je.st
news
Tag: rural
Latest Obama action to help rural communities deal with climate change
2014-02-05 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: The Agriculture Department (USDA) named seven "Climate Hubs" around the country Wednesday that are aimed at helping farmers, ranchers and rural communities address increasing threats from fires, invasive pests, floods and droughts. The centers will be responsible for disseminating information about ways to mitigate their risks from these threats and how climate change can have an effect on agriculture, ranchlands and forests. They'll also help with evaluating the risks from climate change in...
Tags: change
action
latest
deal
Ireland's rural protests over wind energy
2014-02-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Ireland is short of money but not wind, which now forms a central plank of its energy policy. But plans to develop wind power and export it to Britain are sparking a rural revolt, with local protest groups uniting through social media. Some claim Ireland will become a wind farm for Britain. Turbines up to 180m (590ft) tall - half the height of the Empire State Building - are cropping up as part of a drive to meet EU green energy targets and generate 40% of Ireland's electricity from wind....
Tags: energy
wind
rural
protests
Trading away sustainable water is a blow to rural Australia
2014-01-20 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Water trading cannot deal with the enormity of the problems confronting the Murray-Darling Basin. The current heatwave moving across inland Australia, the severe impacts of climate change and the years of over allocation of water for unsustainable agricultural practices add up to a massive burden that needs a planned sustainable response, not a market trading policy, which is why the Coalition's planned water sell off for the Murray-Darling Basin is a blow to rural Australia. This move will mean...
Tags: to
water
australia
trading
London Olympics boss becomes UK's new rural broadband chief
2014-01-15 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
U.K. government to spend 10 million on identifying network technologies that can connect the final 5%.
FCC to fund broadband for rural SW La.
2013-12-10 12:05:12| Telecom - Topix.net
About $800,000 from the Federal Communications Commission will go toward the expansion of broadband access for rural communities in Southwest Louisiana.
Sites : [86] [87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] next »