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UN, Microsoft launch computer lab for environmental issues

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NAIROBI, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft Research and the UN Environment Program (UNEP) on Tuesday launched open source technology that allows scientists to simulate how all organisms on earth interact in a changing environment.

The technology, Madingley, launched by Microsoft's Computational Science Lab and UNEP's World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC) could help scientists and policy makers will now be able to answer crucial questions previously unanswerable.

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Population Pressure: Land and Water

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Population Pressure: Land and Water is the second chapter written by author Lester R. Brown in his book Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. In this chapter he talks about Civilization's foundation eording, water tables falling, farmers losing water to cities, land and water conflicts, cars and people compete for grain and the rising tide of environmental refugees.

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Systems Diagram of a City

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Systems Diagram of a City

This is an interesting "Systems Diagram of a City", found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Systems_diagram_of_a_city.png

And the image appears on the wikipedia page for Emergy, and is labelled "Energy system diagram of a city in its support region"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergy

This diagrams the major energy  flows in and out of a city.

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Here Be Dragons -

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Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking.

It is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution and public display.

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Close the digital divide

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Close the digital divide

To reduce the impact of the digital divide there are several things to implement, in broad terms it is necessary:

• Have computer and Internet access:  People need affordable and reliable computers and broadband Internet access.

• Be digitally literate: people need to understand digital technologies and how to use them effectively to achieve their educational, economic, civic, and social goals.

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