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[Sustainable Mobility News] World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): Various state and federal regulations offer tax incentives as well as the opportunity to generate environmental credits for restoring wetlands or for securing the habitat of endangered species. In some cases, these credits may be “banked” against future environmental liabilities or sold to neighboring land developers who may be legally required to compensate for the adverse environmental impacts of their projects.

[Spey Pages] Real Price of Farmed Salmon: After publishing their research in the prestigious journal Science, marine biologists warned that one wild salmon species will be extinct by 2011 because of infestations of parasites that originate in salmon farms. More than 80 percent of the annual pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago, 300 kms north of the city of Vancouver, has been killed by these parasites since 2001.

[sqnet.org] Sustainable development: A lake can, for example, absorb nutrients for a long time while actually increasing its productivity. However, once a certain level of algae is reached lack of oxygen causes the lake’s ecosystem to break down all of a sudden.

[Resource Efficiency | Water | GreenBiz.com] Making the Business Case for Ecosystems | GreenBiz.com: Says, Madeline, "Once businesses are able to comprehend the risks inherent to ecosystem degradation and take measures to mitigate the impacts of their activities, there will be an opportunity to factor them into their operations and make gains. They will also provide an opportunity to develop new ideas.

[Sustainable Mobility News] World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): Under these new circumstances, how companies are managing to meet the increased demand for CSR performance information becomes a complex issue because various corporate stakeholders and key corporate audiences including the investment community, employees, suppliers, customers, governments, regulators and the media all have varied requirements for this type of information. Many companies are placing CSR in the hands of the Corporate Communications department because this is where companies are proactively and professionally engaged in safeguarding, enhancing and communicating their company's corporate purpose, image and reputation.

[Corporate Social Responsibility News] World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): They see the business case and how they can turn ecosystem risks into business and ecosystem opportunities. The WBCSD membership is hands-on in determining their ecosystem impacts and dependence and in creating strategies to address risks and opportunities, for example, through carrying out corporate ecosystem services reviews.”

[Björn Stigson] Björn Stigson: Welcome back to a new and exciting year!: Similarly, ecosystems and biodiversity began to garner the attention they too deserve. Particularly, there was an increased awareness that the sustainable use of ecosystems - forests, oceans, mountainous regions - could help to alleviate poverty and mitigate the potentially devastating effects of climate change.

[在路上！！！] 有关于水 - 在路上！！！ - 歪酷博客 Ycool Blog: Some kinds of animals, such as amphibians, spend portions of their lives in water and portions on land. Plants such as kelp and algae grow in the water and are the basis for some underwater ecosystems.

[Corporate Social Responsibility News] World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): Yannick Jadot, campaigns director for Greenpeace France , which will receive €33,000 in compensation, agreed: "This is good news […] We now hope that this ruling will have a snowball effect around the world so that big groups will be held responsible for environmental damage."

[Sustainable Mobility News] World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): GRI also studied the link between sustainability reporting and company size using the top 100 companies ranked in the Financial Times FT Global 500, Forbes Global 500 and Fortune Global 500. These publications use a combination of data relating to revenue, sales, profit, assets, market value and market capitalization for the compilations.

[Modite] Modite - The top 3 things you can do to save the world. Literally.: Let’s take a look at an ecosystem for an example of a functional system that doesn’t plunder its own resources. Ecosystems are made up of individual actors that each play a part in maintaining the integrity of the system.

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