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  • July 20, 2021

    How Ecotourism Isn’t Eco-friendly After All

    How Ecotourism Isn’t Eco-friendly After All

    Others believe ecotourism is not a successful development tool because it is not environmentally sustainable. As Regmi states at the end of his 2016 article, ecotourism is a short-term solution in poor countries, but when it is developed past the point that it is manageable by the environment, resource base, and local population, it becomes […]

  • July 18, 2021

    The Argument Against Ecotourism

    The Argument Against Ecotourism

    Some people believe ecotourism is not a successful development tool because it puts public health and livelihoods at risk. As briefly touched upon in this article by the Global Alliance Against REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), bushmeat is a dominant source of protein in some communities and restricting community resource use without alternatives for the purpose […]

  • July 16, 2021

    The Argument for Ecotourism

    The Argument for Ecotourism

    Some people view ecotourism is a successful development tool that discourages illegal, environmentally damaging and risky activities such as bushmeat hunting, the use of endangered species in traditional medicine, and deforestation. This is the perspective shared by Cate Twining-Ward and Colin A. Chapman on PlanetForward in the article, “Engineering Uganda’s conservation future to prevent the […]

  • July 2, 2021

    Sapelo Island Week One

    Sapelo Island Week One

    I recently returned from a week of fieldwork on Sapelo Island, one of the barrier islands along the coast of Georgia in the Southeast United States. It was a gentle introduction to fieldwork in a humid subtropical climate. Our small team of graduate students helped each other measure average stem height and stem count in […]

  • June 30, 2021

    The History of Sapelo Island

    The History of Sapelo Island

    Sapelo Island is famed for its rich history, but many accounts are confusing or gloss over important details. For instance, Georgia Coast Atlas refers to creator of Sapelo Island Research Foundation and co-founder of the University of Georgia Marine Institute, R.J. Reynolds, Jr., as a businessman. Another article refers to one previous island owner as […]

  • June 15, 2021

    Mother Russia, Father Oil

    Mother Russia, Father Oil

    A reindeer herder stares in dismay at the slick rainbow liquid suffocating the grass. It signifies another unreported spill by the oil and gas company that infiltrated the land some years back. The community has something of a partnership with the oil and gas company, despite the unfortunate outcomes for the local environment. Executives receive […]

  • April 26, 2021

    Food Sovereignty

    Food Sovereignty

    Food sovereignty is the right to have a means of obtaining healthy and sustainable food along with the ability to control the production and distribution of such foods. The following meal and the ingredients it contains are important to the food sovereignty and culture of Indigenous peoples.

  • April 20, 2021

    Gone Crawfishin’

    Gone Crawfishin’

    The domestication of Pacific whiteleg shrimp from the eastern Pacific Ocean by the United States Marine Shrimp Farming Program in the 1980’s had the reverse effect of domesticated plants such as corn, maygrass, pea, huckleberry, and others. The latter domesticated plants made life simpler, while shrimping appears to have only made it more complex. Although […]

  • March 19, 2021

    Tap Tap Tap In

    Tap Tap Tap In

    It’s the time of year that little green buds start appearing on trees, demanding sugars from the system at large to help them grow. As a result, sap starts to flow through the xylem from the roots to the leaves. Although it may be hard for some to believe that tapping trees can be sustainable, […]

  • March 17, 2021

    Stop Line 3

    Originally posted on Cómo Se Dice Hippie:
    Spoiler alert: Will discuss plot from Tank Girl, but it came out in 1995 so you had plenty of time to see it.? Tank Girl started as a comic book drawn by Jamie Hewlett and written by Alan Martin that spotlights Tank Girl, her boyfriend Booga a…

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