Archive for 'Sustainable Livelihoods'
Cool Green Morning: Friday, November 20
This really should have been last week’s (Friday the 13th’s) Cool Green Morning — filled with The Worst Nightmares of whales, wasteful companies, and people who like to paint their cars a lot. (Are they going to take car painting away from us, too?) Prepare yourself — real scary stuff in today’s best green news [...]
Posted: November 20th, 2009 under Air Pollution, Asia Pacific, Business, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Fish, Green Living, Green Technology, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, Sustainable Livelihoods, United States.
Tags: Asia clean tech, Asia green investment, auto painting pollution, CleanTechnica, CNET Health Tech, Dot Earth, Ecopolitology, EPA, GoodGuide, GoodGuide app, green app, green invest, greenhouse gas emissions, Japan, Japan whale, Jeff Gordon, NASCAR, Obama climate, smartphone green app, sustainability app, Sylvia Earle, Thomas Friedman, Todd Stern, U.S. green investment, U.S. green tech, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, whale hunt, Yvo de Boer
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, November 17
Rish and shine! There’s a cool green morning out there, waiting to greet you with some oh-so-refreshing news: marine sponges are important, the Dutch want to tax drivers and there could be a rot-free apple in your future.
The Daily Green asks, Is everything you know about being green wrong? Here’s the scoop: it’s not about what car you [...]
Posted: November 17th, 2009 under Australia, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Coral Reefs, Europe, Green Living, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, Sustainable Livelihoods.
Tags: apple won't rot, Coral Reefs, cut emissions, Daily Green, driving tax, Green Living, increased wind, Lake Superior, marine sponges, ocean carbon, RS103-130, Spong Bob
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Conservation Planning for Extreme Events?
What am I trying to illustrate in the above photo (a picture of cattle and elephant dung)? That conservation planning is a pile of poop?
No. But this mixture of excrement does show why such planning needs to incorporate extreme events like drought or flooding – especially for the impacts of those events on local people.
In [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Grasslands, Indigenous Communities, Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Africa, Africa climate, Africa habitat, Africa nature, Climate Change, grassbank, habitat fragmentation, hurricane, Kenya drought, Kenya herder, Kenya nature, Kenya protected area, Kenya wildlife, montana, Montana grassbank, Mount Kenya drought, Northern Rangelands Trust, Protected Areas, Tim Boucher, Timothy Boucher
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Follow Nathan: Recap of a Remarkable Journey
In August, we blogged here on the extraordinary cross-country bike journey of Nathan Winters (AKA, “Follow Nathan”) to raise money for The Nature Conservancy and raise awareness for climate change and sustainable agriculture. At that point, Nathan had just crossed the Wisconsin-Minnesota border, halfway through his journey from Maine to Washington State — a trek [...]
Posted: November 11th, 2009 under Climate Change, Green Living, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Adirondacks, Adirondacks conservation, Bellingham, charity bike ride, Climate Change, Follow Nathan, Nathan Winters, sustainable ag, sustainable agriculture, The Nature Conservancy
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The World’s Oldest National Park: Ghosts of Monks and Red Deer
Bogdkhan Uul, just south of Ulanbator, Mongolia, is the oldest national park in the world. That’s right — it predates Yellowstone by over 100 years. Established by the Mongolian government in 1778, it was originally chartered by Ming Dynasty officials in the 1500s as an area to be kept off limits to extractive [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Conservation Issues, Grasslands, Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods.
Tags: Asia conservation, Asia nature, Asia nature blog, Bogd Khan Uul, Buddhist Pure Land, Charles Bedford, ger camp, Manzushir, mongolia, Mongolia nature, Mongolia protected, Mongolia red deer, Mongolian Buddhism, nature park Asia, red deer, Tsetseegun Mountain, Ulanbator, Yellowstone park
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Ecotourism: Green Problem or Green Solution?
Ecotourism is often presented as the savior for wildlife and wild places — providing local communities with financial incentives to preserve nature while also reducing poaching and development pressure.
But, lately, others question whether rich Westerners jetting around the world really help much at all: They disturb animals, create demands for new development and only employ [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, Green Living, North America, Protected Areas, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods.
Tags: air travel, avitourism, Brazil, carbon footprint, Climate Change, ecotourism, ecotourism bad, ecotourism good, Galapagos, green travel, Matt Miller, Namibia, Serengeti herd, tourism, Yellowstone National Park
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Eat Lionfish and Stop These Caribbean Reef Invaders
My husband returns to the same reefs every year in the Bahamas, where he has been teaching a coral reef ecology class for the last 14 years. On his 2008 trip, he noticed that the reef fish were missing. The culprits were quickly identified — and during his 2009 course, he and his students were [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 under Central America, Conservation Issues, Coral Reefs, Fish, Invasive species, Oceans & Coasts, Science, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Caribbean, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: artisanal fishing, Bahamas, Bahamas lionfish, Caribbean Fisheries Management Council, Colombia lionfish, coral, coral reef, eat lionfish, grouper, grouper overfish, invasive fish, lionfish, lionfish recipe, Monterrey Bay Seafood Watch, reef fish, snapper Caribbean, Stephanie Wear, stop lionfish, Virgin Islands lionfish
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Beyond ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’: Why Conservation Needs a Rethink
Of course this year’s Nobel Peace Prize got all the press — as that prize nearly always does. The Nobel Prize in economics, by contrast, went almost unnoticed.
That’s a double shame. First, because it was given to Dr. Elinor Ostrom of the Indiana University and Arizona State University — the first woman ever to win [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2009 under Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: conservation funding, conservation fundraising, conservation strategy, easement, Elinor Ostrom, Garrett Hardin, international conservation, national park, Nobel economics, Ostrom commons, Sanjayan, Sanjayan commons, Science magazine, sustainability, Tragedy of the Commons, wilderness common
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, October 27
It’s indeed a bright green morning today, with positive news everywhere: International Climate Day of Action a big success! Smart meters galore! And here’s the big news: a new study shows your personal actions can make a difference in the fight against climate change! Take that, all you climate change pessimists.
Bill McKibben says we need to “stop whining [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2009 under Animals, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Ecosystem Services, Energy, Environmental Science, Green Living, Green Technology, Markets, Media, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: 350.org, Bill McKibben, chytrid fungus, deadly fungus, energy efficiency, frogs, government energy grant, Grist, International Climate Day of Action, Mark Tercek, personal change reduces emissions, Reuters, smart meter
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Fish and People on the Edge: Why the Zambezi River Looks OK, But Isn’t
How do you convince people that a river they’ve known their whole lives is not the river it once was…or could be?
That turned out to be my challenge last week, when I traveled to Zambia in support of The Nature Conservancy’s new project to restore the Zambezi River. After several days of meetings with our [...]
Posted: October 14th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, Fish, Fresh Water, Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, Water Conservation.
Tags: Africa dam, dam management, dams, environmental flows, fishing, floodplain, Jeff Opperman, Lower Zambezi National Park, river health, Zambezi dam, Zambezi fishing, Zambezi overfishing, zambezi river, Zambia
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