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Comment on How did “HAMPTON ROADS” get its Name? by James F. Babcock

James F. Babcock — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:06:54 +0000

Mr. Greenmun has a point, sort of. But if the name wasn’t voted on at the time of the merger in 1990, it was validated as a very good choice later on, for the reasons given above in the comment on branding.
The validation was done In 1999 by a properly organized blind survey. Residents were asked, without prompting, what they considered the name of the region to be. The results: 63% said Hampton Roads, 22% Tidewater, and all other names including Norfolk got 4% or less.
Incidentally, on the very good point about public participation, it can be noted that in 1998, the Regional Identity Task Force came up with the idea of having a regional contest to choose what turned out to be the first flag ever created for a U.S. metropolitan region. Several thousand high school students submitted designs, a jury composed of a citizen from each of the cities and counties selected three finalists, and those three designs were printed in the newspapers for a week. Citizens were invited to call in their preferences, and a large majority chose the flag that is now our regional flag.

Comment on Young Entrepreneurs in Hampton Roads by Troy Glancy

Troy Glancy — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:13:30 +0000

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Comment on ODU sea level rise research, Navy adds expertise by Jennifer Doherty

Jennifer Doherty — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:55:10 +0000

Hello, This is such an excellent article,

So if an island nation is submerged beneath the ocean, does it maintain its membership in the United Nations? Who is responsible for the citizens? Do they travel on its passport? Who claims and enforces offshore mineral and fishing rights in waters around a submerged nation? International law currently has no answers to such questions.

United Nations Ambassador Phillip Muller of the Marshall Islands said there is no sense of urgency to find not only those answers, but also to address the causes of climate change, which many believe to be responsible for rising ocean levels.

“Even if we reach a legal agreement sometime soon, which I don’t think we will, the major players are not in the process,” Muller said.

Those players, the participants said, include industrial nations such as the United States and China that emit the most carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases. Many climate scientists say those gases are responsible for global warming. Mary-Elena Carr of Columbia University’s Earth Institute said what is now an annual sea level rise of a few millimeters will increase dramatically by the year 2100. “The biggest challenge is to preserve their nationality without a territory,” said Bogumil Terminski from the University of Geneva. International legal experts are discovering climate change law, and the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is a case in point: The Polynesian archipelago is doomed to disappear beneath the ocean. Now lawyers are asking what sort of rights citizens have when their homeland no longer exists.
t present, however, there appear to be at least three possibilities that could advance the international debate about ‘climate refugee’ protections and fill existing gaps in international law.

The first option is to revise the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees to include climate (or environmental) refugees and to offer legal protections similar to those for refugees fleeing political persecution. A second, more ambitious option is to negotiate a completely new convention, one that would try to guarantee specific rights and protections to climate or environmental ‘refugees`.

Comment on Virginia Offshore Wind Conference by Otis

Otis — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:04:02 +0000

Interest in offshore wind energy is growing rapidly as federal and state governments identify this emerging industry as a powerful economic opportunity. Virginia is at the forefront of this effort which offers the prospect of creating more than 10,000 renewable energy jobs in the state.
That’s is a fantastic news for the people of Virginia as 10,000 jobs are many and will definitel help boost the local economy as well as country wide.
We also have to consider the positive effect that this will have on the ambient and the planet, not to forget the cleaner air that people will breath improving their health and well being.

Comment on Job Recovery in Hampton Roads by Otis

Otis — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:55:13 +0000

The renewable energy jobs sector is in my opinion a very important one that will create many jobs not just in Hampton Road, where right now are so needed, but all around the country, and I beleive that there will be opportunities for all set of skill and experience in this sector, from labors to engineers and everything in between will be able to get a job.