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Poor or no management destroyed most of the the forests in northern Australia's Kimberley region. Now this lone rain forest tree struggles to survive in an unrestored area. Erosion slide show...

Today's featured book:

Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making. Allan Savory explains how to manage people, land, and money so all thrive. Buy at Amazon, Booksense, or Half.com.

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Soil Carbon Coalition founded. Enterprise, Oregon, January 2008--The Soil Carbon Coalition, with pending 501c3 nonprofit status, plans to advance the practice of turning atmospheric carbon into soil organic matter, and to advance public awareness of the soil carbon opportunity to enhance biosphere processes and reverse global heating.

Australian author reveals comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis. Enterprise, Oregon, July 2007--Biosphere Media has published a US/UK edition of Allan Yeomans's controversial book Priority One: Together We Can Beat Global Warming.

Allan Yeomans has a background in physics, chemistry, meteorology, and agriculture. He realized that the rapid development of soil organic matter could solve the global warming problem, in combination with a switch to nonfossil energy sources. But most scientists, experts, organizations, and governments are unfamiliar with soil-enhancing farming and grazing methods, or the large and rapid increases in soil organic matter that they were achieving. "The undue influence of the coal, oil, and gas industries on every aspect of American politics has blinded Americans to the opportunities we have to stop global warming," he said. Continue article...

Forestry that Works. 30-minute film about excellent forest stewardship, highlighting the opportunities for public land management, and some observations on fire. Forestry that Works page, with a trailer and ordering info.

Discover the most common cause of droughts and floods worldwide. Viewable as a Flash movie with quiz, HTML slide show, or downloadable Flash and PowerPoint versions for classroom use, presentations, and offline viewing. In 6 languages:

Water cycle basics
水循环常识
Водный цикл
Los principios fundamentales del ciclo del agua
Les principes de base du cycle de l'eau
المبادئ الأساسية لدورة الماء في الطبيعة

Today's featured story

Monitoring farm progress toward sustainability

by Karl North and Donn Hewes

Summary: For quite a while Karl North has felt the need for a monitoring tool that captures progress toward sustainability in wholes, not just pieces (as in tools like Land EKG, which monitors landscape health but not whole-farm health).

Web graphs, the simple tool described in this paper, provide a way to monitor even very complex systems, and visually summarize sustainability patterns at a glance. Read article…

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Testing technology: what will work for you? Even technology that passes the Holistic Management testing guidelines may have hidden costs or problems. How to discover them before you invest in the technology and get bitten. By Wilma Keppel.