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Looking Back to Move Forward: Celebrating Ecological Restoration
By Biohabitats / On April 30th, 2015
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Celebrating Earth Day the Carnivore Way
By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 22nd, 2015
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The ESA: Taking Noah's Ark into a Brave New World
By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 16th, 2015
Reposted from Cristina Eisenberg's Huffington Post blog with permission.
The Endangered Species Act (ESA), created in 1973 to prevent extinction, is one of the most powerful environmental laws on Earth. The U.S. federal government designed it to function like Noah's Ark: you bring aboard species that risk extinction, a process called listing, and then use the best science to save them.
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Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability (Part 2): Pushing Limits
By Worldwatch Institute / On March 31st, 2015
Reposted from the Worldwatch Institute's blog with permission.
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Meet the Author: Q & A with ... Cristina Eisenberg!
By Meghan Bartels / On March 18th, 2015
In this installment of the occasional series, we hear from Cristina Eisenberg, author of The Carnivore Way.
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Magical Thinking is Not Conservation
By Meghan Bartels / On March 10th, 2015
Post by David Johns, contributor to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth.
When humans started to farm 12,000 years ago, they began to change the earth in basic ways, pushing aside other species to make room for themselves and those they favored, killing creatures they didn’t want and domesticating others, altering soils and water courses to suit themselves, and generally replacing ecological complexity with simplified landscapes.
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Experiencing True Coexistence with Carnivores
By Cristina Eisenberg / On February 25th, 2015
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Defending the "Right to Be Cold"
By Edward Struzik / On February 24th, 2015