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"Once energy dependent, Chile is on track to become a renewables powerhouse with the potential to export electricity. Chile is on track to rely on clean sources for 90 percent of its electricity needs by 2050, up from the current 45 percent." Via Nancy Watson 
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July 31, 2018 5:09 PM
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Environmental artist J Henry Fair captures the beauty and destruction of industrial sites to illustrate the hidden impacts of the things we buy – the polluted air, destroyed habitats and the invisible carbon heating the planet
Sally Egan's curator insight,
October 30, 2016 6:28 PM
Photographic essay illustrates the impacts of human use of resources. The beautiful images illustrate the extreme impact on the environment.
Sally Egan's curator insight,
October 30, 2016 6:30 PM
Photographic essay illustrates the impact of human activity on environments.
GTANSW & ACT's curator insight,
November 16, 2016 5:37 PM
Production and consumption - interconnections and consequences
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Picture this: Tourists visiting one of your city's most prominent attractions are unable to see it because of smog, haze and a bevy of other airborne pollutants. What's the solution? Via Courtney Barrowman
Jared Medeiros's curator insight,
April 22, 2015 7:17 PM
Major cities in the world should take a deeper look into controlling pollution problems in their cities. At some point, these places will no longer attract people to live in these areas, thus lowering the impact that these industries may have. But as long as people are still living here by the millions and there is tourism, and buisness is booming, nothing will be done about the issue. 
Courtney Barrowman's curator insight,
May 27, 2015 12:08 PM
Summer reading KQ4: pollution, smog, megacity, sustainability 
Mark Hathaway's curator insight,
November 25, 2015 6:22 AM
Pollution is a huge issue facing both Hong Kong, and the rest of China in general. So far the government has done little to actually combat the problem. The Chinese governments response has been to pretend that the problem does not really exist. A fake skyline can just erase the problem. In reality dealing with the pollution issue would actually help the Chinese economy. When people seek to go on a vacation, they are seeking a destination that is clean and safe. Who wants to visit a place were, you have to ware a mask to prevent the breathing in of armful chemicals. A cleaner less polluted china would lead to an expanded tourism industry. |
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What economists around the world get wrong about the future.
The idea that economic growth can continue forever on a finite planet is the unifying faith of industrial civilization. That it is nonsensical in the extreme, a deluded fantasy, doesn't appear to bother us. We hear the holy truth in the decrees of elected officials, in the laments of economists about flagging GDP, in the authoritative pages of opinion, in the whirligig of advertising, at the World Bank and on Wall Street, in the prospectuses of globe-spanning corporations and in the halls of the smallest small-town chambers of commerce. Growth is sacrosanct. Growth will bring jobs and income, which allow us entry into the state of grace known as affluence, which permits us to consume more, providing more jobs for more people producing more goods and services so that the all-mighty economy can continue to grow. "Growth is our idol, our golden calf," Herman Daly, an economist known for his anti-growth heresies, told me recently.
Tags: op-ed, economic, industry, sustainability, development, consumption, climate change, environment, resources.
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When you learned about The Periodic Table of Elements in high school, it probably didn’t look like this. Above, we have a different way of visualizing the elements. Created by Professor William F. Sheehan at Santa Clara University in 1970, this chart takes the elements (usually shown like this) and scales them relative to their abundance on the Earth’s surface.
16s3d's curator insight,
November 23, 2015 7:16 AM
Morphisme du tableau périodique des éléments en fonction de leur abondance
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"One-third of the seafood Americans catch is sold abroad, but most of the seafood we eat here is imported and often of lower quality. Why? Author Paul Greenberg says it has to do with American tastes." Via LEONARDO WILD, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
HazelAnne Prescott's curator insight,
July 31, 2014 10:56 AM
Seems like a messed up system. We do not have "taste" 
Abigail Mack's curator insight,
July 31, 2014 11:27 AM
What would make Americans opt for the lower quality, imported fish? 
BrianCaldwell7's curator insight,
March 16, 2016 3:45 PM
The United States exports the best-quality seafood that Americans catch, but import primarily low-grade aquacultural products. This is just one of the counter-intuitive issues withe U.S. fish consumption and production. This bizarre dynamic has cultural and economic explanations and this NPR podcast nicely explains these spatial patterns that are bound to frustrate those that advocate for locally sourced food productions.
Tags: food production, industry, food, agriculture, agribusiness, consumption, economic, sustainability. |
