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  • Watershed Governance & Funding

    Watershed Governance & Funding

    Tamarisk Coalition | 2012 By L. Clark Tate – Reviewed & Edited by the marvelous Kristen Jespersen & Jamie Nielsen The report, Watershed Governance Structures & Funding Mechanisms: Considerations for a Colorado River Basin Restoration Initiative summarizes governance structure information acquired during the analysis of watershed initiative case studies examined for the 2011 Tamarisk Coalition…

  • The Clean Plate Club, Green School Supplies, and Frack

    Women’s Movement | 2012 By L. Clark Tate WM’s fav green hits from the web this week:  Are you cleaning your plate? Americans throw away up to a whopping 40 percent of the food they purchase, according to a Stockholm International Water Institute report, highlighted recently in National Geographic’s NewsWatch. Other countries…

  • Urban Green Walls, Coming Clean, and Where the Sea Also Rises

    Women’s Moment | 2012 By L. Clark Tate WM’s top eco hits from recent ramblings on the WWW: Greener Walls = Cleaner Air. The Old World charm of ivy-covered chateau walls is granting a breath of fresh air in modern-day metropolises. As reported by the BBC News, a recent Environmental Science and…

  • The Moss Table, Rio Earth Summit, and Solar Ladies

    Women’s Movement | 2012 By L. Clark Tate  The Green Light. One of the more exciting green ideas to crop up lately, as described by Inhabit, is biophotovoltaics. That’s right, biophotovoltaics: the practice of capturing energy created by the photosynthesis of plants, primarily algae and moss. The practice isn’t efficient enough just…

  • Cargotecture, Radioactive Tuna, and Power-Producing Tiles

    Women’s Movement | 2012 By L. Clark Tate  Cargotecture. Shipping containers transformed into commercial and residential spaces? Why not. An NPRarticle recently focused on this new, earth-friendly building trend, coined “cargotecture.” Sturdy, portable, and flexible, behemoth cargo containers are also more than plentiful—an excess of about 20 million are delivered to…