Restoration in BC’s Hart mountain ranges
Community groups work together to clean up pollution in a sensitive alpine ecosystem in northeastern BC. Continue reading Restoration in BC’s Hart mountain ranges
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Come Play the Global Game to Clean Up Marine Trash, July 2011
Project AWARE, an ocean conservation organization, has launched a Global Scavenger Hunt. We’re encouraging divers to play the game for their chance to win great prizes and to make a positive environmental impact by collecting underwater trash at their favorite dive sites. Continue reading Come Play the Global Game to Clean Up Marine Trash, July 2011
Come Play the Global Game to Clean Up Marine Trash, July 2011
Project AWARE, an ocean conservation organization, has launched a Global Scavenger Hunt.
We’re encouraging divers to play the game for their chance to win great prizes and to make a positive environmental impact by collecting underwater trash at their favorite dive sites.
Continue reading Come Play the Global Game to Clean Up Marine Trash, July 2011
The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability
The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Ma
naging for Sustainability
David Waltner-Toews, James J. Kay and Nina-Marie E. Lister (eds.)
New York: Columbia University Pressds
2008, 383 pages.
A copy of The Ecosystem Approach should be placed on the desk of every engineer, manager, environmentalist, politician and teacher. It is one of the first comprehensive efforts to discuss environmental management and sustainability in the interrelated fields of complexity and post-normal science (science where the facts are uncertain, the values are in dispute, the stakes are high and there is a sense of urgency – think climate change)… [Click here to read more!] Continue reading The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability
Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
Wood identifies two possible strategies to address our uncertain freshwater future. We can build more dams, reservoirs, river diversions, aqueducts, canals, pipelines, wells, recycling plants and desalination facilities. Alternately, “we can choose how we use what we have now.” The latter, an approach Wood advocates, involves changing the way we manage our watersheds; using ecologically sound appliances and irrigation techniques; and changing our markets, our bookkeeping, and the laws that undervalue this life- giving resource. Continue reading Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
YCS asks you to Take Action
The Yukon Conservation Society (YCS) educates, advocates and conducts research on Yukon environmental issues, and has been doing so since 1968. Continue reading YCS asks you to Take Action