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Sustainability is unhelpful: we need to think about regeneration
For 25 years, sustainable development has been held up as the solution to the world's problems. But instead we have had ever more pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change. The concept of sustainability has been abused like few other terms in history. It is time to think not just about Read More...
Conservationists could be saving more biodiversity in less space
The Cuban solenodon, a nocturnal, football-sized mammal that resembles a chunky shrew, has an abundance of peculiar qualities. It has a long cartilaginous snout and venomous saliva, which it uses to catch and kill insects and worms. It has terrible eyesight and may be capable of echolocation. The Read More...
Handiwork of the heart
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Summer 2016 On a mission to save orangutans, Willie Smits rebuilt a devastated rainforest where no rain fell, no birds sang, and the people spent a quarter of their resources just to get enough water to survive. By Rosamund Stone Zander Rosamund Zander, Read More...
Possibility: Let nature run wild
From The Optimist Magazine Fall 2015 Commentary by Fred Pearce, a London-based environmental writer, is author of numerous books, most recently The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation, from which this is excerpted. Rogue rats, predatory jellyfish, suffocating Read More...
Computer models show agroforestry can repair watersheds
Watersheds sustain life but many have been degraded. Computer modelling has shown that agroforestry can help rescue them, says David Wilson with Regine Joy P. Evangelista, at the Philippine’s First International Agroforestry Congress. Watersheds not only supply water for domestic use but also Read More...
Tompkins Conservation donates 1 million acres for new national parks in Chile
Tompkins Conservation signed an agreement with Chile's government on Wednesday to donate 1 million acres for new national parks in the largest private donation of its kind for the South American nation. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed the deal with Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, the widow Read More...
Become a citizen scientist and help preserve California's biodiversity
Would you like to become a volunteer citizen scientist helping to document and analyze California's rich biodiversity? If so, you can be among 1,000 volunteers who will collect 18,000 samples of soil and aquatic sediment from across the state through a new University of California program called Read More...
Database helps plant 'right tree for the right place'
German researchers have compiled a 400-species database to encourage people to plant the "right tree in the right place" in urban areas. The team of scientists hope the information will help shift the focus away from the way trees look towards on the focus on biodiversity. Over the next decade, the Read More...
How a 30-year-old farm used turmeric and poppies to build a $50 million business
Editor's note: This tour of small businesses across the country highlights the imagination, diversity, and resilience of American enterprise. Biodiversity sounds so environmentally correct that one forgets it is also beautiful. Cradled by the gently looming Blue Ridge Mountains, the farm at Gaia Read More...
Soil isn’t sexy but we need to dig in and help conserve it
Soil, earth, mud, dirt; whatever word you choose, it is difficult to think of a less glamorous topic to campaign on. But a campaign is now vital. Soil is critical to much of our food. It also safeguards biodiversity, as a habitat for below-ground life that includes many thousands of types of Read More...