Two weeks ago I enrolled in a course named “climate change in four dimensions”. I am receiving it from University of California – San Diego. You may be asking yourself how am I able to receive a course from an Read More …
Tag: climate change
This is “The Flat Earth Society”
Environment in general and climate change specifically are nowadays trending topics, using terms from Twitter. They are in the front line whenever they arise: in the highlights of news and media publications, in the strategic plans of worldwide organizations, are present Read More …
The Keeling Curve´s top higher and higher: 400 ppm reached two months earlier than last year
Not for being expected, the issue is less disappointing. Two weeks ago, the Keeling Curve -the most accepted atmospheric carbon dioxide indicator- overshot for the first time in 2014 the 400 ppm level. Last wednesday march 12th, the Mauna Loa Read More …
A collaborative network on environmental and human safety of nanotechnology
If you use to read this blog, you will have notice that health, safety and environmental of nanotechnology is in recent times a recurrent topic. Apart from my own interest for nanoEHS, an important reason for its outstanding presence is Read More …
People living (almost) totally off the grid
From a time ago, I follow a site named Off-Grid, which presents itself like this: “Off-Grid.net is an eclectic mix of practical advice, news from the on-grid world and issues rarely covered by the mainstream media. It promotes the many enterprises Read More …
Earth Overshoot Day: The yearly over-explotation of resources has its own anniversary
SInce several decades ago, there is an indicator measuring the utilization of natural resources. This indicator is a specific calendar date: the day on which human´s resources consumption for the years exceeds Earth´s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. Read More …
An example of citizen’s participation in Germany towards a public management of energy
There is a country in Europe where a relevant social movement is arising in search of a responsible and sustainable energy system. This is Germany. It is a bipolar country in this sense: while some lands along its territory obtain Read More …
Effects of CO2 in humans
This chart shows the evolution of CO2 concentration in parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere in the latest 30 years. (click on the image to enlarge). Last month of may 2013, the 400 ppm CO2 threshold, which was considered Read More …
#ActOnClimate: Benefits of a cleaner, more efficient power sector
On August 3, President Obama and the EPA announced the Clean Power Plan – a historic and important step in reducing carbon pollution from power plants that takes real action on climate change. Shaped by years of unprecedented outreach and Read More …
#Agriculture and #climatechange — EEA
Origen: Agriculture and climate change — EEA Agriculture both contributes to climate change and is affected by climate change. The EU needs to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculture and adapt its food-production system to cope with climate change. But climate Read More …
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