Naturalist's Notes
Linking our Forests and Water Together...
By Paul Lumia • November 15, 2011
Waters’ ability to pass through, or infiltrate, something is based on that object’s permeability. The more compact and less porous a surface, the less permeable it typically is; take for instance concrete versus a forest floor. On a concrete surface such as a depression on a sidewalk a puddle of water remains until it has evaporated or been swept away. On the other hand, take that same amount of water from that puddle on the concrete and place it on the forest floor. It would be absorbed, infiltrated, translocated, and rarely pool except in times of saturation.
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Sustainability in an Expanding World
By Paul Lumia • March 29, 2011
In 1987 the World Commission on Environment & Development (WCED) and its chair Gro Harlem Brundtland Prime Minister of Norway at the time, published Our Common Future and there after it was know as the Brundtland Commission and the Brundtland Report. The commission synthesized ideas brought to the table by the participating international community about conflicts between the global environment and world development trends, and came up with the now well established doctrine: “The environment does not exist as a sphere separate from human actions, ambitions, and needs and attempts to defend it in isolation from human concerns have given the very word “environment” a connotation of naivety in some political circles. The word “development” has also been narrowed by some into a very limited focus, along the lines of “what poor nations should do to become richer,” and thus again is automatically dismissed by many in the international arena as being a concern of specialists, of those involved in questions of “development assistance.” But the “environment” is where we live; and “development” is what we all do in attempting to improve our lot within that abode. The two are inseparable.”
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