Important article. The blog article provides links to the full paper and NASA UV-B data.
SOLAR ENERGY
What Causes Famine?
What Causes Famine? It doesn’t take a Mao or a Stalin.
Good article on the possibility of climate change-induced famine: Click Here We in Puerto Rico should be very concerned about famine in other parts of the world, since 80% of our food is imported.
Years of Living Dangerously Premiere Full Episode
This is the first episode of a series on climate change produced by ShowTime. Excellent!
P.S. PR friends: The evangelical climate scientist, Katherine Hayhoe, interviewed in this episode, provided the global climate data used in a recently published study on seasonal impacts of climate change on ag water resources in Puerto Rico. Click here to download
The Rural Women Solar Engineers of Africa-Latest
Prepare to have your mind blown.
The extreme inefficiency of our agricultural production.
Cultivo de Arroz en Puerto Rico: El Renacer de una Empresa Agrícola
Presentations:
Planificación de riego para ahorrar dinero, agua y energía
Eric Harmsen, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus. Email: eric.harmsen@upr.edu
Diseño Preliminar de sistemas de riego por goteo
Ing. Eric Irizarry, Agricultural Engineering Extension Specialist, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus. Email: eric.irizarry@upr.edu
Fertilizantes y su manejo en sistemas de riego por goteo
Dr. David Sotomayor, Professor, Department of Crop and Environmental Science, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus. Email: david.sotomayor@upr.edu
The workshop planning committee would like to thank the following entities for their support.
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Taller de Riego, Fortuna, Puerto Rico, Marzo 12, 2014
Click Here to view the video series.
Coloquio Agroambiental – Ciclo de Conferencias Feb – Mayo 2014
PR remains on SpaceX’s launch radar
PR remains on SpaceX’s launch radar
Puerto Rico could still land a planned private rocket launchpad that would give a lift to the lagging local economy and make the island a player in a bold new industry that is starting to take off.
SpaceX — formally named Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — has yet to nail down where it will develop the world’s first commercial rocket-launching complex, but a site in Texas has emerged as the frontrunner in a race that includes Puerto Rico, Georgia and Florida. Read more
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