Landscape Ecology

1 International Conference on Human Ecology Manchester UK June 29 th to July 3 rd 2009 Jointly convened by the Commonwealth Human Ecology Council the Society for Human Ecology and the University of Manchester in cooperation with the German Society...  

  The Copenhagen summit has got leaders from across the world deliberating on climate change. But, the people are already fighting a battle in their own ways.   Do common people doing their bit for ecology have a greater impact than high profile summits?   Resident Editor, The Times of India, Chandigarh   P.S. You may also SMS or email your views. Mail us on mytimesmyvoice@timesgroup.com with `Climate' mentioned in the subject line. To SMS...  

The planet has a fever and how we cool it down is the challenge of the century. How do we start? According to advocates of a branch of scientific techniques known as geo-engineering, the only approach is to think big and change the planet's ecosystem before it changes us. Are we ready for these four scientific experiments on a truly global scale? More on Green Technology  

Ankara. The European Union opens Monday official negotiations with Turkey on environmental problems, Turkish Huriet newspaper writes. Turkish newspaper defines the opening of the Ecology chapter as a new small step towards the accession to the EU ...  

Pope Benedict XVI released a letter for the World Day of Peace entitled “If You Want to Cultivate Peace protect creation” bore absurd titles as “Pope Goes Green”. The reports intimated that the Pope had somehow joined the fringe of the environmental movement.In fact, he called for a proper stewardship of the environment rooted in our obligations to - and solidarity with - one another. We have been given to one another as gifts. Creation has...  

Fisheries Management and Ecology journal presents international papers that cover all aspects of the management, ecology and conservation of inland, estuarine and coastal fisheries including:• Fisheries policy, management, operational, conservation and ecological issues• Fisheries managers' and ecologists' need for information, techniques, tools and concepts• Integration of ecological studies with all aspects of fisheries management• Promoting...  

Regarding Carolyn Guillot’s Nov. 19 letter (“Uncle Sam is out of control with cap and trade”), she’s terrified of cap and trade, probably the most effective program that actually reduces carbon dioxide emissions? Really? read more  

A Call to Integrate Faith, Ecology and the Global Economy To sign your organization on to this statement, letusknow To sign on to this statement as an individual, letusknow As hope-filled people, we stand in awe of Earth’s goodness and its capacity to provide abundant life for all God’s creation. We recognize our interconnection with Earth — with air, water, land, plants and other creatures. We recognize the dignity of the human person as an...  

Modifications enforcing a cleaner burn inside the engine. The result is a reduced carbon footprint exiting your engineGlendale,CA,USA -Engine Ecology (PR), by Dan Renner -18 Nov 2009: ... Engine Ecology brings about greenhouse gas pollution reduction very simply with our engine air intake system modifications... Burn more fuel inside of your engine rather than spitting it out of your exhaust with Engine Ecology's modifications to your...  

Excerpts from Oliver Rackham, "Ecology and Pseudo-Ecology: The Example of Ancient Greece," in Graham Shipley and John Salmon, edd., Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity: Environment and Culture (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 16-43:P. 16:A factoid is a statement that looks like a fact, makes sense like a fact, commands the respect due to a fact, and has all the properties of a fact except that it is not true. An example is the belief that...  

Islamabad/New Delhi - The halted peace process between India and Pakistan which keeps the risk of a nuclear war alive is also hampering efforts against a looming ecological disaster in South Asia. The...  

Taking place at Yale today and tomorrow is a conference: "Journalism & the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?" Participants include Paul Starr, Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, C.W. Anderson, PEJ's Tom Rosentiel, Columbia's own Michael Schudson...and many other luminaries. You can follow the live-stream of the conference proceedings here, and the Twitter feed...  

'...a bit of bad logic has been faithfully repeated by intellectuals seeking power: the belief, as sincere as it is silly, that if you have the right ideas, you are by definition smarter than the system you are trying to control. That's Weishaupt's Fallacy. -- Systems theory was a victim of the same fallacy. Very few of the newborn institutions in the systems movement were self-funding, most of them subsisted on government grants, and thus...  

Here's a cute little video from Maya Research that illustrates the hugeness of our digital future: trillions of networked computers representing all scales of information and objects will make up the edgeless ecology of information that we'll be floating in. This is but a small preview of a larger project, so be sure to stay tuned.(more...)  

You're being followed: Scientists track movement of living thingsKansas City StarNathan is combining work in biology, ecology, environmental science, physics and mathematics into a theory of Movement Ecology to help study how and why ...and more »