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How Craft Beer Can Save the World

How Craft Beer Can Save the World

Beer is an ancient beverage with roots growing as far back as the fifth millennia BC. Since malts and...
Gaia Theory

Gaia Theory

Gaia. For those with a working knowledge of Greek mythology, you will recognize the word as the name given...
The Overview Effect

The Overview Effect

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available, a new idea as powerful as any...
Environmental Economics: Putting a Value on Nature

Environmental Economics: Putting a Value on Nature

Does placing a monetary value on nature promote a greater stewardship of the natural world? The profit motive in...
Ignoring Nature No More: Compassionate Conservation at Work

Ignoring Nature No More: Compassionate Conservation at Work

A new book introduces the interdisciplinary field of compassionate conservation Compassionate conservation is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary and international...
Dead or Alive: The Promise of Tourism for Shark Conservation

Dead or Alive: The Promise of Tourism for Shark Conservation

When many people hear the words shark and tourism in the same sentence, the first thing they think of...
Mero Motu and the Extinction of Lions in Southern Africa

Mero Motu and the Extinction of Lions in Southern Africa

By Chris Mercer, Wilderness, 30th April 2013 Allow me to connect the dots to explain how the decision of...
Brilliant Baboons Screened at Taos Shortz Film Festival

Brilliant Baboons Screened at Taos Shortz Film Festival

For the second year in a row, Izilwane—Voices for Biodiversity had one of its films accepted by the Taos...
On the Quetzales Trail

On the Quetzales Trail

Panama’s Quetzales Trail connects the town of Boquete to the town of Cerro Punta along the edge of the...