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Stanford’s Sustainability School: A Good Model?

Legal Planet

I’ll talk about some more mundane considerations next, but the fundamental issue is really whether there’s enough commonality among people like energy economists, conservation biologists, and civil/environmental engineers to make it useful to put them and their students under one roof. Intellectual Coherence. Sending a Message.

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Two-minute Takeaway: What is Carbon Sequestration?

Washington Nature

Worldwide, nature’s power to breathe, filter and store carbon dioxide can provide more than 1/3 of emissions reductions needed to meet the Paris Agreement target, according to a pioneering study by The Nature Conservancy and partners. Together, they pull carbon out of the atmosphere and store it, all for free. 1 Case, Michael J.,

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Helping Washington’s Coastal Forests Prepare for the Future

Washington Nature

When The Nature Conservancy purchased the Ellsworth Creek Preserve in 2001, just a fraction of the old-growth forest remained. © The Nature Conservancy. © The Nature Conservancy. To better understand how the ecosystem was changing, the 7,600-acre watershed was divided into experimental sections. “We © Erica Sloniker / TNC.

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Meet DeAnne Hamilton: Elevating Environmental Stories through Local TV Journalism  

Washington Nature

The general manager of Tacoma’s KBTC Public Television, and TNC in Washington trustee, on the power of storytelling to engage people in conservation and create a better future for the next generation. She brings this focus to her role as a member of the Board of Trustees at The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Washington.

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The Stream, July 2, 2021: Midwestern Farmers Aren’t Planting Enough Cover Crops To Mitigate Runoff

Circle of Blue

A new report from the federal agency found that even if greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stabilize, climate change will drastically alter Australia’s environment. It’s hard to pin individual storms on climate change, but the science is clear that atmospheric warming leads to more events like last weekend’s rainfall.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

What is Conservation? We define conservation as a broad approach to preserving what is already there and the due care and attention to protecting it for the future (1). Resource conservation is the active ways in which we seek to limit the use of resources to reduce the strain put on supply. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy.

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The alliance of carbon-negative countries

A Greener Life

On side B we all have all the carbon removed from the atmosphere by forests, soil and wetlands. Panama has conservation reserves that cover 30% of the country already, with plans to expand tree cover. Suriname is 93% rainforest. All three countries have relatively modest emissions and extensive areas of forestry for their size.