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What are debt-for-Nature Swaps?

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July 30, 2011   Leave a Comment  

Debt-for-nature swaps are agreements whereby a portion of a developing nation’s foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for local investments in environmental conservation measures. Pictured: a Yellow Spotted River Turtle in Bolivia's Beni Biosphere Reserve, the location of the very first debt-for-nature swap, brokered by the non-profit Conservation International in 1987 (Open Cage)

A novel idea, but what does it do?

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Remembering Mandelbrot, the father of fractals

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Oct. 17, 2010   1 Comment  

Maple tree branches.

Mandelbrot developed a field of math with far reaching applications.

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Biochar may help reverse climate change, widespread hunger

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Aug. 19, 2010   1 Comment  

Two of today’s biggest social, moral and political issues — global warming and hunger – could be partially reversed because of innovations by Amazon tribes thousands of years ago.

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Bird watching, eh?

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March 1, 2010   Leave a Comment  

A plover chick. (Media credit/The Massachusetts Audubon Society)

Bird watchers see the world differently, and so can you

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Pain free travel

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Dec. 30, 2008   Leave a Comment  

With Christmas behind us and New Years upon us, now would be a good time to learn from holiday travel mistakes and not let the past repeat itself next year. Traveling at this time of year is always hectic — it should come as no surprise. Yet, somehow every year, thousands of people find themselves [...]

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Every picture tells a story

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Jan. 1, 2007   Leave a Comment  

This was the first article ever written in Blast Magazine and was part of the 1/1/07 launch. In his youth, James Crotty may have qualified for the title of Youngest Professional Photographer in Dayton, Ohio. A shy personality in a family of extroverts, he discovered his passion once he started messing around with a 35mm [...]

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