Negotiators came to Tianjin with four items on their agenda: Codifying the voluntary pledges made after Copenhagen (as inadequate as they are), setting up the rules for forest conservation and clean tech cooperation, creating a process for transferring and verifying climate aid, and--most vexing--determining the structure of an eventual climate treaty.
The program, running from 8 30 a.m. to 4 30 p.m., with registration beginning at 7 45 a.m., will offer a choice of 10 seminars, including nuts-and-bolts sessions on planning for capital improvements, preventive maintenance, energy conservation and high-tech buildings.
The latest restoration using high-tech conservation methods began in the 1970s and was completed in 1999, returning the painting, Mr. King says, "as far as is humanly and technologically possible" to its original condition.
That's the easy part with the Ocean Solutions Accelerator, a new program that aims to help advance startups in tech and conservation relating to… you guessed it, the big blue.
It's nice to see that conservation needn't always be high tech or high priced; I bought a couple of turtle T-shirts.
World Monuments supports a low-tech, nonintrusive form of conservation that can be delivered relatively cheaply to the host nation.
Gypsy Wagon Conservation With solvents, scalpels and high-tech devices like flourescent microscopy, a crew of conservators has been at work since October at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages in Stony Brook on a 19th-century gypsy wagon.
Water And The Environment 09.10.01 The high tech industry's search for smart water conservation is intense.
These days Marco still does his conservation work out of Studio Grassi, an airy high-tech book-lined loft with numerous windows high above Manhattan's lower Broadway.
Others say that taking a hi-tech approach to species preservation could lull the conservation movement into thinking it would always be able to fall back on science to help reproduce a species once it gets into trouble.
They say the high-tech citizen reporting programs are intended to encourage water conservation, and not to be used as evidence to fine offenders.
