PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County v. Washington Department of Ecology 511 U.S. 700 (1994) Case Brief Facts 1. Public Utility District (PUD) No. 1 of Jefferson County representing the petitioners in the case, whom are a city and a local utility district. PUD had planned the Elkhorn project, set to build a hydroelectric dam on the Dosewallips River, in Washington State, where the water was Class AA.
He also helped expedite completion of the Panama Canal, which was vital for travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in half the time previously required. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the end of the Russo-Japanese war, where he was negotiating. He was also deemed the country’s first environmentalist president in 1906, when he signed the National Monuments act, protecting sites such as the Grand Canyon and preventing damage to wildlife sanctuaries, national forests and federal game reserves. “He also made headway with the nation’s infrastructure, instigating 21 federal irrigation
Lifeguards had to rescue shoppers in downtown Laguna Beach. Million-dollar homes tobogganed off their hill-slope perches. * Mike Davis is the author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage 1991). He is currently completing a new book, Ecology of Fear (Knopf, forthcoming) on Los Angeles' continuing ordeal of recession, not, flood, fire and earthquake. He teaches environmental history at the University of Southern California and the Claremont Graduate School.
In this book, he describes the beuty of the valley that it was going to be destroyed because of the construction of a barrage dam to make the agglomeration able to have watertrap water for the city of San Francisco. In this chapter, J. Muir focuses on the beauty of the landscape and the different things that are in the valley, such as rivers, rocks and waterfalls. All this was to convince
As Julfikar Ali Manik, Steven Greenhouse and Jim Yardley note, "The PVH Corporation, the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, and Tchibo, a German retailer, have endorsed a plan in which Western retailers would finance fire safety efforts and structural upgrades in Bangladeshi factories — although they first want other companies to sign on." Let's hope something good can come of the horrendous loss of life. Full Story: Western Firms Feel Pressure as Toll Rises in Bangladesh Published on Friday, April 26, 2013 in The New York Times Related links: The Bangladesh building collapse: This is what race-to-the-bottom global trade looks like Tags: Bangladesh, Dhaka, Disaster, Rana
Congress, in the Raker Act of 1913, to construct a dam and reservoir on the Tuolumne River in Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. The O'Shaughnessy Dam was completed in 1923 and, after the necessary pipelines and power houses were completed, San Francisco began using water from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir for its water supply and electrical power generation. In 1987, following Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel's proposal to restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, the Sierra Club's Board of Directors reaffirmed its "historic and fundamental opposition to the damming of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park," and called upon "all interests to take an open minded, long view of this issue, and to study and assess alternatives to meeting their needs and concerns through alternative sources of water, power and revenues." Hetch Hetchy Valley, in the Grand Canyon of the Tuolulmne River, should be restored to its natural condition in order to allow "one of nature's rarest and most precious mountain temples" to be available for public enjoyment, to be reintegrated into its natural ecological and biological systems, and to provide for scientific
Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” offer a good depiction of the state of humanity’s relations with nature. Huxley’s 1932 book “Brave New World” reflects the controversial view of Huxley in response to the omen of industrialisation upon humanity’s relationship with the wild. Similarly, Scott’s film “Blade Runner” visually showcases the threat of globalisation upon humanity’s relationship with the wild. Both texts act as allegories for totalitarian systems, attitudes towards progress, and the unachievable concept of utopia, as well as the loss individuality and community as a result of the bereavement in the relationship between humanity and the wild. Both Huxley’s novel and Scott’s film offer a unique insight into relatively revolutionary ideas
Woodrow Wilson came to Paris bringing with him a peace program, which was about his moral, idealistic notion of a new world order. His idea was to link the instrument of surrender for the Germans to the creation of the League of Nations. On the way to Paris, Wilson went to England, where he spoke about how he wished to overthrow the old diplomatic system, which had led to the escalation of the war even before he had made his "Fourteen Points" speech in January 1918. When the US first entered the Great War, the President wanted that there be “peace without victory” and his Fourteen Points outlined a proposed arrangement that altered diplomatic relationships to such an extent that future wars could be prevented. Wilson could clearly see that the conclusion of the Great War was an opportunity for him to advance his progressive policies.
Gilgamesh attempting to avoid the death that killed enkidu Trying to understand to the secret of his immortality Ut-napishtim looks the same as gilgamesh Limbs are the same Gilgamesh is guarded Shuruppak is a city known to gilgamesh On the bank of the euphrates Gods decided it was old and to flood it Anu was the father Ellil was a warrior and counsellor Ninurta was their chamberlain Ennugi was their canal controller Told to dismantle homes and build a boat Find living things Forget possessions Find the seed of life to bring aboard the the boat Told to save lives Ellil rejects gilgamesh Gilgamesh can't stay in ellil’s land Gilgamesh goes to the Apsu and stays with his master Ea Darkness comes and went aboard
Brown, as president of World Watch Institute, presents the burden that overpopulation has on Earth’s resources and its ability to sustain that population. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner, 1986. This author presents the history of water development in California – the real story that was partially presented in the film “Chinatown”. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, 2005. Diamond examines why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart, sometimes due to disregard for their