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Switzer Network News: Natural Resource Management Posts

Infusing Organizations with Sustainability
Wednesday, February 1 2012

How do you take a sustainability mandate at the corporate level and infuse the entire organization with it? 1992 Switzer Fellow Tim Greiner is Managing Director of Pure Strategies, a sustainability consulting firm helping companies improve the sustainability performance of their businesses, products, supply chain, and internal operations.

Uncovering the Ecological Past
Thursday, October 27 2011

Switzer Fellow Chuck Striplen (2003) talks about the important role played by historical ecologists in uncovering the pre-colonization landscapes of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Fighting Illegal Logging to Preserve the World's Forests
Thursday, August 12 2010

The EIA takes big risks because illegal logging decimates the world’s forests, releases massive carbon dioxide reserves, and destroys the lives of animals and communities. Switzer Fellow Andrea Johnson takes us inside EIA’s successful work with forests and international legislation and shares the powerful role consumers play in global forest conservation.

California Invasive Plant Council
Thursday, June 17 2010

When is a pretty plant a problem? When it displaces native vegetation and disrupts the food chain. Doug Johnson, Executive Director of the California Invasive Plant Council, is a Switzer Fellow working with private and government agencies to identify invading plants, arrest their spread and educate the public to healthy alternatives.

Jefferson Hall Explains Smithsonian's Reforestation Efforts in Panama
Thursday, January 28 2010

Jefferson Hall, 1991 Fellow and Director of the Applied Ecology Program for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Center for Tropical Forest Science in Panama, discusses the Smithsonian's reforestation efforts in Panama on a Smithsonian video series called 'Meet the Scientist'.