ACCELERATING USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN CLIMATE CHANGE
Office for Organic Farm in Shanghai Is Built from Shipping Containers
June 19th, 2013 
Admin: Donna By Nina Chestney
LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) – The world should stop arguing about whether humans are causing climate change and start taking action to stop dangerous temperature rises, the president of the World Bank said on Wednesday.
Jim Yong Kim said there was 97 to 98 percent agreement among scientists that global warming was real and [...]
June 17th, 2013 Admin: Donna The United States government approved a key permit Tuesday that helps pave the way for construction of a waste-to-energy plant in Puerto Rico that local environmentalists have long opposed.
The US Environmental Protection Agency awarded New York-based Energy Answers International an air permit to operate a 77-megawatt facility in the northern coastal town of Arecibo.
It would be the US territory’s largest recycling plant if approved.
Other permits [...]
June 14th, 2013 Admin: Donna Claudienne Edwards
THE Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) says it has identified 132 shelters and has allocated $32.3 million to clean the most critical drains and gullies in preparation for what is expected to be a very active hurricane season.
The disclosure was made by deputy mayor, Andrew Swaby, at Tuesday’s monthly meeting of the council [...]
June 12th, 2013 Admin: Donna Written by Andre Huie
Carol Smith of Open Windows Consultants
St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): The OECS is conducting a campaign on energy conservation across the sub-region. Carol Smith from Open Windows Consultants arrived in St. Kitts and Nevis this week to meet with stakeholders in the private sector and government to advise on energy conservation. Ms. [...]
June 12th, 2013 Admin: Donna Last week the world commemorated two events which were very important to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) — World Environment Day, on June 5 and World Oceans Day on June 8.
The themes for this year urge global collective responsibility in reducing global food waste and protecting the ocean.
UNEP is encouraging countries in the wider [...]
June 11th, 2013 Admin: Donna SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The US government has approved a key permit that helps pave the way for construction of a waste-to-energy plant in Puerto Rico that environmentalists have long opposed.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it awarded Energy Answers Arecibo an air permit to operate a 77-megawatt facility in the northern [...]
June 11th, 2013 Admin: Donna MASSACHUSETTS (CMC) — A team of oceanographers and astrobiologists in the United States is continuing their “systematic” exploration of one of the deepest points in the Caribbean Sea, searching for life in extreme seafloor environments.
According to Dr Chris German, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, the scientists are using the hybrid underwater robotic [...]
June 9th, 2013 Admin: Donna BY AINSWORTH MORRIS Observer writer
THIRTY-four Jamaicans last Wednesday — World Environment Day — were invested with the authority to reprimand individuals across the island caught littering their communities.
They were declared environmental wardens after having completed several phases of the Inner-City Basic Services Project’s (ICBSP) sustainable waste management training programme implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment [...]
June 7th, 2013 Admin: Donna KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (CMC) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 has rattled St Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday night, but there were no reports of injuries or damages.
The State-owned NBC radio said that the quake was felt in several locations on the island as well as on the neighbouring Grenadines islands.
The Trinidad-based [...]
June 7th, 2013 Admin: Donna PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller says there is urgent need for the revised building codes and no-building zone legislation to be completed as quickly as possible.
The building legislation will empower the Government to prevent construction in disaster-risk areas and will also include compulsory evacuation where there is imminent danger.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller listens to [...]
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