Volunteering at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 2011 -
Do you like green initiatives? Do you like music and to meet new people?!
Here is your chance to become a Volunteer at Bonnarro Festival 2011
Coachella Festival always Green at the desert -
If you are an artist and you are looking for Coachella VIP tickets and an opportunity to show your artwork to the world this is your chance!
TRASHed Coachella is searching the globe for the greatest artists in modern time to assist with redesigning recycling bins for Coachella
2011. Since 2004, Coachella has hosted this interactive recycling bin art walk to help keep the festival grounds spotless and looking good.
Source and more info: http://coachella.com/event/sustain#Rec
Another great news is that the Recycling empty bottles initiative is back! and if you are attending Coachella Festival you just need to collect ten empty bottles and you will receive 1 bottle of water :D With this initiative you help to clean the place and recycle and also you are saving a lot of money because water is priceless in the middle of the desert :D
(Source: coachella.com)
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Solarpack, the Spanish multi-national company specializing in solar photovoltaic power plant development, investment, consulting, and services, and Codelco, the largest copper producer in the world, will construct the first industrial solar electric power plant in South America.
The Calama Solar 3 project agreement specifies construction and operation of 1MW of installed power in a new solar photovoltaic power plant (equivalent to the consumption of 1,500 households). It will provide electric power to the mining company facilities in Chuquicamata, located in the north of Chile.
The Amazon’s 18-meter level on September was the lowest since 1963, disrupting transportation of food, fuel and medicines in northern Brazil. Growers in Brazil’s Southeast expect the drought will lessen output of the nation’s key commodities. Brazil is the world’s biggest producer of coffee, sugar and oranges. The prices of this products are increasing around the globe
The Amazon river and its basin functioning at half their normal capacity, when compared to the 2005 drought, it’s threatening rainforests, livelihoods, and entire populations as the maneuvering of supplies to river towns becomes extremely difficult.
[Esta es una version en espanol de There is enough water available to meet human needs, but… ]
Aunque menos del uno por ciento del agua existente en la Tierra se encuentra actualmente disponible para uso humano, existe suficiente agua para satisfacer las necesidades humanas y del medio ambiente. El desafío consiste en asegurar suficiente agua en buenas condiciones de forma tal que no destruyamos los ecosistemas, ríos, lagos y acuíferos, desde los que obtenemos nuestros recursos de agua. Todos vivimos lado a lado con el agua, ya sea al extremo de una tubería o al borde de un río. Necesitamos agua para nuestra subsistencia básica, para cultivar, generar energía y producir bienes que utilizamos a diario. Sin embargo, el uso de agua desde los ecosistemas de agua dulce, se encuentra muy por sobre los niveles que pueden ser sostenibles acorde a la demanda actual y, aun mas, los pronósticos apuntan consistentemente a que la demanda por agua continuara creciendo en la mayor parte del mundo.
Fragmentacion de rios
El incremento de la demanda por agua e hidroelectricidad,
Although less than one per cent of water on the Earth is currently accessible for direct human use, there is enough water available to meet human and environmental needs. The challenge is to secure enough water of good quality in a way that doesn’t destroy the very ecosystems, rivers, lakes and aquifers, from which we take our water supplies.
We all live at the water’s edge, whether we are at the end of a pipe or at the bank of a river. We need water for our basic survival, for cultivating crops, for generating energy and for producing the goods that we use every day. However, the use of freshwater ecosystem service is now well beyond levels that can be sustained even at current demands and forecasts consistently suggest that demand for water will continue to rise in most parts of the world.
River fragmentation
Increased demand for water and hydroelectricity
Chilean authorities recently approved a new mining project, Pampa Hermosa property of SQM. Pampa Hermosa project is going to extract iodine, sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate near the Pampa del Tamarugal, an oasis of life in the middle of the Atacama Desert.
Even though the project is located just 50 km from the coast, instead of utilizing treated seawater, they are going to extract water form the aquifers Salar de Llamara (Llamara salt flat) and Quebrada Amarga, the last one gives water to the Loa River, the most important in the region.
The Llamara salt flat is one of the last places on earth where stromatolites are still alive, and the only one where the government doesn’t protect them.
Environmental organizations and people in general in Argentina are celebrating the approval of a new law which restricts the extraction of minerals, oil and gas near glaciers, in order to protect these enormous freshwater reserves.
By a vote of 35 against 33 and 1 abstention, the Senate approved the bill to preserve glaciers and their surrounding areas last week. The President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner vetoed a similar but lees restrictive law in 2008, lawmakers close to her are assuring the public that this is not going to happen this time.
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