Avainsana: ecosystem services
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Socialization of forests – can land, water, air and nature be owned? If so who?
An employee of the forest giant Stora Enso probably committed a gross nature conservation crime when he drove a heavy forestry machine several times over a stream inhabited by extremely rare and endangered river pearl mussels. Apparently thousands of mussels, ”raakkus” in Finnsh, died. A couple of years ago, the necessary law on gross nature…
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Biodiversity
22 nd May the international UN Biodiversity Day was celebrated. Biodiversity means the diversity of nature. It can be measured as genes, species or different biotopes and ecosystems. Creator or Nature, however you think of it, has created an incredibly diverse and colorful patchwork of ecosystems full of different species. The biosphere covers the entire…
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A green and living eco-city – what will the ecological cities of the 2030s look like?
What will the ecological cities of the future look like? An ecological city is as diverse as possible, green and takes lessons and models from nature. An ecological city is based entirely on renewable energy and the use of electricity in transport. A city is an ecosystem, and when it functions as much as possible…
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The cruel reality of meat production – there is no such thing as a happy chicken or a climate-friendly pig
The biggest environmental act you can do is to become a vegetarian, preferably a Vegan. Did you know that more than 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production? This is more than all the traffic in the world combined. A kilo of beef has up to 50 times more climate emissions than…
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Climate change today and the path from extreme disaster to sustainable balance
It finally came to this because of humanity’s greed: A couple of friends in India said that there has been no monsoon for three years and half of the palm leaves have turned yellow and died. A friend in Italy says that local people don’t go out there at all because of the scorching heat.…
Ecoblogi - A Blog by Daniel Elkama 