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Rising chemicals output a hazard, clean-up needed by 2020 -UN

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Alister Doyle
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Sep 5 , 2012

 

 

* Rising share of chemicals produced in emerging economies

* Poisonings among leading causes of death -UNEP

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Engineers Without Borders: An Organization Working to Alleviate Poverty

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www.ewb-usa.org

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Engineers Without Borders: An Organization Working to Alleviate Poverty

This image gives the reader some basic information about Engineers Without Borders, an organization with active chapters all over the world. EWB employs engineers to design and implement sustainable projects in developing countries. There are chapters at both the university and professional levels.

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Organizations Working to Create Environmental Sustainability

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Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture, International Water Management Institute

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This picture gives the reader some basic information about two organizations working to ensure global environmental sustainability.

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Rivers will generate a quarter of GDP by 2050, study shows

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Damian Carrington
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The world's 10 most populous river basins will be vital for economic growth – but only if water shortage threat is tackled

Water is the very stuff of life, yet billions of people do not have access to a clean, reliable source. Changing that takes investment - public and private - so winning the economic argument about the value of such investment is very valuable. And a new report commissioned by HSBC makes the argument in a striking way.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/jun/11/water-river-hsbc?intcmp=122

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To Seriously Improve Global Health, Reinvent the Toilet

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The toilet is a magnificent thing. Invented at the turn of the 19th century, the flush version has vastly improved human life.

The toilet has been credited with adding a decade to our longevity. The sanitation system to which it is attached was voted the greatest medical advance in 150 years by readers of the British Medical Journal.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-08/to-seriously-improve-global-health-reinvent-the-toilet.html

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Map: Where all the junk in the ocean ends up

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Ken Ellingwood
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If you read this story by Ken Ellingwood about the deluge of trash on a Mexican beach, you may be wondering: Just where does all the junk that goes into the ocean end up?

Nikolai Maximenko is trying to answer that question. Trash gathers into "garbage patches" that are too diffuse to spot from a satellite. Scientists have encountered several areas where trash collects in the ocean, but nobody is sure where all of it is.

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/01/just-where-does-junk-in-the-ocean-end-up.html

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The Metrics for Measuring the Ecological Footprint of Humans on Planet Earth

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BANGLADESH: Selling the toilet idea

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Abdul Malik, a 35-year-old rickshaw puller from Dhaka, shares a communal toilet
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BANGKOK, 14 October 2011 (IRIN) - By some measures, Bangladesh is modernizing rapidly - one in two residents now owns a cell phone. However, when it comes to basic sanitation, progress is clogged.

While some point to obstacles of funding and a lack of political leadership, others say toilets, despite their long-established health benefits, have an image problem.

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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93948

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Fukushima radiation alarms doctors

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Scientists and doctors are calling for a new national policy in Japan that mandates the testing of food, soil, water, and the air for radioactivity still being emitted from Fukushima's heavily damaged Daiichi nuclear power plant.

 

"How much radioactive materials have been released from the plant?" asked Dr Tatsuhiko Kodama, a professor at the Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology and Director of the University of Tokyo's Radioisotope Centre, in a July 27 speech to the Committee of Health, Labour and Welfare at Japan's House of Representatives.

 

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http://pro.energycentral.com/professional/news/power/news_share_article.cfm?id=21186462

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