A Nontechnical Guide to Groundwater Modeling: With Specific Reference to the U.S. Department of Energy\u27s Hanford Site

This document is intended to be a practical report addressing groundwater modeling in the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex that will permit community organizations to more effectively oversee and understand DOE environmental cleanup actions. The nuclear weapons program is distributed among 13 major facilities in 10 states and dozens of smaller facilities. The concept here is to focus on the groundwater modeling activities in some of the cleanup decisions and to suggest how members of the public can ask questions to help them understand the end results. This research was completed money allocated during Round 1 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at [email protected]://commons.clarku.edu/nrdc/1000/thumbnail.jp

Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors

Lecture, October 6, 2022. 6:30 pm, Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center/RISD Museum. Fix, Grist Magazine’s Solutions Lab, invites you to join a conversation about decolonizing and diversifying climate storytelling, as explored in its climate fiction contest, Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. Imagine 2200 judges Grace Dillon, Arkady Martine, and Sheree Renée Thomas will join Fix’s Tory Stephens on the RISD campus to discuss the relationship between climate fiction and climate solutions. They’ll also touch on the craft of weaving climate into all forms of storytelling, and how building deeply intersectional worlds helps create visions for a planet grounded in justice and abundance. This event is presented in partnership with the RISD Division of Liberal Arts and the RISD Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies Master’s program, Orion Magazine, and with support from NRDC.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_ncss_eventposters/1011/thumbnail.jp

Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors

Lecture, October 6, 2022. 6:30 pm, Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center/RISD Museum. Fix, Grist Magazine’s Solutions Lab, invites you to join a conversation about decolonizing and diversifying climate storytelling, as explored in its climate fiction contest, Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. Imagine 2200 judges Grace Dillon, Arkady Martine, and Sheree Renée Thomas will join Fix’s Tory Stephens on the RISD campus to discuss the relationship between climate fiction and climate solutions. They’ll also touch on the craft of weaving climate into all forms of storytelling, and how building deeply intersectional worlds helps create visions for a planet grounded in justice and abundance. This event is presented in partnership with the RISD Division of Liberal Arts and the RISD Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies Master’s program, Orion Magazine, and with support from NRDC.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_ncss_events/1014/thumbnail.jp

Comparing the Climate Change Actions, Targets and Performance of UK and US Retailers

It is often held that the UK has been something of a leader in its response to climate change, and that the USA has been more of a laggard. Whilst much of this debate relates to government policy, in this paper we consider whether this is true when it comes to corporate action on climate change. We use the retail sector to explore this question. This sector is important because of its own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and because of the emissions it influences through its supply chains and value chains. On the basis of extensive reviews of corporate reports and other publically available data, we find that companies in the UK are some way ahead of their US counterparts in terms of the actions they are taking (in particular in relation to their willingness to focus on their supply-chain-related emissions), the ambition of the emission reduction targets that they are setting for themselves, and (while acknowledging the difficulties in making direct performance comparisons) the rates of improvement in their energy consumption and GHG emissions. We therefore conclude that at least some of the wider claims about the relative performance of the UK and the USA on climate change are mirrored in the manner in which corporations are responding to climate change

Estimating of shipping emissions in the Samsun Port from 2010 to 2015

Turkey has an important role in maritime transport because it is surrounded on three sides by the sea and is strategically located between Asia and Europe. Therefore, air pollution due to ships is an important issue for Turkey. This study was carried out in Samsun, which is an important port on the Black Sea coast. Between 2010 and 2015, emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), hydrocarbons (HC) and particulate matter less than 10 mu m size (PM10) from six different ship types were calculated for different operating modes. The estimated values for NOx, SO2, HC and PM10, were 728 tons, 574 tons, 32 tons and 64 tons, respectively. The highest emission values were generated by general cargo ships. The highest percentage of total pollutants (71.6% for NOx, 65.9% for SO2, 54.9% for HC and 62.9% for PM10) were generated in cruising mode by Ro-Ro (Roll-on/Roll-off) ships. Additionally, the maneuvering emissions were from 12.6% to 42.4% and the hoteling emissions were from 6.0% to 51.1% in total for all pollutants. In Ro-Ro ships, 80% of the total emissions are generated while the main engine is operational