June, 2009
Nature Photo of the Week: Sunbathing Turtles
Written by Robert Lalasz | June 13th, 2009
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See a bigger version of this photo by Duane and Shrleen Hymas of sunbathing Western painted turtles in Washington state — and take in all The Nature Conservancy’s featured daily nature images, submitted to the Conservancy’s Flickr group by people like you — at my.nature.org.
Dispatches from Bonn: A Small Step Closer to Copenhagen
Written by Chrissy Schwinn | June 12th, 2009
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The hallways are clearing out here on the last day of the UN climate negotiations in Bonn. Two weeks of negotiations and meetings have resulted in a long document, a lot of options and a lack of leadership. For the Conservancy, we’ve seen a couple of steps forward, and some steps back as well. On [...]
Dispatch from Bonn: Ecosystem-based Adaptation is In
Written by Chrissy Schwinn |
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Here’s a second post submitted to Grist.org by Trevor Sandwith, The Nature Conservancy’s Director of Global Protected Areas Policy. Adaptation: Something Old, Something New, Now Some Money is Also Due At the climate negotiations here in Bonn, the main discussions on adaptation have come to a close after a “second reading” of the draft negotiating [...]
MARCO Launched, and the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Smiles
Written by Jay Odell |
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Rising to meet the United States’ urgent ocean conservation challenges requires coordinated actions at regional scales. Around the nation, groups of states and federal partners have recognized that ecosystems aren’t aligned with political boundaries — in other words, fish don’t know or care which state of the union they are in, but they do need clean [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, June 12
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Ready for a cool green weekend? No you’re not — that is, if you haven’t read the five links you must click on today, conveniently situated right below this sentence. Enjoy! Is “sustainability” a bad word? Peter Senge of MIT’s Sloane School of Management says the term is akin to “survival” — that it motivates [...]
5 Questions: Design for a Living World
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Isaac Mizrahi, Alaska, kicky pumps, salmon leather. Stumped? OK, let’s try another one: Kate Spade, Bolivia, handbags, palm leaves. No? How about Maya Lin, red maple, Maine? Such Riddle-of-the-Sphinx juxtapositions define Design for a Living World, an exhibition now showing at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City through January 4, 2010. The exhibition, organized [...]
Is Uno the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Chick Dead?
Written by Darci Palmquist | June 11th, 2009
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Unfortunately, it appears so. Conservancy wildlife biologist Monica Folk sent in this update today: We followed [parents] George and Gracie around their territory for over an hour yesterday, but their behavior did not lead us to believe that Uno remains alive. We believe that a predator took her after she fledged, during her first vulnerable [...]
Dispatch from Bonn: What Really Happens at These Meetings, Anyhow?
Written by Chrissy Schwinn |
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Round Two in the 2009 climate negotiations is underway in Bonn, Germany. The Nature Conservancy has a small team here pushing forward on our objectives for a new global climate agreement that will be finalized this December in Copenhagen. Last week I outlined why we are here and what success means for The Nature Conservancy [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, June 11
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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What’s REDD, you say? “Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation,” of course. It’s a hot topic in climate change policy negotiations going on at Bonn this week. Read on for some news about the Conservancy’s stance on REDD, and all the Cool Green News that’s fit to print. A new REDD brief from The [...]
Dispatch from Bonn: Where Things Stand
Written by Chrissy Schwinn | June 10th, 2009
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Here’s a Q&A with Duncan Marsh, the Conservancy’s director of international climate policy, on how things are progressing at the international discussions on climate change now going on in Bonn. Q: Where do we stand after this first week? Where should the focus be in the last few days? Duncan Marsh: There has been some [...]
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