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In a region known for its deserts, water shortages and tension among neighbours, Jordan announced plans to build an eye-popping $10 billion desalination plant that would provide fresh water for the parched Jordanian population, as well as help replenish the shrinking Dead Sea. Due to up-stream irrigation removal and drinking water consumption from the Jordan [...]
The City of St. Louis has pulled the dozens of 300-gallon recycling dumpsters it had placed in alleyways last March out of commission. Jill Hamilton, the city’s recycling program manager, said the program was never intended to be permanent. Rather, it was considered a pilot program, serving about 3,200 of the city’s 147,000 households, to [...]
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management do more than study issues like carbon footprints and energy consumption … they’re ready to tackle such subjects hands-on. That’s what a group of students, faculty and staff did last week when they put down their laptops and picked up some caulking guns.
Our friends at the new site MapVivo.com are having a travel writing contest. To enter, you simply need to write a short travel journal for the site, upload some photos, and make your trip sound exciting. That’s it! Among all entries received by June 15th, judges will select the winners from the 10 journals voted [...]
