Category: environmentalism
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Earth Optimism in Times of Despair
Earth Optimism is a movement focused on the successes of people around the world to tackle a wide variety of environmental issues. It was started in 2017, a few years after the Ocean Optimism twitter campaign, by coral reef biologist Nancy Knowlton. Earth optimism has paved the way for people to be optimistic about other…
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Recovering Carbon on the California Coast
As the world is increasingly impacted by climate change, people are turning to nature-based climate solutions to increase carbon storage and limit emissions from the world’s ecosystems. Restoring degraded wetlands is an especially popular natural climate solution in the state of California, where land is literally sinking due to the removal of groundwater. By measuring…
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Shattered Mushroom Dreams
After harvesting my first mushroom meal of fresh chanterelles I thought my new hobby would really take off. I was excited for the mushroom hunting apparel that I could don for future forest expeditions, namely the collection basket that allows the spores to spread as you walk. Instead what I found was that every other…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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Wetland Wednesday Again
Quarry Ridge Mountain Bike Trail is an extraordinary outdoor feature of my Wisconsin town. There are six unique trails of varying difficulty that bring you right back to the start so you can do them over and over again. What’s even better, you can admire this vibrant green bog on your way in. There was…
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Wetland Wednesday
Wisconsin’s longest boardwalk will give you the chance to whiz past freshwater wetlands on a bike or up-close on a walk. The Lower Yahara River Trail also winds past Lake Waubesa, Native American Ho-Chunk Nation burial grounds, and a railway. Parts of the boardwalk are unanchored and “float” near the water’s surface, although you wouldn’t…
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