Archive for 'Sustainable Livelihoods'
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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Choosing Sustainable Fish: Whose Responsiblity Is It?
In a recent New York Times blog, Mark Bittman points to a U.K. survey that says 90 percent of diners want sustainable fish on restaurant menus and claim they’re willing to put their money where their mouths are — but most of those people don’t currently choose fish from sustainable sources.
So it must be the [...]
Posted: October 8th, 2009 under Fish, Green Living, Markets, Oceans & Coasts, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: commuity-supported fishery, consumer choice, Maine fishermen, Maine fishery, New York Times, Port Clyde, sustainable fish, sustainable seafood
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, September 29
It’s a doozy of a morning here at Cool Green Morning — we’ve got overpopulation vs. overconsumption, tropical rainforests, green brands and more. It’s all in a day’s news.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s opposition to climate change has cost it another member – power company Exelon is the third major utility to pull out of the chamber [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2009 under Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Environmental Science, Forests, Fresh Water, Green Living, Markets, Sustainable Livelihoods.
Tags: artificial river, Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Climate Change, climate change opposition, deforestation, Exelon, Fred Pearce, green brands, Marc Gunther, meandering river, New Scientist, overconsumption, overpopulation, stream restoration, Treehugger, tropical rainforest, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, September 15
There might not be much hope for the Goose Creek milkvetch, but at least you can now heat your home with an ethanol fireplace. Read on for that and weightier topics like sunspots, the Peruvian Amazon conflict and REDD (one of the most important strategies in fighting climate change, says Conservancy president Mark Tercek).
Goose Creek milkvetch (pictured above) [...]
Posted: September 15th, 2009 under Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Green Living, Green Technology, Indigenous Communities, Interviews, Media, North America, Rainforests, Science, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Ecopolitology, endangered species, environmental conflict, ethanol fireplace, global climate change, Goose Creek milkvetch, indigenous tribes, Marc Gunther, Mark Tercek, Peruvian Amazon, rainforest, rare plant, REDD, reducing emissions from deforestation, sunspots, The Economist, The Nature Conservancy, Treehugger, USFWS
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Eat a Fish, Save a Fish? The Move to Sustainable Seafood Menus
You’ve heard it before: Our oceans contain some of Earth’s most imperiled habitats. Shellfish beds, coral reefs and seagrass meadows once bustling with life have been depleted, and critical fish stocks have plummeted. Less than 1 percent of our oceans are currently protected. There’s even a giant garbage patch twice the size of Texas floating [...]
Posted: September 10th, 2009 under Fish, Green Living, Markets, Oceans & Coasts, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Coral Reefs, Hook, Jonathan Seningen, marine habitats, ocean protection, Pacific garbage patch, seagrass, shellfish, sustainable seafood
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, September 8
We’re all over the map today — from Bangladesh to London, Borneo to France (and the omnipresent Google), Cool Green Morning covers the globe to bring you the top green links of the day.
What’s a low-carbon zone? And how will such zones help London reduce it’s overall carbon output? Environmental Leader explains the new system, which should help the [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2009 under Animals, Asia Pacific, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Environmental Science, Europe, Green Living, Green Technology, Policy, Rainforests, Sustainable Livelihoods.
Tags: algorithm, Bangladesh, bearcat, Borneo, CO2, flying lemur, France carbon tax, google, hydroelectirc power, low-carbon zone, oragnutan, rat-eating plant, reduce carbon emissions, Sarawak rainforest, Species extinction, species loss, UK 10:10 campaign
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