Building trust could save the world’s forests

by | Jun 9, 2014 | Uncategorized

By Wendee Nicole of Mongabay.org. Sourced from Mongabay.com. “[T]here’s a five-letter word I’d like to repeat and repeat and repeat: Trust.” Thus spoke Elinor Ostrom in her 2009 Stockholm lecture, when at age 77 she became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in...

Studying the rain forest from an airplane

by | Nov 30, 2013 | Uncategorized

What are our forests really made of? From the air, ecologist Greg Asner uses a spectrometer and high-powered lasers to map nature in meticulous kaleidoscopic 3D detail — what he calls “a very high-tech accounting system” of carbon. In this fascinating talk,...