The ocean and itscoral reefsprovide natural breakwaters to buffer and protect our shorelines. The reef’s rough surfaces and complex structures dissipate the force of incoming waves, helping prevent flooding, erosion, property damage and loss of life. Because of the impact the oceans have on ever...
Forest Trends is a non-profit organization that works to conserve forests and other ecosystems through the creation and wide adoption of environmental finance, markets, and other payment and incentive mechanisms. Forest Trends uses various technologies to monitor and measure the impact of its environmen...
Tell your state representatives toprotect and conserve your state-owned public lands, and not to allow them to be used/exploited or leased for resource extraction and profit (logging, mining, rampant grazing, or development). Tell them to designate more land for wilderness/wildlife conservation and...
To conserve water, the Project Committee with its farmer majority quickly decided that: (a) all farmers should cultivate short-age varieties of paddy that season; (b) planting operations should be completed before 20 April 1997; (c) rotational irrigation should be followed after this date; and...
By joining forces Plant-for-the-Planet exemplifies its global initiative by collaborating with like-minded ambassadors to deliver its mission of helping the next generation stand up for their future. Through the Plant-for-the-Planet platform, tree planting organizations of...
Currently, it’s working on a capacity of 70.000 tonnes in partnership with big chemical companies, helping them move closer to their goals of sustainability. BlueAlp considers it a part of its mission to disseminate this technology globally by licensing it to third parties, demonstrating that ...
trusts, were successfully helping local communities protect land from development at an unprecedented rate, and this trend continues unabated (LTA 2000). According to the 2003 Land Trust Alliance Census, conservation organizations have collectively ...
[40] added five factors that are important for the commitment and motivation of volunteers in environmental stewardship programs: (1) learning, which involves using the volunteer opportunity to learn new things about the environment; (2) helping the environment, which entails an opportunity to do ...