Headlines

" Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies"

Source: Wall Street Journal; American Society of Civil Engineers, Smart Brief; April 8, 2009.

" Talks Continue for an Infrastructure Economic Stimulus"

Source: American Society of Civil Engineers, This Week in Washington, For the Week Ending October 17, 2008.

The Mexico Seawater Forestry Project

"The Mexico Seawater Forestry Project will transform 10,000 hectares of degraded coastal desert in the region near Kino Bay, Sonora, Mexico, into managed seawater forestry. Halophytic (salt-loving) trees, such as mangroves, are utilized for carbon sequestration by sinks, as well as production of wood, animal fodder and honey. The forest is flood-irrigated with the effluent from commercial shrimp farms, treating the wastewater and thereby eliminating the environmental degradation caused by the effluent’s particulate loading, pollutants and diseases that disrupts the marine ecosystems in the Gulf of California, and neighbouring shrimp farms."

Source: " The Mexico Seawater Forestry Project," by The Seawater Foundation and Jane Poynter, Consultant, Carbon Sequestration; October 14, 2005. Prepared for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Figure 4. A two-year old halophyte forest, flood-irrigated with shrimp farm effluent. Excerpted from pg. 2 of Seawater Report