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Choke Point: China -- Escalating Confrontation Between Water Scarcity and Energy Demand Has Global Implications

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Wilson Center, Water Pollution, Water, China, Coal Mining, Coal, Chinese, Circle of Blue, Scarcity, Asia, Green News
J. Carl Ganter

Water scarcity, rapid economic growth, and soaring energy demand are forming a tightening noose that could choke off China's modernization.

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An epic struggle between water and energy is unfolding across the nation -- Choke Point: U.S.

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, California, Solar, Hydrocarbon, Clean Coal, Clean Energy, China, Freshwater Scarcity, Natural Gas Fracturing, Coal, Fresh Water, Wilson Center, Circle of Blue, Environment, Solar Energy, Water, Oil, Keith Schneider, Shale, Natural Gas, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
J. Carl Ganter

Without sharp changes in investment and direction, the current U.S. strategy to produce sufficient energy -- including energy generated from clean sou...

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Weekly Mulch: How the Status Quo Benefits Natural Gas Companies

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nrdc, Inter Press Service, GREEN LEADERS, Solar Energy, RENEWABLE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, ORION MAGAZINE, Climate Change Legislation, Renewable Energy, Dimock, Bingaman, New York, Pennsylvania, Water Issues, INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS, Circle of Blue, Natural Gas Industry, Climate Change, WATER SUSTAINABILITY, ENERGY MARKET, Cancun, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, KATE SINDING, FRAC Act, Shale Gas, Clean Energy, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger There won't be any national or international movement on climate policy for the rest of this year, at the v...

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Water | Energy = Collision Course: DOE Blocks Disclosure of Road Map to Relieve Critical U.S. Energy-Water Choke Point

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Economy, Climate Change, Water, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Shale, Oil Shale, Circle of Blue, Green News
J. Carl Ganter

We have a new national narrative of resource urgency unfolding before our eyes -- the impending collision between water and energy. None of the big en...

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Visions of a dry future: Experts predict global water crisis is worse than anticipated; businesses face sweeping transformation

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Business, Water Pollution, Water, Sustainability, Poll, Survey, Water Crisis, Climate Change, Water Scarcity, Circle of Blue, Global Warming, Globescan, Business News
J. Carl Ganter

Population growth, urban development, farm production, and climate change are increasing competition for fresh water and creating shortages so acute t...

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Divining Destiny: Mexico's Water Crisis - Uncertain Futures, Unlikely Heroes

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Water Crisis, Indigenous Rights, Mexico Water, Water, Mexico, Tehuacan, Drought, Water Pollution, Climate Change, Water Scarcity, Pollution, Amaranth, Circle of Blue, World News
J. Carl Ganter

Four years ago, standing outside her mud-brick home in San Marcos Tlacoyalco, Mexico, I met Francisca Rosas Valencia. We were interviewing her about h...

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Water Tops Climate Change as Global Priority

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate, Water, United Nations, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Water Crisis, Circle of Blue, Globescan, Green News
J. Carl Ganter

According to our new Circle of Blue GlobeScan public opinion survey, WaterViews, we now know that people globally care most about water.

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Free the Data: Breaking Down Silos With Google; Liberating Spreadsheets, Collaboration Beyond the Cell

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Saffo, Water Crisis, Water Scarcity, The Matrix, Journalism, Circle of Blue, Water, Data Visualization, Google, Peter Gleick, Alon Halevy, Media News
J. Carl Ganter

Fusion Tables is a powerful research and story-telling tool -- equally accessible to journalists, scientists, students and the public.

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"No water, no sex" - New films take on not-so-subtle meanings when it comes to water

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religulous, Madonna, Michael Moore, Sex, Water, Environment, China, Film, Movies, Sanitation, Circle of Blue, Lysistrata, Absurdistan, Green News
J. Carl Ganter

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- By strange turn of fate or my wife's careful selection, almost every film we saw this summer at the Traverse City Film Festiva...

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