How You Can "Offset" The Intellectual Pollution Ecosystem Marketplace is a news service focused on identifying workable solutions to sticky environmental challenges, and the Skoll Foundation recently invited our parent organization, Forest Trends, to join the Social Entrepreneurs Challengee.
Their considerations for the regional forestry centers, research organizations, and forest industry were at a much lower level compared to the private forest owners' associations (Figure 3).
The goal is to have environmental organizations, government, forest product industries, oil and gas companies and the First Nations (Indians that have treaties with Canada) all sign on.
At this time, organizations and forest managers may be (understandably) reluctant to take risks and accept uncertainties associated with trying out unfamiliar management approaches without being able to rely on extensive scientific literature and empirical results from field experiences.
Organizations managing forest land often make fire management decisions that seem overly risk-averse in relation to their stated goals for ecosystem restoration, protection of sensitive species and habitats, and protection of water and timber resources.
Through social network analysis of interview data, we found that despite sharing concern about wildfire risk in an area with a common set of ecological conditions, organizations with forest restoration and fire protection goals comprised distinct networks, as did organizations that focused on different geographic areas of the ecoregion.
If they did actually open their books, they'd find plenty of material from organizations like Forest Trends, Conservation International, and others.
Latin American chefs and non-profit organizations, including Forest Trends and Canopy Bridge, are exploring new ways to bring the Amazon's vast pantry of healthy ingredients and traditional cuisines to tables in indigenous villages and big cities, alike.
A New Way of Looking at Our Movement In conjunction with the release of HARMONY, TckTckTck developed an innovative digital initiative to help visualize the work of organizations like Forest Ethics, countries like Costa Rica, and numerous other NGOs and individuals all of whom are working on crucial pieces of the sustainability puzzle.
Some growers have benefited from a program run by a local nonprofit organization, Sanctuary Forest, that subsidizes the installation of tanks that can store water in the winter, when it is plentiful, for use in dry months.
