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Profs!! ask your students who are interested in making the planet a better place to live to go check this out! Get in at the start of a cool new group on campus. http://www.sfspglobal.org/news/index.html
*Sustainable Design: Materials, Energy, Sensing* http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pawlyn_using_nature_s_genius_in_architecture.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-02-16
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People are used to recycling bottles, cellphones, and cars, so why not whole cities or at least sections of cities? (1) Cities are very important, and by 2050 75% of the worlds population will be urban dwellers http://www.urban-age.net (2) Great cities depend on great universities, and universities are often in the top ten employers of …
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Desalination Plants: The folks at U Texas El Paso have been very helpful in my efforts to understand groundwater and inland desalination. Also, Peter Williams has been helpful in my quest to understand desalination. He notes that while very popular, Reverse-Osmosis desal is not necessarily the clear favorite these days- there are new alternatives out …