Restoration Ecology

Catherine Page Harris: Art and Ecology at UNM started as a response to the needs of students who were enrolling in the Land Arts program, but didn't have a background in ecological concerns, or in the work of ecological artists. ...  

  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...  

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...  

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...  

Ecology Coatings, Inc., a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, advanced coatings, has developed UV-cured coatings specifically to address opportunities within the paper and packaging industry. These opportunities include the need for increased water and chemical resistance, along with solutions to important application and environmental issues, such as lower energy use, sustainability, solvent-free materials, and...  

Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline. It is based on prior work done by the Ecological Society of America and associated efforts (Michener et al., 1997, Ecological Applications). EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by used in a modular and extensible manner to document ecological data. Each EML module is designed to describe...  

Many collective human activities, including violence, have been shown to exhibit universal patterns1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. The size distributions of casualties both in whole wars from 1816 to 1980 and terrorist attacks have separately been shown to follow approximate power-law distributions6, 7, 9, 10. ... (Read on Source)  

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...  

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  

One day each year, a group of bird-watchers fans out across the region to write a chapter in Western Pennsylvania's history. The Christmas Bird Count, a gathering that attracts as many as 130 birders, began more than 50 years ago as a hobbyists' holiday.  

ANN ARBOR, Michigan — The Ecology Center's latest testing of children's toys and apparel is still finding lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic and other harmful chemicals in items on store shelves.For the past two years the annual toy test results have...  

'...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...  

Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is a not for profit non governmental organization that searches for better outcomes, including new solutions, to the management of knowledge resources. KEI is focused on social justice, particularly for the most vulnerable populations, including low-income persons and marginalized groups. There are probably 5 billion people who live in the margins of the global economy, and an entire planet that depends...  

The Ecology Center facilitates urban lifestyles consistent with the goals of ecological sustainability, social equity, and economic development. We seek to make these goals accessible by providing people with the information they need, the alternatives they seek, and the infrastructure necessary to make sustainable practices possible on a large scale. We aim to make the visionary mainstream.  

This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment. It discusses major ideas and results in a manner accessible to all Yale College undergraduates. Recent advances have energized these fields with results that have implications well beyond their boundaries: ideas, mechanisms, and processes that should form part of the toolkit of all biologists and...