wildlands network
United States conservation communityThe biggest problem facing wildlife around the world is a lack of space. We humans are taking up so much land for our own activities that it barely seems like anyone even thinks […]
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drake landing solar community
Canada solar power communityThe Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) is nestled inside the Drake Landing housing development in the north east corner of Okotoks, Alberta, 15 minutes south of Calgary. 52 houses are heated solely by […]
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promote behaviour change or encourage thinking?
United Kingdom esd community“The current obsession with human behaviour change is a strategy which has very limited scope for long-term success: instead, we should try to encourage thinking.” A while ago, a colleague and I visited […]
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horrors: oceans
marine ecosystems communityBy 1995, nine of the world’s 17 major fishing grounds were in precipitous decline and four had been commercially ‘fished out’. The EU began to decommission 40% of its fishing fleet, the Malaysian […]
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kaliraj kauruppasamy, tamil nadu
India education & learning communityThe real heroes of today are people like Kaliraj Karupppasamy, an agricultural teacher at schools in Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu, in the south of India. These are the people who will make sure the new […]
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heritage seed library
United Kingdom agriculture communityThe Heritage Seed Library (HSL) sends out 40,000 plus packets of seeds containing rare and endangered varieties to its members and others every year. In this way vegetable varieties that are not widely […]
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composting toilets
Mexico sanitation communityLocal environmentalists and concerned citizens in the Mexican town of Puerto Morelos teamed up with the ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems in 1993 to find a way to protect coral reefs and […]
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warning to the people of earth
Canada ecological accounting communityNo, it’s not a 1950’s scifi film starring Michael Rennie, it’s all too serious science. If you’ve heard of the ecological footprint but don’t know much about it, listen to this film from […]
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japan honours eco footprint inventors
Japan ecological accounting communityJapan’s Prince Akishino and the Asahi Glass Foundation yesterday presented the Blue Planet Prize, one of the world’s premier environmental awards, to Global Footprint President Network Mathis Wackernagel and Dr. William E. Rees, […]
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cloud forest school
Costa Rica education & learning communityIt starts and it ends here, with education. Not tests, and tests, and tests, and exams, but the window to wisdom, to understanding. Here’s just one that represents all. The vision of the […]