Featured sites
News of weather events
and climate affairs from around the African continent.
GenderCC is a global
network and platform of gender activists and experts from all
world regions working for gender and climate justice. The website
provides access to news, information and other resources.
Island
Vulnerability explores the challenges which isolated
geographies face when dealing with risk and disasters. Documents
from the landmark Small States
Conference on Sea Level Rise held in the Maldives in 1989 are
available.
And finally,
>1.5 To Stay Alive, a song written and performed by
Barbadian performance poet Adisa "AJA" Andwele, marks
the 1.5 degree Celsius limit to which global surface temperatures
can rise before Small Island Developing States are severely
compromised in their ability to adapt to the impacts of climate
change.
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About the Cyberlibrary
The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is a co-production
of the Stockholm Environment Institute
and the International
Institute for Environment and Development. It is
sponsored by the Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency.
Tiempo Climate Newswatch is a weekly on-line
magazine with news, features and comment on global
warming, climate change, sea-level rise and development
issues. The news stories carried by Newswatch are updated
weekly. Comment, features, interviews and other
sections of the magazine are updated on a weekly to
monthly basis.
The Tiempo Climate Portal is a listing of selected websites covering climate and development and related issues.
The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is maintained and edited by Mick
Kelly and Sarah
Granich. The
cartoons are created by Lawrence Moore.
The site was developed by Mike Salmon and Mick Kelly.
While every effort is made to ensure that
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referenced here, is accurate, no liability for loss or
damage resulting from use of this information can be
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Training Announcement for the International
Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) Research Program:
Fall 2010
The course explores theoretical and
methodological approaches for exploring human-environment
interactions. It focuses on community level forest
management, and the interaction of institutional,
socioeconomic and ecological factors that influence
sustainability. It also specifically exposes students to the
IFRI research program and provides training in data
collection methods, including participatory techniques,
individual and group interviews, and forest measurement.
Students apply their field research training in a forest
community in Southern Michigan. Trainees also gain first hand
exposure to the unique IFRI database and learn how to enter
data and use queries to create datasets.
The nine-week IFRI training course will be
offered at the University of Michigan's School of Natural
Resources and Environment, with Arun Agrawal and Lauren
Persha. Arun Agrawal is Associate Research Dean and Professor
at University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources
and Environment and Lauren Persha is the IFRI Postdoctoral
Fellow. If you plan to attend the Fall 2010 course or would
like additional information, please send a letter of interest
to Amanda McAllister. Contact: Amanda McAllister.
Deadline: April 1st 2010
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Classifications in Atmospheric Sciences and
Their Applications
The objective of the course is to give the
students an introduction to classification methods, with
emphasis on classifications of tropospheric circulation
patterns, and their applications in the atmospheric sciences,
and to provide a basis to understand the various
classification methods applied to describe atmospheric
circulation. The course is intended for young researchers
(PhD-student, postdoc-level and graduates with several years
of experience) within geo-sciences, preferably meteorology,
climatology, and hydrology. The course will include lectures
given by recognized experts in classifications, climatology
and hydrology. The lectures will be supported by exercises
applying software developed at the University of
Augsburg.
The programme takes place in University of
Augsburg, Germany, April 12-16th 2010. Contact: school@cost733.org.
Deadline: February 28th 2010
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Advanced
International Training Programme in Integrated Water
Resources Management
This training programme provides a meeting
place for mid-level professionals involved in water issues
around the world, with the aim of building both personal and
institutional bridges. The training programme further draws
on regional and global experience from integrated water
resources management and instructs on techniques for
enhancing the effective management of water resources. The
overall objective of the training programme is to support and
stimulate the application of Integrated Water Resources
Management (IWRM) in the participants’ home countries
and to encourage the participants to involve in and
contribute to networking on IWRM.
The programme takes place in Sweden, August
23rd–September 14th 2010, and in Lao PDR, November
22nd–December 3rd 2010. Deadline: March 15th
2010
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Marie Curie
Individual Fellowships
The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in
Milan, Italy, looks forward to hosting researchers from the
European Union, the Associated Countries or the Third
Countries within the Marie Curie Individual Fellowships
scheme. These Fellowships are awarded by the European
Commission within the FP7 PEOPLE programme for a period
between 1 and 2 years. They are addressed to experienced
researchers, typically with PhD degree or four years research
experience (full-time equivalent), since obtaining a
university degree giving access to doctoral studies.
Candidates must be Non-Italian researchers and must not have
resided or carried out their main activity in Italy for more
than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the
reference deadline for submission.
Fellowships will focus on the areas of
research carried out at FEEM: Climate Change Modelling and
Policy; Sustainability Indicators and Environmental
Valuation; Natural Resources Management; Knowledge Technology
and Human Capital; International Energy Markets; Corporate
Social Responsibility and Sustainable Management; and
Privatisation Regulation Corporate Governance. FEEM will also
provide support to potential applicants in the presentation
of the proposal.
More information on FEEM research activities
is available at: www.feem.it/Feem/Pub/Programmes/.
More information on the Fellowships is available at: cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/home_en.html.
Expressions of interest can be submitted through FEEM web
site at: webfeem.it/cv/
or by contacting Roberta Camera.
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East-West Center
scholarships and fellowships
The EWC offers a wide variety of short-term
and long-term programs for individuals to learn about or
conduct research concerning countries of the Asia Pacific
region and their relationships with the United States.
Academic scholarships and fellowships and educational
exchange and professional development programs are listed.
Deadline: Ongoing
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Bright Ideas
The Esprimo P7000 Series of desktop computers from
Fujitsu supports 0-Watt technology
Progressive Lighting and Energy Solutions makes
companies green, one light bulb at a time
Ghent, Belgium, has declared Thursday a
Veggie Day, promoting a meat-free, climate-friendly diet for
one day of the week
The
International Network for Bamboo and Rattan is developing
elevated
bamboo houses that will lift communities above flood
zones
WaveRoller captures
kinetic energy from ocean waves as they approach the shore using
a bottom-mounted moving wing and converts that energy to
electricity
New businesses in Tucson, Arizona, must use rainwater
harvesting to meet
at least half of their landscaping needs
As well as saving energy and reducing waste, The Edge LED
lighting fixtures from BetaLED contain no mercury or lead and
comply with Dark Sky
regulations
The world's first hydrogen fuel cell
canal boat will tour Amsterdam's waterways
The Green
Foodservice Alliance is encouraging eco-friendly practices,
such as use of spent grease for biofuel production and donation
of non-sellable but edible food to a food bank or
charity
The world's largest solar thermal steam
cooking system, providing 50,000 meals per day, has been
installed by
Gadhia Solar at the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust in
India
The role of the Panasonic Eco
Technology Center is to recover high-quality recyclable
materials from home appliances that have reached the end of the
life
Sky
Vegetables builds sustainable, commercial-scale hydroponic
farms on urban rooftops, providing new jobs and nutritious,
chemical-free, locally-grown produce while reducing environmental
damage
The Powerbrella
uses flexible, thin
film solar panels from
Konaka to provide power for laptops, cell phones and other
portable devices (
video)
More Bright
Ideas...
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