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Sustainable Oil transportation in the Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea)

16. March 2006

Social, economical, geopolitical, environmental aspects Wednesday 15 March 2006, by Maria Shilina The oil terminal capacity in the Russian territory of the Baltic Sea is constantly increasing. Primorsk is developing to the biggest oil terminal around the Baltic Sea. The question is, how to make this development sustainable. Summary The problems of sustainable oil transportation [...]

Socio-economic challenges and restoration efforts in sustainable watershed management in Gursum, Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia

14. March 2006

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Paper by Shawel Betru , KAJI Mikio, Institute of Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, presented at the Annual Meeting 2005 if the WSC-SD at MIT, Cambridge USA. Abstract Access to clean water has always been very important and this is one of the major issues addressed by ï½”he Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for developing [...]

A case study of arsenic removal on Sorghum Biomass; A new biomaterial

10. March 2006

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by Jorge Porras Large scale, field experiments were conducted for the removal of arsenic from the groundwater of a well located in Guanajuato, Mexico region using non-immobilized sorghum biomass (NISB) as a sorbent, which was found highly efficient to adsorb As in previous laboratory experiments. The columns were run under gravity and pump flow conditions. [...]

NAFTA's Legacy: An Environmentalist's Worst Nightmare?

23. December 2005

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by Alexander Daniels, Yale University The rise of regional trade agreements throughout the world has sparked debate between defenders and opponents of liberalized, free trade. It has become common rhetoric among anti-trade activists to denounce the environmental effects of such trade agreements. At the same time, free trade proponents often inflate the potential benefits of [...]

Pushing the Green Button

23. December 2005

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by Zinaida Perova, Zinaida Perova, Department of Physics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University “The Best European Ecological Project” â€” this is how international experts refer to the Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant (SWTP), which was opened in St. Petersburg on September 22, 2005. But what consequences await it in the future? Almost a month [...]

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Sustainable Oil transportation in the Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea)

Socio-economic challenges and restoration efforts in sustainable watershed management in Gursum, Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia

A case study of arsenic removal on Sorghum Biomass; A new biomaterial

NAFTA's Legacy: An Environmentalist's Worst Nightmare?

Pushing the Green Button

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