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Description. Jay Walljasper: "The water commons as a concept is easy to understand. And in a time when our planet is threatened by global warming, the importance of the idea is all-too-obvious. Put simply, the water commons means that water is no one’s property; it rightfully belongs to all of humanity and to the earth itself.
One Earth presents a novel biogeographical framework called Bioregions 2020, which builds upon the world’s 846 terrestrial ecoregional divisions (Dinerstein et al. 2017) to delineate 184 discreet bioregions. Two years in development, with input from an array of field scientists, conservation experts, and geographers, the Bioregions 2020 ...
Most water cooperatives are small (serving 501 – 3.300 consumers) or very small (serving fewer than 500 consumers). 98% of the population that is served by public water systems is served by either a publicly owned, municipal water system or a cooperative utility. The remaining 11% of Americans are served by privately owned water systems.
= the Water Commons Principles were developed by Our Water Commons URL = http://www.ourwatercommons.org/about-us Text "We base our work on the following principles ...
Definition. "In P2P search (a.k.a. distributed search), each individual connected to the network serves its local index as a source of search. Instead of having a central company and a central server, each participant of the network is a search repository. Since we are talking about web indexing and web searching, a user's internet cache might ...
= The BioWeatherMap Initiative is an experiment in collaborative environmental surveillance and discovery. The BioWeatherMap Initiative aims to become a platform to enable distributed environmental sensing capabilities, with major impacts in Biodiversity, Public
Description. "Lumen is an independent research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content. We collect and analyze requests to remove material from the web. Our goals are to educate the public, to facilitate research about the different kinds of complaints and requests for removal--both legitimate and questionable--that ...
