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Development of Carbon Markets in Agriculture and Forestry Have Potential to Address Climate Change, Save Landowners Mone
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 12th, 2010
PR Web: Development of Carbon Markets in Agriculture and Forestry Have Potential to Address Climate Change, Save Landowners Money Carbon sequestration through agriculture could potentially take the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of cars off the road and provide farmers with a new revenue stream worth billions of dollars. What is exciting is that while farmers and forest owners are increasing their carbon storage, or reducing their production of greenhouse gasses, they can also be ...
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Strengthening rural communities and improving conservation: an interview with David Kaimowitz
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 12th, 2010
Worldwatch Institute: In July, the Ford Foundation announced a five-year, US$85 million initiative to address climate change through the inclusion and empowerment of rural and indigenous people. David Kaimowitz, the foundation's director of sustainable development, talks with Research Fellow Molly Theobald about the new initiative and what he hopes it will accomplish. In developing the new initiative, the Ford Foundation referenced a Rights and Resources Initiative study on community rights to forest land ...
India: Billionaire saves marine reserve plans
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 12th, 2010
Press Association: A Swiss billionaire has stepped in to save plans to create the world's largest marine reserve from public spending cuts, it emerged today. Ministers are in talks over a £3.5 million deal for America's Cup-winning yachtsman Ernesto Bertarelli to fund the policing of the zone around the British-owned Chagos Islands. The Marine Protected Area (MPA) will cover some quarter of a million square miles of sea around the archipelago in the Indian Ocean and include a "no-take" reserve ...
EPA to hold NY hearing, last of 4, on gas drilling
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 12th, 2010
AP: The oil and gas industry is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to keep a narrow focus in its study of how a drilling technique that involves blasting chemical-laced water into the ground may affect drinking water -- while environmental groups want the study to cover everything from road-building to waste disposal. The issues will be aired Monday in two-minute speaking slots at an EPA hearing twice postponed last month because of security concerns over rallies and crowds ...
Kew Gardens Herbarium: ‘Plants are not just beautiful. They help us to survive’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 12th, 2010
Guardian: The label is scrawled and inky, but it unmistakably says "Nyassa. Dr Livingston." Despite the spelling mistake, it's the Doctor Livingstone, I presume (quite rightly). Suddenly we are transported back to tropical central Africa in the early 1860s. David Livingstone was in what is modern-day Malawi, where it is hot and dry or hot and humid, except in the freezing night-time highlands. Livingstone's wife Mary had recently died, and members of his expedition were starving by the end of a long ...
Britain must adapt to ‘inevitable’ climate change, warns minister
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 12th, 2010
Independent: Britons must radically change the way they live and work to adapt to being "stuck with unavoidable climate change" the Government will caution this week, as it unveils a dramatic vision of how society will be altered by floods, droughts and rising temperatures. The coalition will signal a major switch towards adapting to the impact of existing climate change, away from Labour's heavy emphasis on cutting carbon emissions to reverse global temperature rises. Caroline Spelman, the Tory ...