Superfund 365: Merging Art and Visualization with the Environment
Dr. Francis Marchese is Professor of Computer Science at Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and a Faculty Scholar with the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. Find more information about Dr. Marchese here....
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America’s Aging Water Infrastucture: The Money Must Flow Too
There is little disagreement about the dire condition of our aging water infrastructure. And there is just as little being done about it. "The current rate of replacement for aging collection and distribution systems nationwide is less than 1 percent for most...
Water in the Anthropocene
http://vimeo.com/66087863 Water in the Anthropocene is a 3-minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle. Evidence is growing that our global footprint is now so significant we have driven Earth into a new geological epoch — the Anthropocene....
Meet Richard Windsor
I wondered when the fecklessness of the secrecy-obsessed Obama administration would manifest itself in the environmental arena. Enter Richard Windsor. Richard Windsor is former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, or at least he was her secret email alias. On June 4, the...
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The Struggle to Achieve Water Security, Part One
The Challenge of Transboundary Waters. "Water security" may not be common to the American lexicon, but to the US intelligence community, the United Nations, Asia, Africa and international organizations concerned with health, environment and human rights, it is...
EarthDesk Reader Reports On Taksim Gezi Park
Gill Buckle is an EarthDesk reader who commented on Caroline Craig's report on Taksim Gezi Park after his return from Istanbul, Turkey. We asked him to tell us what he saw. Below is his report. Thanks, Gill! We were staying at the Titanic Hotel close to the park and...
“Everywhere is resistance; Everywhere is Taksim”: When a Park Becomes Something More
Beneath water cannons, barricades, and the fiercest citizen uprising in Turkey’s recent history is the story of one little park and the people who stood up for it. On May 28, a peaceful, apolitical crowd of demonstrators set up camp in Taksim Gezi Park to prevent its...
Under Ground and Out Of Mind: Our Depleting Aquifers
An interview with Dr. Leonard Konikow, USGS Research Hydrologist. The exploitation of groundwater has become increasingly unsustainable, nationally and globally. A report by the US Geological Survey (USGS), ”Groundwater Depletion in the United States,” has grim...
Are “Ethically Chic” Companies Really Ethical?
By Noushi Rahman How do companies such as American Apparel, Apple, Starbucks, Timberland, Tom's of Maine, and Trader Joe's acquire such a pro-sustainability image? I had an unarticulated notion in my head that many of these so-called ethical companies were not as...
Water Protection Shortchanged by Interior’s Proposed Fracking Rules
By Monika Freyman EarthDesk welcomes guest blogger Monika Freyman who analyzes for us the adequacy of the fracking standards recently proposed by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Monika is a water program manager at Ceres, and co-author of a...