The worth of water

Posted March 12, 2013 by Guest Contributor

Tags: water, water conservation, Water use

The Worth of Water from ASU Research on Vimeo. The story of the American West is a story of water, and of our Herculean efforts to capture and spread that water across an arid landscape. As our western cities continue to grow, however, we need to find ways to curb our thirst. In this mini-documentary, [...]

Climate Change Could Lead to Mass Emigration for Indo-Pacific Islanders – a Research Report

Posted December 20, 2011 by Evan Litwin

Tags: Center for Peace, climate change, climate diaspora, Evan Litwin, Indo-Pacific, Migration, Report, Research, Sea Level rise, SLR, Student Posts, UMass

Evan Litwin, graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, has written a paper that takes an intriguing and alarming look at the interrelationship between climate change, sea level rise, human migration and conflict in the Indo-Pacific region: a region that is spread out across thousands of islands, which are home to as many groups and [...]

Challenges for Children in a World of 7 Billion

Posted November 7, 2011 by Guest Contributor

Tags: 7 billion, Betsy Crowfoot, climate change, Don Edgar, Monash University, population, Save the Children, UNICEF report

By Betsy Crowfoot Originally published in Ecology Today A child born in 2011 enters an environment vastly different than that of his grandparents. They might have been born 50-60 years ago when the color television was a new-fangled invention and the planet had less than half the occupants it does at present. He might live [...]

The Day of 7 Billion – Starfish, Resolutions & Pie

Posted October 27, 2011 by Jenna Goodhand

Tags: 7 billion, environment, global population clock, population, starfish, Student Posts

Just as we wait each New Year’s Eve for the clock to strike midnight, we now wait as the Global Population Clock rolls up on 7 billion. Just as a new year brings little change from the day before so it may be that the 7 billionth person causes little notice to anyone but his [...]

World Population Day – What Counts

Posted July 11, 2011 by Deborah Harter Williams

Tags: 7 billion action campaign, global population clock, population, World Population Day

Today is World Population Day. We are on track to hit 7 billion people worldwide in a very short amount of time – as of this morning, 7/11/11 – the count was 6,946,043,989 You can follow the countdown to 7 billion with these clocks : The U.S. Census – just the facts Learn the details with on-going [...]