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28 Jul 09
SuperGreenMe - Green Social Network, Eco Living Tips, Video, Reviews, News
SuperGreenMe, Green Social Network, Going green and sustainable living tips, hints, articles, news, product reviews, photos and video. Gathering green ideas from around the globe to secure our planets future, eco friendly products, environment
05 May 09
Ethical Consumer Guide
The Ethical Consumer Guide gives you the low-down on the environmental and social record of companies behind common brand names. Shop at the supermarket with a clear conscience!
09 Apr 09
Home energy audit - Energy - Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (DTEI)
A home energy audit is a simple step-by-step process that can highlight ways to be more energy efficient within your household; helping to reduce your energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
PLoS ONE: Global Pyrogeography: the Current and Future Distribution of Wildfire
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Climate change is expected to alter the geographic distribution of wildfire, a complex abiotic process that responds to a variety of spatial and environmental gradients. How future climate change may alter global wildfire activity, however, is still largely unknown. As a first step to quantifying potential change in global wildfire, we present a multivariate quantification of environmental drivers for the observed, current distribution of vegetation fires using statistical models of the relationship between fire activity and resources to burn, climate conditions, human influence, and lightning flash rates at a coarse spatiotemporal resolution (100 km, over one decade). We then demonstrate how these statistical models can be used to project future changes in global fire patterns, highlighting regional hotspots of change in fire probabilities under future climate conditions as simulated by a global climate model. Based on current conditions, our results illustrate how the availability of resources to burn and climate conditions conducive to combustion jointly determine why some parts of the world are fire-prone and others are fire-free. In contrast to any expectation that global warming should necessarily result in more fire, we find that regional increases in fire probabilities may be counter-balanced by decreases at other locations, due to the interplay of temperature and precipitation variables. Despite this net balance, our models predict substantial invasion and retreat of fire across large portions of the globe. These changes could have important effects on terrestrial ecosystems since alteration in fire activity may occur quite rapidly, generating ever more complex environmental challenges for species dispersing and adjusting to new climate conditions. Our findings highlight the potential for widespread impacts of climate change on wildfire, suggesting severely altered fire regimes and the need for more explicit inclusion of fire in research on global vegetation-climate change dynamics and conserva
OECD Factbook 2009 - OECD Online Bookshop
OECD Factbook 2009 is the fifth edition of a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: economy, agriculture, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health and quality of life, industry, information and communications, population/labour force, trade and investment, taxation, public expenditure and R&D. This year, the OECD Factbook features a focus chapter on inequality. Data are provided for all OECD member countries with area totals, and in some cases, for selected non-member economies.
For each indicator, there is a two-page spread. A text page includes a short introduction followed by a detailed definition of the indicator, comments on comparability of the data, an assessment of long-term trends related to the indicator, and a list of references for further information on the indicator. The next page contains a table and a graph providing - at a glance - the key message conveyed by the data. A dynamic link (StatLink) is provided for each table directing the user to a web page where the corresponding data are available in Excel® format.
Seminar Policy Officers' Intensive 2009 27-29 May; 23-25 June; 21-23 July, Canberra ACT
This exciting Policy Officers’ Series is a comprehensive program consisting of three distinct modules covering key aspects of the policy development and implementation process. This successful program has been designed for junior to intermediate level Policy Officers and is intended to provide a well rounded perspective into policy making.
Sustainable Development - Briefing Paper 04/2009 dated 03/04/2009 - NSW Parliament
Tom Edwards / Research Service, Parliament of New South Wales
Posted: 08-04-2009
This paper explores what is meant by sustainable development, considering the different definitions which have been proposed for the term and the debate around the concept as it has evolved. It then considers some of the approaches that have been taken to measuring sustainability using composite indicators and sets of indicators. Finally it sets out the main elements of sustainable development policies adopted by the Commonwealth and New South Wales governments, and for comparison, those adopted in Victoria, and in the UK.
LGSAplus - Quick Facts - Metals, Paper, Plastics
# The production of two plastic bags uses 990 kJ of natural gas, 240 kJ of petroleum, and 160 kJ of coal. The energy used for two plastic bags is 1,470 kJ. http://www.ilea.org/lcas/franklin1990.html
# Australians consume approximately 6.9 billion plastic bags, or 36,850 tonnes of plastic, each year - this equates to just under one bag per person per day. About 53% of plastic bags are distributed from supermarkets, while 47% come from smaller retail outlets.
02 Apr 09
Jim Collins.com | Library
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Good to Great and the Social Sectors
Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer
by Jim Collin
Granting Success | Research | Other | New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)
Effective grants
Granting success: Lessons from funders and charities
Padraic Brick, Angela Kail, Justine Jarvinen & Tim Fiennes
January 2009, 48 pages
One Wales: One Planet Consultation on a new Sustainable Development Scheme for Wales November 2008, Welsh Assembly Government
Contents
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Context 1
Ministerial Foreword 5
Introduction 7
1. Our Principles and Vision 11
2. A Strong and Confident Nation 15
3. A Healthy Future 19
4. A Prosperous Society 23
5. Living Communities 27
6. Learning for Life 31
7. A Fair and Just Society 35
8. A Sustainable Environment 39
9. A Rich and Diverse Culture 43
Annex A: Measuring Progress 47
Annex B: The role of others 49
Annex C: Key supporting documents 51
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