13 posts tagged community based economics

Peter Liu has started up a local bank in San Francisco, CA called New Resource. The bank has a “green focus” in that it targets and invests in green sustainable businesses. However, the bank has been growing successfully on its own through its normal every day banking functions (savings and

Watching the detectives Protected areas don’t always protect as well as they should, study reveals Conservation projects often hinge on areas of land being given protection, but little is known about how well many protected areas actually do their job.

What’s bugging business? Reduced tariffs can benefit trade and wildlife, economic models forecast The Asian longhorned beetle Anoplophora glabripennis and other invasive species could soon feel the brunt of hard nosed economics, if the authors of a paper published in Ecological Economics have got their sums right.

In this podcast, we interview Murtaza Hussain, CEO of Peanut Labs. Our focus is on making money in social networks by understanding the opportunity to turn a community into an economy. Before we dive into the interview, it’s worth explaining why this is an issue.

In this podcast, we interview Murtaza Hussain, CEO of Peanut Labs. Our focus is on making money in social networks by understanding the opportunity to turn a community into an economy. Before we dive into the interview, it’s worth explaining why this is an issue.

Time to wake up Is the writing on the wall for Lake Victoria’s papyrus? “Darwin’s nightmare” continues at Lake Victoria, according to a report published in Wetlands Ecology and Management. Tanzania National Parks ecologist Yustina Andrew Kiwango and collaborator Eric Wolanski studied the effects

Swamped with data A little bit of shrimp farming is OK, environment economists say The choice between total devastation and total conservation of mangroves is a false one, according to analysis published today in Science.

A quarter of a billion footprints Caribbean coral reefs suffer from the mere presence of humans, study shows A large-scale study of potential threats to coral reef health has found one that dominates all others: us.

Greener grass? Biofuel can be done, switchgrass study finds Growing plants for fuel doesn’t always have to lead to rainforest loss or higher food prices, according to a study published today in PNAS.

RIP trees Can burying wood take carbon out of circulation for good? A study published this week in Carbon Balance and Management offers a low cost, low-tech way to sequester atmospheric carbon. Literally cutting the dead wood out of forests, then burying it, has the potential to store away several gigatonnes of carbon each year, according to Ning Zeng’s analysis.