Steingraber-Hoodwinked

very clear explanation from Doctor Steingraber.

Steingraber-Hoodwinked

Fracking and the Un-Hoodwinking of America By Sandra Steingraber, PhD My task today is to speak to you about the collective state of mind in the United State..

https://youtu.be/_PyQ1I4pbug

Voices from the gasland free great documentary (full)

http://youtu.be/V3K0kV7UcME

Marvelous Melbourne a sustainable water live able city versus CSG in the country

Marvelous Melbourne a sustainable water live able city versus CSG in the countryside. 

How can Australian cities be doing such great work with green washing cities

( Reclaim the roads! See greener roads from concrete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX_S_OsCYRM&feature=youtu.be

See also LA  https://www.treepeople.org/?hc_location=ufi  )

See also London https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/planning/heritage-and-design/Documents/open-spaces-strategy.pdf?hc_location=ufi

and at the same time national government destroying rural people's lives with csg extraction? In the country so not an urban problem?

Doesn't unconventional gas extraction have huge implications on water supply?

John jenkyn....

https://vimeo.com/108772168

Ian crane  and Brian monk Australia

http://youtu.be/EryAtW-aNNU

http://www.gofundme.com/lot0m0

I am pretty sure this isn’t going to help liveable cities…

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Great_Barrier_Reef_oil_spill

Chevron whistle blower Ecuador cover up

Chevron whistle blower Ecuador cover up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l618BhvWkz4&feature=youtu.be

Water purification at point of use

At source water purification

There's a lot to be done in the world of water management.  Millions of lives could be saved by people boiling their water before drinking.   Boiling also gets rid of excess chlorine.   

Millions of lives could be saved by better food prep and hygiene.   Washing hands before cooking, making sure food such as cooked rice doesn't stay at room temperature for too long.

Boiling does not clean the water from some algaes eg Great Lakes,   In some cases boiling algae water can make the water more toxic.

Some methods to clean and desalinate water at point of use.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis

Solar kettles,  fragile but they do work on sunny days

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary-Energy-Ltd-T-43-Kettle/dp/B009YFSKKY

Home distillation units

http://www.moneycrashers.com/make-distilled-water-drinking-home/

Home filtration units,    (A lot of bother maintaining replacing filters) pro pure seems pretty good.   Anything has to be better than trusting the crap coming out the tap.

http://youtu.be/QtCiJfq87_c

Water purification tablets and powders.

(Can't help thinking that relying on powder for clean water something has gone terribly wrong.)

Water resilient cities of the future

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/liveable-cities
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/liveable-cities

See also this post on the energy food water nexus.
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/water-energy-food-nexus.html
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/water-energy-food-nexus.html

I have found this free course to be incredibly illuminating, informative and challenging.    It offers some real practical solutions to making water resilient, liveable and sustainable water based  cities.

It is based on the solutions found by Australia during the millennial drought/ floods.   It is run by monash uni.    

Water cities of the future

Day 1

http://youtu.be/KlHtUY5OFE4

Day 1 pt 2

http://youtu.be/WYoIDN5UQfk

Day 2 pt 1

http://youtu.be/YX-ZfBRLy4A

Arabian city of e future

http://youtu.be/NIaz61zpLfs

Film to prevent flooding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1_yVjtKH5o&feature=youtu.be

Water energy food nexus

 Water Energy Food Nexus

Some very interesting points on water usage. 

WEEK 2: Integrated urban water management (IUWM)

see futurelearn for free course

 Water for Liveable and Resilient Cities  by MONASH UNIVERSITY

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/liveable-cities/todo/1427

With so much potential to do so much in this world we need to be looking at cleaner more sustainable forms of energy.  
  

China now has more wind power capability than the entire nuclear output of the USA.     

Integrated urban water management (IUWM)

https://youtu.be/-Q2N-F1AI4k

Professor Gustaf Olsson of the Lund University of Sweden has researched and published widely on the Water-Energy Nexus.    Olsson also mentions water cost of hydroelectric in africa through evaporation.    I wonder if this could be mitigated with solar panel covers floating on the water.   Possible impacts on wildlife and water quality i guess.

Guardian talk about food energy water nexus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j9oDv0lR0I

Larry Swatuk on the water-energy-food "nexus"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2TSy-Bk6w

Be Positive about the environment !

TEDxWWF - Andy Wales: The Water-Food-Energy Nexus - Why Eve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-eATjiXTOQ

china now has a wind capability greater than the nuclear output of the usa

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/china-s-wind-farms-produce-more-energy-than-all-us-nuclear-plants/article/427802
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/china-s-wind-farms-produce-more-energy-than-all-us-nuclear-plants/article/427802