Conservation

Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) recently launched their new Drupal website and the HydroCalculator Tool, both by CivicActions.  CSF's mission is to teach environmental organizations around the world to use economics and strategic analysis to conserve nature.  Their new website empowers them to do this with multi-lingual features, news streams and feeds, listings that can be filtered by continent, region, country or theme, t

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CivicActions client Rare Conservation has a first of it's kind Masters Program for Conservationists, available in 4 languages. "Students from areas of highest biodiversity around the world implement an entire social marketing campaign designed around a specific conservation goal, by mobilizing constituents in their communities." The degree requires positive impact.

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I am pretty sure I have sung the praises of "Inside Renewable Energy" before, but if you haven't listened, take a listen to the review of 2006 episode from last week. I like listening to I.R.E. because it highlights so many amazing renewable energy projects that are taking place around the world. it is also well produced, and the right length (12 to 27 minutes).

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This was an interesting week in the New York Times. Thursday's House and Home featured a cover story about home solar (photo voltaic) installations mostly in NY and California where tax incentives encourage home owners to add solar panels.

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