Making Gods Own country truly Green | MBAtiousaneesh p
A presentation on making Kerala - Gods own country truly green. Kerala is one of the 10 paradises on earth for its natural beauty, greenery rich cultural heritage and tranquility - National geographical traveler.
Michael P Totten A Climate For Life Mesh Talk Bioneer Los Angeles 12 09 09Michael P Totten
Positive vision of win-win-win actions to avoid climate catastrophe, end mass poverty, reduce species extinction, by using web-based social collaboration tools and collective intelligence actions.
Dan Leeming of the Planning Partnership provides an overview of sustainable planning principles for the CaGBC's Sustainable Building Advisor Program in Apr 2012
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook - presented to Central Valley Café ScientifiqueMadhusudan Katti
Slides from a presentation of the UN Converntion on Biodiversity commissioned Cities and Biodiversity Outlook. Madhusudan Katti, one of the lead authors of the CBO, presented this to the Central Valley Café Scientifíque, on 3 December 2012, in Fresno, California.
Making Gods Own country truly Green | MBAtiousaneesh p
A presentation on making Kerala - Gods own country truly green. Kerala is one of the 10 paradises on earth for its natural beauty, greenery rich cultural heritage and tranquility - National geographical traveler.
Michael P Totten A Climate For Life Mesh Talk Bioneer Los Angeles 12 09 09Michael P Totten
Positive vision of win-win-win actions to avoid climate catastrophe, end mass poverty, reduce species extinction, by using web-based social collaboration tools and collective intelligence actions.
Dan Leeming of the Planning Partnership provides an overview of sustainable planning principles for the CaGBC's Sustainable Building Advisor Program in Apr 2012
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook - presented to Central Valley Café ScientifiqueMadhusudan Katti
Slides from a presentation of the UN Converntion on Biodiversity commissioned Cities and Biodiversity Outlook. Madhusudan Katti, one of the lead authors of the CBO, presented this to the Central Valley Café Scientifíque, on 3 December 2012, in Fresno, California.
O Prof. Timothy Beatley trabalha com o conceito da RESILIÊNCIA URBANA, conceito este que assenta na prevenção do risco no planeamento urbano, da mitigação do risco nas intervenções durante catástrofes e eventos extremos e da regeneração dos sistemas urbanos. Trata-se de um conceito extremamente actual, poderoso e politicamente oportuno. A sua visão é contagiosa e geradora de consensos.
Mark Leighton - Forests: A Pivotal Player
From Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference: "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming"
Saturday November 22nd, 2014
Nature of Resource Material in Mathematics to Enhance Potential Among LearnersDr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Nature of Resource Material in Mathematics to Enhance Potential Among Learners: A presentation at National Consultative Seminar -cum- Workshop at University of Delhi 2014
O Prof. Timothy Beatley trabalha com o conceito da RESILIÊNCIA URBANA, conceito este que assenta na prevenção do risco no planeamento urbano, da mitigação do risco nas intervenções durante catástrofes e eventos extremos e da regeneração dos sistemas urbanos. Trata-se de um conceito extremamente actual, poderoso e politicamente oportuno. A sua visão é contagiosa e geradora de consensos.
Mark Leighton - Forests: A Pivotal Player
From Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference: "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming"
Saturday November 22nd, 2014
Nature of Resource Material in Mathematics to Enhance Potential Among LearnersDr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Nature of Resource Material in Mathematics to Enhance Potential Among Learners: A presentation at National Consultative Seminar -cum- Workshop at University of Delhi 2014
A slideshow of some of the people, places and events that Nicholas Roberts, from Lake Rd, Newcastle, Australia, visited in 2009 while researching a Permaculture Cooperative.
Photos by Nicholas Roberts and Kirstie Stramler
Slides from Michael P Totten TEDx Talk Singapore, April 2012 on need for planetary physicians practitioners network to tackle and resolve multiple mega-catastrophic risks facing the world's citizenry by applying mega-opportunities available in the planet's local communities for promoting health, well-being and prosperous livlihoods for humanity and life on earth now and generations to come.
Biochar Stoves:The Commercialization and AdvantagesAmanda Ravenhill
Biochar stoves are an exciting new technology that reduce poverty, improve health, curb climate change, increase food security and decreas desertification.
How? Biochar stoves gasify waste biomass such as grass, husks or dried manure to produce heat for cooking. The charcoal byproduct, biochar, is a carbon-negative soil amendment that increases water and nutrient retention thus increasing soil’s adaptability to the extreme floods and droughts of climate change.
Information on Microalgae & PhotobioreactorsSubitec
FASCINATION ALGAE - an enourmous potential
It is estimated that there are between 250 thousand to several million dif-ferent algae species. Thereof only 35 000 species have been scientifically recorded so far.
There are around 5 thousand algae species available from culture collec-tions around the world. However, only round 20 species are currently utilized for commercial applications.
Given the commercial applications of today have been achieved with only a few microalgae species, the thousands of still undiscovered and unu-tilized species present a huge potential for further economic exploitation.
Flue gas mitigation technology that will aid in alleviating our emissions from point sources (i.e. power plants) by supplementing growth of ALGAE to produces our transportation sector fuels.
Biochar Summit Ormoc City, Leyte, Philippines (in November 2018)Christer Soderberg
Presentation of Biochar as a vehicle for soil enrichment and carbon sequestration organised by Mayor Richard Goma Gomez, and Congresswoman Lucy Torres-Gomez, with the invaluable help of their teams and Cristine Hontanosas, who all helped make my stay in the Philipines an unforgettable experience.
Before and after the summit, test trials were carried out with the Ithaca Institute designed "Kon-Tiki" kiln, and a local team of "Char Masters" defined to spread knowledge and experience by promoting the application of biochar to soils for increased fertility, production and quality of organic agricultural produce.
More information at: www.circlecarbon.com
and on Facebook: www.facebook.com/circlecarbonlabs
There is also a Youtube video from the presentation, for those interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2I67QKgFLQ&fbclid=IwAR1N861aJvn5q4WX5bkXmSYuCW7Cw2U8z-BjkvHyK2FIJ_Q55bGycKWbxh4
CPWF Director, Alain Vidal, says here that research for development efforts should ideally have partners “from plot to policy making”.
And that:
1. Three or more institutional scales needed, good for novelty and diversity of outputs, “scaling-up” and “scaling-out”
2. Changes at one system level are the key that unlocks the other levels
3. Linking of three or more system levels is important for success
When carrying out a restoration potential assessment, 7 project activities can be identified. These seven project activities have to be taken into account while planning the process.
Presentation by Petrus Gunarso, Tropenbos Indonesia, one several landscape restoration initiatives by the private sector, the global community and local communities in Indonesia.
Presentation by David Lamb on alternative methods for tropical forest restoration. Besides large scale reforestation activities, David Lamb argues to look for smaller scale silvicultural alternatives as well which are more suitable for farmers.
An Effort to Restore from Imperata Grassland to Secondary Forest in Samboja L...GPFLR
Presentation by Ishak Yassir on how to restore and create new forest from grassland especially for supporting the reintroduction of Orangutan programs.
What is Forest Landscape Restoration? What is the Global Partnership on Fores...GPFLR
Presentation by Stewart Maginnis on the concept of Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and the idea behind the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration.
Participatory Ecological Restoration in the Rio Blanco Watershed: Ecosystem B...GPFLR
Presentation by Angela Andrade, Klaus Schutze y Angélica Cardon on participatory ecological restoration in the Rio Blanco watershed, Colombia. This was presented during the SER Conference Mexico, August 2011
Building RAG with self-deployed Milvus vector database and Snowpark Container...Zilliz
This talk will give hands-on advice on building RAG applications with an open-source Milvus database deployed as a docker container. We will also introduce the integration of Milvus with Snowpark Container Services.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
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.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
10. population
suffers
from
gastro-
intestinal
diseases
and soil
considered
BAD
population
only 1 per 4 km
2
no industry
no agriculture
Development Alternatives
11. Drinking Water
Carbon Sink
Biodiversity
Savannah
Tropical
Forest
Biodiesel
Sustainable
Development Alternatives Communities
12. Carbon Sink
Drinking Water
Sustainable Livelihood
Creation of Tropical Forest
regeneration of biodiversity
Production of Biodiesel
...... and so much more
each Program separately
would cost big money
as an integrated sytem
it can sustain itself
Development Alternatives
16. Third
create
tree nursery
drenching
trees in
fungus
Pisolithus tinctorius
+
Pinus caribbea
Development Alternatives
17. Fourth
prepare
treeling
for harsh life
in the
savannah
cutting the roots short
cutting the tops off
only survivors are
planted in the forest
92% survival rate
Development Alternatives
18. Fifth
Design
planting
system
1,000 HA
three months
one tree every 2
seconds
Development Alternatives
19. Fifth
mono-
culture
generates
biodiversity
creation
of a humus cap
birds, bees and wind
create the link with the
other forests
Development Alternatives
30. if you sell 1 cu m of water per day
or 1,000 one-litre bottles
at the same price as Bisleri
then you secure the financing of
reforestation of 8,000 ha
over the next 25 years
This is the result of a systems approach to
sustainable development
Development Alternatives
31. if you plant 1,100 trees on one HA
you have to remove 500 trees
between Y6 and Y10
this provides
About 200,000 Tons of wood while
securing biodiversity,
drinking water, biodiesel and
lush forest growth
This is the result of a systems approach to
sustainable development
Development Alternatives
32. if you plant 100 palm trees per HA
then you start generating biodiesel
after 36 months,
1 tonne per ha per year!
8,000 ha provides 4 million liters of
biodiesel per year
while securing biodiversity,
drinking water, trees for paper and
lush forest growth
This is the result of a systems approach to
sustainable development
Development Alternatives
35. self-
sufficient in
water, food,
and
energy
Biodiesel
Development Alternatives
36. community generates
1 job every 4 HA
of regenerated rainforest
Fixing up to 18 tons of CO2/HA
for a total of 108 to 162,000 tons
per year
because you are drinking water from
Las Gaviotas?
This is the result of a systems approach to
sustainable development
Development Alternatives
41. savannah to forest
generates carbon sink
factor 16 in 5 years
forest created with fungus
increases precipitation
generates drinking water
forest and water generate
jobs and sustainable
communities, and more
Development Alternatives
44. creation
of the
republic
Development Alternatives
of music
45. over the past 21 years
there has been
no combat
no kidnapping
no denunciation
of human rights violations
in and around
Las Gaviotas and Marandúa
This is the result of a systems approach to
sustainable development
Development Alternatives
47. 6,300,000 Hectares
from the
Government of Colombia
Plus Thousands More
from the Army
largest carbon sink
converting savannah into lush
Development Alternatives forest
48. Project Summary Gaviotas I Gaviotas II
Years of Reforestation 1992-2004 2005-2030
Extension 8,000 HA 6,300,000 HA
2.4 million Tons
Carbon Sink 25t/year/HA (12 years) 3.9 billion Tons (25 years)
trees (14 T/HA), undergrowth
and top soil (11 T/HA) 10 million Tons (50 7.8 billion Tons (50 years)
years)
1,800 in rural est. 5-10,000,000 in
Population
communities biocities
Full Time Jobs 200 est. 1,000,000
120,000 direct/ 880,000 indirect
Natural Drinking Water
110,000 m3/day 60 million m3/day
Development Alternatives
50 m3/HA/day
49. Investment Cost
US$ 1,000/HA planting and 8 million US$ 6.6 bn US$
maintenance
Funding 25% grant from Japan TBD
250 new species
Biodiversity TBD
90% of Amazon origin
Colombia, Japan, EU
NGO Las Gaviotas
Partners Private Companies, Las
Japanese Government
Gaviotas
Agroproduce, wood chips,
Colophon / turpentine/
Main Products biodiesel, rubber, water,
water
carbon sink
No man's land, Colombian
Las Gaviotas
Land Ownership Government, Colombian
Community
Military, colonists
Development Alternatives