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Ocean Acidification Thresholds Force A Choice – Doomsday or Bloomsday?

Russ George

In 2012, I led a a large 35,000 km2 commercial scale demonstration project in the Northeast Pacific, Gulf of Alaska that restored a dying ocean pasture with natural mineral dust. It’s scalable now , 50 years of research has been conducted no need to wait for academics who demand endless research or waiting for new technology.

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Dreaming of a just and sustainable future? Read these.

Corporate Knights

The Bullard and Wright book provides a bridge of sorts to the more academic titles that follow, works that shift the focus from environmental justice to climate justice. Bullard and Beverly Wright (New York University Press 2012/2023, 313 pages, $19.99 Dungy (Simon & Schuster 2023/2024, 364 pages, $19.99

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How Big Oil has infiltrated universities and shaped climate research

Corporate Knights

The researchers, from Canada, the United States and Ireland, just published the first comprehensive review of academic and private research into the oil industry’s attempts to stymie and stifle climate science. “In The researchers also surfaced confidential documents that prove that businesses work deliberately to alter academic outcomes.

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STEM Leader Marlene Watson Receives the 2023 AISES Ely S. Parker Award

3BL Media

She later filled other AISES roles including chair of the Membership Committee and secretary of the Board of Directors from 2009 to 2010, and again from 2012 to 2015. Her record of academic achievement is impressive. from 2014 to 2015. Watson, who is Navajo (Diné) from Wide Ruins, Arizona, and Tohlakai, N.M. ,

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UC San Diego Students Cross Borders and Explore New Fields in STEM

3BL Media

She was able to attend college and graduate school in the US and eventually joined the University of California San Diego as a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2012. UC San Diego is globally recognized for its academics as well as for supporting diversity.

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What we can learn from Mexico's struggle to ban a potent pesticide

Corporate Knights

Monsanto, a major glyphosate exporter, has been shown to have influenced academic research to downplay the health risks of its valuable product. By 2012, the entire 16-hectare farm had transitioned away from agrochemical use and was certified as organic. That farm used to produce conventional oranges.

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How This IoT Device From Charity: Water Could Advance Water Access for Billions

3BL Media

We started looking into academic patents in 2012, but what we found in our searches were basic proof of concepts with no potential to scale the technology.” That’s why the charity: water team developed a scalable solution that can remotely monitor water usage and health of hand pumps, in real-time, using an IoT-based sensor.

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