News — water
Beavers are great- new software to find and help beavers.
Beavers help prevent floods and fires. They create habitat for other creatures and plants. They absorb and store water and recharge the water table. California is starting to protect beavers.
Beaver artificial intelligence software helps identify where beavers live.
Western Coal Power Plants use 156 million Gallons of Water per Day
NPR article And the natural gas plants also use the same amount of water as coal plants. And the amount of water in the west is sharply falling. Thee is a 1000 year drought in some parts of the west. The Colorado River is drying up.
Oil Shale Strip Mine Tries to Get 3.5 Billion Gallons of Upper Colorado River Water
link They want the water to process 9000 acres of strip mined oil shale to make oil. This process used to take lots of energy and water.
Climate Change Panels on Air, Water, Fire, and Farming
“Join us as we take a big-picture view of how humans, largely by burning fossil fuels, have drastically altered the global climate system and living conditions on Earth. We will also explore how humans, from grassroots activists to national and global leaders, are seeking solutions. “ Water Air Fire Earth
Bacigalupi Thrillers about Drought, Rising Seas, & Loss of Biodiversity
The Water Knife is a detective thriller set amidst drought refugees and physical battles between cities over water. It has romance, murder, gangs, chases, and journalists.
The Windup Girl is about a future of GMOs, rising sea levels, hunger, loss of species of food crops, racial blaming, and hunger after terminator genes wipe out many food varieties. Oil is gone. It is a very violent.
Drowned Cities and Ship Breaker are about societies where the oil based energy system is gone, and people struggle in gangs over the spoils or else move on to wind-powered ships.
Zombie Baseball Beatdown is about middle schoolers battling GMO mad cows from a slaughter house. It also touches on bullying, discrimination against immigrants, corporate power over local government, and friendship.
The Doubt Factory is about radicals protesting against toxic products . It focuses on a high school girl’s relationship to her father, who is doing the fake pr for tobacco, pesticide, drug, and oil companies. She is attracted to rebellious radicals who want to expose the corporate PR.
Posted on September 22, 2015