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[Dad2059's Blog of Science-Fiction/Science Fact and Tinfoil] Dyson Spheres, Detection and ET: I’ve been doing a lot of consulting/writing about “green” technologies lately, and one idea that comes up a lot is the concept of ecosystem services. An ecosystem service is something you get for free from nature, whose value can be directly calculated by estimating what it would cost for us to provide the service ourselves. For instance, water treatment: recently a greenbelt area was declared around Toronto, basically a crescent-shaped region where real estate and industrial development is banned. A key reason for doing this was the discovery that these forested lands filter and treat the entire aquifer for the Toronto region. If they were developed, much of the fresh water in the region would dry up. We’d then have to import/produce fresh water ourselves, and the cost of doing that can be directly calculated, and compared to the financial benefits of developing the land. It turns out that the land, left alone, provides a set of essential services more cheaply than we can provide them technologically.
[Marlene White] Promote Sustainable Behaviours: Healthy ecosystems sustain healthy people and a healthy economy. Overpopulation and wasteful consumption are threatening our planet. We must protect and restore nature’s diversity and reexamine our retlationship with our planet. Dr. Robert Housell tells us to listen to our hearts. He uses this acronym to explain the current dire strait that our planet is in:
[Eco Footprint] Measuring our ecological footprint: The researchers also applied their footprint method to the Sustainable Ecosystems Department of the CSIRO (CSE), so that they could compare a research institution with a technological focus and a research institution more dependent on .
[money news blog] Shoes and your carbon footprint: Production waste is dumped into rivers and delicate ecosystems. If your shoes are made of synthetic materials, the impact is just as bad.
[Industrial News] Agilewaves Deploys Resource Monitor At Nueva School - First Ever ...: Designed by ecological design firm Rana Creek, the school's roofs are planted with native grasses and wild flowers that not only preserve the area's natural ecosystem, but also help to insulate the buildings, reduce the energy required to heat and cool them, mitigate storm water runoff and minimize the heat-island effect. The plants selected for the Nueva School roofs also provide a natural habitat for the endangered Bay Checkerspot butterfly.
[The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal] ENN: World Food Shortage, Solar Cell Technology, Global Poverty ...: The proposal, published in Tuesday's Federal Register by the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service, would allow oil development in an area north of the Aleutian Islands near Bristol Bay that has been designated critical habitat for the North Pacific right whale.
[Bronwyn's Blog] Tuesday’s blog posts - Earth day lessons, Jamie MacKenzie seminars: Endangerd Species, National parks, Natural Resources, Pollution, Sustainable Development, Waste, Water, Reduce/Reuse/Recycle, Salinity, Biodiversity ”¦ and many more. There are also specific lessons on .
[Seeds for Thought: an Ecopsychology Blog] Faith and the Environment: Some have warned that the “10 year” window of opportunity for avoiding the serious consequences of green house gas emissions has passed. In the last decade much more attention was paid to these warnings but little has been done to change the patterns of personal and collective behaviour that give rise to these problems.
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