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Archive for July, 2011
29 Jul
A Permaculture Farm: The Perennial Revolution of Oikos Tree Crops
A Permaculture Farm: The Perennial Revolution of Oikos Tree Crops A Michigan permaculture farm defies the agricultural status quo by growing in harmony with nature. Posted 28 July 2011, by Eran Rhodes, Mother Earth News, motherearthnews.com Hidden within the rolling forested hills and vineyard-covered valleys of southwest Michigan, on the outskirts of a town that [...]
29 Jul
Designing a mushroom death suit
Designing a mushroom death suit Posted 20 July 2011, by Alison George, New Scientist (Reed Business Information Ltd.), newscientist.com (Image: James Duncan Davidson/TED) Artist and inventor Jae Rhim Lee has come up with an unusual way to confront our attitudes about death. At the TEDGlobal conference last week, she talked to New Scientist about the [...]
29 Jul
How to make solar power 24/7
How to make solar power 24/7 MIT team designs concentrated solar thermal system that could store heat in vats of molten salts, supplying constant power. Posted 29 July 2011, by David L. Chandler, MIT News (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), web.mit.edu The biggest hurdle to widespread implementation of solar power is the fact that [...]
29 Jul
Montana launches $85 million carbon storage project
Montana launches $85 million carbon storage project Posted 29 July 2011, by Laura Zuckerman, Reuters (Thomson Reuters), reuters.com (Reuters) – The federal government has given final approval to an $85 million, eight-year pilot project to inject a million tons of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into underground rock formations in Montana [...]
29 Jul
Study: Losses persist in protected areas
Study: Losses persist in protected areas Posted 28 July 2011, by Staff, United Press International (UPI), upi.com UNITED NATIONS, July 28 (UPI) — Loss of global biodiversity can’t be stopped with the current strategy of setting aside land and marine territories as “protected areas,” U.N. researchers say. An assessment published Thursday in the [...]
29 Jul
Adding Canada to the list of international biosphere visitors
Adding Canada to the list of international biosphere visitors Posted 28 July 2011, by Staff, My Sunshine Coast Life, mysunshinecoast.com.au The Manicouagan biosphere reserve in Quebec, Canada was the 10th international biosphere to officially visit the Noosa biosphere reserve since created by UNESCO in 2007. Marie-Pierre Clavette, Project Manager for the Manicouagan biosphere reserve in [...]
29 Jul
Chouf Cedar Reserve receives Batisse Award
Chouf Cedar Reserve receives Batisse Award Posted 29 July 2011, by Staff, The Daily Star (Lebanon News), dailystar.com.lb CHOUF: UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme has granted the Michel Batisse Award for Biosphere Reserve Management to the Chouf Cedar Reserve. The biennial award was given to Nizar Hani, the director of the Chouf [...]
29 Jul
Biosphere Reserve in Mexico Earns Validation from Two Global Carbon Market Standards
Biosphere Reserve in Mexico Earns Validation from Two Global Carbon Market Standards Local Farmers Benefit from Reforestation Project Validated by the Rainforest Alliance Posted 26 July 2011, by Staff, Rainforest Alliance, rainforest-alliance.org After 15 years of hard work and innovation, a conservation project in Mexico’s Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve has become the first in the [...]
