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- OSS: A Spatial Decision Support System For Optimal Zoning Of Marine Protected Areas
- The authors have developed the Optimisation Support System OSS, a spatial decision support system, to deliver optimal solutions to the problem of identifying comprehensive, adequate and representative locations for conservation planning. This paper briefly demonstrates the application of systematic conservation planning to optimal MPA design and the development of OSS,...
- White papers 2005-11-14
- Environmentalism Made Feasible
- Running restaurants is an alluring business proposition for many. But what does that have to do with environmental conservation? Doing something for the cause of environment that revolves around restaurants is not everybody?s cup of tea. This paper introduces Ritu Primlani, Oakland, California-based nonresident Indian and founder of the nonprofit...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- A Conservation Research Strategy for the British Library
- This paper outlines the British Library's strategy for conservation research. The fundamental principle is that conservation research has to contribute directly to the long-term preservation of the physical collections, either by developing less interventive or more effective techniques for conservation, or by improving one's ability to prevent damage to the...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Venture Capital as a Financing Tool for Conservation Finance: Lessons Learned
- This paper provides some insights about venture capital as a financing instrument for protected areas, covering its advantages and inherent risks when compared with other financial instruments. The paper briefly covers the trends in the development of markets for environmental products and services, the participation of private sector agents as...
- White papers 2003-12-02
- Energy Efficiency and Conservation: Trends and Policy Issues
- This staff paper provides background for the efficiency workshop that is part of the public input process for the Integrated Energy Policy Report, a report to the Governor and Legislature. Trends in electricity and natural gas usage at the customer level and the contributions of different types of "demand side"...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Highest and Best Use
- The concept of “Highest And Best Use” is one of the most important and least understood principles in real estate. The highest and best use of a property, more than anything else, is what determines its value. Highest and best use is defined as that use, from among reasonably probable...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Integrated Coastal and Marine Management in Northern Regions: Reconciling Economic Development and Conservation
- There will be increasing pressure on northern coastal and offshore regions for resource extraction as resources become scarce in more accessible regions. Marine navigation and transportation is likely to increase in response to economic development, and as ice cover reduces and the ice free season extends as a result of...
- White papers 2002-11-14
- Conservation Tips: Advice for Framing Textiles
- The method used in framing a textile can have a significant effect on its preservation. Several important choices can be made that will affect the textile's longevity. These include the type and quality of materials used, the technique used, and the glazing used. This conservation tip sheet offers information to...
- White papers 2001-12-12
- National Energy Policy: Realistic, Balanced Solutions to Real Problems
- America has serious energy problems and President George W. Bush has a comprehensive National Energy Policy to address them, including increasing supplies of traditional fossil fuels, developing alternative sources of energy, and improving energy conservation and efficiency. The President's energy policy is a rational approach to energy planning that calls...
- White papers 2001-06-01
- A Strategy for Widespread Photovoltaic Deployment in California
- The following document is submitted as a subset of an overall plan for conservation, energy efficiency and renewables. The proposed guidelines, strategies and actions should become part of a concerted effort by the State to help alleviate the current energy crisis by establishing a long term, comprehensive strategy to improve...
- White papers 2001-02-16
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- McDonald's Offers DreamWorks' 'Kung Fu Panda' Global Happy Meal
- FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-McDonald's Offers DreamWorks' 'Kung Fu Panda' Global Happy MealC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Celebrating the debut of McDonald's "Kung Fu Panda" Happy Meal promotion, McDonald's, DreamWorks Animation SKG and Conservation International are creating Panda-mania by inviting kids and families to a one-of-a-kind "Kung...
- Articles 2009-06-08
- PRODUCERS EXPECT TO SPEND 3.5% MORE IN 2008 ON CAPEX
- U.S. producers will increase their domestic spending from $78 billion in 2007 to $81 billion in 2008 (up 3.5%), according New York-based Lehman Brothers' annual spending survey. Most of the increased spending will target oil, given the continued uncertainty surrounding gas prices. "We believe that spending in the U.S. may...
- Articles 2008-12-17
- Passion for nature: two nature lovers made a business out of what they enjoy doing. Bee Choo and Morten run an outlet selling books, gifts, and souvenirs. They have gone into nature publishing as well
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NESTLING next to the gushing waterfalls and foliage of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre is a shop specialising in nature books and merchandise. The shop is owned and managed by a husband and wife team, Morten Strange and Ng Bee Choo. As a...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Lance Berkman sustained excellence at the plate: Astros first baseman's consistency ranks him as one of the game's elite players and among the majors' top switch-hitters
- LANCE BERKMAN DOESN'T DRINK or swear, drives a Ford F-150, and has a wardrobe that s mostly jeans and boots. His idea of a perfect day is to spend a morning doing chores on his Brenham ranch and an afternoon watching college football. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
- Articles 2008-08-01
- Vancouver's Opus Hotel Introduces Rewards for Green Drivers
- Always at the leading edge, Opus Hotels has introduced another precedent-setting green initiative. This time it's hybrid car drivers-not to mention the planet they benefit-reaping the rewards. The beginning of summer marked the hybrid rewards incentive that sees guests who arrive in hybrid cars, which consume less gas,...
- Articles 2008-07-03
- USDA Holds Chesapeake Bay Listening Session
- The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of2008 (2008 Farm Bill) contains new funding for conservation programassistance targeted for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, utilizing establishedconservation programs and practices. On Monday, July 14, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will holda public listening session on the Chesapeake Bay provisions of the 2008Farm Bill....
- Articles 2008-07-03
- Sutherland Institute launches policy center
- Conservative public policy think tank Sutherland Institute said this week that it has launched the Center for Community and Economy, the fourth policy center it has created this year. Allan Carlson, founder and president of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society, will be the center's...
- Articles 2008-07-03
- Cameron finds Davis in need of serious election opponents
- David Cameron must wonder what he walked into last night. The Conservative leader made a whistle-stop visit to Haltemprice and Howden, eight days ahead of the by-election called following the resignation of his former shadow home secretary, David Davis. The attention being afforded another candidate, David Icke,...
- Articles 2008-07-03
- Museum staff to go on strike
- Home News IN BRIEF *Museum workers in London will strike tomorrow to protest over pay. Scientists, conservators, curators, librarians, computer staff, photographers and designers at the National Gallery and British Museum are angry that the Treasury was almost 12 months late in agreeing their 2007 pay deals....
- Articles 2008-07-03
- Extinction risk 'is underestimated'
- Home News IN BRIEF *Endangered species may be 100 times more at risk of extinction than most experts believe. Brett Melbourne, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Colorado at Boulder, says in Nature that methods used to determine entrants to the "Red List" greatly underestimate the...
- Articles 2008-07-03
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