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Tag Archives: conflict
Environmental auditing is not what it seems
You and I might care about sustainable forestry and check that any product made from the trees of this world are carefully sourced to protect ancient and rare trees. Auditors who assist in green labelling are part of a multi … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, ecology, conflict, destruction, ancient forests, sustainable timber, forestry, smugglers, rare trees, criminals, international crime, auditors, regulation, enforcement, military junta, war chest, cardboard, furniture, wooden products, lax laws
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Green building design: Biomimicry architecture
I am reproducing this website as it best illustrates how rebuilding countries which have suffered massive destruction could be achieved in an eco way. Surely, there should be no reason to build using pre-eco design methods? http://mickpearce.com/ “ ☰ MICK … Continue reading
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Tagged better living, biomimicry architecture, conflict, devastation, earthquakes, eco buildings, rebuilding, war
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By 2100: Global warming is projected to lower per capita GDP by 50 percent minimum
We know the ongoing Ukraine war has forced a postponement of plans to make us less reliant on fossil fuels. The weaponising of energy has stopped us in our tracks. https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/24/european-gas-lobby-tweets-ukraine-war/ A precursor to Ukraine was Tigray, fighting for independence … Continue reading
Desalination, long term solution to Drought
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-who-rely-on-desalination.html From the above map we learn Saudi Arabia has the most desalination plants in the world: “eight plants using the reverse osmosis technology and 12 using the multi-stage distillation process. The country has the largest floating desalination plant in … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, conflict, desalination, desertification, drought, famine, food security, multi-stage flash, reverse osmosis, solutions
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Concept of borders
Each human may have an idea of their own space, and a sense of where they draw their border concept lines. A person may stand too close to us and we will say ‘”don’t crowd me” or “get out of … Continue reading
Fight the cause of the refugee crisis
Use satellite imagery and track the problems and build solutions: https://www.planet.com/
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Tagged asylum, authoritarian regime, child abuse, climate change, conflict, cruelty, discrimination, drought, drugs, environment, exploitation, famine, human rights, inhuman living conditions, low paid work, male domination, misogyny, no freshwater, persecution, poverty, rape, rebuilding, rehoming, replanting, rescue, satellite imagery, sustainable living, terror, torture, tracking, trafficking, unsanitary conditions, value every human, violence
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Africa, the World’s leading creditor
The huge continent of Africa has been exploited, robbed and cruelly harmed for centuries. Yet we humans originated and evolved in that life giving landscape before the nomadic migrations to explore other lands. I read Africa is in debt, like … Continue reading
Drip irrigation when water is limited
Shortages of fresh water can create difficult decisions, and lead to conflict. Industrial farming creating wealth for owners and investors may leave local poor communities without access to any clean water for personal use. This is illustrated by the South … Continue reading
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Tagged cattle farming, cholera, conflict, deficit irrigation, drip irrigation, drought, food insecurity, industrial farming, innovation, war, water scarcity
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Battle for Resources
In Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s book ‘Strongmen’ she says geopolitics is when authoritarian regimes have a …. conception of the state as an organic entity with the right to defend itself from threats to its safety and the right to expand into … Continue reading
Rome Kingdom to Empire: impact on Brittania to Judea
Rome had a Kingdom, then a Republic, then an Empire. What follows is the evolving significant people and events which resulted in the Empire. The last Kingdom monarch was Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, located in Ancient Rome. As a result of … Continue reading
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