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Under a Green Sky - The Millenium Project

Sun, 2013-03-03 14:04 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Jerome Glenn

A new discussion on Peter Ward's "Under a Green Sky" in The Millenium Project Challenge 1 Group: Sustainable Development and Climate Change.

Under a Green Sky
http://www.astrobio.net/interview/2553/under-a-green-sky

The Millenium Project - Challenge 1: Sustainable Development and Climate Change
https://themp.org/challengegroup/1/

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Verily: Crowdsourced Verification for Disaster Response

Fri, 2013-03-01 18:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

irevolution.net - by Patrick Meier - February 19, 2013

Social media is increasingly used for communicating during crises. This rise in Big (Crisis) Data means that finding the proverbial needle in the growing haystack of information is becoming a major challenge.

QCRI and Masdar have launched an experimental platform called Verily. We are applying best practices in time-critical crowd-sourcing coupled with gamification and reputation mechanisms to leverage the good will of (hopefully) thousands of digital Samaritans during disasters.

Veri.ly
http://www.veri.ly/

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Crisis Mapping Syria: Automated Data Mining and Crowdsourced Human Intelligence

Fri, 2013-03-01 17:53 — Kathy Gilbeaux

blog.ushahidi.com

The Syria Tracker Crisis Map is without doubt one of the most impressive crisis mapping projects yet.

On the data-mining side, Syria Tracker has repurposed the HealthMap platform, which mines thousands of online sources for the purposes of disease detection and then maps the results, “giving public-health officials an easy way to monitor local disease conditions.”

(HEALTH MAP PLATFORM)

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Making Communities More Resilient to Climate-Induced Weather Disasters

Tue, 2013-02-26 23:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - February 18, 2013

Mounting scientific evidence indicates climate change will lead to more frequent and intense extreme weather that affects larger areas and lasts longer. We can reduce the risk of weather-related disasters, however, with a variety of measures. Experts say that a good strategy should include a variety of actions such as communicating risk and transferring it through vehicles such as insurance, taking a multi-hazard management approach, linking local and global management, and taking an iterative approach as opposed to starting with a master plan.

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After Disaster, Governor Faced with Challenge of Keeping Jakarta Dry

Sat, 2013-02-23 23:02 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Since last month, when the worst flooding in six years hit Jakarta, occupancy at Marunda public housing complex north of Jakarta has jumped.

nytimes.com - by Sara Schonhardt - February 20, 2013

JAKARTA, Indonesia — At the Marunda housing projects in North Jakarta, weeds push up through cracks in concrete foundations and grimy facades beg for paint. The rent-subsidized apartments have little access to public transportation, and drainage ditches that ring each building smell of sewage.

It seems unlikely that people would line up to live here.

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Video - The Well: Water Voices from Ethiopia

Sat, 2013-02-09 18:04 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Stella Tarnay

THE WELL: WATER VOICES FROM ETHIOPIA

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http://www.ecoinnovationlab.com/

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Melbourne's VEIL & 'A Studio For All Things' envisions a Sustainable Future

Tue, 2013-02-05 16:47 — Amanda Cole

Submitted by Natalia Radywyl

Visioning 2032: The Sunshine Films

What could the suburb of Sunshine look like in 2032?

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Solar Ship Receives Grant to Build Emissions-Free Airship to Deliver Supplies to Disaster Areas

Fri, 2013-02-01 11:21 — LuLu2012

SOLAR SHIP

inhabitat.com - by Kristine Lofgren - January 17th, 2013

Submitted by Samuel Bendett

In 2011 we wrote about Solar Ship, a helium zero-emissions cargo plane that is capable of delivering much-needed goods to people in remote areas where vehicles simply cannot reach. Today, Solar Ship is now one step closer to reality after receiving a grant to build a next-generation airship that could fly critical supplies to First Nation communities in North America. In order to realize their goal, they are turning to crowd funding to raise much-needed additional financial support.

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