Personalized dissemination of innovative solutions to blunt climate change

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Large-scale adoption of climate and earth-friendly solutions have the potential to blunt the rapid pace at which our world is changing. With the fever pitch of innovation taking place in this area (both locally and globally), it is important to identify ways to disseminate these innovations to the end user at an equally rapid pace. This article delves deep into strategies that could be used to do so.

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Water Economy: Snow-dams to alleviate water shortages

With the global climate becoming increasingly unpredictable, it is likely that water could become our most precious commodity not far in the future. Global warming is accelerating the melting of glacial reservoirs and snowpacks all around the world, and impacting the perennial rivers that flow out of them (Image1 and 2). Almost 1.3 billion people depend on the glacially-fed rivers from the Himalayas that are at risk of disappearing in the summer seasons. Countries have traditionally responded to water stress by either creating huge dams to hold back freely flowing surface water or turning to desalination from the ocean.

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