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April 15, 2011

Green Business Forum at the Green Living Show [1]

Join us as leading businesses and NGOs discuss the environmental impacts of Canada’s resource-based economy at The Green Living Show’s Business Forum in Toronto, Ontario. Gain a better understanding of the key economic and environmental issues from key players who outline their challenges and accomplishments as they seek common ground on goals that often compete — profit and the planet.

Other Events [2]
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Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Waste [4]
Technology [5]
Pollution [6]
Policy [7]
Planning & Growth [8]
Natural Resources [9]
Forests [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Economy & Business [14]
Consumer [15]
Climate Change [16]
Region: 
Canada [17]

"Fighting For Water In The Arid Imperial Valley" [18]

"Southern California's Imperial Valley produces about 80 percent of the nation's winter vegetables. But years of drought, and a population boom in the Southwest, now threaten the water supply in the desert region — and all those cheap winter greens."

Water & Oceans [19]
Planning & Growth [8]
Agriculture [20]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NPR [22], 02/10/2011

Disaster: Response Is Not Recovery Is Not Response [23]

 

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [24]
Topics on the Beat: 
Disasters [25]
Planning & Growth [8]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
February 10, 2011

Information Session at Columbia University – Master of Science in Sustainability Management [26]

Sustainability Management (M.S.) program information session at Columbia University in NYC, Feb 10th at 6:30pm

Other Events [2]
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Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Wildlife [27]
Water & Oceans [19]
Waste [4]
Transportation [28]
Technology [5]
Science [29]
Pollution [6]
Policy [7]
Planning & Growth [8]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [30]
Natural Resources [9]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Government [32]
Environmental Studies [33]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Economy & Business [14]
Climate Change [16]
Region: 
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [34]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
National (U.S.) [21]

Water Fight Brews Amid Texas Fracking Boom [36]

The oil and gas industry is slurping up available groundwater in parts of South Texas where population growth is exploding and global warming may diminish rainfall. There may be a serious crunch ahead.

Energy & Fuel [13]
Planning & Growth [8]
Pollution [6]
Public [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [37]
Source: San Antonio Current [38], 01/26/2011

BLM To Disclose Names and Addresses of Grazing Rights Owners [39]

Permittees and lessees of public lands are a key part of covering issues that involve grazing, hunting, public lands access, utility corridors, and related topics. The public comment period on BLM's proposal to identify these people closes Feb. 7, 2011.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [40]
Topics on the Beat: 
Planning & Growth [8]
People & Population [41]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Agriculture [20]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

Colorado River: "Running Toward Empty?" [42]

Water managers, farmers, electric utilities, skiers and some 30 million water users breathed a sigh of relief in recent weeks with news that snowpack in the basin of the Colorado River was better. The relief may be temporary. The drought that has plagued the region for 11 years may become the new "normal."

Climate Change [16]
Natural Resources [9]
Planning & Growth [8]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Climate Central [43], 01/19/2011

After Rough Start, Radio Story on Green Architecture Turns into Award Winner [44]

Reporter Jason Margolis skillfully illustrates the relationship between built spaces and climate change issues by spotlighting two proactive architects and their environmentally friendly buildings in Toronto, Canada and Mexico City for Public Radio International's program "The World." SEJournal’s Bill Dawson has the "Inside Story."

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [45]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [16]
Planning & Growth [8]
Region: 
Canada [17]
Mexico [46]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

"River Rage: Why Iowa's Flood Risk Is Rising" [47]

"Changes in Iowa's weather patterns, landscape, cities and farms have rendered some of the state's most trusted flood prevention safeguards outmoded and inadequate, a review by The Des Moines Register shows."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [25]
Planning & Growth [8]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [3]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [48]
Source: Des Moines Register [49], 01/03/2011
December 15, 2010

White House Environmental Justice Forum [50]

This event, planned by EPA's Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice, will "bring together environmental justice community leaders, state, local and tribal government officials, Cabinet members, and other senior Federal officials for a discussion on creating a healthy and sustainable environment for all Americans." 

Professional Meetings [51]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Planning & Growth [8]
People & Population [41]
Health [52]
Government [32]
Environmental Health [12]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]

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