GTR: Blue Gold: World Water Wars Director Sam Bozzo (Part 1)
GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks with American indy filmmaker Sam Bozzo of Purple Turtle Films about his new award-winning documentary on the global water crisis, “Blue Gold: World Water Wars“....
View ArticleFederal Water Subsidies Under Local Scrutiny
The federal government has paid over $687 million in water subsidies to hundreds of California and Arizona farmers over the past two years, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. Subsidy...
View ArticleGTR: Blue Gold: World Water Wars Director Sam Bozzo (Part 2)
Conclusion of GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily’s conversation with American independent filmmaker Sam Bozzo of Purple Turtle Films about his new award-winning documentary on the global water crisis,...
View ArticleUK Government Funds Major Marine Energy Study: What About U.S. ?
UK Climate Change Minister announced to a conference this week that the UK government will begin screening for the marine energy projects in England and Wales. The screening is part of an effort by the...
View ArticleJalimudi – Where Water Comes from Air
The villagers of Jalimudi, a small village in the state of Andhra Pradesh in Southern India, have been suffering from a shortage of water for years. However things have changed, as they are now getting...
View ArticleIncreasing Water Efficiency with EPA's WaterSense Program
GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks to Stephanie Thornton of the EPA about their WaterSense program. Much like the EnergyStar program, WaterSense seeks to help Americans to save water and protect the...
View ArticleIndoor and Outdoor Water Saving Tips
With growing populations causing a continual rise in water demands, using less water and using it wisely has never been more important. The water issue is local as well as global; by implementing a few...
View ArticleMore Climate Change Refugees Due to Changing Water Conditions
What do Togo, Germany, Mexico and Papua New Guinea have in common? Climate change refugees. Changing water cycles and weather patterns are forcing thousands to relocate around the world. I’ve written...
View ArticleBlue Gold: World Water Wars
If there’s one film that everyone needs to watch this year, it’s Blue Gold: World Water Wars. The film, based on the book Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water by Maude...
View ArticleSmart Moisture-Monitoring Tech Could Save Billions of Gallons of Water
Americans are guilty of wasting water; that’s not news. But did you know that businesses and homeowners overwater grass and plants by up to 300%, wasting 225 billion gallons of water each year?...
View ArticleSummer of 2009 the Warmest on Record for Oceans
Early in 2009 NASA predicted that 2009 and 2010 could be years of record global temperatures, and it seems they may be right. The Earth’s oceans have just finished their warmest summer on record,...
View ArticleMaldivian Ministers Learn to Scuba Dive For Underwater Cabinet Meeting
Maldivian cabinet members are learning to scuba dive in preparation for an underwater cabinet meeting later this month. The cabinet will sign a document calling for carbon emission reduction around the...
View ArticleWaterwall Fatboy 650G Rainwater Tanks
Waterwall is a rainwater storage tank designed to double as both a water storage tank and a garden privacy or protection wall. As they tell the story, one of the two Australian founders, Mitch, had two...
View ArticleInvestors Urged to Put Water Funds in Portfolios
Forget gold, oil or soybeans. Put water funds in your investment portfolio, says a recent investment article. Water privatization and the water industry in general has caught the eye of investors and...
View ArticleWill Smart Water Grids Become a $16.3 Billion Industry by 2020?
If you read this site you know that water is a major issue and how we relate to and manage our water could be the defining issue of the 21st century. Water innovation is just now starting to build buzz...
View ArticleWorld's Longest Toilet Queue: Come Together for Sanitation and Clean Water...
4,000 children under the age of five die every single day just because they lack toilets and water, 884 million people don’t have clean water and 40% of the world’s population (2.5 billion people)...
View ArticleWater and the Stock Market
When astronauts first went into space and took those seminal photographs of the Earth it was obvious to everyone that Earth was and is a blue planet. Without water, none of this is possible. There are...
View ArticleLaundry + Bicycle = Bicilavadora
Washing laundry is a difficult time-consuming task in the developing world, and doing laundry in open streams or lakes can add to water pollution. The task also falls solely on women – 8 hours a week...
View ArticleU.N. World Water Development Report: Water in a Changing World
Water in a Changing World, the third edition of an ongoing U.N. World Water Development Report, was published last March as part of the 5th World Water Forum through the United Nations. This report may...
View ArticleHormone Disruptor BPA is in the Water Now
Scientists have now confirmed that an increasingly infamous chemical (or hormone disruptor) that is linked to obesity, miscarriage, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and other health concerns is not just...
View ArticleEPA Vs. Citrus Farmers: Cleaning up Florida's Water
A new set of EPA proposals to clean up Florida’s water is up for debate this month, and Florida’s citrus growers say the goals are economically devastating and logistically unattainable. The new...
View ArticleRaise the Price of Water, Experts Say
Water is a finite resource. It may seem abundant when you look at a globe, but the amount of water in the world that can be used for human purposes is not so large. With a real water crisis looming,...
View ArticleDrinking Water Week 2010
Drinking Water Week just ended- it was May 2 – 8, but you can still take part in the spirit of the week with their resources and activities, especially if you have children. Drinking Water Week is an...
View ArticleCommon Cactus Could Help Solve Clean Water Crisis
As many as 15 people per minute die from a lack of clean water. Although 75% of the globe is covered in water, the amount of that water that is clean, fresh, drinkable water is very small and the...
View ArticleEPA Regulating Coal Ash
This week the EPA proposed national regulations to govern the safe management and disposal of coal ash from coal-fired power plants. In 2008, an impoundment full of waste coal ash from the Tennessee...
View ArticleTurkish Farmers Learn to Cut Water Use Up to 50%
About 72% of total water use in Turkey is for agriculture. This 72% is important when the country’s largest city, Istanbul, can be out of running water for days at a time in the summer. “We have to...
View ArticleMt. Shasta Voters May Outlaw Cloud Seeding and Bottled Water Plants
Despite the fall in popularity of bottled water, there is still large consumer demand. Major corporations are looking for new sources, and in many cases, communities are fighting back. In Mt. Shasta,...
View ArticleAustralia's Integrated Marine Information System Makes a Splash
There is literally an ocean of information floating around out there about almost anything you can think of, but seldom is that information brought together in an integrated, meaningful and useful way-...
View ArticleMan Swims Across Everest Lake (1Km) for Climate Change Action
There are a lot of ways to try to increase awareness of climate change and action to stop it, but I imagine not many are as noteworthy as this one. A man given the title “human polar bear” recently...
View ArticleDoes Climate Change Cause Crime?
Here’s the theory: climate change contributes to rising temperatures and dropping water levels, which in turn leads to lower catch volume and smaller fish, which pushes some Lake Naivasha fishermen in...
View ArticlePrivate vs. Public Water: A Tale of Felton, CA
Do you know who owns your water? Many communities have moved from public water works to privatization of this important utility. Corporations raise rates, and citizens are left with no local control....
View ArticleSenator Kyl Cries Crocodile Tears for Arizona Solar Water Usage
Recent hearings for a proposed 340-MW Hualapai Valley Solar Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in western Arizona has brought up water yet again, in a report from Energy Prospects. Arizona’s...
View ArticleStory Water
Today I received a poem in my email inbox, a poem from Rumi. It reminded me of the connection between water and storytelling. Most of the stories I write for Blue Living Ideas are about innovations or...
View ArticleSenate Bill 79: the Protecting Pregnant Women and Children from Hexavalent...
What do you think of when you take a drink of fresh, cool tap water? Chromium-6 probably doesn’t jump to your mind; however, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found this suspected carcinogen in 31...
View ArticleIs There A Human Connection to Extreme Water?
There is no shortage of articles or arguments about how much humans contribute to climate change and extreme weather- you could even say there is a flood of them. What there is less of, though, perhaps...
View ArticleSpotted: Water Bottle Refill Station
This bottle water refill station might seem sort of silly, but when you're out and about all day and trying to avoid bottled water, it can really make your day! The post Spotted: Water Bottle Refill...
View ArticleDo We Have Enough Water?
As our world population skyrockets, the question of whether we'll have enough water to support the agriculture needed to feed the world is a huge one. A recent study has some good news! The post Do We...
View ArticleWill the Texas Drought put the Kibbosh on Fracking?
We've talked here before about how hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," threatens clean drinking water, but fracking also requires quite a bit of water to execute. In drought-stricken Texas, local...
View ArticleAre We Running Out of Water?
As our world's population surpasses 7 billion, we are beginning to use fresh water faster than our rate of population growth. The post Are We Running Out of Water? appeared first on Blue Living Ideas.
View ArticleClimate Change May Spur Algae Infection Along the East Coast
"Rock snot" is taking over East Coast waterways as climate change speeds its growth. The post Climate Change May Spur Algae Infection Along the East Coast appeared first on Blue Living Ideas.
View ArticleThe Impact of Glacial Change in the Himalayas
Could the glaciers melting in the Himalayans be a positive thing? The post The Impact of Glacial Change in the Himalayas appeared first on Blue Living Ideas.
View ArticleSustainablog Takes the 4 Liter Challenge (w/ Video)
Hi, gang! It’s been a while since our last post, and since then this “4 liter challenge” thing has surged in popularity and then kinda died down. A few weeks ago, however, our good friend Jeff...
View ArticleEPA: Watersense Shower Heads Save 2900 Gallons Per Year
Back in 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created “WaterSense” as a label for high-efficiency plumbing products that not only use less water, but work as well as “conventional” fixtures...
View ArticleClean Drinking Water, From the Air
Originally published by Insteading. With much of California experiencing record levels of “exceptional” drought- and with what little water there is available being tainted by the fracking industry–...
View ArticleDid You Know: More Oysters Means Better Water?
Oysters are filter-feeders. That means they suck in the water around them, filtering out the plankton and bits of dead animals and waste that they eat, then spit the water back out, free of that waste....
View ArticleWhen it Comes to Water, Don’t Waste What You Don’t Have
I’m still thinking about my 4 Liters Challenge from a few weeks ago – it’s amazing how much we take a resource like water for granted! While a number of things I learned stand out, I constantly come...
View ArticleIn Japan, They’re Farming With 99% Less Water
This hydroponic farm in Japan cuts water usage by 99%! The farm occupies an abandoned Sony chip manufacturing facility in Miyagi prefecture, near where the earthquake and tsunami struck the country in...
View ArticleNew Tool Quantifies Your Business’ Water Risk
In a time when we’re experiencing an increasingly drier climate, with a booming population and growing demand on water supplies, water scarcity is a very real risk, not only to individuals and...
View ArticleWater, From Thin Air: Atmospheric Water Generator
A few weeks ago, we covered a company called Molecule New Water Technologies and their EcoloBlue atmospheric water generator– a product that they claimed could pull pure, crystal clear water from the...
View ArticleAvoid Disaster Blues with Wet-location Emergency Lights
Winter is already upon us in many parts of the US. Just because the threat of hurricanes and typhoons has lessened and thoughts have turned to holidays and new year’s resolutions, however, doesn’t mean...
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