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  1. wildlands network

    United States  conservation  community

    The 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 […]

    11 March, 2013 by Tim Willmott with No Comments - Be the First
  2. drake landing solar community

    Canada  solar power  community

    The 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 […]

    9 March, 2013 by Tim Willmott with No Comments - Be the First
  3. 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 […]

    7 March, 2013 by Bill Scott with No Comments - Be the First
  4. horrors: oceans

      marine ecosystems  community

    By 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 […]

    6 March, 2013 by Tim Willmott with No Comments - Be the First
  5. manuring the school garden

    kaliraj kauruppasamy, tamil nadu

    India  education & learning  community

    The 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 […]

    4 December, 2012 by Tim Willmott with No Comments - Be the First
  6. heritage seed library

    heritage seed library

    United Kingdom  agriculture  community

    The 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 […]

    8 November, 2012 by Tim Willmott with No Comments - Be the First
  7. downtown puerto morelos

    composting toilets

    Mexico  sanitation  community

    Local 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 […]

    6 November, 2012 by Tim Willmott with No Comments - Be the First
  8. William Rees

    warning to the people of earth

    Canada  ecological accounting  community

    No, 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 […]

    5 November, 2012 by Tim Willmott with No Comments - Be the First
  9. japan honours eco footprint inventors

    Japan  ecological accounting  community

    Japan’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, […]

    2 November, 2012 by Tim Willmott with No Comments - Be the First
  10. cloud forest school, monteverde, costa rica

    cloud forest school

    Costa Rica  education & learning  community

    It 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 […]

    1 November, 2012 by Tim Willmott with No Comments - Be the First
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