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Nominations invited for Times of India 'Social Impact Awards' in livelihood
Posted on 16 Jun, 2011 01:42 PM

The Times of India Social Impact AwardThe Times of India Social Impact Awards in partnership with J.P.Morgan is a platform wherein applications and nominations for Awards can be made by NGO’s, corporates and government organizations under five categories (Health, Education, Environment, Livelihood, and Empowerment & Advocacy).

YGL conference on Indo-Pak cooperation - ‘Climate change and disaster risk reduction: Managing risks, creating benefits’, Young Global Leaders, 8th – 9th July, 2011, Lahore
Posted on 08 Jun, 2011 04:32 PM

An Initiative of the forum of Young Global Leaders

Organizer: Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum

Venue:  Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan

Topics:

  • Current best practice in climate change, natural resources and disaster management - Pakistani and Indian context
First-of-its-kind map depicts global forest heights - Update from NASA
Using NASA satellite data, scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map that details the height of the world’s forests. Posted on 08 Jun, 2011 10:54 AM


European Beech. Photo: Forestryimages.org/University of West Hungary/Norbert FrankEuropean Beech
Photo: Forestryimages.org/University of West Hungary/Norbert Frank

 Although there are other local-and regional-scale forest canopy maps, the new map is the first that spans the entire globe based on one uniform method.

The work - based on data collected by NASA's ICESat, Terra, and Aqua satellites - should help scientists build an inventory of how much carbon the world’s forests store and how fast that carbon cycles through ecosystems and back into the atmosphere. Michael Lefsky of the Colorado State University described his results in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Acara Institute selects student teams to pursue clean water, safe food projects in India, 2011
Four teams of student entrepreneurs have been selected winners of the 2011 Acara Challenge. Posted on 27 May, 2011 03:22 PM

Winners hail from the University of Minnesota, TERI University (Delhi), Cornell, Duke, K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management (Mumbai) and India Institute of Technology Roorkee.

Acara Institute selects student teams to pursue clean water, safe food projects in India

Minneapolis / St. Paul (May 19,2011) –  This is a competition sponsored by Institute on the Environment’s Acara program that invites international student teams to learn about and develop social businesses. The winners will receive $5,000 plus tuition to attend the Acara Summer Institute in Bangalore, India, this summer, where they will move their proposed businesses from plan to action.

Urban water supply sector – Key lessons and contextual sector risks – A note by Asian Development Bank
This note presents an independent review of its operations to assess their effectiveness and improve the development of future policies and projects. Posted on 22 May, 2011 08:56 PM

ADBThe note complements ADB’s Guidance Note on Urban Water Supply Sector Risk Assessment and offers a framework for mapping governance risks to inform the preparation of future country partnership strategies.

Such a framework covers institutional aspects (policy, legal framework, and regulation); organizational aspects (planning, financial management, procurement, and human resources); and sector operations. While the note has identified entry points for mapping risks to development effectiveness in the sector, lessons from evaluations can augment ongoing efforts for mitigating these risks at institutional, organizational, operational, and project levels; and enhance the development effectiveness of ADB assistance in the sector.

New research centre for applied groundwater research at the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada, dives into uncharted waters
Ninety-six per cent of the world’s fresh water is groundwater yet, despite hundreds of years of scientific study, mysteries remain. Posted on 19 May, 2011 10:42 PM

How exactly do contaminants spread underground? How much urban stress can an aquifer withstand?

With the need for clean fresh water growing daily, finding answers to those questions is a top priority for researchers at G360, the new Centre for Applied Groundwater Research at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

International WaterCentre Water Leader Scholarships 2012 - Apply by 1st August 2011
Posted on 17 May, 2011 03:55 PM

International WaterCentre

The International WaterCentre (IWC) awards scholarships to a small number of excellent candidates who are accepted into the IWC Master of Integrated Water Management (MIWM). Scholarships are awarded to applicants who clearly demonstrate potential to become water leaders of the future.

The Masters program is custom-designed by leading practitioners and academics from a range of disciplines from four leading universities in Australia.

Acara Challenge 2011 – Finals, 16th May, 2011 at Institute on the Environment, St. Paul Campus, Minnesota and live webcast
Posted on 16 May, 2011 12:32 PM

ACARA Institute on the EnvironmentOrganizer: Acara Institute on the Environment

Venue: Institute on the Environment (IonE) University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus, 1954 Buford Ave, 325 VoTech Building. All presentations will be webcast live.

Description:

The Acara Challenge is a unique way for a university to get their students involved in entrepreneurship and sustainable design for social change. The purpose of the Acara Challenge is to: Engage students in a multi-discipline, multi-country collaboration to develop sustainable solutions and business models to challenging global social issues. Incubate and implement the winning plans into successful sustainable social businesses.

Synergos calls for Senior Fellows 2012- Apply by 1st July 2011
Posted on 16 May, 2011 12:19 PM

SynergosThe Senior Fellows program is administered in partnership with The Synergos Institute Cananda and is made possible in part thanks to support from Kim Samuel Johnson.

The Senior Fellows Network is comprised of distinguished international civil society leaders committed to collaborative efforts that address the underlying causes of poverty and inequity.

Launched in 1999, the Senior Fellows program links extraordinary civil society leaders in a worldwide learning, service and action network. The network aims to strengthen the capacity and opportunities for these leaders to be catalysts and play a major role in partnerships that address the systemic causes of poverty and promote sustainable social change.

Water conservation and Islam ? A blog post by Ausaf Malik
All of religions that exist in the world now-a-days describe the importance, needs, significant features, physical, geographical and environmental science theories and concepts. Posted on 27 Apr, 2011 02:29 PM

Many of the ancient old age stories describes also in these holy text, but only two religion have more sensitive about to water conservation concept in their religious thoughts, as well as in the traditions also.

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