Recovering a Future

  Five years ago Since the tsunami struck on Boxing Day 2004, the British Red Cross has rebuilt entire communities from scratch, and rebuilt them stronger. Faced with many challenges and difficult decisions, the British Red Cross has left communities better able to cope with future disasters that may hit.

Recovering a Future

About Us « PlayPumps International

T he mission of PlayPumps International – U.S. (PPI) is to help improve the lives of children and their families by providing easy access to clean drinking water, enhancing public health, and offering play equipment to millions across Africa.PPI was created to fund new innovations for improving access to safe water in rural communities in Africa. Since its creation, the powerful appeal of the “play and pump” idea, together with compelling images of children at play on our equipment, has contributed greatly to increased awareness of the water crisis. There are now many new organizations working to solve that crisis, and many new technologies that have been introduced to bring clean water to communities.

 

About Us « PlayPumps International

10x10 / 100 Words and pictures

 Process.Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.

10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris

cooltoolsforschools - home

 

wiki gathers together a huge range of tools that geographers should embrace.

cooltoolsforschools - home

Impossible hamster club

100 Ways to Save the Environment

 

100 Ways to Save the Environment

WorldWaterWorks

The Water Survival Box is a rigid, reinforced 54 litre plastic container that becomes a receptacle for water when emptied of survival items, it includes a filtration pack including chlorine tablets – enough for family of 4 for some 4 months, plus essential survival items, as well as a basic shelter – via tarpaulin sheet.It is a fully paid for product full of new items and does not need filling by external organisations. The new items will be tailored to suit the disaster locations. The cost of a survival box Box is £150.
Purchases can be made online and we would appreciate your support.
WorldWaterWorks is managed by the Rotary Club of Chelwood Bridge.

WorldWaterWorks

Getting Ready for APP In History and Geography

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Getting Ready for APP In History and Geography

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Climate 4 Classrooms

Free t eaching resources on climate change for students aged 11+ years. The latest climate science and predictions from climate experts. Special focus on national futures in China, Indonesia, Mexico and the UK.

Climate 4 Classrooms

Frozen Britain

 

BBC NEWS |  Special Reports | Frozen Britain

BBC News - Frozen Britain seen from above

 

BBC  News - Frozen Britain seen from above

Defra, UK - Food and Farming - Food - Strategy

Food 2030, the Government’s new food strategy, is the first of its kind in over 50 years.  In it we set out our vision of what we want the food system to look like in 2030, and how we can get there.

 

January 2010: Hilary Benn launches Food 2030. Government has published a number of documents:

• Food 2030 strategy (PDF 2.9 MB)
• Food 2030 summary (PDF 1.9 MB)
• Indicators for a sustainable food system
• The 2007/08 agriculture price spikes
• UK Cross-Government Food Research and Innovation Strategy

Defra, UK - Food and Farming - Food - Strategy

iGuess | Introducing GIS Use in Education in Several Subjects

 

iGuess is a EU-funded project that aims at developing a teacher training course to promote GIS and instruct teachers in using it. Using GIS in class or in an extracurricular way will produce new, innovative approaches of teaching

iGuess | Introducing GIS Use in Education in Several Subjects

Will it Rain Today? | Rain radar for the UK | Going to rain? | Meteogroup

 

Will it Rain Toda y? | Rain radar for the UK | Going to rain? | Meteogroup

Carbon Footprints of Nations | NTNU

 

Carbon Footprints of Nations | NTNU

Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions

  This web site is part of an academic, open, community-based project. It is dedicated in collecting and presenting data which are exploited in research areas, such as:
- Study of marine telecommunications in respect of efficiency and propagation parameters
- Simulation of vessel movements in order to contribute to the safety of navigation and to cope with critical incidents
- Interactive information systems design
- Design of databases providing real-time information
- Statistical processing of ports traffic with applications in operational research
- Design of models for the spotting of the origin of a pollution
- Design of efficient algorithms for sea path evaluation and for determining the estimated time of ship arrivals
- Correlation of the collected information with weather data
- Cooperation with Institutes dedicated in the protection of the environment
It provides free real-time information to the public, about ship movements and ports, mainly across the coast-lines of Europe and N.America.

Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions