International Rivers has been protecting rivers and rights for over two decades.
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- January 1985
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Your Correspondent from Chile
9 Aug 2009, 4:41 pm |
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Ethiopia Cracks Down on Dissent
3 Aug 2009, 11:34 am |
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Protect Trees, Not Polluters
28 Jul 2009, 4:04 pm |
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Lula Promises not to Shove Belo Monte Down Our Throats
27 Jul 2009, 6:09 am |
Simon Please can you circulate information on the Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit, which was launched in Lesotho in 2009-10-19 by the Orange-Senqu River Commission (ORASECOM - www.orasecom.org)? It is available online at www.orangesenqurak.org or on CD-ROM from ORASECOM. Visit the ORASECOM stand at the 2nd African Water Week, Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa this coming week (9-13 November 2009).
International Rivers Our own Peter Bosshard on @huffingtonpost: "The World's Largest Boondoggle to Be Completed" i.e. Three Gorges Dam
Source: ping.fm
China and the world cannot afford more boondoggles in the mold of the Three Gorges Dam. A public discussion of the project's costs and benefits is now needed.
(Steven Benson)In the next few days, the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam will reach a level of 175 meters...
Climate activists protest dam lobbyists at Barcelona climate summitOn November 3rd, at the Barcelona climate summit (the lead-up to the much anticipated climate talks in Copenhagen this December), officials from the dam industry and negotiators from the UN Conference on Climate Change received a...
International Rivers #Climate activists surprise dam lobbyists at "illegitimate" meeting with climate negotiators
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As a researcher and educator, I am interested in carbon footprints, water resources, and melding the fields of art, education, and science. Now as a blogger, I comment on the current carbon offsets craze, among other things in hot water. ...
Jerome
Lot
of people over the world have no access to drinkable water, and one
child dies every 15 seconds due to undrinkable water. What would we do
with no more drinkable water ?
a short video to watch and think:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xawaob_
Magaly Onate Amigos ayudemos a los chilenos a proteger sus aguas
Arnold, the Green Bill Terminator, is back (http://healthtrain.blogspot.com/)After several months of in-district meetings with legislators, op-eds, letters, calls, and action alerts by over 90 stakeholder groups and their members, the campaign to pass Assembly Bill 1404 achieved what few at the...
Cahora Bassa power lines bypass Zambezi villagers (Lori Pottinger)The world is greening its electricity supply at a fast (if not fast enough) pace...
International Rivers Read Lori's new blog on The Huffington Post:
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
The world's richest, highest-carbon-emitting nations owe it to Africa to help it develop its clean energy resources -- projects that will help in climate-change adaptation efforts, rather than hinder them.
Across the road from the International Rivers office, on the UC Berkeley campus, is the Water Resources Center Archives, an irreplaceable treasure for anyone interested in the history, politics and science of water, particularly in California and the US West, but also the rest of the world...
The leaky offsets faucet (http://www.co.carver.mn.us)While the Senate's Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (a.k.a...
International Rivers [New Blog] Senate Climate Bill Keeps the Offset Spigot Wide Open http://ping.fm/31IfB CEJAPA
International Rivers Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival is tomorrow and tix are selling fast.
Source: www.internationalrivers.org
International Rivers and the Women's Environmental Network are pleased to host the San Francisco screening of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival.
International Rivers The Save the Mekong Coalition, which we're a part of, got a great article in The Phnom Penh Post today. Congratulations to Carl Middleton, International Rivers' Mekong Program Coordinator, for his great work with Save the Mekong.
Thousands demand halt to Mekong dams | National news | The Phnom Penh Post - Cambodia's Newspaper of
Source: www.phnompenhpost.com
MORE than 23, 000 people have signed a petition demanding a halt to the construction of 11 hydropower projects planned for the Mekong River mainstream MORE than 23, 000 people have signed a petition d
