Larry Winter's blog Agriculture producers provide many ecosystem services which have historically been viewed as free benefits to society - clean water and air, wildlife habitat, carbon storage, and scenic landscapes. Lacking a formal structure to market these services, farmers, ranchers and forest landowners are not generally compensated for providing these critical public benefits. I have an idea. Why don't we create a formal structure to market volunteer services that are provided by millions of individuals in this country everyday. Those that aren't "generally compensated for providing these critical public benefits". Volunteer firefighters for example. Why shouldn't their efforts be co... De-icers come with consequences for ecosystem The chemicals are a double-edged sword: Yes, they enhance safety, but they can harm the environment. So use judiciously, officials say. By MARIA ELENA BACA, ... Intel Does Not Have Any Competitive Advantages – ARM “The ecosystem is really strong. I think when Intel made their comments quite some time ago, what they were really talking about is the PC software ... Not All Ski Slopes Are Environmentally Equal, Study Concludes Cleared ski runs, where trees and other tall, woody plants are cut down to open skiing pathways, cause less damage to the natural ecosystem than graded ski ... Hollywood's content ecosystem moves a few steps closer to launch The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, an inter-industry effort to set open technical standards for selling movies and TV shows online, announced yet ... Sign In Page "This investigation only succeeded when integration [of human, animal, and ecosystem health efforts] took place," he said. Yet despite growing recognition ... Adapting to the new ecosystem of science journalism As a species, science journalists (in all their varied forms and behaviours) have found themselves thrust into a new digital ecosystem that presents fresh ... Microbe Understudies Await Their Turn in the Ecosystem Limelight Because it is likely that the older Lost City chimneys released higher-temperature, higher-pH fluids when they were younger, as the ecosystem changed, ... FedEx Teams with NFWF to Deliver Urban Ecosystem Conservation – Press Releases on CSRwire.com WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 /CSRwire/ - The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced today a major investment by FedEx Corp. and its operating companies to provide much-needed support to America's urban ecosystems. "When people think of cities, they usually don't think of fish and wildlife," said Jeff Trandahl, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's executive director, "but they're there, sometimes in very large numbers, and their health makes a big difference in the quality of residents' lives. FedEx and the Foundation both specialize in promptly delivering results, making this not only a natural alliance, but one that surely will improve conditions for fish, wildlife and peopl...