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Restoration ecology From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org)Restoration ecology is the study of renewing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through active human intervention. Restoration ecology specifically refers to the scientific study that has evolved as recently as the 1980s
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A Guide to Anthropogenic Biomes of the World (ecotope.org)Anthropogenic Biomes (Anthromes) offer a new way to understand our living planet by describing the way humans have reshaped its ecological patterns and processes. This guide is based on a system of 21 Anthrome classes divided into 6 broad groups,
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Program returns to help fight invasive species (www.fftimes.com)For the sixth-straight year, a crew of summer students fanned out across the province to spread awareness about the devastating impact invasive species are having on our valuable natural resources.
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Greater Sudbury Ecology Map (www.truenorthmaps.ca)Greater Sudbury Ecology Map is a full colour large-format map showing a visual snap-shot of the environmental health of our region
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Consumerism is 'eating the future' (www.newscientist.com)"Advertising is an instrument for construction of people's everyday reality, so we could use the same media to construct a cultural paradigm in which conspicuous consumption is despised," he says. "We've got to make people ashamed to be seen as a 'future eater'."
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Pictures of Georgian Bay Littoral Biosphere Reserve (www.biosphere-research.ca)To connect people who are interested in biosphere reserve research ranging from work done ON the biosphere reserve concept and its implementatio
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Ecology Of The Night - Importance of the Night Sky (www.muskokaheritage.org)A group of volunteers and professionals spent eighteen months preparing for the international symposium where the ‘value of the night’ was discussed---including aspects of the natural/biological world, the human health and physiological world, the cultural/spiritual/ historical world, and the regulatory framework.
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Our landscapes are reflected in the clouds (ecotope.org)When we change our landscapes, we change the clouds above and thereby climate - this from new evidence just published by Jingfeng Wang (Wang et al., 2009) and a team of researchers in Rafael Bras’s climate lab at MIT. photo by: ideanorth
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Events - City biodiversity action plan needs volunteers by Friday May 22 (www.thesudburystar.com)Anyone wishing to participate in the stakeholder involvement sessions for the biodiversity action plan is asked to e-mail monet by Friday at 4:30 p.m. at stephen.monet@greatersudbury.ca. Include a simple paragraph describing why you are interested in participating.
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Public's input sought on biodiversity action plan (www.thesudburystar.com)The Sudbury environment has sustained considerable damage related to a century of mining and smelting activities. And, while regreening efforts over the past 30 years have shown some success, the recovery of natural, self-sustaining ecosystems will be a very long-term process.photo by: dblackadder
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Urban Habitats (www.urbanhabitats.org)Urban Habitats is an open-access electronic journal that focuses on current research on the biology of urban areas.
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37.Virginia Tech - dendro/dendrology/syllabus/ (www.fw.vt.edu)
Learn to identify over 150 tree species
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Return to the Ice Age - The La Brea Exploration Guide (www.tarpits.org)This week in Los Angeles a full mammoth fossil was discovered while making way for a parking lot. Kind of ironic
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Save Our Seeds - by dave chevrier (www.northernlife.ca)Impending social collapse is a very scary thought and here's a scary local blog post suggesting it's time to prepare
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Sci Fi - Terraforming (www.orionsarm.com)A fictional account of terraforming. Planet engineering for thought
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Terraforming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org)Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to those of Earth to make it habitable by humans.
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Urban Ecology Study Witnessing the Birth of a 'Designer Ecosystem' (www.physorg.com)Arizona State University has completed a long term study that looks at the ecology of the city. photo by: ideanorth
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Culture Change - Remembering Deep Ecologist Arne Naess (culturechange.org)Naess acknowledged the importance of those who have gone before and influenced him, like Rachel Carson, Gandhi and Spinoza. (Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) was, for Naess, the beginning of the international deep ecology movement, although he invented the name as well as provided the philosophical framework.
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Ecological footprint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org)Have you taken your home carbon footprint calculation?. Now read the Wikipedia article on the Canadian developed ecological footprint assessment photo by: Kalense Kid
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What is a Bioneer? (www.gcbl.org)Around the world designers are looking to nature to solve problems using biomimicry and the principles of ecological restoration, human health and social justice.
photo by: rrelam
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