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  • Keystone XL: Beholden to the Highest Bidder

    Keystone XL: Beholden to the Highest Bidder

    The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has illustrated the need for a comprehensive U.S. energy policy. Joseph Edgar and Brian Marrs explain how we can break away from oil.

  • The Limits of Civil Disobedience: An Interview with Director Marshall Curry

    The Limits of Civil Disobedience: An Interview with Director Marshall Curry

    Documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry has said that he likes to "present people's best arguments and let those smack into each other." His third and most recent project does this exceedingly well – many good arguments, much tough smacking.

  • Fish Tales: An Interview with Author Paul Greenberg

    Fish Tales: An Interview with Author Paul Greenberg

    The author of the acclaimed book, “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food,” on fishing, writing, and healing the world’s oceans.

  • Streaks, Leaps, Maelstroms, and Murmurations

    Streaks, Leaps, Maelstroms, and Murmurations

    A group of starlings is called a murmuration. A group of tigers is called a streak (or an ambush). Why?

  • Audacious Hope:  An Interview with Environmental Activist Sharon Smith

    Audacious Hope: An Interview with Environmental Activist Sharon Smith

    Author, activist, and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies student Sharon Smith knows a thing or two about organizing.

  • Fishing for the Future of Fish

    Fishing for the Future of Fish

    Angela Orthmeyer reports on fishers across America who are voluntarily changing the way they fish so that their kids will someday be able to fish as well. She visits four towns to talk to four innovators who are fishing for the future.

 

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  • Keystone XL: Beholden to the Highest Bidder
  • The Limits of Civil Disobedience: An Interview with Director Marshall Curry
  • Fish Tales: An Interview with Author Paul Greenberg
  • Streaks, Leaps, Maelstroms, and Murmurations
  • Audacious Hope: An Interview with Environmental Activist Sharon Smith
  • Fishing for the Future of Fish
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Small-scale, biodiverse agriculture for multiple services in Togue, Guinea. (Photo by Stephen Wood)

The Challenge of Maintaining Ecosystem Services

December 2, 2011

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Fishing Report From Ibo Island

Outside Reading

“Thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Tufs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd ... become my Property. The Labor that was mine hath fixed my Property in them.”

John Locke - Of Property

Interview

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Activist and Social Entrepreneur Jeff Gang on Green Organizing and Green Buying

November 27, 2011

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  • Buckle up, we're going to MARS!

RSS News From Yale Environment 360

  • California ‘Clean Car’ Rules Mandate Boost in Electric Vehicle Sales
    California regulators are expected to pass new rules today requiring that 15 percent of all new cars sold by 2025 be powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other reduced-emission sources. The new rules proposed by the California Air Resources Board would also require a 75-percent reduction in smog-creating emissions from new cars, SUVS, pickups and minivans, a […]
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Keystone XL: Beholden to the Highest Bidder
January 3, 2012 12:24 am

Keystone XL: Beholden to the Highest Bidder

The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has illustrated the need for a comprehensive U.S. energy policy. Joseph Edgar and Brian Marrs explain how we can break away from oil.

Night Swimming in the Amazon
December 18, 2011 10:16 am

Night Swimming in the Amazon

“The Peruvian Amazon never fails to impose quandaries.”
Conservation scientist Sarah Federman describes one night’s mishap near a far-flung research station in the isolated Peruvian Amazon.

On the Ground

Fish Tales: An Interview with Author Paul Greenberg1

Fish Tales: An Interview with Author Paul Greenberg

The author of the acclaimed book, “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food,” on fishing, writing, and healing the world’s oceans.

  • Fishing for the Future of Fish
  • Forum: Australia’s Big Carbon Tax
  • Arresting Fear with Hope: Protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline
  • Bill McKibben on the Keystone XL Pipeline

Arts & Culture

The Anti-Sushi (of Miya’s Sushi)3

The Anti-Sushi (of Miya’s Sushi)

The concept of “sustainable seafood” has become an oxymoron, but not at Miya’s Sushi, where chef Bun Lai is tossing out old standards in favor of the local, the safe, the clean — the under-appreciated.

  • For the Love of Carrots: An Interview with the Chef of the World’s Greatest Restaurant
  • Fishing Report From Ibo Island
  • Really Good Poems by Alanna Bailey
  • India in Mass Transit

Ideas

The Challenge of Maintaining Ecosystem Services2

The Challenge of Maintaining Ecosystem Services

n 1997, New York City decided to allocate $1.5 billion to preserve and restore the Catskill/Delaware Watershed, an ecosystem over 100 miles outside of the city limits. The venture was more than an act of ecological good will; it was a savvy investment in the well being of New York City’s 8 million residents. Unlike many cities, the five boroughs—and [...]

  • The Arctic Irony: Protecting Areas We May Never See

At Yale

On the Path to Regulating Climate Change: The Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit0

On the Path to Regulating Climate Change: The Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit

Should Cost-Benefit Analysis be used in the generation of climate change policy? Yale Environmental Economics Professor Matthew Kotchen and Yale Environmental Law Professor Douglas Kysar debate.

Briefs

Streaks, Leaps, Maelstroms, and Murmurations0

Streaks, Leaps, Maelstroms, and Murmurations

A group of starlings is called a murmuration. A group of tigers is called a streak (or an ambush). Why?

  • Popular uproar over Beijing air pollution
  • Polar Brokers
  • World Population: 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0 Billion!

Blogs

In its final hours, COP17 gets Occupied1

In its final hours, COP17 gets Occupied

Perhaps it was the spotty Internet service, two weeks subsisting on pre-sealed sandwiches, or just maybe the fact that on the heels of the latest Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Durban, the world seems no closer to enacting climate change solutions. But Friday evening, hundreds of NGO delegates had had enough. In yet another reminder that the fate of [...]

  • Photos from the final day – is agreement coming?
  • Speaking but not listening – early failures of South Africa’s Indaba approach?
  • South Africa and the Climate Conference accelerator
  • Do you know your COP IQ?

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