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- Sep 17, 2026
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Protecting Ecosystems and Reducing Poverty (opens the original)
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For hundreds of years, economic development and population growth have been destructive to the earth’s ecosystems. In recent decades, however, innovative conservation projects are showing that economic progress doesn’t have to come with deforestation, biodiversity loss, and wildlife habitat destruction. The small West African island of Príncipe, nicknamed the “African Galapagos,” has a unique and rich, but fragile, biodiversity. Separated 160 miles from the African mainland, its rainforests and
Can Paris’s Nature-Based Approach Attenuate Extreme Heat? (opens the original)
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This summer has been blistering hot across Europe, accompanied by a spate of wildfires. Not surprisingly, these record heat waves are pushing people toward air-conditioning. France, especially Paris, is embracing a different path, one seeking nature-based solutions. As far back as the 1990s, Paris started installing a district cooling system using a network of pipes to carry chilly Seine River water. The initial phase was 75 miles of pipe delivering chilled water to museums, hospitals, schools,
Solar Canopies over California’s Canals? (opens the original)
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Putting solar panels over irrigation ditches got its first test in rural India in 2012. The concept is attractive in California because of our multiple demands for land use. The 33-40 percent increase in cost over land-based solar installations dampened the enthusiasm until a 2021 research report from the University of California, Merced. It presented more than a dozen co-benefits beyond the renewable energy produced by placing panels over California’s 4,000 miles of water canals. Covering our m
Linking Needed Housing and Climate Resilience Gains (opens the original)
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Housing is a national crisis but a critical one in Santa Barbara. To preserve the charm and special character of our community, we have developed a process of delay and denial for new building projects, especially for new housing. Getting approval for any new project is costly, prolonged, and problematic. The mindset in our community toward housing is changing as the development of a master plan for the revitalization of State Street has shown. Likewise, the efforts to house our lower-income wor
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