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PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 04, 2010 – By several accounts, the region-wide warning effort was a success, though in retrospect evacuations in many places far from the Chilean coast appear to have been excessive given the size of the surge that ultimately arrived.
Initial estimates by state emergency officials in Hawaii reportedly put the size of arriving waves at between six and 10 feet. The waves that did arrive were less than three feet tall.
IN PICTURES: Images from the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile
That apparent disconnect highlights the complexity of tsunami hazard responses, specialists say.
Gauging damage, accuracy
The major warning centers in Hawaii and Alaska issue basin-wide warnings, which include estimated time of arrival for the first of what ...]]> Environment/Ecology http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/chile-tsunami-footage-video-tsunami-hitting-coastal-town-captured-on-video-chile-earhtquake-2010-781.htm http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/older-canadian-home-is-becoming-a-sink-505.htm Older Canadian home is becoming a “sink”
A 25-year-old home near Ottawa will soon surpass the concept of “net-zero” and become a carbon sink.
(I-Newswire) December 5, 2009 - The original 3,340 ft2 building featured double-wall construction and faces south. Over the past three years, the home’s interior has been refurbished to LEED guidelines by recycling materials and using FSC-certified hardwood, as well as swapping to low-flow toilets, adding water aerators and other ecological improvements.
The house upgraded insulation levels and added timers and motion sensors, an Energy Star metal roof, sealed walls against air leakage, purchased solar blinds to reduce insolation, upgraded to Energy Star windows and appliances, added small solar panels and wind turbines to charge a battery backup system, converted to CFL bulbs (now switching to LED bulbs to further ...]]> Environment/Ecology http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/older-canadian-home-is-becoming-a-sink-505.htm http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/eu-eastern-europe-towards-a-partnership-in-energy-efficiency-461.htm EU-Eastern Europe: Towards a Partnership in Energy Efficiency
Brussels, 25 November 2009

The Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership will be launched during a donor conference, jointly organised by the European Commission and the Swedish Presidency of the EU, on 26 November in Stockholm. The Partnership will promote investment in energy efficiency in the Eastern Partnership region, starting in Ukraine with a particular emphasis on the district heating sector. During the conference, donors will make pledges for a Fund to support the Partnership in its objectives, which will serve to leverage much larger sums lent by the International Financial Institutions. The European Commission is ready to support the initiative by: contributing €10 million per year over a four year period to complement Ukraine's own contribution to the Fund; finance projects under the ...]]> Environment/Ecology http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/eu-eastern-europe-towards-a-partnership-in-energy-efficiency-461.htm http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/green-promise-228.htm GREEN PROMISE
Have we finally recognized ourselves as a species whose survival depends on clean and adequate natural resources?
by Joseph Travis
At the turn of the 20th century, only a very few visionaries could have imagined how the natural world would be changed in the next 100 years.
To be sure, there were precedents and portents that would disturb the sleep of the most optimistic. The American buffalo had been hunted nearly to extinction and escalating prices for colorful feathers had provided the motivation to hunt the Carolina parakeet to extinction. Britain and the eastern U.S. had lost most of their natural forests to cutting, and the new industries of the 19th century had already delivered ash-laden air and murky rivers to their neighborhoods.
But ...]]> Environment/Ecology http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/green-promise-228.htm http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/paying-for-paradise-226.htm Paying for Paradise

by Nancy Cook Lauer
Living along Florida’s coastline is a risky business—school kids in Iowa can tell you that. But just how risky is it?
Consider:
• Fourteen of the 30 most damaging hurricanes to hit the U.S. mainland between 1925 and 1995 struck the state of Florida;
• Fully 80 percent of Florida’s population (7.8 million people) live within five miles of coastal land vulnerable to storm surge flooding and high winds from hurricanes;
• Almost 30 percent of the state’s population (three million residents) live within a Category 1 storm surge zone, the area subject to most frequent hurricane impacts.
    As the state ...]]> Environment/Ecology http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/paying-for-paradise-226.htm http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/cleaning-up-after-communism-216.htm  Cleaning up After Communism
by Roy C. Herndon
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The environmental wake-up call that sounded in the U.S. in the mid-70s triggered a social and political upheaval that radically changed the way American industries conducted business and sent a message of hope to an emerging environmental consciousness worldwide.
America, though, was in far better position economically and politically than most countries to reverse its polluting ways. In regions of the world still under the yoke of communism, for example, the environmental movement faced implacable difficulties.
When the Iron Curtain finally collapsed in November 1989, the world saw for the first time the great ...]]> Environment/Ecology http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/cleaning-up-after-communism-216.htm http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/planting-seeds-for-a-fertile-future-179.htm Planting Seeds for a Fertile Future
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by Tom Evans
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More than 80% of the world's seed distribution is now controlled
by a handful of petrochemical and pharmaceutical corporations.
They own the seed and the technology for GMO (genetically modified
organism) development. They manufacture the chemicals of agribusiness and the medicines to treat us when our diets, lifestyles and environmental degradation make us sick. Whether a GMO or not, most of the foods we eat today come from patented hybrid seed which is not reliably fertile and is often sterile. This is our diet. It is what we are fueling ourselves with for our survival into the future. Non-fertile genetics. We are now seeing evidence of the
potential harm caused by these manipulated ...]]> Environment/Ecology http://articlesandblogs.ezreklama.com/pub/articles/environment-ecology/planting-seeds-for-a-fertile-future-179.htm