Can sheep restore Patagonia’s grasslands? – Ellie Winninghoff

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Earth Systems Science

Can sheep restore Patagonia’s grasslands? Patagonia Inc is buying wool from ranches that aim to restore degraded land in Argentina with livestock, a controversial concept Ellie Winninghoff theguardian.com, Monday 23 December 2013 10.43 EST Gauchos herding sheep near Lake Argentino, in Patagonia. Photograph: Alamy “Sustainability is a joke in comparison to …

FOLLOW THE FISH! Spencer Beebe is helping to build the 21st century deep green economy in the Pacific Northwest. By Ellie Winninghoff

Jay OwenSustainability News, Nature/Biomimicry

FOLLOW THE FISH   Spencer Beebe is helping to build the 21st century deep green economy in the Pacific Northwest.   By Ellie Winninghoff   If rainforests are so important, why doesn’t anybody worry about the rainforest of the Pacific Northwest? That’s a question that plagued Spencer Beebe when he …

NATURE’S FORTUNE TOUTED BY FORMER GOLDMAN DIRECTOR By Ellie Winninghoff

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

NATURE’S FORTUNE TOUTED BY FORMER GOLDMAN DIRECTOR By Ellie Winninghoff “We love nature, but we make it sound like a luxury.” That’s how Nature Conservancy president and CEO Mark Tercek, formerly a managing director at Goldman Sachs, opened his remarks earlier this month at a gathering at Town Hall in …

INVESTING IN THE LOBSTER COAST

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

“We at Ethical Markets  are proud  to publish the cutting edge analyses of our Advisory Board member , Ellie Winninghoff , former investment banker and now the best due diligence expert we know for analyzing ethical biomimicry and natural capital investment deals” – Hazel Henderson , Editor –in-Chief INVESTING IN …