How Markets Can Make a Difference in Forest Conservation
Originally Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest covered more than 1.3 million square kilometers--an area larger than the state of California. But today, less than 7% of this superbiodiversity-rich biome is left standing. The remaining forest is extremely fragmented, and it continues to suffer from deforestation and forest degradation with the encroachment of millions of people living in its surroundings. Presently, one of the most pressing factors contributing to the slow and steady degradation of the forest fragments is the use of wood as fuel for domestic cooking.
Unlocking Forest Streams
As the global freshwater deficit grows, a survey of 1,000 “environmental experts” from 77 nations asked why. Was it climate change, pollution, allocation, or rising demand? Predictably, 79 percent implicated the primary culprit as deforestation. The roots of that blame are broad, deep, strong, and old.
Assessing the Economic Value of Public Lands
The centerpiece of the debate on how to value America’s public lands is their contribution to job creation. The push for such job creation estimates accelerated in the years since the recession due to persistent unemployment and the need to justify agency expenditures in a tight budget climate.
A Cuban Conservation Challenge
The easing of the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba brings significant conservation impacts.
Quantified: Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy
How lessons from tech-savvy, high-impact organizations could help environmental conservation.
Building the Most Fabulous Board Ever
Now more than ever, nonprofits need to leverage their boards to expand their networks, identify innovative strategies, and secure additional resources.
Kinship Fellows Webinar Series
The Kinship Fellows webinars expand on themes presented during the month-long Kinship Conservation Fellows training program in order to provide global conservation leaders with access to case studies that demonstrate market-based tools. With mid-career professionals in mind, the series provides skills-based sessions on topics such as communications, marketing, and business.
Evaluating properties in Eleuthera for market-based conservation
Kinship Fellows help local community transform conservation sites on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
Urban Natural Areas: Enhancing Human and Ecological Health
The Natural Areas Conservancy recently completed its first project, an ecological and social assessment of all significant natural areas under the jurisdiction of NYC Parks. This is the largest dataset of ecological health for any urban area in the nation, and provides us with a chance to shift from an opportunistic to a data-driven decision-making approach for restoration, conservation, and the creation of resilient landscapes.
Sustainable Community Enterprise for Long-term Conservation
PlanJunto’s vision is that local indigenous communities in the Amazon are able to manage their natural surroundings sustainably and in effective cooperation with their allies.
Assessing the Economic Value of Public Lands
The centerpiece of the debate on how to value America’s public lands is their contribution to job creation. The push for such job creation estimates accelerated in the years since the recession due to persistent unemployment and the need to justify agency expenditures in a tight budget climate.
Building the Most Fabulous Board Ever
Now more than ever, nonprofits need to leverage their boards to expand their networks, identify innovative strategies, and secure additional resources.
Grounding Adaptive Leadership into Systems Thinking
Today’s conservation projects deal with complex adaptive social and ecological challenges that must be addressed holistically if one is to re-establish the harmony that has been broken between communities and their natural environments. Adaptive leaders must be able to embrace and make sense of the whole complexity of their projects.
Certification as Market-based Environmental Change
How global certifications fall somewhat short of local biodiversity needs … and the need to innovate for locally relevant and democratic market-based solutions.
Sustainable Community Enterprise for Long-term Conservation
PlanJunto’s vision is that local indigenous communities in the Amazon are able to manage their natural surroundings sustainably and in effective cooperation with their allies.
Evaluating properties in Eleuthera for market-based conservation
Kinship Fellows help local community transform conservation sites on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
Unlocking Forest Streams
As the global freshwater deficit grows, a survey of 1,000 “environmental experts” from 77 nations asked why. Was it climate change, pollution, allocation, or rising demand? Predictably, 79 percent implicated the primary culprit as deforestation. The roots of that blame are broad, deep, strong, and old.
A Cuban Conservation Challenge
The easing of the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba brings significant conservation impacts.
Quantified: Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy
How lessons from tech-savvy, high-impact organizations could help environmental conservation.
The Third Paradox of Water: Monopoly (Part 3)
In a four-part series, James G. Workman explains the three paradoxes that obstruct water conservation: value, efficiency, and monopoly. In this article, Workman writes about the third paradox: monoply. Water conservation erodes a private or public utility’s revenues. To remain solvent, or grow, providers are forced to encourage and reward waste.
Resolving the Three Paradoxes of Water Conservation (Part 4)
In a four-part series, James G. Workman explains the three paradoxes that obstruct water conservation: value, efficiency, and monopoly. Water efficiency credits can become a conservation currency with a simple, self-interested, formula for success: Earn + Own + Trade = Restore.
Three Paradoxes that Obstruct Water Conservation and How We Can Resolve Them through H2Ownership (Part 1)
In a four-part series, James G. Workman explains the three paradoxes that obstruct water conservation: value, efficiency, and monopoly. In this article, Workman writes about the first paradox of water conservation: value. Why is water so “priceless” in use, yet so worthless in exchange?
Innovative Solutions to the California Drought
The California drought is in its fourth year, and clocking in as one of the worst droughts in our state’s history. Conflicts over water use and blaming certain sectors for their contributions to the problem are intensifying.
The Second Paradox of Water Conservation: Efficiency (Part 2)
In a four-part series, James G. Workman writes about the three paradoxes that obstruct water conservation: value, efficiency, and monopoly. In this article, Workman writes about the second paradox: efficiency. As long as people merely “rent” the resource, efficiency devices increase overall consumption. Frugally conserved water is lost through new demand by the system as a whole.
Urban Natural Areas: Enhancing Human and Ecological Health
The Natural Areas Conservancy recently completed its first project, an ecological and social assessment of all significant natural areas under the jurisdiction of NYC Parks. This is the largest dataset of ecological health for any urban area in the nation, and provides us with a chance to shift from an opportunistic to a data-driven decision-making approach for restoration, conservation, and the creation of resilient landscapes.
