• Friday Night at the Movies | Ray Anderson, on Corporations and Sustainability

    Updated: 2010-03-19 18:38:12
    When it comes to business and sustainability, Ray Anderson gets it. While reading Paul Hawken’s Ecology of Commerce in 1994, the founder and chairman of Interface — the world’s largest manufacturer of modular carpet — had an epiphany. He came to realize the extent to which industry is damaging the planet without factoring the current or [...]

  • England’s Lost and Threatened Species

    Updated: 2010-03-15 10:19:07
    A report published by Natural England last week highlights the extent to which habitat loss, invasive species, pollution and now climate change have impacted on England’s species. “Lost Life: England’s Lost and Threatened Species” suggests that, amongst other figures, 24% of butterfly species and 22% of species of amphibian in England have been driven to [...]

  • A panel discussion: The price of extinction – what losing biodiversity costs

    Updated: 2010-03-11 11:26:48
    A panel discussion was held yesterday evening at the Judge Business School in Cambridge, entitled ‘The price of extinction: what losing biodiversity costs’. The event was part of the Cambridge Science Festival, in collaboration with Cambridge Conservation Initiative and Science Magazine. Tim Radford from The Guardian opened the discussion by highlighting the global scale of [...]

  • Growing Interest in Habitat Banking

    Updated: 2010-03-09 15:57:59
    Habitat banking describes the trade in habitat or biodiversity ‘credits’, i.e. areas of land where environmental restoration has taken place that can be bought to compensate for unavoidable habitat destruction through development. This concept has been in practice in the form of wetland mitigation banks in America since the 1980s, and its use is spreading [...]

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