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Sierra Gorda Brings Social Impact to Carbon Sales: Social and Environmental Value Combine for Impact | SOCAP

Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo
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Sierra Gorda Brings Social Impact to Carbon Sales: Social and Environmental Value Combine for Impact | SOCAP. by: Kevin Doyle of Good Capital A Mexican people’s movement in an arid rural area is about to come to market with some of the highest priced and heavily validated carbon and ecosystem services on the planet. Because it creates a unique mix of social and environmental value, the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve’s luxury niche carbon offset has a hard time telling its story … Read more

Solar UV-B Index at South Texas from June 1994 to March 2011

Forrest Mims III
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Measurements of the atmosphere and sunlight in South-Central Texas began on 04 Feb 1990 from a field outside my rural office. The data include the total ozone column, total water vapor, optical depth (haze) and direct UV-B. In 1994 various full-sky measurements of sunlight, including UV-B, and photographs of the solar aureole (the glow around the sun caused by aerosols in the sky) were added.  Figure 1 includes two charts that show the UV-B measured at or near solar noon … Read more

Looking back at twenty years, and looking ahead to next twenty.

David Schweidenback
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During the looming Persian Gulf crisis of 1990, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, demand for my carpentry skills dried to a trickle. I needed work, or at least something to do. I decided that if I couldn’t find gainful employment I could at least volunteer to try to help someone else. I recalled my time in the Peace Corps and one man in Sucia, Ecuador who had changed his life because he gained the mobility of a bicycle. I saw bikes … Read more

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Journal: September 15, 2010

Rodney M. Jackson
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The first camera traps have now been set out in the Argut Valley, near the Russia-Mongolia border and thought to harbor the Altai’s best snow leopard population. It’s a very remote area — I had to ride a horse for 40 kilometers over difficult trails, along a surging glacial river with cliffs towering high above us.  12 hours on a saddle, enough to give one a sore bum and very stiff knees, especially if one’s cowboy knowledge comes from the … Read more

Journal: August 19, 2012

Rodney M. Jackson
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Mongolia in summer is very different from winter-time. Warm, green, with puffy clouds and outdoor events and everyone heading for the countryside from the city. Our group includes my partner Darla Hillard (SLC’s Education Director), Dr. Apela Colorado an Native America elder who specializes in networking elder healers, shamans and sacred place protectors across the globe, and Tony Acosta, a Mexican filmmaker, Erjen Khamaganova (program officer with The Christensen Fund) and I (SLC  founder and Indianapolis finalist). Our route is … Read more