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Using chicken manure to create electricity, and the benefits of getting to know your local farmer. These were among the myriad topics covered at a conference yesterday on "Preserving Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change."
If protecting one endangered species means other, less threatened species are harmed in the process, where is the ethical and environmental balance point? That's the issue the US Fish and Wildlife Service is wrestling with as they attempt to eradicate a plague of non-native house mice on the Farallon Islands.
One form of environmental activism currently being practiced in Brazil involves supporting economic development as an alternative to deforestation in the Amazon basin. But building a market for eco-tourism means creating a new appetite for visiting nature among the residents of that country's major cities.
Marcos Amend
What's the most effective response to plans for an environmentally destructive highway through the rain forest? For Conservation Strategy Fund's Brazil Executive Director Marcos Amend, it's more subtle than direct opposition.
A stunning vista from Brazil's world famous Iguaçú National Park, which features anywhere from 150 to 300 separate waterfalls, depending on the season and flow in the region's rivers
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The San Francisco Bay is a great natural treasure— The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) is charged with keeping it safe.In 2010, KRCB is presenting the history and future of our beloved Bay in a new series called “Around the Bay with Will Travis,” who is the executive director of BCDC.
In Episode 1, Will talks about how his agency came into existence, after the public reacted to this 1959 report from the Army Corps of Engineers. In Episode 2, Will addresses how the rising seas have already affected the Bay. This is a chart that illustrates his point.
In Episode 3, Will discusses the importance of levees and wetlands in the protection of our infrastructure.
In Episode 4, Will speaks about storms, floods, fires, droughts, and what could happen to our drinking water.
In Episode 5, Will comments on California’s past political leadership and what we can do in the future.
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What can people in poverty do to improve their lives? Mary Gonzales takes an atypical approach; organizing disadvantaged communities to exercise political clout they didn’t know they had.
Mary Gonzales, The Gamalilei Foundation's regional organizer for California and Hawaii, reports that her greatest success story to date occurred in Venturra County, where a combination of organizational outreach and concentrated research enabled the local agricultural community to fend off a major mining operation's plans.
