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Temptation and Temperance: Cutting our Teeth on Alaska’s Pika Glacier | Life@ERG
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Life and Perspectives of Students and Scholars at ERG. Temptation and Temperance: Cutting our Teeth on Alaska’s Pika Glacier. Posted by ERG Life. MS-PhD Student, and Spencer James]. Ian mountain climbing in Alaska this past summer. Take a peek out of the summer journal of ERG graduate student, Ian Bolliger. And skiing partner, Spencer James, and see what it takes to experience the beauty and perils of a cold Alaskan glacier. Are we in the slide path? Photo from Sidetracked.com. For the latest ERG updates.
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The Carbon Cost of a Wilderness Trip | Life@ERG
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Life and Perspectives of Students and Scholars at ERG. The Carbon Cost of a Wilderness Trip. Posted by ERG Life. On any given Monday, conversations buzz around ERG’s communal cubicle workspace with stories of weekend skiing, rock climbing, surfing, bicycle rides, trail runs, skijoring, LARPing, lumberjack games. you name it, ERGies probably do it. View of the Colorado River from the Nankoweap Granaries in the Grand Canyon (Photo: Jonathan Sisley). See photo below.). Yet, here I am, driving over 2000 mile...
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ERG Talent Show 2014 | Life@ERG
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Life and Perspectives of Students and Scholars at ERG. ERG Talent Show 2014. Posted by ERG Life. Hosted by the 2013 cohort, this year's ERG "Too Much" Talent Show features the Back of the Envelope skit, creative video making, dancing and sax playing, ERGie paper dolls, a ton of selfies and ends with a big, fat Bollywood finale. Below the whole show is broken up into three videos in a YouTube playlist. Content of the videos:. Back of the Envelope Skit. Trailer for "The Gold Fish Casino". John Dees , ERG g...
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beijing experiences worst pollution in recent memory « livefrombeijing
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Beijing experiences worst pollution in recent memory. Beijing’s air pollution levels have been “hazardous” or “beyond index” (by the US Embassy monitor. 8216;s designation) for nearly three days. The city is in the midst of one of its epic, multiple-day extended pollution spells, also known as an “ airpocalypse. 8221; So what’s new or different about this one? Let’s take a look from a few angles. Certainly the highest I can ever remember. The 24-hour average was reported as 568.5 ug/m3. The user interfac...
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timeline of china’s official resonses to recent severe pollution « livefrombeijing
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Timeline of china’s official resonses to recent severe pollution. List last updated Beijing time 4/1/13 6:00am. In the fall of 2011, public discontent over a series of poor air quality episodes in Beijing ultimately led to an impressive series of actions by China’s national Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB). It took a few months, but by February 2012, China had issued a revision to the ambient air quality standards. 1/12: “ Crazy bad. 1/14: M...
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beijing enjoys first completely blue sky month since 1998 « livefrombeijing
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Beijing enjoys first completely blue sky month since 1998. Beijing’s incredible streak of consecutive Blue Sky Days continues, standing now at 40 days. (Past coverage here. As I noted in my last post. What we are experiencing is not merely some minor or subtle improvement. Beijing’s air pollution levels over the past month have been less than half of what they usually are this time of year. This is remarkable. The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau weighed in today. Rough translation (emphasis mine):.
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the solution to beijing’s pollution is…controlling barbecues? « livefrombeijing
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The solution to beijing’s pollution is…controlling barbecues? Over the past few months, there have been a few suggestions from Chinese researchers and officials that Beijing’s government should go after cooking, especially outdoor barbecues, as a way of controlling air pollution. Back in May, I was quoted in the WSJ’s China Realtime Report. At a deeper level, I am also concerned about the idea that average people (. As noted in a nice summary in the SCMP. But before we dismiss this story as a case of a r...
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confusing numbers on ambient air quality compliance in china « livefrombeijing
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Confusing numbers on ambient air quality compliance in china. This post originally appeared on the ICCT Staff Blog. A few days ago, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection released their annual State of the Environment report. I was struck in particular by the following statistic: the air quality in 88.5% of China’s 113 “key environmental protection cities” meets China’s air quality standard. Sounds pretty good, right? Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems with this number. This new standard...
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April « 2014 « livefrombeijing
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Archive for April, 2014. Massive us embassy pm2.5 data dump. Tuesday, April 15th, 2014. The State Department has released six years of hourly PM2.5 data. From the US Embassy in Beijing. The data is actually wonderfully well-organized (kudos to whoever formatted it and prepared it for release! And is just begging to be dug through. Here are some initial discoveries and thoughts based on a few hours of playing around with the data. (See also some good initial analysis from Wayne Ma/WSJ here. Well it’...
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massive new state council air pollution control plan « livefrombeijing
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Massive new state council air pollution control plan. China’s State Council today released a massive new air pollution control plan. The latest in a string of Chinese government actions (and promises of future actions) following January’s “airpocalypse.” This is certainly the highest profile and most wide-reaching plan we’ve seen so far, underscoring the attention being paid at the highest levels of government to improving air quality throughout the country. I tweeted my thoughts. That having been said,.
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