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Terry commented on the article |Avatar and Deepening Perspectives on Sustainable Land Development
http://www.sldi.org/newService/SLDIJan2010.html"The Na'vi resist the colonists' expansion, which threatens the continued existence of the Na'vi and their ecosystem - sort of like Dances with Wolves meets Star Wars..."
The SLDI Code™
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In a ground-breaking effort to overcome the problem, Sustainable Land Development International (SLDI) has released the world’s first comprehensive sustainable land development best practices system. Unlike other standards and certification programs, the SLDI Best Practices System helps to structure a triple-bottom-line (people, planet and profit) decision model that helps development projects achieve greater success in each area. We are interested in engaging all stakeholders in the review of this system.
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Terry commented on the article |Can We Rebuild a Sustainable Haiti?
http://www.sldi.org/newService/SLDIJan2010.html"Haiti was devastated by yet another catastrophic event that literally drives the inevitible outcome of unsustainable land development into the ground. Beyond the immediate relief efforts, perhaps now is the time to seriously consider restoring a sustainable Haiti..."
Sustainable Land Development International (SLDI) Sets Sights on Haiti
http://www.sldtonline.com/content/view/632/The SLDI Code™ - The World’s 1st Sustainable Land Development Best Practices System
http://www.sldi.org/images/Research/sldi%20in%20focus%20-%20world%5C%27s%20first%20sldbp%20system%20introduced.pdfSustainable Land Development International
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Terry commented on the article |Can We Rebuild a Sustainable Haiti?
http://www.sldi.org/newService/SLDIJan2010.html"Haiti was devastated by yet another catastrophic event that literally drives the inevitible outcome of unsustainable land development into the ground. Beyond the immediate relief efforts, perhaps now is the time to seriously consider restoring a sustainable Haiti..." - Sustainable Land Development International (SLDI) Sets Sights on Haiti
http://www.sldtonline.com/content/view/632/The SLDI Code™ - The World’s 1st Sustainable Land Development Best Practices System
http://www.sldi.org/images/Research/sldi%20in%20focus%20-%20world%5C%27s%20first%20sldbp%20system%20introduced.pdfSustainable Land Development International
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Terry commented on the article |Beyond the Bailout … a Bigger Problem… and a Solution.
March 2009 SLDI Newsletter - http://www.sldi.org/newService/SLDIMar2009.htmlAs job losses soar and major parts of the financial world descend into insolvency, you may feel that you're apocalypsed-out. If so, you may not immediately leap at James Lovelock's new book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia. His warning that climate change is spinning us into a hotter world, where billions will starve and whole ecosystems will collapse, is a horror few want to contemplate. But his prophecies are plausible and they will also make you think, which are two good reasons to grit your teeth and read him. The Vanishing Face of Gaia, hailed as “the most important book for decades”, is powerful because Lovelock is a serious, hands-on scientist. What he calls his “final warning” has new resonance because of the increasingly alarming data that is coming from the observation of everything from species numbers and deforestation to sea levels and Arctic ice.
Now for the good news…black is the new green. As reported first in last month’s SLDI Newsletter, Lovelock believes that charcoal produced from biomass, known as “biochar,” is one of the only answers to climate change we have. He states, “There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massive burial of charcoal…you can start shifting really hefty quantities of carbon out of the system and pull the CO2 down quite fast.” The theory is that biomass – any plant or animal material – can be turned into charcoal by heating it in the absence of oxygen and by taking CO2 out of the atmosphere; the impact on climate change could be huge. According to some early estimates of biochar’s potential, this wonder substance alone could achieve all the carbon reductions necessary to prevent further global warming. Furthermore, the properties of biochar allow us to address three or four critical crises at once: the climate-change crisis, the energy crisis, and the food and water crises, because renewable bio-fuel is a by-product of the pyrolysis production process. Putting biochar in the soil not only fertilizes the soil, but also helps it to retain and purify water.
Sustainable Land Development International has partnered with Ocean Mountain Ranch--a planned eco-forestry sustainable development overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the largest remaining old growth forest on the southern Oregon coast--to research and develop woody biomass utilization opportunities in cooperation with the Port Orford Community Stewardship Area under a comprehensive forest stewardship management plan, which has been approved by the Oregon Department of Forestry and Northwest Certified Forestry under the high standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
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Terry Mock
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Sustainable Land Development International
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