Tapioca-based bakeware is compostable, biodegradable Posted 16 Auguste 2011, by Anne Marie Mohan, Greener Package (Summit Media Group), greenerpackage.com Biosphere Industries provides closed-loop single-use food packaging systems that are said to have minimal to no impact on the earth’s natural life cycles. In developing the technology, a major priority for the company [...]
Archive for August 18th, 2011
18 Aug
An accuracy assessment of a spatial bioclimatic model
An accuracy assessment of a spatial bioclimatic model Canadian Forest Service Publications Posted 18 August 2011, by Staff, Natural Resources Canada, nofc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca View Record An accuracy assessment of a spatial bioclimatic model. 1996. McKenney, D.W.; Mackey, B.G.; Hutchinson, M.F.; Sims, R.A. Pages 1 -11 (Vol. RM-GTR-277) in Proceedings: Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and [...]
18 Aug
A double-sided CSG dilemma
A double-sided CSG dilemma Posted 18 August 2011, by Rob Burgess, Business Spectator, businessspectator.com Four years ago, fund manager John Abernethy wrote a prescient article for Business Spectator explaining how we were degrading our ‘economic environment’ just as much as the physical and biological environment. Abernethy, executive director and chief investment officer [...]
18 Aug
Creation of Forest Agency and Forest Association planned in Azerbaijan
Creation of Forest Agency and Forest Association planned in Azerbaijan Posted 17 August 2011, by Staff, ABC-AZ (Fineko Informational & Analytic Agency), abc.az Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Today Baku is hosting a seminar on FLEG program oriented on forest protection. Consultant Azad Aliyev has reported that creation of independent wood agency or committee will [...]
18 Aug
Time for new strategy to save mammals, say biologists
Time for new strategy to save mammals, say biologists Posted 17 August 2011, by Staff (Agence France-Presse), Dawn, dawn.com PARIS: Time is running out to craft a plan to save Earth’s rich diversity of mammals, a quarter of whose species could be wiped out, biologists warned on Tuesday. “A global mammal [...]
18 Aug
Cameratraps take global snapshot of declining tropical mammals
Cameratraps take global snapshot of declining tropical mammals Posted 17 August 2011, by Jeremy Hance, Mongabay, mongabay.com A groundbreaking cameratrap study has mapped the abundance, or lack thereof, of tropical mammal populations across seven countries in some of the world’s most important rainforests. Undertaken by The Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM), the study [...]
18 Aug
Environment taking back seat to pocketbook issues: survey
Environment taking back seat to pocketbook issues: survey Posted 17 August 2011, by May Jeong (The Globe and Mail), CTV News (Bell Media), ctv.ca Companies can now take a break from making noise about their environmental efforts to woo consumers, a study has found. “The majority of Canadians think it is too [...]
18 Aug
Can the armed forces embrace sustainability?
Can the armed forces embrace sustainability? John Elkington explores the role of the military in a more sustainable future Posted 17 August 2011, by John Elkington, The Guardian (Media Limited), guardian.co.uk In the aftermath of the rioting and looting in London and other cities, a citizen’s army brandished their brooms and began the [...]
