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The University of Wisconsin - Extension Sustainability Team has established a new Website: " Sustainable Communities Capacity Center ." The web site was designed to help local governments, businesses and the public to engage in sustainable community development. Future pages will include other...

There are several upcoming events devoted to Sustainable Agriculture across the state in Hawaii - the rest of this month and into October. Take advantage of these opportunities as they become available. Jerry DeWitt , Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University...

The American Chemical Society has a new series of monthly podcasts entitled " Global Challenges: Chemistry Solutions ." The most recent podcast, August 21, 2008, is entitled " Our Sustainable Future ." Previous podcasts are on Climate Change, Water Purification.

Western SARE Subregional Conference for Hawai'i Celebrating 20 years of WSARE in Hawaii plus Strategic Planning for HI sustainable agriculture for the next Twenty September 23-24th, 2008 Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort 78-6740 Alii Drive, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, 96740 Tel: 808-322-3441 Fax: 808-322-3117...

The World Resources Institute has released a new paper entitled " Coastal Caribbean: Economic Valuation of the Coral Reefs of the Caribbean ." Using the islands of Tobago and St. Lucia, WRI has developed models for determining the economic valuation of the coral reefs. The three main factors...

Do food miles matter? Well, if you are concerned about the impact on greenhouse gases, then maybe not. A recent paper from Christopher L. Weber and H. Scott Matthews in the journal, Environmental Science and Technology ( Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008. 42:3508-3513 ) shows that it may not play as large...

The US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service just released on May 29, 2008, its Fruit and Tree Nuts Outlook for 2008 . Lots of interesting “fruits” of information about the national outlook for fruit and nut prices, imports and exports. But there are also strong lessons to be learned –...

The U.S. federal government Climate Change Science Program has released its synthesis and assessment report on May 27, 2008. The report is entitled "Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 (SAP 4.3): The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in...

Thanks, Travis. If others have ideas about other locations for experimental field sites, please respond. As a next step in the conversation, could we pick a few of these and begin to develop compelling cases for proposing some research in these areas. What do these places have in common (besides Hawaii...

Studies of ecosystem services aim at integrating both economics and natural science. A broader field, or perhaps another way of saying the same thing, is sustainability science. We had a conference last fall on "Sustainability Science for Watershed Management" where several CTAHR researchers...