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[Katoomba Live] Speaker Biography: Winnie Lau, Program Manager, Marine Ecosystem ...: Prior to joining the MARES Program, she worked at the U.S. Department of State as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Diplomacy Fellow and an AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy Fellow. Winnie worked in three different offices at the Department of State: Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary, Office of Oceans Affairs, and Office of Multilateral Trade Affairs””covering issues such as U.S.-Japan bilateral science and technology cooperation, international policies on marine biodiversity, marine protected areas, coral reefs and climate change, and accessions to the World Trade Organization.

[China Environment Forum Events] Standing Up for Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems: Emerging ...: At this June 16 meeting CEF has invited four of the Chinese environmental justice fellows to give a talks on their work in China, which will cover efforts to improve citizen access to environmental information and participation in environmental impact assessments; informing the public of polluting industries;

[Go Blue Indonesia] Scientists Offer New Take on Selective Fishing | Go Blue Indonesia: Dr Zhou says ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) is broadly practiced as a means of reducing the impact of fishing on marine ecosystems while ensuring sustainable fisheries. He says fishing methods under EBFM vary greatly in how selectively they catch fish.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Marine Protection as Empire Expansion: Two - Wake and Johnston - are home to important U.S. military installations, while a huge area of protected ocean encompassing the Mariana Trench borders U.S. military bases on Guam, Saipan, Rota, Tinian, and Farallon de Medinilla. The islands are right now at the receiving end of a major eastward shift in the U.S. military base infrastructure from concentrating bases and troops in Europe and Okinawa, Japan to concentrations elsewhere in Asia and the Mariana Islands in particular.

[Global Brief] Networks and the Future of the Arctic : Global Brief: While the discourse of international affairs is - to be sure - still largely centred on the role of the state, there is growing recognition that a state-centric system is no longer alone managing transcendental global issues, and that there must be alternative forms of governance. In the case of climate change, where the failure - most recently at Copenhagen - to find agreement among the various governments to control fossil fuel emissions is a matter of deep political, economic and moral concern, a rethinking of ”˜who governs’ is clearly in order.

[The West Indian News] Caribbean Pollution Experts Recommend Increased Cooperation ...: Expressing satisfaction at the outcome of the 5th LBS ISTAC, Chris Corbin, UNEP CAR/RCU’s Programme Officer for Pollution Prevention, remarked: “the meeting reiterated how important the Caribbean Sea is to the economies of the region and that efforts must be redoubled to ensure that policy and legislative changes are made to support control and reduction of pollution from all sources”. He added, “these reforms have to be supported by ongoing training, technology transfer and the increased use of environmental information for improved national decision-making.”

[IISD Linkages] MERCURY INC 1 HIGHLIGHTS, Thursday, 10 June 2010, Stockholm, Sweden: General Support for the Bulletin during 2010 is provided by the Government of Australia, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, the Ministry of Environment of Sweden, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, SWAN International, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Japanese Ministry of Environment (through the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies - IGES), the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (through the Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute - GISPRI), the Government of Iceland, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Bank. Funding for translation of the Bulletin into French has been provided by the Government of France, the Belgium Walloon Region, the Province of Québec, and the International Organization of the Francophone (OIF and IEPF).

[Change.org's Environment Blog] Can We Prevent A Wild West In the Arctic's Thawing Seas ...: Yet, richer nations with Arctic interest, including the U.S., Russia, and Norway, don't want the stricter oversight. In a speech on Saturday, the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs denied there was any “race to the Arctic” and implied it was entirely unrealistic to expect the five Arctic nations to sign a treaty giving up any current jurisdictional rights.

[Bryant's Maritime Consulting] Bryant's Maritime Blog - 16 June 2010 | Bryant's Maritime Consulting: The Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife of the House Committee on Natural Resources conducted a hearing on Ocean Science and Data Limits in a Time of Crisis: Do NOAA and FWS have the Resources to Respond? Ms.

[ACG - The Aquaculture Communications Group blog] 4th International conference on aquatic resources (ICAR 2010 ...: The goal of the Conference is to get deeper insight into problems and opportunities related to the aquatic resources through Preservation, Protection and Development, on the basis of presentation of the present status that would identify the gaps in the current observing and forecasting capacity and plan the next steps towards efficient marine resources management. The scope of the conference would be achieved through a series of specific scientific sessions of oral and poster presentations side by side of workshops on selected topics :

[Bear Market News] WHAT WE MUST DO TO SURVIVE THE COMING CENTURY « Bear Market News: to understanding: an individual’s interaction with his or her environment (diet, chemical exposures, social status and other emotional relations with family, friends, and larger community). Healthy Aging starts with a narrow focus on the health of people over 65 and ends by showing how health after age 65 begins in the womb before we are born: “We can think of age-related changes in brain function as being on the trajectory of an arc that begins decades earlier during fetal development.”

[USM Public Affairs] USM Public Affairs » Blog Archive » University of Southern Maine ...: USM’s Portland campus is preparing for a flood.  On Friday, May 21, more than 800 fifth- and sixth-grade students and teachers from 17 elementary and middle schools will be joining USM faculty, staff and students for a day celebrating water.   The students will learn about clean water, ecosystems and precious Maine water resources.  USM, along with the DEP, EPA, other environmental groups and the private sector, have filled the day’s schedule with fun presentations and hands-on exhibits that focus on water education.  The result of this collaboration is an event filled with contests, quiz shows, demonstrations, and musical entertainment.

[Richard Black's Earth Watch] BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Valuing nature, doing what with ...: The president of the greediest nation on earth has called for a move to clean, secure, renewable energy after an Anglo/American oil company messed up in his back yard. The greens have long been calling for a major catastrophe in order to get things moving and this one could be it, though thankfully with considerably less loss of life than many greens thought would be necessary.

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