If Aldo Leopold were alive today, he likely would be pleased. The father of wildlife management and the United States’ wilderness system likely would approve of the modern movement towards sustainable use of ecosystem services.[1] In 1933, when Leopold wrote The Conservation Ethic, he was heralding a bold new thinking, Read more…
A body in motion tends to remain in motion, unless a force acts upon it. Thus, based on the experiments in our lab, which showed how C02 emissions are on a path of exponential growth, unless we do something fairly drastic, the levels will surpass our ability to change them. Read more…
The Palouse Basin Water Visioning tool is very interesting; and it also made me feel sad. Based on what we’ve been learning during this section of the course, and knowing how scarce water is in so many parts of the world has made me feel very uncomfortable about my own Read more…
When it comes to protecting the environment, most of us like to think we’re doing as much as we can. We recycle, or volunteer for a conservation organization, or purchase organics or maybe ride the bus, bicycle or walk, hang our clothes to dry, wash with cold water. Or, we Read more…
We know that driving our gas guzzling cars contributes to the overall CO2 emissions on our planet, but did you also know that every time you lift a fork of food to your mouth, you are also adding to the CO2 emissions? Who would think broccoli would have a carbon Read more…