Entries for category "Print | Web"
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wallacejnichols
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Nov. 3, 2009
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Last week I attended a cool gathering - a smallish group of people gathering over wine and munchies not just to network or socialize (that happens anyway), but to hear and discuss stuff outside of the regular work milieu. Kind of like the salons of a past century, but more…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 28, 2009
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EplerWood International is launching an emergency initiative to help conserve endangered sea turtles in El Salvador. A recent ban on turtle egg collection along the entire coast of El Salvador will help stem the loss of thousands of hatchlings. But turtle collectors face a dramatic loss of income in areas…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 28, 2009
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There is an "away," and it's called Midway Island. A tiny little dot in the South Pacific, Midway Island is one of the bodies of land nearest the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and has become a time capsule of our civilization's love of disposable plastics. In the photo above you…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 3, 2009
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Graceful and deliberate, sea turtles tend our ocean lagoons and coral reefs, returning to land to lay their eggs. In the South China Sea, Indonesia's 250-island Anambas chain, some distance from this week's tragic earthquake, includes the half-mile-long Durai Island. This island is where most of the region's sea turtles…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 2, 2009
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Wallace J. Nichols, PhD Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences & Founder/Co-Director, Ocean Revolution I live blue because…When I look around at the beauty of and challenges facing the planet we live on, there’s no better way to live. Why do you care about the environment?That’s kind of like asking…
