Manchester Report: Plans for renewable energy bonds among 20 climate ideas to save the world | Environment | guardian.co.uk

 

The British public could invest their savings in the UK's renewable energy revolution and reap the financial rewards of helping to save the planet, under ambitious plans to be discussed this weekend.The Public Interest Research Centre, a thinktank based in Wales, says the government could sell "energy bonds" to pay for the required investment. The scheme would be similar to war bonds, which galvanised financial support in Britain during the second world war.

The idea is one of 20 radical solutions to the threat of global warming to be proposed during presentations this weekend in Manchester. The event, organised by the Guardian and the Manchester International festival, will publish a report on the ideas, which will be distributed ahead of key UN talks on a new climate treaty in Copenhagen in December.

6 climate plans1 . Methanol  2. Algal Fuels 3. Ocean cloud seeding 4. Bio char 5.Global population control 6. Energy Bonds

Manchester Report: Plans for renewable energy bonds among 20 climate ideas to save the world | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Fears for the world's poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food | Environment | The Guardian

 

The acquisition of farmland from the world's poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe's farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from UN officials and agriculture experts say.

New reports from the UN and analysts in India, Washington and London estimate that at least 30m hectares is being acquired to grow food for countries such as China and the Gulf states who cannot produce enough for their populations. According to the UN, the trend is accelerating and could severely impair the ability of poor countries to feed themselves

Fears for the world's poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food | Environment | The Guardian

Its Your Smart Grid

 

Energy internet information on Energy Issues.

Its Your Smart Grid

Statistics By Energy Source - BERR

 

Statistics By Energy Source - BERR

Energy Flow Chart - BERR

OPEN the energy flow chart. These are SANKEY diagrams

 

Energy Flow Chart - BERR

Statistical Review of World Energy 2009 | BP

 

Statistical Review of World Energy 2009 | BP

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

 

OPEC's mission is to coordinate and unify the petroleum policies of Member Countries and ensure the stabilization of oil markets in order to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumers, a steady income to producers and a fair return on capital to those investing in the petroleum industry.

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

EndOil

Our Cause Oil sits at the center of most of our greatest environmental, health, human rights and security challenges today. Oi is fully integrated into the structures and operations of governments, economies and societies around the world, especially in the U.S.

Our Mission Our mission is to increase choice by decreasing and ultimately ending global oil dependency through educating and moving individuals, governments, and civil society towards non-petroleum sources of energy.

About | EndOil

World Nuclear Association

 

World Nuclear Association

Home - Department of Energy and Climate Change

 

Home - Department of Energy and Climate Change

Statistics available from http://stats.berr.gov.uk/uksa/energy/sa20090528.htm

Subject and table number
Title

Total Energy 1.1 Indigenous production of primary fuels

1.2 Inland energy consumption: primary fuel input basis

Coal 2.4
Coal production and foreign trade  2.5 Coal consumption

2.6 Stocks of coal

Oil 3.10 Indigenous production, refinery receipts, imports and exports

3.11 Stocks of petroleum

3.12 Refinery throughput and output of petroleum products

3.13 Deliveries of petroleum products for inland consumption

Gas 4.2 Natural gas production and supply

4.3 Natural gas imports and exports

Electricity 5.3 Fuel used in electricity generation by major producers

5.3 wind Fuel used in electricity generation by major producers including wind data

5.4 Electricity production and availability from the public supply system

5.4 wind Electricity production and availability from the public supply system including wind data

5.5 Availability and consumption of electricity

Temperatures 6.1 Average temperatures and deviations from the long term mean

6.2 Average wind speed and deviations from the long term mean

Prices 2.1.1 Retail prices index: fuel components

2.1.2 Retail prices index: fuel components, relative to GDP inflator

2.1.3 Retail prices index: fuels components monthly figures

4.1.1 Typical retail prices of petroleum products and a crude oil price index (monthly data)

4.1.2 Typical retail prices of petroleum products and a crude oil price index (annual data)

5.1.1 Premium unleaded petrol prices in the EU

5.2.1 Diesel prices in the EU

Energy Introduction

GCSE/IGCSE Geography > Energy Resources 2009

View more PDF documents from Richard Allaway.

Water Poverty Index

How to read the graph?
The WPI assesses water poverty from 5 different perspectives: available resources, use of them, access to water (water supply, sanitation and irrigated land), capacity of exploitation, as well as environmental sustainability factors. In each category up to 20 points can be reached (=best situation).

The WPI is a holistic water management tool that is mainly relevant at the community level, but can also be applied at any spatial scale up to the basin or national levels.

Water Monitoring Alliance : indices

http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sections/hrr/documents/WPI4pageleaflet_000.pdf

http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sections/ph/documents/WPIworldmap_2.pdf

http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ec/wpapers/kerp0219.pdf

Thirst of the cities drives the giant drills to water China's parched north | World news | guardian.co.uk

More than twice as expensive as the Three Gorges Dam and three times longer than the railway to Tibet, the 50-year, $62bn (£40.67bn) project aims to channel a greater volume than the Thames along three channels – each more than 600 miles long – from the moist Yangtze basin up to the dry lands above the Yellow river.

At Jiaozuo, giant drills have already gouged out more than half of the 2.5 mile-long tunnel that will take the water under the Yellow river. At the foot of the construction shaft, the nine-metre wide concrete pipe stretches into the dark far below the farm fields that stretch towards the river. "This is a first in the history of the Yellow," one of the engineers, Han Jiping, says proudly. "There is nothing to compare."

Thirst of the cities drives the giant drills to water China's parched north | World news | guardian.co.uk

South-to-North Water Diversion Project - Water Technology

 

With China hosting the Olympic Games and water from the South-to-North Water Diversion Project – the largest of its kind ever undertaken – scheduled to begin supplying a thirsty Beijing, 2008 is shaping up to be a major showcase year for the country. This massive scheme has already taken 50 years from conception to commencement and is expected to take almost as long again to construct. Planned for completion in 2050, it will eventually divert 44.8 billion m³ of water annually to the population centres of the drier north.

When finished, the work will link China’s four main rivers – the Yangtze, Yellow River, Huaihe and Haihe – and requires the construction of three diversion routes, stretching south-to-north across the eastern, central and western parts of the country.

The complete project is expected to cost $62bn – more than twice as much as the country’s controversial Three Gorges Dam.

South-to-North Water Diversion Project - Water Technology

Water Issues CHINA

The rivers in China support one-third of the world's population yet the country faces severe environmental challenges. This interactive map illustrates some of the most pressing water-related issues in China and how problems that originate upstream are inherited by those living downstream, even those living in other countries.

China From the Inside . Nature | PBS

Yellow River - National Geographic Magazine

 

Yellow River - National Geographic Magazine

Interactive food quiz

http://www.fekids.com/img/kln/flash/DontGrossOutTheWorld.swf

Theme 2009: Transboundary water - World Water Day

 

Theme 2009: Transboundary water - World Water Day

world water day site

•WWD 2008 World Water Day 2008

•Read more

•WWD 2007 Read more

•WWD 2006 Read more

•WWD 2005 World Water Day 2005

•Read more

•WWD 2004 2004: Water and Disasters

•2004: Water and Disasters

•WWD 2003 2003: Water for the Future

•2003: Water for the Future

•WWD 2002 2002: Water for Development

•2002: Water for Development

•WWD 2001 2001: Water and Health

•2001: Water and Health

•WWD 2000 2000: Water for the 21st Century

•2000: Water for the 21st Century

•WWD 1999 1999: Everyone Lives Downstream

•1999: Everyone Lives Downstream

•WWD 1998 1998: Groundwater - the Invisible Resource

•1998: Groundwater - the Invisible Resource

•WWD 1997 1997: The World's Water: Is There Enough?

•1997: The World's Water: Is There Enough?

•WWD 1996 1996: Water for Thirsty Cities

•1996: Water for Thirsty Cities

•WWD 1995 1995: Women and Water

•1995: Women and Water

Survival International - The movement for tribal peoples

 

Survival is the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide. We were founded in 1969 after an article by Norman Lewis in the UK's Sunday Times highlighted the massacres, land thefts and genocide taking place in Brazilian Amazonia. Like many modern atrocities, the racist oppression of Brazil's Indians took place in the name of 'economic growth'.

Today, Survival has supporters in 82 countries. We work for tribal peoples' rights in three complementary ways: education, advocacy and campaigns. We also offer tribal people themselves a platform to address the world. We work closely with local indigenous organizations, and focus on tribal peoples who have the most to lose, usually those most recently in contact with the outside world.

We believe that public opinion is the most effective force for change. Its power will make it harder, and eventually impossible, for governments and companies to oppress tribal peoples.

Survival International - The movement for tribal peoples

BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband World: Mapping the global picture

 

More than a billion people around the world are connected to the net, but speed of access ranges from dial-up to fibre optic connections.

Use this map to explore the state of our Broadband World across eight different countries, as explained by BBC correspondents and reporters.

See also:

A tale of two broadband villages

UK 'broadband notspots' revealed

NEWS | Technology | Broadband World: Mapping the global picture