Not exact matches
On Dot Earth there is a lot of
discussion of large
scale ideas and projects, but many positive things that are happening remain
under the radar screen: day to day activities — people administering conservation land, going to hearings about transit options, cleaning up vacant lots and turning them into community gardens — these things don't often produce results dramatic enough to make the news, let alone a nationally, globally prominent source like the NY Times.
The REDD proposals
under discussion do not make any distinction between native forests and large -
scale tree monoculture, and they allow economic actors — which have historically destroyed ecosystems and expelled populations from them — to resort to standing forest appreciation mechanisms to preserve and strengthen their economic and political power to the detriment of those populations.
Once geological time
scales are
under discussion there are bound to be any number of effects beyond the fluid dynamics.
While Germany is one of the world's leaders in solar PV and now an early leader in residential energy storage, utility -
scale energy storage is still «
under discussion» and not yet a mature proposition, industry figures have said.