Posted in climate on Feb 13th, 2013
Two new reports, The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2013 (http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2013/ ), and a draft of the third National Climate Assessment Report (http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment ) reinforce the validity of climate change and the interconnectedness of the economy and the environment. “According to Munich Reinsurance America, North America has seen a five-fold increase in natural [...]
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Posted in restoration on Nov 27th, 2012
Stream, River and Wetland Restoration Projects, Quotes and More. 2012 edition of RecentWork, by Trout Headwaters Inc, shows state-of-the-science application of environmental restoration projects across the United States. >Download the ebook for IPad Ibooks Tweet
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Posted in conservation on Nov 1st, 2012
Craig Denisoff, owner of Craig Denisoff Consulting, will offer a one-day course titled, “Ecosystems Services and Markets” through UC Davis Extension on Thursday, Nov. 1. An optional half-day field trip will be held Nov. 2. Explore the innovative field of ecosystem services and learn how these habitat-based markets can provide new revenue streams to traditional [...]
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Posted in ecology on Oct 4th, 2012
The New York Times reported that Barry Commoner, a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 95 and lived in Brooklyn Heights. He is probably best known for his work on the global effects of radioactive [...]
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Posted in policy on Oct 1st, 2012
A project led by a UK government agency to harness the power of Wikipedia to share environmental knowledge worldwide is opening a new front in the battle for open source, open data government. The original Wikipedia grew from nothing in 2011 to more than four million articles today, through the goodwill of volunteers worldwide and [...]
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Posted in ecology on Sep 19th, 2012
Posted in ecology on Jun 24th, 2012
Richard Matthews has put together a handy list of 40 apps that help you keep track of water usage and energy usage, choose green products, even donate to green organizations. “There was a time when eco-apps did little more than provide lists of so-called “green” products and services. Now green-themed apps have turned mobile devices [...]
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Posted in environment on Jan 8th, 2012
What follows is a letter to the editor in response to a recent article in Conservation Magazine titled, Chasing Rainbows by Anders Halverson. “Lured by a utopian vision of nature, fish and game agencies dropped billions of trout into thousands of lakes. Now, they’re determined to undo the damage they caused,” writes Halverson. The article which [...]
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Posted in restoration on Jul 7th, 2011
Many terms have been used to describe the engineering use of plant materials for slope stabilization – soil bioengineering, biotechnical stabilization, biostabilization, green engineering, biotechnical erosion control – but the underlying concept for all terms is the use of plants (sometimes in combination with other reinforcement materials) to reduce the erosive forces of water and [...]
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Posted in planning on Jul 5th, 2011
A baseline assessment can best be described as the basis by which to judge the success of any action taken to conserve, protect, enhance or restore water resources. Monitoring, when properly executed, continues to evaluate the health of the resource after any action is taken in order to track results in a meaningful way. Trout [...]
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