Category Archives: Nature & Conservation

Guyana’s plan to preserve its rain forest.

Posted on December 20, 2009 by

From the New York Times ; In Guyana, where pristine rain forest still covers 75 percent of the land, and barely 750,000 people live in a country roughly the size of Britain, a young economist-turned-president is pushing a development model based … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Green' investments, Biodiversity, Business, Climate change, Economics, Forests, Nature & Conservation, Politics & Policy initiatives, Rural communities, Thinking outside the box, UN | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Prince’s Rainforests Project

Posted on May 5, 2009 by

The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) today launched a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of the issues of our dwindling rainforests and the impacts of widespread deforestation and destruction. Kudos to Prince Charles.  He has made a video to help launch … Continue reading →

Posted in Brazil, Campaigns, Climate change, Forests, Nature & Conservation, People | 6 Comments

Mirror, mirror on the wall ….

Posted on May 3, 2009 by

image: whyevolution.com Article Charles Siebert writes; The first live chimpanzee to set foot on Europe’s shores arrived in The Hague in 1641, on board a Dutch merchant ship returning from Angola. The only known visual record of this unwitting pioneer’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Nature & Conservation, People, Thinking outside the box, Wildlife | Tagged , | 5 Comments

Funding for bees finally announced.

Posted on April 22, 2009 by

Article On 21 April, the UK government announced that £10m will be spent on research for pollinators – bees, butterflies and other insects – to see if the decline in UK populations can be halted. The government is contributing £2m … Continue reading →

Posted in Food & Agriculture, Funding, Nature & Conservation, UK | Tagged | 2 Comments

Greenpeace USA activist training

Posted on April 17, 2009 by

image: activists today are creative everywhere for all sorts of causes. From Greenpeace; Greenpeace is now accepting Fall 2009 applications for the Greenpeace Organizing Term, a semester of intense activist training for college undergraduates, ages 18-24. The Greenpeace Organizing Term … Continue reading →

Posted in Campaigns, Media, Nature & Conservation, Nuclear, Oceans, Politics, Protest, US, Youth | 2 Comments

To kill a mockingbird

Posted on March 24, 2009 by

Roxana Robinson writes in the International Herald Tribune, ‘And if that mockingbird don’t sing’. She writes; I live on an ordinary city block: concrete and pavement, urban and austere. Behind our apartment building there’s a meager garden space, hollowed out … Continue reading →

Posted in Biodiversity, Climate change, Disease, Media, Nature & Conservation, Sustainablity, Urban, US, Wildlife | Tagged , | 13 Comments

Regrowing the Rainforests?

Posted on March 12, 2009 by

Willie Smits has found a way of regrowing rainforests that have been cleared. He tells us about it in the excellent, informative and inspiring video above.  The audience begins to applaud when he announces that he has over 1000 rescued … Continue reading →

Posted in Biodiversity, Brazil, Business, Community Initiatives, Community Projects, Development, Education, Food & Agriculture, Forests, General, Nature & Conservation, People, Sustainablity, Thinking outside the box, Wildlife | 8 Comments

Shortlist for Severn estuary energy plans

Posted on January 27, 2009 by

Article A proposed shortlist of schemes to harness renewable energy from the tides of the Severn estuary has been announced by the UK Government. Five projects have been selected from 10 examined over the last six months. Among these is … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Design, Economics, Energy, Nature & Conservation, Planning, Politics, Protest, Renewables, Sustainablity, Technology, UK, Water, Wildlife | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Radio 4: Time and Tide – The Severn Barrage

Posted on January 15, 2009 by

  Update: government annouces short list for Severn energy options …. and further consultation. See here. BBC reporter Miriam O’Reilly explores the viability of the Severn barrage project, potentially the biggest, most expensive and most controversial source of sustainable energy … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Media, Nature & Conservation, Renewables, UK | 5 Comments

Green Reflections

Posted on December 27, 2008 by

Looking back over 2008 in terms of climate change, there hasn’t been enough news to give us hope but to take a brief (very brief) look back at some of the green news that comes to mind, here are a … Continue reading →

Posted in Campaigns, Carbon footprint, Climate change, Energy, Extreme weather, General, Nature & Conservation, Oceans, People, Politics, Politics & Policy initiatives, Protest, Science, Transport | 3 Comments