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San Diego developing alternative water supplies

San Diego faces numerous challenges from climate change including increased temperatures resulting in more hotter and drier days, more prolonged heat...
Robert C. Brears
1 min read
California drought

The general public opinion on water and climate change

We now live in a world where there are droughts where there should not be and flooding in places that should...
Liz Kim
3 min read

Climate change, attitudes and native plants

Based on some of my experiences on native vs. non-native plants there seems to be a huge “argument” over this issue....
Liz Kim
4 min read

What is sustainability to me

I’ve been giving great thought to the question what is sustainability? What I would write about specifically. The common thing I...
Liz Kim
1 min read

Social relationships for sustainable environmental solutions

Environmental interventions in low and middle income countries primarily rely directly on addressing the issue at hand. For example, alternative stoves...
Tara Zolnikov
1 min read

Climate change and economic growth

According to PwC China and India could be by 2050 the world’s top two largest economies in terms of purchasing power...
Robert C. Brears
1 min read

Green Infrastructure Investment in Asia-Pacific

The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to flooding. Over the period of 1986-2006 floods...
Robert C. Brears
3 min read

Climate change, what stops people from acting?

Climate change features in our lives in some shape or form: A huge tropical storm linked to climate change, polar bears...
Robert C. Brears
4 min read

The circular economy and the water-energy-food nexus

Since the industrial revolution the total amount of waste generated has constantly grown as economic growth has been based on a...
Robert C. Brears
4 min read