Business & Earth Day 2000
The theme of Earth Day 2000 will be “New Energy for a New Era” and is a great opportunity for businesses to get media attention for your work and …
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Brazil Suspends Amazon Clearing Permits
A day after reporting that the rate of deforestation in the world’s largest rain forest jumped nearly 30 percent last year (6500 square miles), Brazil …
Europe's Green Spider Website
Information officers in the EU environment ministries and agencies are working to make their work more visible and accessible through the Green Spider website. …
ESA Corporate Award
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a scientific, non-profit, 7800-member organization founded in 1915 to promote responsible application of ecological …
Countries Agree to Limit Global Fishing Overcapacity
Over 100 delegates at the Rome meeting of the UN Food & Agriculture (FAO) Committee on Fisheries agreed to control the size of their distant-water fleets …
Eco-Industrial Design Competition
An Eco-Industrial Design Competition is underway for students and professionals. It opened March 1 and entries are due by April 12. The design challenge is to …
U.S. Senate Launches Renewable Energy Caucus
21 members (11 Democrats, 10 Republicans) of the U.S. Senate recently launched the Senate Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, chaired by Senator …
U.S. Dept. of Defense Makes Demanufacturing Policy
U.S. DoD is the first government agency to make it policy to demanufacture its used electronic equipment into component metal, plastic and other …
New Study Questions Widely Accepted Forest Conservation Methods
A new study calls into question the widely accepted principle that gaps in forests caused by tree falls are largely responsible for patterns in tree diversity. …