Climate Change Uproots Global Agriculture
Climate change is shifting where ideal growing conditions exist and is leaving farmers behind. How can we secure our future food supply and support the people who grow it?
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In much of the world, climate change is altering regional growing conditions and making them more unpredictable. Farmers are finding it harder to consistently grow enough food to meet increasing demand. Securing the world’s food supply for the future, experts assert, requires us to tally the good and the bad in the current agricultural structure, including the infrastructure and technology in food distribution systems.
DENVER St. John Properties Inc
., a commercial real estate development and investment company active in the central Colorado region since 1987, has hired Wesley Christensen as project manager of construction. He was formerly assistant project manager for Toll Brothers.
Wesley Christensen
In his new position, Christensen will support the company’s in-house construction division with tenant improvement and ground-up construction management tasks involving new flex/R&D, commercial office, retail and warehouse buildings.
He has worked in the real estate and construction management industries for more than 10 years. He’s a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor’s degree in Geophysics. He earned a master’s degree in real estate from the University of Denver.
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Wagner’s
Die Walküre. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Christopher Ventris, Ain Anger, Waltraud Meier, Linda Watson, and Tomasz Konieczny. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here.
1 pm ET: Copland House presents
Underscored: Jalbert’s
Crossings. Vermont-born composer Pierre Jalbert was inspired by the migration of people voyaging into new and unfamiliar places and traces Jalbert’s own French-Canadian-American ancestry.
Crossings is built around a folk song from Quebec,
Quand j’ai parti du Canada (When I Left Canada), which is deconstructed, reinterpreted, reassembled, and reordered in inventive and unexpected ways. The program features a complete performance of the work, preceded by an introductory conversation with the composer, and followed by a live Q&A with viewers. Register and view here.
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New Research Shows Building Strategies Can Reduce Risk of Airborne Transmission of Pathogens by up to 80%
January 25, 2021 GMT
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Following new research from Syracuse University showing the effectiveness of building systems to mitigate airborne transmission of pathogens in buildings, Carrier Global Corporation and Syracuse University have co-developed an assessment tool that can evaluate buildings for airborne pathogen transmission risk and provide custom strategies to help ensure healthier and safer environments for building occupants. Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR) is a leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions.