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Heritage Tourism in St. Kitts

Island Resources Vice President Judith Towle who worked on dozens of projects in St. Kitts and Nevis, both on behalf of the Foundation, and also on behalf of the Board of the Mukti Fund, a family foundation that made grants to small NGO projects f… Continue reading

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Encyclopedia of Earth: Review Articles on LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEMs

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100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics

from Dierdre Williams in St. Lucia — also on-line in several places — this version from http://j.mp/100_Twitter_Tips Begin forwarded message: 100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics By Jill Gordon Twitter’s popularity has soared recently, and f… Continue reading

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Rapa Nui in the Nuwies: Tourism threatens to trigger another ecological collapse

http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id… Easter Island Rapa Nui déj vu Oct 8th 2009 | EASTER ISLAND From The Economist print edition Tourism threatens to trigger another ecological collapse AlamyWhy doesn… Continue reading

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IMPORTANT: from “nature”: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity

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The Guys Who Did This now are Doing More. . .

The wonderful organization who brought you this disaster for near-coastal waters of Nail Bay, Virgin Gorda, in November, 2003, are now bringing new wonders to the island. . . . this time with help of an Indian transnational corporation — The brow… Continue reading

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Anticipating global warming, scientists measure the long-term effect of extra carbon dioxide on marsh

Great story from September 29th Baltimore Sun about CO2 research on marsh grasses being carried out — for the past 23 years!!! — by researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Mayo. . . . [See research by Bert Drake of SERC… Continue reading

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Annapolis Sustainability Stewardship Project

Check the city’s web site at http://www.annapolis.gov//sustainability.asp?page=13703 for additional program details, but there is a current announcement of workshops for “Environmental Stewardship Training,” quoting: Annapolis Environmental Stewar… Continue reading

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Agenda for Aaron Williams, new Peace Corp Director, RPCV in the Dominican Republic

Agenda for Aaron Williams As a former PCV, and specifically as Peace Corps Desk Officer for the DR when Director Williams was there, I congratulate him and wish him well. There are a lot of priorities and pressures to leap into large-scale expansi… Continue reading

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New Seamounts and Arctic Ocean Shipping. . . .

from a blog about the voyage of the US Coast Guard Icebreaker Healey — http://arctic-healy-baker-2008.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-seamount.html TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 A New Seamount On the midnight watch we passed again by the seamount discover… Continue reading

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