Apr
26
Week 10: Is there anything we can do?
April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Elmy Lung
All the talks of water shortages and foreseeable conflicts, but where does that leave us with dealing with the situation?
For a start, people must acknowledge the water is a finite resource that, without proper and careful management, it will run out. The first step is to make small adjustments in our [...]
Apr
25
We eat to encourage farmers to grow
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by Rachael
As read from headlines today, the UK and the US retailers are limiting consumers’ purchase of food namely rice, wheat, oil and etc. Even during WWII, Americans were only placed limits of purchase of fossil fuels or light bulbs, but not food. Food rationing does not only happen in developing countries but also developed [...]
Apr
25
Week 9: You sure your water is safe?
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Elmy Lung
Most were caught by surprise last month, when the news broke that there are drug residues found in water supplies for over 41 million Americans. The Associated Press (AP) filed the story after a five month investigation throughout the country, checking the water supplies of 25 major areas, “Southern California to Northern [...]
Apr
23
It is all about climate change statistics
April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Eva Chang (12)
Climate Change is a statistical issue. Debates over the existence of climate change revolve around the show of statistical proof of changes and variances in the earth’s temperature over a given period. Current statistical measures create two problems. One is the lack of a standard statistical measure with widespread recognition in order [...]
Apr
22
Increase Your ‘Greenness’ on Earth Day
April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Carol Zhou Yan (10)
Today is Earth Day.
U.S.-Thousands picked up garbage, turned in old cellphones and computers and took nature walks. Environmental leaders are aiming for a big effort on Earth Day, when they hope 1 million Americans will call their congressional representatives to lobby for legislation to fight global warming.On a more modest scale, [...]
Apr
21
Australian farmers doubled global rice prices?
April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by Rachael
An article from the New York Times last week put up a direct link between Australian farmers and global soaring rice prices plus food shortages.
The author of the article wrote that “[t]he collapse of Australia’s rice production is one of several factors contributing to a doubling of rice prices in the last three months [...]
Apr
18
China Now World’s Top Polluter
April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by Carol Zhou Yan (9)
Accoding to the study by researchers at the University of California, China has already surpassed the United States as the world’s largest carbon polluter.
The report, written by economic professors Maximilian Aufhammer of UC Berkeley and Richard Carson of UC San Diego, is to be published next month in the Journal of [...]
Apr
18
Post Kyoto Protocol Treaty or Bilateral Agreements?
April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by Eva Chang (11)
As 2012 approaches, doubts loom over the ability of the states, which gave them commitment, to cutback certain percentages of their greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, to continue and enhance efforts, talks over the possibility of a post Kyoto Protocol treaty occured in the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali held in December [...]
Apr
13
By Elmy Lung
In last week’s blog post, I wrote about the droughts that south eastern Spain faced a couple of years back. The country is facing a similar problem, only this time in the more northern part in Barcelona. The second largest Spanish city, and capital of Catalonia is now facing the worst droughts [...]
Apr
10
By Elmy Lung
It has made headlines in England that the Severn Trent- one of the biggest water companies in the United Kingdom, is to pay a ￡35million fine after being found out for delivering false information to regulator and poor customer services.
Millions of customers ended up having higher water bills as a result of [...]
