Human activities can negatively impact the environment by depleting renewable resources and causing pollution. Sustainable development aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment. Some key threats include deforestation, overfishing, soil erosion, and the introduction of invasive species. Conservation efforts and transitioning to renewable resources can help reduce environmental harm.
By reading this PDF one can understand the concepts and components of sustainability and sustainable development. It also discuss about the visions and ethics of sustainability. Further, it talks about the vision and mission of Bruntland commission and its role in sustainable development goals.
A strategy to balance the needs of growth and development with conservation. Created for the Comox Valley, this unique and innovative approach, integrates natural connections into land-use planning. The intent is to protect, preserve and restore biodiversity for the benefit of current and future generations. Healthy living starts here!
By reading this PDF one can understand the concepts and components of sustainability and sustainable development. It also discuss about the visions and ethics of sustainability. Further, it talks about the vision and mission of Bruntland commission and its role in sustainable development goals.
A strategy to balance the needs of growth and development with conservation. Created for the Comox Valley, this unique and innovative approach, integrates natural connections into land-use planning. The intent is to protect, preserve and restore biodiversity for the benefit of current and future generations. Healthy living starts here!
Direct And Indirect Drivers of BiodiversitySally Longford
A power point to practice working out whether the drivers that change biodiversity are direct or indirect, as described in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Environmental Studies ppt for EST,
ch. no. 1 Nature of Environmental studies,
By Prof. Kokare A.Y.
Lecturer at Babasaheb phadtare polytechnic, Kalamb-Walchandnagar.
This presentation is all about Biodiversity and the Extinction of plants and animals! It talks about the causes of Extinction and mentions some ways that we all can help Biodiversity.
#scichallenge2017
This presentation discuss about the human impact on ecosystem, planetary responses to changes and imbalance in the various ecological systems. The main cause of ecological change is the rapid increase in human population which ultimately utilize the non-renewable resources to fulfil their luxurious living standards and to discover various technologies to generate energy.
Human well-being is highly dependent on ecosystems and the benefits they provide such as food and drinkable water. Over the past 50 years, however, humans have had a tremendous impact on their environment.
To better understand the consequences of current changes to ecosystems and to evaluate scenarios for the future, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has launched a comprehensive scientific study, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
What actions could be taken to limit harmful consequences of ecosystem degradation?
Direct And Indirect Drivers of BiodiversitySally Longford
A power point to practice working out whether the drivers that change biodiversity are direct or indirect, as described in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Environmental Studies ppt for EST,
ch. no. 1 Nature of Environmental studies,
By Prof. Kokare A.Y.
Lecturer at Babasaheb phadtare polytechnic, Kalamb-Walchandnagar.
This presentation is all about Biodiversity and the Extinction of plants and animals! It talks about the causes of Extinction and mentions some ways that we all can help Biodiversity.
#scichallenge2017
This presentation discuss about the human impact on ecosystem, planetary responses to changes and imbalance in the various ecological systems. The main cause of ecological change is the rapid increase in human population which ultimately utilize the non-renewable resources to fulfil their luxurious living standards and to discover various technologies to generate energy.
Human well-being is highly dependent on ecosystems and the benefits they provide such as food and drinkable water. Over the past 50 years, however, humans have had a tremendous impact on their environment.
To better understand the consequences of current changes to ecosystems and to evaluate scenarios for the future, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has launched a comprehensive scientific study, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
What actions could be taken to limit harmful consequences of ecosystem degradation?
In this lesson you will comprehend how the consumption of everyday p.docxmigdalialyle
In this lesson you will comprehend how the consumption of everyday products affects the availability of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources for future generations and learn about environmental threats to our home.
Read the following information to help you define three different types of resources—renewable, nonrenewable, perpetual.
1. On earth, there are only limited amounts of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas. There are also only limited amounts of minerals, such as iron, copper and bauxite. These resources either cannot be replaced by natural processes or require millions of years to replenish.
2. Some renewable and nonrenewable resources can be recycled or reused. This process decreases the rate at which the supplies of these resources are depleted. For example, aluminum cans can be recycled and turned into “new” cans or other aluminum products many times over. Recycling reduces the need to mine bauxite, the mineral used to manufacture aluminum.
3. Renewable natural resources include plants, animals and water when they are properly cared for. Minerals and fossil fuels such as coal and oil are examples of nonrenewable natural resources.
4. Trees, wildlife, water and many other natural resources are replaced by natural processes. Plants and animals can also be replenished by human activities. Water is continuously cycled and reused. Sunlight, wind, geothermal heat, tides and flowing water are perpetual resources.
Water is a resource that is typically considered renewable. However, over usage of water can cause us to use it faster than it is replenished.
The chart below approximates daily water consumption in the United States:
1. Thermoelectric Utilities 187 billion gallons/day
2. Irrigation 137 billion gallons/day
3. Public Water Supply 36 billion gallons/day
4. Industry 26 billion gallons/day
5. Rural and Livestock 8 billion gallons/day
Total 394 billion gallons/day
What are the threats to our environment?
Biodiversity
Biodiversity is all of the Earth's plants, animals, ecosystems and genes. It includes the tallest tree, the smallest insect, and the most delicate coral reef ecosystem. Biodiversity is what allows the Earth and all of its creatures to adapt and survive.
As humans, we are completely dependent on biodiversity for survival. Yet we are destroying large parts of our natural world. In places far and wide, humans are squeezing out other forms of life, sometimes causing the extinction of entire species.
We have the power to change our course. Each of us can act to protect our biodiversity and help create a sustainable future for life on Earth. Learn more about biodiversity and how
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GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
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Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...
#3 paula conservation ecolology
1. Our Environment
How do we impact our environmental systems? How do peoples actions
affect the environment? Are we slowly hurting our planet?
Human activities can affect the quality and supply of renewable resources
such as land, forests, fisheries, air, and fresh water.
What is the key?
2. Sustainable Development
Sustainability: a way of using natural resources without depleting them
while providing for human needs without causing long term
environmental harm.
What are renewable and nonrenewable resources?
3. Sustainable Development
Renewable Resources: resources that can regenerate if they are living or
can be replenished by biochemical cycles if they are nonliving.
Trees
Water
Oxygen
Foods (fruits and vegetables, meat from animals)
Nonrenewable Resources: resources that cannot be replenished by natural
processes.
Fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas)
Minerals (copper)
4. Renewable Resources
Less Destruction of Earth (we don’t always need to drill into the planet)
Less Pollution (cleaner forms of energy like air and water)
Costs Less (sunlight is free the last time I checked)
Alternative Forms of Energy (solar, wind, geothermal)
5. Nonrenewable Resources
The Other BIG 3
Coal (creates pollution and smog)
Oil (can get expensive……..glad I don’t drive a Hummer)
Natural Gas (Used to cook and heat homes but not easily
transported)
The problem with the big 3:
Time….we just don’t have enough of it!!!
6. Our impact on the Environment
Soil Erosion: the wearing away of surface soil by water and wind.
We add to this with the removal of trees (roots hold soil together)
Desertification: when farming, overgrazing, and drought combine to turn
once productive areas into deserts (usually happens in areas with dry
climates)
Deforestation: loss of forests (who do you think is guilty of this?)
Overfishing: harvesting fish faster than they can be replaced by
reproduction.
What can we do?
7. Sustainability
Proper management of soil
Humans need to control grazing and use proper farming techniques
Reforestation
Replanting trees and controlling the rate at which we cut down timber
Fishing Guidelines
Obeying the laws against catching fish that are protected (including size
and “out of season” factors)
8. Pollution
Destruction of the Ozone Layer
The use of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons use as propellants in aerosols
and refrigerants.
Water vapor (water vapor suppresses the formation of ozone)
What can we do?
Banning CFCs
In 1987, 46 nations signed an agreement called the Montreal Protocol. It
called for the immediate reduction of CFCs. The U.S. phased out the
use of CFCs in aerosol cans by the year 2000.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
9. Biodiversity
Biodiversity: the sum total of genetically based variety of all organisms in
the biosphere.
Ecosystem Diversity: the variety of habitats, communities, and ecological
processes in the biosphere.
Species Diversity: the number of different species in the biosphere.
Genetic Diversity: the sum total of all the different forms of genetic
information carried by all organisms in the biosphere.
What does all this mean to us?
10. Biodiversity
Biodiversity is one of Earth’s greatest natural resources. Species of many
kinds have provided us with:
Foods
Industrial products
Medicines
Painkillers
Antibiotics
Heart Medicines
Antidepressants
Anticancer Drugs
11. Threats to Biodiversity
Human activity can reduce biodiversity by:
Altering habitats (new construction by man means new home for wildlife)
Sometimes moving away spells the vanishing of the species.
Hunting species to extinction (Gorillas, Tigers, Jaguars, Eagles) Sometimes
other activities also endanger the species. We don’t hunt Pandas but we
deprive them of adequate bamboo. We don’t hunt Panthers but our close
proximity puts them in danger.
Introducing toxins into food webs (DDT was a pesticide used to kill insects
in agriculture. Cheap to use and was long lasting. The problem: it’s not
biodegradable and aquatic plants can’t eliminate it from their tissue.
Introducing foreign species into new environments(invasive species
reproduce quickly and take over because their regular predators are absent.
This takes away equilibrium from any ecosystem.
12. Conserving our Biodiversity
Conservation: the wise management of natural resources, including the
preservation of habitats and wildlife.
Zoos (breeding animals to later release them to the wild)
Marine Sanctuaries (protect our coral reefs and marine mammals)
Wildlife Reserves (Lacey Act of 1990: transporting of illegally killed
animals becomes federal crime)
13. A Healthy Biosphere
Our society depends on a healthy biosphere. We need our biosphere to
be healthy, diverse, and productive because we gain environmental
and economic benefits.
14. Global Warming
All life on Earth depends on climate conditions such as temperature and
rainfall. That's why many ecologists are concerned about strong
evidence that climate is changing.
Since the late nineteenth century, average atmospheric temperatures on
Earth's surface have risen about 0.6 Celsius degrees.
The term used to describe this increase in the average temperature of the
biosphere is Global Warming.
16. Global Warming
The controversy!
Is this trend due to a larger, natural cycle of climate change or are we
responsible for this?
What does the evidence say?
The most widely accepted hypothesis is that current warming is related, at
least in part, to human activities that are adding carbon dioxide and
other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
According to this hypothesis, the burning of fossil fuels, combined with
the cutting and burning of forests worldwide, is adding carbon dioxide
to the atmosphere faster than the carbon cycle removes it.
17. Possible Effects of Global Warming
Most recent computer models suggest that average global surface
temperatures will increase by 1 to 2 Celsius degrees by the year 2050.
What does this mean to us?
Sea levels may rise enough to flood some coastal areas.
Flooding would affect coastal ecosystems as well as human
communities.
More droughts during the summer growing season.
New organisms may be able to live in places where they once could not.
Other organisms may become threatened or extinct.
18. Let’s see how you’re doing
1. A large area of farmland has many different species of insects living
on it. Most of these insects are pollinators of the crops that grow on
the farm. If Ms. Robinson decides to plant one crop on all her plots,
what will be the result?
A. There will be less insect diversity.
B. The crops will be more likely to survive.
C. The crops will undergo genetic mutations.
D. The different insect species will interbreed.
19. Keep it up
2. A great deal of research is being done to make plastic wastes useful by
reusing the plastic for purposes other than the plastic's original use.
Which statement below best describes the impact reusing, rather
than recycling, plastics might have on our environment?
A. Natural resources can be conserved or made available for other uses.
B. More plastic will have to be produced to make up for the lost plastic
reused for something else.
C. Landfills will have new materials to dispose of, making the present
systems of disposing wastes obsolete.
D. The new plastic materials will be every bit as nondegradable as the
plastics they were made from, causing large amounts of wastes.
20. Did I mention that I like your smile?
3. Industries often spring up along major rivers, such as the Willamette
in Central Oregon. Some of these industries used PCBs (toxic, cancer-
causing chemicals), which are not biodegradable. If PCBs escaped
into the river in large amounts and entered the lower levels of the
food chain, what would be the likely outcome?
A. All species, except scavengers such as riparian crustaceans, would be
harmed by the PCBs.
B. Only the small fish and crustaceans that are most exposed to the
PCBs would be significantly harmed.
C. Over time, PCBs would collect in top predators such as salmon,
making them unsafe for human consumption.
D. The PCBs would become harmless as they break down over time with
exposure to the forces of nature and the environment.
21. Just a few more
4. An isolated community has a sunny climate with intermittent winds.
It is not located near the ocean or a large river. It wants to switch to a
renewable source of energy that creates the least air or water
pollution. Which energy source should they choose?
A. biofuel
B. hydroelectric
C. nuclear
D. solar
22. I’m so proud of you.
5. In the early twentieth century, kudzu (an Asian vine) was planted to
help control erosion in southeastern states. Presently, kudzu is
expanding at a rate of more than 120,000 acres per year. As kudzu
spreads, it dominates ecosystems, choking out trees and other plants.
Which choice correctly identifies kudzu’s role in an ecosystem?
A. invasive species
B. diversified species
C. indigenous species
D. carnivorous species
23. Last One……Almost
6. A team of scientists and Ms. Villalobos were studying glaciers in
Greenland and found that in the late 1900s a particular glacier on
Greenland's west coast started moving faster toward the sea, melting
more, and thinning. These changes are attributed to the warming
period Earth has been experiencing over the last 100 years. If this
warming trend continues, what could result?
A. a significant rise in sea level
B. an increase in the ocean's salt content
C. a significant decrease in ocean water temperature
D. the presence of icebergs farther from the polar caps
24. Last One!
7. The number of pythons found throughout Everglades National Park
has increased in recent years. These huge snakes are not native to
Florida and are believed to have been released into the wild by pet
owners. Wildlife biologists have initiated attempts to capture and
remove these pythons. Which statement best explains the biologists’
reason for removing these pythons from the Everglades?
A. The pythons could upset the territorial boundaries of native
organisms.
B. The pythons could adapt to overcome diseases common to native
snakes.
C. The pythons could prey on native organisms and cause native
populations to decline.
D. The pythons could begin to interbreed with native snakes and
produce a more successful species.