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The poor disproportionately carry the burden of climate change

2/10/2015

 
Picture“Teenage migrant farmworkers pick ripe Roma tomatoes in Cristo Rey, Sinaloa, Mexico. Paulina, left, 15, and her brother, Pablo Angel, 12, follow the harvest with their family.”By Don Bartletti for the LA Times. http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-camps/.
Q: What do the following groups have in common:
  • ​farm workers of Mexico and the Central Valley,
  • the fishers of Plaquemines Parish,
  • Inuit nations (e.g. this film),
  • the farmers of coastal Bangladesh, and
  • the majority of Sub-Saharan Africans (e.g. this previous blog post)?


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The water-energy nexus: Not so cut and dry

2/8/2015

 
What is the water-energy nexus?  No, it’s not water energy voodoo.  The water-energy nexus is, basically, the way water management and energy supply and demand affect each other, their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions, and the development of sustainable solutions that integrate efficient use of both.  At present we treat water management and energy generation as separate issues.  But *reality check* they are intimately interwoven throughout their extraction/production, treatment, distribution, end use, and waste.  

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