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Tue, 2014-08-12 22:11 — mdmcdonald
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The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about content management and sourcing of information from Sierra Leone and bring it to the World with the proper steps.

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How Can a City Measure Its Happiness? – Next City

Mon, 2014-08-25 10:49 — MDMcDonald_me_com

USRS, NYRS

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happiness

http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/happiest-cities-well-being-survey-policy

How Can a City Measure Its Happiness?

Santa Monica will begin to survey residents about their well-being next month. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

At one time, questionnaires about well-being were the province of mental health professionals. But in recent years, a growing number of city governments have been getting into the game. Last year, Santa Monica, California won a Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors’ Challenge grant to create a “Local Well-Being Index,” based in part on a survey it plans to administer next month. Other cities, including Seattle and Nevada City, Calif., are at various stages of implementing the idea as well (with different levels of direct municipal involvement). All share a goal that some see as unsuitable for government and others consider its fundamental task: to make citizens happier.

How the web lost its way – and its founding principles | Technology | The Guardian

Mon, 2014-08-25 09:24 — MDMcDonald_me_com

GRS

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web

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/24/internet-lost-its-way-tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web

How the web lost its way – and its founding principles

'There's this huge corporate pushback' … Tim Berners-Lee. Photograph: Catrina Genovese/WireImage
In 2009, an American civil rights lawyer created a mashup mapping a neighbourhood called Coal Run, Ohio. It showed which houses were connected to the town's water supply and which houses were occupied by black or white families. A mashup uses data from more than one source, usually publicly available information, and almost always presents it on a map. The results were extraordinary: the map showed that almost all the white households in Coal Run had water piped to their homes, while all but a few black households did not. Those without piped water had to carry water home from the water plant by whatever transport they could muster, pump it from wells contaminated with sulphur and oil from old mining operations or, in extremis, collect rainwater.

Nigeria Confirms New Ebola Cases, Boy Killed In Liberia Quarantine Zone

Sat, 2014-08-23 11:19 — MDMcDonald_me_com

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/nigeria-ebola-quarantine_n_5699062.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Boy Killed In Liberia Ebola Quarantine Zone

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Two alarming new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria, widening the circle of people sickened beyond the immediate group of caregivers who treated a dying airline passenger in one of Africa's largest cities.

The outbreak also continues to spread elsewhere in West Africa, with 142 more cases recorded, bringing the new total to 2,615 with 1,427 deaths, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Most of the new cases are in Liberia, where the government was delivering donated rice to a slum where 50,000 people have been sealed off from the rest of the capital in an attempt to contain the outbreak.

New treatment centers in Liberia are being overwhelmed by patients that were not previously identified. One center with 20 beds opened its doors to 70 possibly infected people, likely coming from "shadow-zones" where people fearing authorities won't let doctors enter, the U.N health agency said.

Ivory Coast closes western borders over Ebola threat | Reuters

Sat, 2014-08-23 08:52 — MDMcDonald_me_com

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Africa RI, Ivory Coast RI (new), Sierra Leone RI, Liberia RI

Conakry RS, Guinea RS

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ebola, economy, migration

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/23/us-health-ebola-ivorycoast-idUSKBN0GN0AL20140823

Ivory Coast closes western borders over Ebola threat

Credit: Reuters/Luc Gnago
People walk past health workers wearing protective masks and gloves at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan August 12, 2014.

Credit: Reuters/Luc Gnago
(Reuters) - Ivory Coast has closed its land borders with Ebola-affected West African neighbours Guinea and Liberia in an attempt to prevent the world's deadliest outbreak of the virus from spreading onto its territory, the government announced.

A number of African nations have defied advice from the World Health Organization (WHO) and put in place restrictions on travel to and from the countries where Ebola has appeared, which also include Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

The Philippines on Saturday ordered 115 troops to return home from peacekeeping operations in Liberia due to the outbreak there.

Fwd: Organizations Addressing Resilience & Sustainability

Wed, 2014-08-20 18:19 — MDMcDonald_me_com

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resilience, sustainability

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Rosenberg, Goldie"
> Subject: FW: Organizations Addressing Resilience & Sustainability
> Date: August 18, 2014 at 12:30:16 PM EDT
> To: "Rosenberg, Goldie"
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> Don’t know if you are familiar with this, but am sharing just in case not…
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> OARS (Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability) are peer organizations that address
> natural hazard mitigation, adaptation and climate resilience in the United States.
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> This list is freely distributed in support of our shared endeavors in creating resilient communities.
> Organizations are listed by web search and suggestions of contributors. Descriptions (in italics) are as
> cited in web listings, with slight editorial abbreviations.
>
> Please see attached

Shale Oil Benefits Could Pay for Smaller Carbon Footprint · Environmental Management & Sustainability News · Environmental Leader

Wed, 2014-08-20 14:17 — MDMcDonald_me_com

USRS

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fracking, shale oil, ecological footprint, economy, renewables

http://www.environmentalleader.com/2014/08/20/shale-oil-benefits-could-pay-for-smaller-carbon-footprint/

Shale Oil Benefits Could Pay for Smaller Carbon Footprint

The US could see about a 27 percent reduction in its carbon footprint if just half of the unanticipated economic benefits of shale gas and oil production were used in the efforts, according to agricultural economists at Purdue University.

The researchers estimate that shale technologies annually provide an extra $302 billion to various sectors within the US economy, relative to 2007.

The researchers used a computable general equilibrium model — which accounts for all economic sectors and factor markets — to test the economic outcomes of pitting the gains from an expanding shale gas and oil industry against the cost of three emission-reducing scenarios: regulating the US electricity and transport sectors, regulating only the electricity sector, and putting an economy-wide tax on carbon.

Each scenario would decrease national carbon emissions by about 27 percent, compared with 2007 levels, by the year 2035.

Are electricity-eating bacteria the next big thing in green fuel? | GreenBiz.com

Wed, 2014-08-20 14:02 — MDMcDonald_me_com

GRS, USRS

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innovation, biofuel, electricity, renewables

http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2014/08/20/are-electricity-eating-bacteria-next-big-thing-green-fuel?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojv6jKZKXonjHpfsX56%2BwrUKK%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4FRMBnI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFSLHEMa5qw7gMXRQ%3D

Are electricity-eating bacteria the next big thing in green fuel?

Editor's Note: This story is republished with permission from Txchnologist, a digital magazine that follows innovation in science and technology.

There's a large and growing list of renewable energy projects pumping out cleaner electricity these days. Photovoltaic panels produce direct current and solar concentrators drive steam turbines using sunlight. Wind turbines churning out megawatts of power dot the landscape of many countries. Other projects are looking to light communities through tides, running rivers and even the heat of the Earth.

Re: Earth Policy Release - Grain Harvest Fact Sheet

Tue, 2014-08-19 20:32 — Maeryn Obley

Fwd: Earth Policy Release - Grain Harvest Fact Sheet

Tue, 2014-08-19 13:11 — mdmcdonald

Waste-to-Energy Could Supply 12% of US Electricity · Environmental Management & Sustainability News · Environmental Leader

Tue, 2014-08-19 13:06 — MDMcDonald_me_com

USRS

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Waste to Energy

electricity

http://www.environmentalleader.com/2014/08/19/waste-to-energy-could-supply-12-of-us-electricity/

Waste-to-Energy Could Supply 12% of US Electricity

If all of the municipal solid waste (MSW) that is currently put into landfills each year in the US were diverted to waste-to-energy (WTE) power plants, it could generate enough electricity to supply 12 percent of the US total, according to a study conducted by the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University.

According to the study, this shift also could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 123 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per year.

2014 Energy and Economic Value of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), including and Non-recycled Plastics (NRP), Currently Landfilled in the Fifty States, found that the recovery of resources from waste, and hence, diverted from landfill, in the US increased between 2008 and 2011. The recycling of materials from MSW improved by 18.5 million tons, and the tonnage of materials processed by WTE facilities grew by 3.8 million tons during this period.

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