Geodesign Session 2 - San Diego and Baja
Global Energy Network International
Global Classroom Summer Series 2015
GeoDesign
SESSION 2
- Thursday July 9, 2015 - "Sustainable Development and Resilient Systems. Why and How our world has changed."
Geodesign* - Engineering the Transition to
Renewable Energy and Clean Water for All
How Can We End Our Fossil Fuel Addiction By 2050?
Since the Industrial Revolution, the world has been hooked on fossil fuels. This fatal addiction has us living on borrowed time, facing ecological and economic ruin by 2050.
At present we remain dangerously over-reliant on fossil-fuel power. However, it’s not too late – if we take steps in the right direction we can beat our addiction.
Global Impacts - Irreversible Changes
Weather extremes are already affecting lives around the world, damaging crops and coastlines and putting water security at risk.
Climate change will have increasingly severe consequences as extreme heat becomes more frequent, water resources become less reliable, diseases move into new ranges, and sea levels rise.
Will Climate Change Lead to Conflict or Cooperation?
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 4 2014 (IPS) - The headline of every article about the relationship between climate change and conflict should be “It’s complicated,” according to Clionadh Raleigh.
Food system that fails poor countries needs urgent reform, says UN expert
Mark Tran, The Guardian
UN special rapporteur on the right to food champions agroecology as sustainable alternative to existing framework
Ensemble projections of future streamflow droughts in Europe
European Geosciences Union - See Abstract
Abstract. There is growing concern in Europe about the possible rise in the severity and frequency of extreme drought events as a manifestation of climate change.
A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal
bill mckibben
This summer has seen record heat waves and wildfires in the U.S, the worst flooding in Beijing’s modern history, and droughts that devastated the U.S. corn crop and led India to set up “refugee camps” for livestock.