The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative
"... bringing to the fore what is often hidden...."
Introduction The IPCR Initiative is an accumulation of documents, resources, and observations brought together to support the propositions that we-- collectively-- have both the need, and the potential, to be a) much more organized and deliberate about "... bringing to the fore what is often hidden: how many good people there are, how many ways there a ...learn more
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Created: Jul 06, 2008
Updated: Nov 15, 2009
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Updated: 5 days ago
Women Need Water Rights, Not Just Technologies
In poor communities, technologies are often touted as panaceas for
poverty. For wom...
Areas: Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Water and Energy, Water and Sustainable Development, Water Law and Policy, Water Quality and Health, Water Rights, Water Supply and Conservation, Watershed Management, Sustainable Urban Environmental Services, Sanitation ...
Type: Website - Author: Masum Momaya
Type: Website - Author: Masum Momaya
Updated: 29 days ago
The Climate Change 3.0 RSS Feedblitz is being developed as collection of key RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds relating to climate change. The newsletter service draws on FeedBlitz, that allows...
Areas: Climate Change, Greenhouse Gases, Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Soil Ecology, Global Food Supply and Sustainability, Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Water and Sustainable Development, Renewable Energy, Energy Policy, Global Governance ...
Type: Website - Author: Robert Pollard
Type: Website - Author: Robert Pollard
Updated: about 1 month ago
Mekong's dams wreak havoc on rural poor
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
CHIANG RAI, Thailand - In a rush to emulate Thailand's model of
building dams in the name of development, countries that share the
...
Areas: Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Acid Rain, Ecosystem Services, Coastal Ecology, Marine Ecology and Conservation, Land Restoration, Land Stewardship, Natural Resource Conservation, Restoration Ecology, Electric Power ...
Type: Article - Author: Marwaan Macan-Markar
Type: Article - Author: Marwaan Macan-Markar
Updated: 2 months ago
Green Water
Green water is the rainfall that infiltrates and remains in the soil. It is the largest fresh water resource and the basis of
rain-fed agriculture.
Green water is a very important
r...
Country: .Global
Areas: Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Sustainable Agriculture, Water Supply and Conservation, Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Sustainable Forestry, Soil Ecology, Soil Conservation and Management, Farm Ecosystem Management, Composting, Agricultural Policy ...Type: Website - Author: David Zaks and Chad Monfreda
Updated: 3 months ago
A new study takes aim at the mysterious relationship between
clouds and climate, and it finds that a warmer planet could mean fewer clouds,
which would mean an even more sultry future for the plane...
Areas: Tropical Moist Forests, Water Supply and Conservation, Climate Change, Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Groundwater, Energy Flow in Ecosystems, Greenhouse Gases
Type: Article - Author: Katherine Harmon
Type: Article - Author: Katherine Harmon
Updated: 3 months ago
The project may help to cut down on the need to clear forestsBy James PainterAug. 18, 2009BBC News, Trinidad, BoliviaPoor farmers in the heart of Bolivia's Amazon are being encouraged to embrace th...
Areas: Riparian Ecology and Conservation, Rivers and Creeks, Wetlands, Soil Conservation and Management, Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Inland Aquatic Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services
Type: Website - Author: James Painter
Type: Website - Author: James Painter
Updated: 3 months ago
By Jason GaleAug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Orbiting satellites measuring the gravitational pull of water below the earth’s surface confirm what authorities in India suspected for more than 20 years: groun...
Areas: Water Supply and Conservation, Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Water and Energy, Groundwater, Rivers and Creeks, Water and Sustainable Development, Soil Conservation and Management, Natural Resource Management, Soil Ecology ...
Type: Article - Author: Jason Gale
Type: Article - Author: Jason Gale
Updated: 3 months ago
Keith Brackpool's latest plan to tap 'surplus' Colorado River water for the Southland had been rejected in 2002. Now he's got some powerful backing.By MICHAEL HILTZIKPeople who say that nothing's h...
Areas: Conservation and the Commons, Water and Energy, Groundwater, Water Law and Policy, Water and Sustainable Development, Natural Resource Management, Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle
Type: Website - Author: Michael Hiltzik
Type: Website - Author: Michael Hiltzik
Updated: 4 months ago
Home is a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth.
It show...
Areas: Biodiversity Conservation, Coastal and Marine Human Impacts, Natural Resource Conservation, Environmental Education, Climate Change, Ecological Footprint, Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Global Pollution, World Marine Fisheries, Water and Energy ...
Type: Video - Author: Yann Arthus Bertrand
Type: Video - Author: Yann Arthus Bertrand
Updated: 4 months ago
Analysis of World Bank financed water privatization in Senegal
by Hawa Ba
reprinted from Pambazuka
2006-07, Issue 262
http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/35714
In 1995, in accordance with th...
Areas: Soil Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Conservation and Recreation, Fish, Human Rights Education, Social Development, Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Acid Rain, Ecosystem Services, Coastal Ecology ...
Type: Other - Author: Hawa Ba
Type: Other - Author: Hawa Ba