Heat Waves and Energy Use in San Diego - Climate Education Partners
How energy use affects our climate and what that means for San Diego
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Reno Harnish
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Subject Matter Expert
Reno works for a better environment. In 2009 he founded and is currently the Director of the Center for Environment and National Security at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has organized and led two symposia mixing scientists with Washington policy makers and does grant work for the EPA, USAID and World Bank. He served in the Department of State in Washington as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment, Science and Health.
Nowhere To Hide From Global Forest Watch
02-24-2014
There's nowhere to hide now that Global Forest Watch has launched - citizens around the world now have all the information they need to monitor the state of the world's forests.
Organizations Working to Create Environmental Sustainability
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Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture, International Water Management Institute
This picture gives the reader some basic information about two organizations working to ensure global environmental sustainability.
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Andreas Oberhofer - Energy Storage Technologies
Andy from GENI gives a short presentation about energy storage technologies and how renewable energies are becoming more and more of an important aspect of today's energy grid. But with the fluctuating output of solar and wind energies, new ways need to be found to store energy and maintain a safe and reliable energy supply.
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Wildlife protection signs
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Franco
Prevention signs.
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WRSC Projects: San Diego Green Scene
WRSC intern Marcus Luna describes the San Diego Green Scene feature on the SimCenter website (www.wrsc.org).
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Access to energy - necessary but not sufficient to cut poverty
Rachel Cernansky
The UN estimates that 1.4 billion people have no access to electricity, hurting their ability to earn a living or educate their children. But connecting to an electric grid may not be the only solution.
Water-short world will need 'more crop per drop' - experts
03-21-2012
Megan Rowling
Water must be used more efficiently to meet rising food demand from a growing population amid climate-change pressures, experts say.
Report: Water shortages increasingly will offer new weapons for states, terror groups
03-22-2012
Washington Post
Karen DeYoung
Fresh-water shortages and more droughts and floods will increase the likelihood that water will be used as a weapon between states or to further terrorist aims in key strategic areas, including the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa, a U.S.