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How Do You Teach Kids to Live Sustainably on an Island?

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on How Do You Teach Kids to Live Sustainably on an Island?

What’s being done to teach environmental education to kids like these? Photo credit: maveric2003 via Flickr/Creative Commons Environmental education is playing a bigger role around the globe as we all learn more about our environmental surroundings. As with all environmental solutions, there’s no one-size-fits-all recipe for effective environmental education around the world; there are just too many cultural, social, and environmental variances to make it work effectively. Add in some wrinkles like … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Russian Scientist Creating a Backyard Ice Age Ecosystem to Slow Global Warming

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Russian Scientist Creating a Backyard Ice Age Ecosystem to Slow Global Warming

Photo via debbie_sonberg Some people put up bird feeders to expand their backyard wildlife, while others add native plants and flowers to attract insects and animals. But Sergey Zimov has decided to recreate a habitat from 10,000 years ago. Over the last 20 years, he’s added wild horses, musk oxen, reindeer, and is even planning to add Siberian tigers and wolves to create an ecosystem lost after the last ice age. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Forecasting an Ecosystem’s Point of No Return

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Matt Callow /Flickr Most conservation, unfortunately, is reactive. Though improved assessment methods make this reaction more timely, plans are crafted after habitats are degraded and species are recieve protected status after their populations have demonstrated critical declines. New research, however, could help conservationis… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Nearly 80% of Oil Still Threatens Ecosystem, Surfer Saves a Stranded Shark, Albino Peacocks, and More (Slideshow)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

In the wake of the Gulf oil spill, a new report from the University of Georgia and the Georgia Sea Grant reveals that the amount of oil remaining in the water is far higher than reported. In fact 70-79% of oil not captured at the wellhead by BP still poses a threat to the ecosystem; that’s 2.9-3.2 million barrels of oil still in the water. In other green news, the Global Footprint Network tells us that tomorrow is Earth Overshoot Day–every single thing we collectively do past this date depletes environmental capital, puts us into ecological debt. We may as well call this the “Animal Issue”: click through for photos… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Planted or Un-Planted, Manmade Wetlands Make Good Carbon Sinks – New Research Shows How

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Dean Forbes via flickr Restoring wetlands is great way to reestablish natural carbon sinks –a low-risk geoengineering method–and reap the benefits of the ecosystem services they provide. Now researchers from Ohio State University have demonstrated that after 15 years, it doesn’t matter if those wetla… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mud-Eating Miracle Fish Holds Together Ecosystem in Southwest Africa

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Wikipedia The coastal waters off southwest Africa is going through troubling times, becoming effectively a dead zone with fish populations collapsing, jellyfish populations booming, and oxygen levels dropping. But one tiny fish, the bearded goby, seems to be perfectly adapted to these otherwise dead-end conditions, and is helping hold together and entire ecosystem by acting as an integral link in the food chain. As anchovies and sardine populations are wiped o… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rumor: New iPods may be delayed

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Tomorrow is supposed to be the day Apple will be talking about the new iPod Touch and iPod Nano with their rumored 3.2MP integrated cameras. According to AppleInsider and Hardmac, however, they may not be releasing them as soon as we expected. According to both sites, they have heard a rumor that production of a bad camera module will push back the release of the new iPods

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Google’s search engine pinpoints extinction

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Thanks to the BBC for a link to this paper describing how Google's algorithm for ranking web pages could determine what species are most critical for sustaining ecosystems. The authors write in PLoS Computational Biology that their version of PageRank could ascertain which extinction would likely lead to ecosystem collapse. Species are embedded in complex networks of relationships

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How much rainforest is in your coffee cup?

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

How much rainforest can one cup of coffee help preserve? For those who buy coffee grown in the traditional manner, under the shade of rainforest trees, the answer is roughly 2.3 square feet per cup. It would be zero for many coffee drinkers because much of the coffee that people drink is not shade-grown coffee; most plantation owners remove native trees and forest to grow coffee

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