Pacific Institute

Type: Organization

Name: Pacific Institute

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

University of Florida College of Medicine

The NTSB wants to change the definition of drunk driving

NTSB recommends lowering the BAC limit for being considered intoxicated.If the National Transportation Safety Board has its way, it will soon be much easier for law enforcement to lock you up for driving under the influence. Federal accident investigators ... [Published Road & Track - May 17 2013]

Entities: National Transportation Safety Board, Drink Driving, University of Florida College of Medicine, Pacific Institute

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Ku Klux Klan

Pacific musical goes digital

It's taken 200 auditions but filming is ready to start on a nine-part web series based on the hit Pacific Island musical The Factory.The digital series sees the show's creators, the Kila Kokonut Krew (KKK), teaming up with film producers Robin Scholes ... [Published stuff.co.nz - May 15 2013]

Entities: Ku Klux Klan, Pacific Institute, Auckland

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

US: Report highlights power costs of desalination

A new report from the Pacific Institute highlights the cost of powering desalination, noting that energy is the largest single expense for desal plants, accounting for up to half of the costs of the process.The report notes that desal plants use on average ... [Published IWA Publishing - May 13 2013]

Entities: Desalination, Pacific Institute, Wastewater

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Report advises farmers on water conservation in Colorado River basin

A new report from the Pacific Institute offers water conservation strategies for farmers and ranchers drawing water from the endangered Colorado River.According to the report, agricultural irrigation consumes 70 percent of the water supply in the Colorado ... [Published Environmental Monitor - May 11 2013]

Entities: River basin, Water Conservation, Pacific Institute, Alfalfa, Irrigation

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Pacific Institute reports on desalination energy use

The Pacific Institute has published the next instalment of its series on Key Issues For SeawaterDesalination in California , this time looking at energy requirements and associated greenhouse gasemissions for desalinated water. ... [Published Desalination & Water Reuse - May 07 2013]

Entities: Pacific Institute, Desalination, Greenhouse Gas

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Climate Change May Increase Heavy Rains And Extend Droughts Throughout World

Latinos Post: The change in climate may cause extreme modifications in rainfall and drought in the certain areas of the world. According to a new study by NASA, the changes in the weather increase the risk of heavier rainfalls in tropical areas and longer ... [Published Water Conserve: News - May 05 2013]

Entities: Droughts, Global Warming/Climate Change, Peter Gleick, Drought, Pacific Institute

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Island Savings Family Sport & Recreation Festival

May 04 - May 04 PISE - Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence 4371 Interurban RoadBrought to you by the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame and the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence, this FREE festival has lots of activities for everyone!Ride the ... [Published C-FAX 1070 - May 04 2013]

Entities: Pacific Institute, Hugo Swire

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Guide to Water-Related Collective Action and Water Action Hub

The global Water Action Hub from the UN Global Compact CEO Water Mandate is the world’s first on-line platform to unite companies, governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders on a range of critical water projects in specific river basins around the planet. ... [Published Eco-Business - May 04 2013]

Entities: Action, Pacific Institute, Water Management, International Business Leaders Forum, Hugo Swire

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Desal: New study highlights energy concerns as publication of critical environmental eval nears

SANTA CRUZ -- As the city and a neighboring water district prepare to release a critical environmental analysis of a proposed desalination plant, a well-regarded research group has published a new report evaluating the high level of energy required to ... [Published Inside Bay Area - May 03 2013]

Entities: Desalination, Environment, Pacific Institute

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Family sports expo at Camosun sports institute

The Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE) hosts the annual family sport and recreation festival on May 4, from 11 a.m. to 4 pm.The free festival is one-day interactive sports and recreation expo at PISE, located at the Camosun College Interurban ... [Published Victoria News - May 02 2013]

Entities: Camosun College, Pacific Institute, Rock Climbing

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Report reveals desal plants' thirst for energy

Energy is the largest single expense for desalination plants, accounting for as much as half of the costs to make drinking water from the sea, according to a report.Desalination plants on average use about 15,000 kilowatt-hours of power for every million ... [Published Brisbane Times - May 01 2013]

Entities: Desalination, Renewable Energy, Pacific Institute, Emission

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

"Dam It...."

The Pacific Institute reported six years ago that China is the most dammed nation in the world, followed by the United States, India, Japan, Spain and Canada. These placements remain the same. Outside Magazine reports that 47,665 large dams exist in 140 ... [Published WBRZ-TV - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Pacific Institute, Irrigation, Displacement

Quotes

Evaluation, "crimes attributable to alcohol cost 84 billion"

Drug Czar Report on Crime and Drug Use Is Really a Report About Being Poor and Getting Caught [Published REASON Online - 9 hours ago]

That is a lie so big that, to quote from Mein Kampf, it would be hard for most people to believe that anyone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." On one side of the "controversy" are credentialed climatologists who publish in reputable, peer-reviewed scientific journals and agree that the planet...

Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources 5: How the News Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climat ... [Published Huffington Post - May 22 2013]

"The scale of energy challenges in India requires not just investments, but also innovation in how we produce and consume energy" Singh said in a message to the Fourth US-India Energy Partnership Summit

Calls for Action at U.S. - India Energy Partnership Summit in DC; Extreme Heat in hits Ahmedabad [Published NRDC Worldview - May 21 2013]

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Pacific musical goes digital [Published stuff.co.nz - May 15 2013]
AJC President Leads Talks in India on Regional ... [Published American Jewish Committee - May 15 2013]
Cracking Down on Drinking and Driving [Published New York Times - May 14 2013]
Craft Breweries Save Water [Published National Geographic - May 14 2013]
Poor Bear Brunt of Climate Change, Claims Socia... [Published India-West - May 14 2013]
Early Registration Discounts for URISA’s GIS in... [Published Directions Magazine - May 13 2013]
Veteran votary of womens television Jai Chandir... [Published Indian Television - May 13 2013]
US: Report highlights power costs of desalination [Published IWA Publishing - May 13 2013]
Her career was catalytic. Everything she was as... [Published The Hindu - May 11 2013]
Report advises farmers on water conservation in... [Published Environmental Monitor - May 11 2013]
Peter H. Gleick: Fixing the Colorado River: Fir... [Published Huffington Post - May 10 2013]
More Than Their Fair Share? Texas County Questi... [Published Everything Lubbock - May 08 2013]
Pacific Institute reports on desalination energ... [Published Desalination & Water Reuse - May 07 2013]
Companies are Realizing That Water Conservation... [Published Triple Pundit - May 07 2013]
Climate Crisis Will Bring Drought In Temperate ... [Published Counter Currents - May 05 2013]
Climate Change May Increase Heavy Rains And Ext... [Published Water Conserve: News - May 05 2013]
Climate change may bring drought to temperate a... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 05 2013]
Family Sport and Recreation Festival on today [Published C-FAX 1070 - May 04 2013]
Island Savings Family Sport & Recreation Festival [Published C-FAX 1070 - May 04 2013]
Fiji documentary wins global competition [Published Fiji Broadcasting Corporation - May 04 2013]
Guide to Water-Related Collective Action and Wa... [Published Eco-Business - May 04 2013]
Desal: New study highlights energy concerns as ... [Published Inside Bay Area - May 03 2013]

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Calls for Action at U.S. - India Energy Partner... [Published Switchboard, from NRDC - May 21 2013] Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India May 14 – 20th, 2013 Climate & Energy India needs clean, affordable sources of ...
Indonesia Field Report IV: Wildlife Trafficking... [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - Mar 26 2013] The Cruel Wildlife Market Hundreds of cages with birds, lizards, bats, and mammals were stacked upon one another, with tens or sometimes even hundreds of specimens crammed into one cage. Several dozen white-eyes (a bird genus) were squeezed into ...
Aguanomics on green jobs [Published Environmental Economics - Mar 21 2013] David Zetland:Over the past few years, I've noted repeatedly (exampleexample) that the Pacific Institute tends to put too much emphasis on engineering and not enough on economics ...PI just issued two new reports demonstrating how their method fails. ...
USA Today Touts Anti-Gun Research by Soros-Link... [Published Breitbart Feed - Mar 09 2013] A study that concluded that gun violence costs Americans at least $12 billion per year was published on the front page of USA Today on March 5th. The research was conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), an anti-gun advocacy ...