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#ForewordFriday: Chico Vive Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On April 4th, 2014
Island Press is pleased to be co-sponsoring the 2104 Chico Vive conference at American University in DC this weekend. The conference brings together grassroots activists, NGOs, students, engaged scholars, applied scientists, policymakers, journalists, and others to discuss the development of the global grassroots environmental movement in the 25 years since environmental martyr Chico Mendes' death.
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On Interning at Island Press: Defining Conservation Finance

By Admin / On October 23rd, 2013
In this installment, Island Press's Conservation Finance Network Program's Intern discusses the unique opportunity of helping to develop the emerging field of Conservation Finance. This past summer, I had the opportunity to intern for the Conservation Finance Network, a program based out of Island Press.
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On Interning at Island Press: Melting Icecaps

By Admin / On August 29th, 2013
In this week's installment Editorial Intern Amanda del Sontro elaborates on what drives her to strive for a better environment. I’ve spent the last seven years of my life learning about the environment in some academic way. I went to a high school dedicated to it, and added an Environmental Studies minor to accompany my Writing degree. Knowing the state of the world, with its shifting climate and declining resources and diversity, can make one feel downtrodden at times.
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The Rush for Blue Gold Peaks

By Admin / On July 15th, 2013
Lester Brown of The Observer and Preside of the Earth Policy Institute explores the future of agriculture as our dependence on water hits its peak.  Peak oil has generated headlines in recent years, but the real threat to our future is peak water. There are substitutes for oil, but not for water.
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Rarities Conservation: Eric Dinerstein Calls for "A marriage of science, political will, and compassion"

By Admin / On March 6th, 2013
Recently, on HuffingtonPost Green, author Eric Dinerstein voiced his thoughts on what it will really take to conserve rare species worldwide: Biologists assert that we are entering the sixth great extinction spasm in the history of our planet. Only this conservation crisis is different in one major way: it is the only one of the five previous events that has been attributed to humans. Some economists argue that onl
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Playing the Field

By Admin / On January 7th, 2013
In a new piece in The Scientitst, George Schaller talks about challenges to field biologists and the evolution of conservation biology. When I began conducting research on the Tibetan Plateau with Chinese colleagues in 1984, I was entranced by the luminous grandeur of this high, wild, and harsh land.

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