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Charlie hangs out on an NC local food sign
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Rock out with your dock out
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Charlie in Oriental, NC
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We at SFS are constantly trying to improve the environment we’ve created while still enabling a free and open exchange of ideas with the fewest restrictions possible. We’re proud of the debates and discussions that have begun here, and the dialogs that continue both on and off the blog. Every so often we review the … Read More “The Evolution of our Comment Policy” »
Conservation, Science
The conservation movement is full of organizations whose stated goal is to protect specific organisms (i.e. “save the whales” or “save the sea turtles”) or to protect certain ecosystems (i.e. “save the rain forest” or “save the coral reef”). While these groups do admirable work, I can’t help put notice that they primarily focus on charismatic, likable organisms and ecosystems that are considered beautiful. The reason for this is simple- it’s easier to get the public to support conserving these things. Any conservation is a good thing, but when we focus exclusively on what we like instead of what’s important to the environment, it can lead to ecological disaster. That’s why I was so excited to learn of the existence of the “save the krill” movement.
Conservation, Popular Culture
Check out Oceana’s new ad!
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Chapter 23 of Herman Melville’s classic – Moby Dick. Read along with us and discuss this chapter or the book as a whole in the comments. Visit this page for the complete collection to date: Finding Melville’s Whale. The Lee Shore Bulkington, this book is his epitaph. A man so driven that he spent no more … Read More “Finding Melville’s Whale: The Lee Shore (Chapter 23)” »
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Dependence on natural resources is often relegated to a characteristic of the rural poor, a reason for development aid to swoop in and provide other economic opportunities. However, a recent article by Guo, Zhang, and Li in PLoS ONE has demonstrated that more developed countries actually have a higher dependence on ecosystem services. Basically, we may fire up our stoves with gas from eons ago rather than wood, but we’re even more dependent on that tree in the yard. We all laughed at the “primitive”, romanticized blue natives in Avatar, but their culture really wasn’t that different than ours.
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Charlie is sad that you haven’t given to the Gam’s Donors’ Chose Ocean Science in the Classroom Initiative