http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/02/rare-earth-metals-another-challenge-for-the-green-economy/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/02/rare-earth-metals-another-challenge-for-the-green-economy/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:14:46 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=24591 Rare earth metals play an important role in our envisaged carbon-free future, but their availability in the future is under question for different political and availability issues, which is worrying for planned reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/02/rare-earth-metals-another-challenge-for-the-green-economy/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/08/garry_conille-prime-minister-haiti/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/08/garry_conille-prime-minister-haiti/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:55:39 +0000 Earth Institute http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=20810 Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille met with students and scientists of the Earth Institute to explore core issues of Haiti’s growth and development.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/08/garry_conille-prime-minister-haiti/feed/ 3 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/21/open-house-earth-institute-graduate-programs/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/21/open-house-earth-institute-graduate-programs/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:55:19 +0000 Pamela Vreeland http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=19362 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/21/open-house-earth-institute-graduate-programs/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/06/of-earthquakes-and-nuclear-reactors/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/06/of-earthquakes-and-nuclear-reactors/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:30:33 +0000 Benjamin Preston http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13500 As Japan’s nuclear meltdown catastrophe continues in the wake of the March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese power company executives and officials face an increasingly challenging situation. Tuesday morning, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) — the company operating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant — dumped more than 11,000 gallons of radioactive seawater into [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/06/of-earthquakes-and-nuclear-reactors/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/02/10/wild-oysters-deemed-functionally-extinct/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/02/10/wild-oysters-deemed-functionally-extinct/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:09:47 +0000 Katie Horner http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=11497 A recent Valentine’s Day-inspired article in the Grist pointed out that oysters are the only delicacy that enhances The Mood and water quality. Don’t get too excited, though: a new study published this week in BioScience revealed that oysters are “functionally extinct” in many parts of the world where they were once abundant, and nothing [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/02/10/wild-oysters-deemed-functionally-extinct/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/20/despite-grim-water-futures-china-and-us-discuss-everything-but-water/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/20/despite-grim-water-futures-china-and-us-discuss-everything-but-water/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:43:15 +0000 Katie Horner http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=10657 Notably absent from this week’s program is any planned dialogue regarding energy demand and water supply, two issues whose inverse trajectories are threatening the environmental and economic futures of both nations.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/20/despite-grim-water-futures-china-and-us-discuss-everything-but-water/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/11/22/parched-for-peace-the-uae-has-oil-and-money-but-no-water/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/11/22/parched-for-peace-the-uae-has-oil-and-money-but-no-water/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:44:05 +0000 Katie Horner http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=8827 One of the greatest challenges to sustaining 1.8 million people in an extremely arid locale is water, which in the coastal city of Dubai is abundant but not potable.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/11/22/parched-for-peace-the-uae-has-oil-and-money-but-no-water/feed/ 3 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/10/28/can-we-have-our-water-and-drink-it-too-exploring-the-water-quality-quantity-nexus/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/10/28/can-we-have-our-water-and-drink-it-too-exploring-the-water-quality-quantity-nexus/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:39:17 +0000 Daniel Stellar http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=8007 Water quantity and quality have generally been considered as separate problems and have usually been treated as such in policy-making and environmental restoration efforts. Increasingly, however, research and experience is beginning to show a strong link between water quantity and quality.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/10/28/can-we-have-our-water-and-drink-it-too-exploring-the-water-quality-quantity-nexus/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/10/20/newsweek-takes-on-water/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/10/20/newsweek-takes-on-water/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:26:23 +0000 Lakis Polycarpou http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=7720 Last week Newsweek Magazine took up the water issue – a sure sign that awareness of the global water crisis is growing.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/10/20/newsweek-takes-on-water/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/04/global-population-growth-and-water-scarcity-qa/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/04/global-population-growth-and-water-scarcity-qa/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:40:37 +0000 Upmanu Lall http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=5226 Russell Sticklor with the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program in Washington, DC. recently contacted me requesting my thoughts on a number of issues for an article he is writing on global population growth and water scarcity for the magazine, Outdoor America. I thought some of the comments might be interesting to our blog readers. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/04/global-population-growth-and-water-scarcity-qa/feed/ 2