USD 100,000 Patel Grand Challenge: deadline extended to 25 May 2012newsThe USF Patel School of Global Sustainability launched the Patel Grand Challenge at the International Water Association's Development Congress in Malaysia in November 2011. It is a challenge to inventors in developing nations to create a low-cost and easy-to-use water purification device that could save millions from the threats of...
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Fourth IDSAsr Seminar: The Water Energy and Food SecuritynewsThe fourth seminar of Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies Society (IDSAsr), will be held from 2 to 4 November 2012, at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. Recognizing a clear need for new approaches addressing the inter-connections within the water, energy and food security nexus, the seminar will...
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The water-energy-food nexus: why mountains matternewsTogether with the Government of Nepal and ICIMOD, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat has organized a side event on "The water-energy-food nexus: why mountains matter". The side event will take place on Monday 26 March 2012 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, back to back with the 3rd Intersessional...
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CIPRA received the Dutch sustainability awardnewsThe International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA) was awarded the 2012 Sustainability Organization of the Year by the Royal Dutch Mountaineering and Climbing Club (NKVB). In an on-line ballot, Dutch mountaineers from NKVB, the biggest mountaineering club outside of the Alps, voted CIPRA. CIPRA is a non-governmental...
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The water-energy-food nexus: why mountains matternewsTogether with the Government of Nepal and ICIMOD, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat has organized a side event on "The water-energy-food nexus: why mountains matter". The side event will take place on Monday 26 March 2012 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, back to back with the...
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Water, mountains’ “blue gold”newsIt’s our planet’s most precious resource and our cities are powered by it: it’s water! And water comes from mountains. It flows from the watersheds at higher altitudes creating life along its course, all the way down to the river deltas. The sustainable management of water is the...
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