Images: Circle of Blue collaborator featured in National Geographic

Nearly a year after four mountain gorillas were carried out of the forest — shot and burned — photojournalist Brent Stirton’s photographs of the event are featured on the cover of the July 2008 National Geographic. Read more

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Pictures: Water, water, everywhere

BOSTON - The importance of water in the lives of people worldwide is highlighted in a photo essay by the Boston Globe. Images from China, the United States, India, and other countries around the world show the importance of water to all. Read more

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Bottlemania: exploring the culture of bottled water

In a follow-up to her popular dive into America’s landfills, Garbage Land, enviromental author Elizabeth Royte explores America’s obsession with bottled water. Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It , examines the rise of Poland Springs and other major bottled water companies in America. Read more

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Eco-friendly architecture through smart design

The May 2008 issue of Vanity Fair (the third annual “Green Issue”) features an article in the “Architecture” section by Matt Tyrnauer on architect William McDonough, whom he refers to as “a prophet of the sustainablilty and clean technology movements.” McDonough’s advocacy of smart design that reduces both water and air pollution, as well as waste, has resulted in some amazing collaborations and fascinating projects. Read more

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Photos: Losing our lakes

Scientists point to global warming, drought, growing demand and other factors to explain the contined drop in lake levels around the world. A photo collection from Newsweek provides perspective.

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Sachs: Water crisis will continue to grow

Environmentalists have long warned about the crisis in nonrenewable resources, such as oil. Water, of course, is the ultimate renewable resource—it falls from the sky—and therefore has been of less concern.

But where and when rain falls, and what happens to it after it hits the ground, are crucial in determining the health and prosperity of human societies, says Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute Read more

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Graphic: All the water in the world

A diagram, by Circle of Blue, illustrating just how little freshwater the world has to work with. If all the world’s water were to fit inside 100 glasses, the supply available to humanity would not fill three quarters of one glass. Read more

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“We all go ‘Lord of the Flies’ in a week”

In an interview on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilization, predicts an alarming number of huge droughts worldwide. Read more

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How to make water out of urine

MUMBAI, INDIA — For World Water Day, Ogilvy & Mather in Mumbai decided to go the educational route and actually teach us how to make urine into drinkable water with an old school-style poster. Read more

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New book outlines environmental factors affecting world health

The Atlas of Health: Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease, by Diarmuid O’Donovan, from the Earthscan Atlas Series, is a major new graphic profile of global health. The book outlines the causes and incidences of major diseases as well as the economic, social and environmental factors that impact on people’s health worldwide, including water and sanitation.

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source: earthscan

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