1. Home
  2. Articles posted by: Rona Fried (Page 2635)

New Book: The New Economy of Nature

neweconomy.jpg

The New Economy of Nature brings together acclaimed ecologist Gretchen Daily with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Ellison to offer a captivating and informative look at a new economy — a system that recognizes the worth of natural systems and the potential profits in protecting them. The authors present intriguing profiles of charismatic trailblazers who are finding new ways of making conservation profitable, including the story of John Wamsley:Australias John Wamsley has made it his lifes work to fight biodiversity loss. As founder and director of Earth Sanctuaries, Ltd. (ESL), he and several thousand investors make money by zeroing in on peoples self-interest as a reason to care about Nature. At a time when many conservationists still oppose the notion of imposing bottom-line accounting on Nature, Wamsley embraces the trend. He scorns the more traditional technique of waging fund-raising campaigns for animals about to go extinct, saying they only create inefficient bureaucracies. Instead, he has found some remarkable ways to make a numbat turn a profit.The 61-year-old former mathematics professor lives at the site of his highly successful Warrawong nature reserve, near the city of Adelaide in South Australia. Warrawong is the smallest and busiest of three private wildlife parks managed […]

Read More

Greenpeace Wants Exxon To Feel the Heat

Greenpeacefinal.jpg

It can’t be much fun to be the target of a Greenpeace campaign. We’ll see how ExxonMobil reacts as the subject of an international campaign for its role in preventing action on global warming. The company is increasingly coming under fire for its social and environmental policies with 8 shareholder resolutions presented this year alone. Despite multiple appeals from Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council and others, ExxonMobil has refused to change its policy. They contend the company is using its sizable resources to support top politicians, like President Bush, in an effort to stifle U.S. action on climate change. Greenpeace cocuments this in their new report, “Denial and Deception: A Chronicle of ExxonMobil’s Corruption of the Global Warming Debate.” The message activists and celebrities delivered this week is “Don’t Buy ExxonMobil” as they shut down gas stations in the heart of Beverly Hills and Manhattan. Protestors peacefully chained themselves to gas pumps at both locations and dropped a banner that read, “Stop Global Warming, Don’t Buy ExxonMobil.” Similar protests were staged at 50 Exxon and Mobil stations across the nation.Says Gary Cook, Greenpeace Climate Campaign Coordinator, “In Europe and elsewhere, ExxonMobil is already feeling the heat – now the campaign […]

Read More