One of the many reasons my family is moving from Northwest Florida to Denver this fall has to do with Colorado's extensive system of trails and open space parks. Until I visited the area for the first time last July, I had never experienced the full, best-of-both-worlds effect of ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk last month, about Architecture, Design, Environment & Wildlife
The popularity of older, inefficient residential models, particularly the American suburb, has dropped as higher fuel prices make long commutes more costly and mixed-urban neighborhoods and other community-based housing options gain steam. Some people are settling in areas with other proponents of green living and increasing their sustainability as an ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk last month, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Design, Philosophy & Religion (2 comments)
The shrunken Aral Sea in Central Asia, product of a massive twentieth-century environmental disaster, has healed to a remarkable degree according to a recent update from the Kazakhstan government that describes the recovery as miraculous. Water is returning to the North Aral Sea, setting an example for future ecological recovery ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk in August, about Agriculture & Food, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Water
Preservation of globally important wild spaces like wetlands and tropical forests tends to hinge on a question of economics; how can developing regions preserve these vast swaths of land without losing the financial benefits of developing them? Logging, for example, threatens old growth and tropical forests around the world, but ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk in August, about Climate Change, Deforestation, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Politics
If you thought the Canadian boreal forest preservation plan was big, get a load of this one straight out of Southern Africa. The Democratic Republic of Congo recently announced the designation of the Ngiri-Tumba-Maindombe area around Lake Tumba as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. It's ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk in August, about Agriculture & Food, Carbon Sequestration, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Water
In response to food supply problems related to recent weather disasters, ethanol demand, and higher costs, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) may allow farmers to opt out of conservation deals that paid them to keep erosion-sensitive land uncultivated. We're talking millions of acres of grasslands and other ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk in August, about Agriculture & Food, Environment & Wildlife, Politics
Environmentalists, scientists, and wildlife experts all over the world laud a monster new land conservation deal in North America that bodes well for everything from biodiversity to global air quality to climate change. In Canada, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently pledged to protect 225,000 square kilometers (55 million acres ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk in July, about Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Politics (3 comments)
U.S. families settle in suburbs. That's been the trend since World War II as American parents looked for safe neighborhoods, good schools, and big backyards for our children. Today, though, higher fuel costs that are revamping the U.S. auto industry and the ongoing foreclosure and housing crisis ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk in July, about Architecture, Energy Saving, Population, Transport
Earth's great deserts formed slowly, as lack of precipitation over areas with low vegetation resulted in vast swaths of arid land. Some of these dry places, like the Sahara, were once fertile grasslands and may become so again sometime in the far future. Deserts are major geographical features of ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk in July, about Agriculture & Food, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Logging
Part 2 of 2 from Amy Anaruk on the U.N. Biodiversity Conference. Read Part 1 here. As the biodiversity conference in Germany drew to a close, delegates had agreed on substantial measures to further the creation of land reserves and help developing countries protect their biodiversity. On the thorny ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk in July, about Agriculture & Food, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Politics
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