystems of Europe and North American were largely ravaged a century ago
  • In 2008, Ecuador became the first nation in the world to enshrine the rights of nature in its constitution. The document now asserts that nature "has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution"
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  • Kenya adopted a new constitution that declares in Article 42, "Every person has the right to a clean and healthy environment, which includes the right - a) to have the environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations through legislative and other measures."
  • Article 69 of the new constitution also holds the state responsible for maintaining tree cover over at least ten percent of the nation’s land; for encouraging public participation in protecting and managing the environment; protecting indigenous knowledge of biodiversity; and establishing systems of environmental impact assessment.
Benno Hansen

'The hockey stick is broken' | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 09 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Study of the past can be informative for scientists, but it is not explanatory of the present nor is it predictive of the future.
  • The infamous "Hockey Stick" graph was featured prominently in the IPCC TAR Summary for Policymakers.
  • Two Canadians, an economist and a petroleum geologist, took it upon themselves to verify this proxy reconstruction by getting the data and examining the methodology for themselves. They found errors in the description published in Nature of the data used -- errors that prevented them from duplicating the study. Mann et al., the hockey stick's creators, published a correction in Nature, noting where the description did not match what had actually been done.
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  • The fact is, there are dozens of other temperature reconstructions. They tend to show more variability than the original hockey stick (their sticks are not as straight), but they all support the general conclusions the IPCC TAR presented in 2001: late 20th century warming is anomalous in the last one or two thousand years, and the 1990s were likely warmer than any other time in that period.
  • dozens of other proxy reconstructions, some by the same team or involving some of its members, some by completely different people, some using tree rings, some using corals, some using stalagmites, some using borehole measurements -- all supporting the same general conclusion. That general conclusion is what's important to me, not whether or not one Bristlecone pine was or was not included correctly in a single eight-year-old study.
Benno Hansen

Reuters AlertNet - CLIMATE CHANGE BLOG: Does poverty equal vulnerability? - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 28 Oct 08 - Cached
  • 'poor people are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change'
  • But is it the state of being poor that makes people vulnerable to climate change, or the processes that lead to their impoverishment?
  • if you have access to a clean and healthy environment that provides for your needs - meaning you don't need two dollars a day (or perhaps even one) - then you aren't living in poverty!
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  • most of those who are poor and face the biggest threat from climate change are descended from people who had indigenous adaptation strategies to climatic and other environmental hazards which would - if they hadn't been colonised - have made them far less vulnerable than the 'rich' to the impacts of climate change.
  • If some of the worst-case climate change scenarios do come to pass, then the rich are also going to be extremely vulnerable and, if push comes to shove, I'd prefer to have knowledge of my land and how to grow food in inhospitable environments
  • the very wisdom that could help make us all less vulnerable to climate change is being lost as more and more people are sucked into a global economy that values only certain types of knowledge and beliefs.
Benno Hansen

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Climate fixes 'pose drought risk' - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8188409.stm

water precipitation geoengineering climate change

shared by Benno Hansen on 09 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "if geo-engineering studies focus too heavily on warming, critical risks associated with such possible "cures" will not be evaluated appropriately"
  • climate change is about much more than changes in temperature. So using temperature alone to monitor the effects of geo-engineering could be dangerous.
  • current climate models tend to underestimate the effects on precipitation of both greenhouse gases and of volcanic eruptions
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  • The article warns that geo-engineering of this type, combined with the effects of global warming could produce reductions in regional rainfall that could rival those of past major droughts, leading to winners and losers among the human population and possible conflicts over water.
    • Benno Hansen
      Benno Hansen on 09 Aug 09
       
      ecowar
  • "optimism about a geo-engineered 'easy way out' should be tempered by examination of currently observed climate changes."
    • Benno Hansen
      Benno Hansen on 09 Aug 09
       
      hvorfor skulle geoengineering ikke have uforudsete bivirkninger når klimaforandringerne i sig selv er en "uforudset" (overraskende stor) bivirkning ved afbrænding af fossile brændstoffer?
Adam Mills

Get green, stop e-waste with the end of analog television - 0 views

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shared by Adam Mills on 10 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Adam Mills on 10 Jun 09
     
    With all the hoopla surrounding Apple's announcements about the iPhone 3G S and its subsequent release on June 19th, many might have forgotten about another key date coming up just as fast.
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