Posted on 18 February 2011.
Just what do terms like biodiversity, the Ecological Footprint and ecosystem services actually mean, and what do they have to do with our daily lives?
The film was produced by WWF for the launch of the 2010 Living Planet Report and narrated by British and actor and comic Stephen Merchant, takes a lighthearted look at a serious problem and reminds us why we need to play nice.
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Posted on 18 December 2010.
Marc J. Dourojeanni is the leading Amazon expert in the world and has been at the forefront of academic and field reasearch in the Amazon for decades. He’s published several Books
Recently we caught up with him and asked 7 key questions about the Amazon, its main threats and what we can all do to help protect it.
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Posted on 10 December 2010.
Environmental Education, Hippies and IPods®
Environmental Education (or EE from now on) is probably the single most important form of prevention that we, as society, have at our disposal to minimize or, if too late as some scientists say, prepare for future climate extremes, loss of ecosystems, wars for resources, etcetera. But, is it working? My sincere opinion, and it’s just that, is a big, fat, rotund no.
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Posted on 09 September 2010.
Ecuador have signed and agreement with the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) that will open an international trust fund to receive donations supporting the government’s proposal to keep some 900 million barrels of oil in the ground. The heavy crude is found in three oil reserves beneath the fragile Yasuni National Park – the Ishpingo, Tambococha, and Tiputini (ITT).
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Posted on 01 September 2010.
An amazing exercise in world statistics that explains in basic terms the extent of the population problems we face today
‘The original text in ‘The Miniature Earth’ was first published on May 29, 1990 with the title “State of the Village Report”, written by Donella Meadows. Nowadays Sustainability Institute, through Donella’s Foundation, carries on her ideas and projects. The text used in this film has been modified. The statistics have been updated based on specialized publications and mainly reports on the world’s population provided by The UN, PRB and others.’ - The Miniature Earth
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Posted on 25 August 2010.
In case you don’t know, human consumption is destroying the rainforests of the world, unfortunately for us, they are vital to our very existence.
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Fermín Beltrán has worked in Architecture for many years gaining a wide range of real-world design and construction experience. He is fascinated by finding alternatives methods of creating modern architecture in ways that are sustainable, elegant, comfortable and functional. He has vast experience designing and constructing a wide array of buildings ranging from state-of-the-art music halls to social housing and even small holdings in South America. He is currently completing a Masters in Advanced Sustainability at the University of Dundee in Scotland
