If you ignore the dragon, it will eat you. If you defy the dragon it will overpower you. But if you ride the dragon, you will take advantage of its strength and power. - Ancient Chinese Proverb
Executive Order 26 requires all students and government employees to plant a minimum of 10 seedlings per year to support the Aquino administration's goal of growing 1.5 billion trees over six years as part of the National Greening Program. The program aims to plant 1.5 billion trees across 1.5 million hectares of land to help with poverty reduction, resource conservation, climate change mitigation and other priorities. It consolidates existing greening efforts and requires various government agencies and educational institutions to produce seedlings while providing technical support for planting and maintaining the trees.
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Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) takes a holistic approach to water management by considering social, economic, environmental and technical factors. The UN adopted goals in 2000 to improve access to safe drinking water. IWRM aims to balance limited water supply with rising demand through greater efficiency, fair allocation, improved sanitation and conservation. It requires flexible guidelines that consider varying local institutions, laws, and abilities to plan and implement projects across different river basins.
Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:
1. Be forward thinking
2. Be inventive, and daring
3. Do the right thing
4. Be honest and straight forward
5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow
6. Work hard and be yourself
7. Lead by example
― Germany Kent
“Of all that is good sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.” ~ Lao Tzu
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
~ United States Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia
Executive Order 26 requires all students and government employees to plant a minimum of 10 seedlings per year to support the Aquino administration's goal of growing 1.5 billion trees over six years as part of the National Greening Program. The program aims to plant 1.5 billion trees across 1.5 million hectares of land to help with poverty reduction, resource conservation, climate change mitigation and other priorities. It consolidates existing greening efforts and requires various government agencies and educational institutions to produce seedlings while providing technical support for planting and maintaining the trees.
Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans –...Lafir Mohamed
CDKN and ICLEI have established a joint learning program to share lessons learned from their growing portfolio of work on low-carbon and climate-resilient development at subnational levels. This article summarizes lessons from pilot projects in Sri Lanka that integrated urban agriculture and forestry into the climate action plan of Western Province, the most urbanized province. The projects promoted rehabilitation of abandoned paddy lands and home gardening to improve flood management, food security, and reduce emissions. Monitoring showed benefits but policy revisions are still needed at local, provincial, and national levels to scale up the approaches.
The Enhancing Resilience Programme aims to improve livelihoods and reduce risks from natural disasters and climate change for 7,000 vulnerable households in Southwest Bangladesh. It applies a participatory approach involving food and cash transfers in exchange for work on infrastructure projects and training. This helps fill consumption gaps and build basic resilience through small savings. Activities over three years include developing water infrastructure, emergency preparedness training, and a cash grant to invest in microenterprises. The programme supports national policies on climate change adaptation, disaster management, and food security.
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) takes a holistic approach to water management by considering social, economic, environmental and technical factors. The UN adopted goals in 2000 to improve access to safe drinking water. IWRM aims to balance limited water supply with rising demand through greater efficiency, fair allocation, improved sanitation and conservation. It requires flexible guidelines that consider varying local institutions, laws, and abilities to plan and implement projects across different river basins.
Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:
1. Be forward thinking
2. Be inventive, and daring
3. Do the right thing
4. Be honest and straight forward
5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow
6. Work hard and be yourself
7. Lead by example
― Germany Kent
“Of all that is good sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.” ~ Lao Tzu
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
~ United States Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia
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1) Climate change adaptation strategies were developed for 5 municipalities and the Autonomous Region of the Northern Caribbean Coast through participatory processes involving communities, governments, and organizations.
2) The strategies prioritized measures to increase resilience in vulnerable sectors like water resources, agriculture, and forests that have been negatively impacted by climate variability and change.
3) The strategies have been adopted by state institutions and guide investment in community projects, like ecotourism and water access, to build resilience according to local needs.
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The document discusses resilience programming in Kenya. It notes that while Kenya's GDP has increased, over 40% of Kenyans still live in poverty. Population growth and inequality are putting pressure on vulnerable areas. FAO aims to strengthen resilience through several initiatives: 1) Scaling up small producer productivity and profitability; 2) Strengthening access to basic services; 3) Promoting safety nets; 4) Fostering analysis to improve program impact. Challenges include mechanisms for supporting interventions at scale, engaging new donors, data quality issues, ensuring alignment of programs with household needs, and improving beneficiary profiling.
1) Most of the work under the President's Recovery Priorities has been planning and setting up systems to support development in key areas like education, energy, governance, health, private sector development, social welfare and water.
2) Progress includes the Anti-Corruption Commission rolling out an online reporting mechanism to tackle corruption, and a nationwide water point mapping survey to provide data to improve access to safe drinking water.
3) Nearly 2 million trees will be planted to reduce environmental damage and improve the water situation by restoring catchment areas.
1) Most of the work under the President's Recovery Priorities has been planning and setting up systems to support development in key areas like education, energy, governance, health, private sector development, social welfare and water.
2) Progress includes the Anti-Corruption Commission rolling out an online reporting mechanism to tackle corruption, and a nationwide water point mapping survey to provide data to improve access to safe drinking water.
3) Nearly 2 million trees will be planted to reduce environmental damage and improve the water situation by restoring catchment areas.
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~ JOSH HINDS
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The Commission on Water Resource Management issued a decision allocating water from Na Wai 'Eha streams for various uses including in-stream habitat, agriculture, municipal supply, and domestic use. The decision grants the County of Maui permits for 3.2 million gallons per day to supply water to Central and South Maui. Maui Mayor Michael Victorino then announced reserving this water allocation to develop affordable housing.
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The Char Development and Settlement Project Phase IV (CDSP IV) aims to reduce poverty and hunger among people living on newly formed land in the coastal zone of Bangladesh. The project, running from 2011-2017, works to establish protective infrastructure like embankments, build climate-resilient roads and shelters, give land titles to settlers, and support livelihoods through agriculture, fishing, and loans. It forms community groups to participate in operations and maintenance, with the goal of helping 155,000 people across 28,000 households living on chars.
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This report recommends ways that Hawaii state agencies can leverage TOD to maximize benefits to the State of Hawaii and, by extension, the people of Hawaii.
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Rule Number One of Leadership. Leaders Don't Pass the Buck.
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Goals:
Build awareness and capacity for source separation as essential components of sustainable waste management.
Build new environmentally sound infrastructure and systems for safe disposal of residual waste and replacing current dumpsites which should be commissioned.
Current solid waste management situation:
The status.
Solid waste generation rate is at 2240 tones / day
collection efficiently is at about 50%.
Actors i.e. city authorities, CBO’s , private firms and self-disposal
Current SWM Situation in Nairobi City:
Solid waste generation – collection – dumping
Good Practices:
• Separation – recycling – marketing.
• Open dumpsite dandora dump site through public education on source separation of waste, of which the situation can be reversed.
• Nairobi is one of the C40 cities in this respect , various actors in the solid waste management space have adopted a variety of technologies to reduce short lived climate pollutants including source separation , recycling , marketing of the recycled products.
• Through the network, it should expect to benefit from expertise of the different actors in the network in terms of applicable technologies and practices in reducing the short-lived climate pollutants.
Good practices:
Despite the dismal collection of solid waste in Nairobi city, there are practices and activities of informal actors (CBOs, CBO-SACCOs and yard shop operators) and other formal industrial actors on solid waste collection, recycling and waste reduction.
Practices and activities of these actor groups are viewed as innovations with the potential to change the way solid waste is handled.
CHALLENGES:
• Resource Allocation.
Presented by The Global Peatlands Assessment: Mapping, Policy, and Action at GLF Peatlands 2024 - The Global Peatlands Assessment: Mapping, Policy, and Action
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Climate Change All over the World .pptxsairaanwer024
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ENVIRONMENT~ Renewable Energy Sources and their future prospects.
Maui - Communities at Risk - Wildfire Protection Plans - Ride the Fire-Breathing Dragon
1. Kanahā Pond State Wildlife Sanctuary
Coastal Wetland Managed by State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife
<https://hawaiibirdingtrails.hawaii.gov/birding_hotspot/kanaha-pond-state-wildlife-sanctuary/>
The Kanahā Ponds were designated a State Wildlife Sanctuary in 1951 and provides a safe
habitat for many native and vagrant waterbirds. Located near the Kahului Airport and the
main towns of Kahului and Wailuku, Maui. [Central Maui]
COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN FOR WAIHE`E, MAUI
March 2017 <https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/forestry/files/2018/04/2007_WaiheeCWPP_HWMO.pdf>
COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN FOR SOUTH MAUI
2016 <https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/forestry/files/2018/04/2016_SouthMauiCWPP_HWMO.pdf>
COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN UPCOUNTRY MAUI 2016
2016 <https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/forestry/files/2018/04/UMCWPPPlanwithappendices161230.compressed.pdf>
COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN CENTRAL MAUI
Unavailable – September 1, 2021
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BEFORE THE FIRE: PROTECTING VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES FROM WILDFIRE
By Ryan Richards, Center for American Progress, July 25, 2019
<https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2019/07/25/472639/before-the-fire/>
New policies to support wildfire preparedness should be commensurate with the scale of
the threat and cannot leave behind the United States' most vulnerable communities. As the
climate changes, the United States needs to prepare for future fires by investing in sound,
science-based management of lands near these communities.
2. Policymakers must also ensure that resources are available to all communities—regardless
of socio-economic status—so that they can plan and make investments in properties to
reduce the threat of wildfires.
While living near wildlands does not necessarily put someone at risk of being threatened by
wildfire, new research shows that it is a real threat for tens of millions of people.
Approximately 30 million people live in census tracts across the country where wildfires
are likely to occur, placing their homes and lives at risk. Of this subset of the population,
roughly 12 million are especially vulnerable to the effects of wildfires; they lack the
resources to invest in preparedness and the economic security to recover if they are affected
by a fire.
STATE-LEVEL ACTIONS
Require all counties and cities to incorporate wildfire risk management into their
development plans. Communities need to better incorporate wildfire into their
development planning. And because wildfires do not heed jurisdictional boundaries,
communities need to connect with neighboring municipalities, counties, regional agencies,
as well as federal agencies in order to establish cooperation strategies during the planning
stage. Furthermore, states need to ensure that adequate planning and management resources
are available for all communities, not just those with high incomes or large tax bases.
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COUNTY OF MAUI
AMALA PLACE CLEAN-UP TO BEGIN THIS MONTH
September 1, 2021 <https://www.mauicounty.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=11143>
Today the County of Maui and the Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural
Resources announced plans for a comprehensive clean-up of public lands surrounding the
Kanaha Pond Wildlife Sanctuary and Wailuku-Kahului Wastewater Treatment Plant. The
joint effort comes in response to concerns about public health and safety on Amala Place
and long-planned improvements to the sanctuary.
No trespassing signs are being installed both mauka and makai of Amala Place. Maui
County has been working with social workers and service providers to assist 53 individuals
living in the homeless encampment in the area. The County is in the process of making
emergency shelter resources available for each individual or household, as well as services
to suit their situation.
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