From ClimmateCommunity:
Congratulations to Victoria Bogdan this weeks Climate Community Citizen of the Week!
Victoria is a life long environmentalist – with a deep love of the out doors and an interest in learning how to make life on our planet sustainable both for humans and the other animals that we share the earth with. The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nature’
Climate Community Citizen of the Week: Victoria Bogdan
February 25th, 2010
Posted by: danclimate
What is permaculture and why is it important?
February 3rd, 2010
Posted by: spores101
What is perma-culture? Why is it important?
As defined, “permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies.” Breaking this down further, permaculture is the act of creating independently functioning natural systems that can produce substantial amounts of food while maintaining a natural balance [...]
Categories: Sustainable activism
Tags: agriculture, algea bloom, biodiversity, biodynamics, bioremediation, environmental, gardening, gardens, Nature, nitrogen, organic, Permaculture, phosphorous, symbiotic
The Loss of Connection
December 14th, 2009
Posted by: Ted
There is a phrase of scripture many Christians know – The field is white, all ready to harvest. However, I’ve lived in the city during my entire childhood, and so the meaning of that image eluded me until one day, my bishop asked us youth why the scriptures always describe the field as white. Why [...]
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Christ, Christian, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, environment, Mormon, Nature, parable
Update on “Friends in the Meadow-Birds”
November 1st, 2009
Posted by: growgreenkids
Friends in the Meadow-Birds is progressing along as well as any new children’s book I suppose, unless of course the author is Madonna or the book ends up on Oprah, by miracle. I’ll put the latter on my Christmas Wish List!
The book and information was placed on The USA Book News site in September, 2009 [...]
Categories: Bird Watching Birding Birding for children. Life Lessons Nature environment Tags: Bird Watching, Birding, children's book, environment, Nature
Is Sustainability a requirement for eco-tourism?
October 29th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
In yesterday’s sustainable tourism conference, speaker Lawrence Pratt dissected the issue and importance of sustainability in regards to successful eco-tourism. Pratt - from INCAE, a multi-national graduate business school that was established by support from President John Kennedy – said that sustainability is integrally linked with eco-tourism and vice verse.
But sustainable tourism goes beyond Nature, he said. In [...]
Sustainable architecture’s impact
October 28th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
Yesterday, renowned architect Bruno Stagno spoke during the sustainable tourism confrerence about the importance of creating sustainable architecture that adapts to the local climate.
Stagno, winner of numerous international awards including from the Dominican Republic and Holland, stressed the need to recognize and incorporate Nature in architectural design, or, as he calls it, bioclimatic architecture.
Stagno said that 50 percent of the world’s existing forests [...]
Costa Rica’s Sustainable Tourism Conference Begins
October 27th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
Opening ceremonies of the first annual Planet People Peace conference on sustainable tourism took place tonite. The evening was an elegant setting filled with dignitaries, music, dancers and inspiration.
Costa Rica’s growing number of environmental achievements and successes were outlined, including that more than 26 percent of the country is under some sort of protection for conservation. [...]
Categories: Conference Observations Tags: carbon neutral, conservation, environment, environmental, Natural, Nature, sustainable
Evolution is an upgrade path
October 14th, 2009
Posted by: JoyousCreations
We all have the ability to make choices that improve how we live on this beautiful planet, and support the continuation of life. In this video, Janine Benyus talks about planning for upgrades and changes that will add to our sustainability. As always, she talks about some fabulous technological solutions coming out of the field [...]
Categories: Eco-Friendly Concepts & Technologies Green Building Uncategorized biomimicry Tags: biomimicry, design, evolution, Green Building, Janine Benyus, Nature, recycle, recyclinng, solutions, sustainable lifestyle, upgrade
China’s first national park
October 7th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
With the help of The Nature Conservancy. China has opened its first national park.
Potatso (Pudacuo) National Park is located on a Rocky-Mountain-National-Park-sized area of land in the north part of the state of Yunan. Its landscape resembles Yellowstone and is complete with roads, tour buses, lodges, boardwalks, interpretive programs.
Created and driven by the provincial governor of Yunan, Potatso National Park [...]
My Latest Inspiration
September 8th, 2009
Posted by: Peter Marquez
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea with music in its roar.
I love man not the less, but Nature more. – Lord Byron
This is where the title of my blog comes from.
I came upon this piece of poetry while [...]
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: civilization, conservation, green, introduction, Nature, society, wisdom