Protect El Yunque Rainforest from Corrosive Development
El Yunque is a sacred place, and the only true virgin rainforest in the US National Parks System. It is the most biodiverse place on the island of Puerto Rico and should be valued by all people across the world as a location of global natural heritage. The rainforest preserve is now under threat from corrosive development projects, including housing, transport, energy and tourism.
The new Protect El Yunque site is open to anyone who wishes to share their experiences of the beauty and energy of El Yunque, or to post updates on events, petitions, and efforts to halt all attempts to invade this tropical paradise with short-sighted development. (Se puede agregar información en inglés, en español, o como quieran.)
Albaeco Trains Corporations for Ecosystem Services Review
Albaeco recently held a two-day training session on the Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR) at Stockholm Resilience Centre. In total, 16 new participants are now ready to advise companies and organizations about the importance of ecosystem support to business’s viability. The Ecosystem Services Review is a methodology to help companies understand the linkages between nature and business performance and development. During the course, participants had a chance to experiment with the ESR tools, and listen to invited speakers who presented different views on the ESR concept. A broad variety of information was given, from basic knowledge including the basics of ecosystem services, the government view, and case studies from industries where the ESR methodology has been implemented in order to understand future risks and opportunities in the context of the way they do business.One example came from Sveaskog who has developed a new way to protect young plants from bugs of the Hylobius genus. In the coming years there will be a ban on the earlier used chemical pesticides.
(Source: albaeco.com)
Lush natural environments, like this Hawai’ian landscape, require a complex array of systems, operating in flux, but with stabilizing tendencies. Ecosystem health is the microcosmic measure of climate health. Ecosystem collapse is the sign that climate patterns are deviating in troubling ways, failing to meet the expectations they have built into the natural environment over millions of years.
Essay on Generative Economics, delivered by Joseph Robertson to the second ClimateTalks roundtable, at Villanova University, on Feb. 17, 2011.
