Missiology in environmental context: tasks for an ecology of mission.
For a field focused on the most geographic practice of Christian faith--crossing from one terrain to another for the sake of Christ--missiology seems to manifest a strange absence of the terrestrial. (1) Missiology rarely discusses the significance of earthly context or ecological dynamics for mission theology. For all its...

Transport models for the coastal pollution problems in the Great Lakes.
Abstract This paper utilizes a combination of physical limnological data and two types of transport models for predicting the fate and transport of material in Lake Ontario. In the first application a near-field model combined with a lake model is used to predict the waste plume characteristics...

Modelling of salinity for maintaining a freshwater reservoir- Gulf of Khambhat in India.
ABSTRACT Shortages of water for purposes of water supply and irrigation are at critical stages in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, and hence in these regions managing water resources in a sustainable manner represents an important challenge particularly in the Asian countries like India. The...

SMS Committee meets with PDA Secretary to discuss mine reclamation projects.
The Community Awareness Committee's (CAC) Spent Mushroom Substrate (SMS) research group recently met with Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) Secretary Dennis Wolff and other state officials in Harrisburg, PA to discuss using SMS in mine reclamation projects. Last December, President Bush signed a 15-year extension on a...

BJP smells a rat in Mithi reclamation, files criminal case.
MUMBAI: Barely four months before the onset of the monsoon in Mumbai, the Mithi river, largely responsible for the July 26, 2005 deluge, has returned to haunt the city. The BJP on Monday filed a criminal complaint at the Bandra-Kurla Complex police station against the Mithi River...

Greening the desert: Egypt has exciting plans to utilise its valuable water resources to promote agriculture and help draw its burgeoning population away from the densely over populated towns and cities, using private and public funding.
IN LINE WITH its grand scheme to attract record levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) and privatise state assets, the Egyptian government is pressing ahead with plans to bring private capital and vision into the oldest business of all--agriculture and irrigation. Improving the efficient usage of water...

Triumph of the poor at Smokey Mountain; (Last of 2 Parts).
Byline: Fidel V. Ramos "TUNGO sa Tunay na Paglaya (Towards Becoming Truly Free)" is the declared hope of three generations of residents of the Old Smokey Mountain (OSM). Our column last Sunday traced the transformation of OSM - which used to be the stinking symbol not so...

Smokey Mountain and the component for new wealth; (First of 2 Parts).
Byline: Fidel V. Ramos FRESH prospects to create new wealth - on the part of both Government and the private sector - have just been reopened which can attract a big wave of investments and generate hundreds of thousands of jobs for indigent Filipinos. The opportunity to...

Mudflat rice grass inhibitor.
Mudflat rice grass inhibitor jointly developed by Fujian Xinghua Agriculture & Forestry High-tech Research Institute and Luoyuan County Technology Promotion Station has recently passed the technical appraisal sponsored by the East Fujian Oceanic Environment Monitoring Center of the State Oceanic Administration and Zhejiang Medical University. China introduced...

Cochin port road gets green light.
Byline: Priyanka Talwar & Ganapathy Subramaniam NEW DELHI: The Public Investment Board (PIB) has cleared the much-discussed project to provide four-lane road connectivity for Cochin's International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT). The Planning Commission and ministry of finance had earlier raised objections on grounds that a two-lane project...