tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post4327030721400003591..comments2024-02-10T00:32:06.186-08:00Comments on Lutherans Restoring Creation Blog: 5/14 Creation Corner:TIME Honors Evangelical Climatologist Katharine Hayhoe/World Environment DayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-26872477273027252692014-05-19T07:16:21.839-07:002014-05-19T07:16:21.839-07:00Thanks for the thoughts and info. I didn't kno...Thanks for the thoughts and info. I didn't know of June 5th day. One way I've started to keep learning and gleaning things for my on-going work is to write down/capture in writing some significant pieces on earth-keeping that have caught my eye in the previous week. I've got to figure a good way to file/keep these references and resources for on-going work.....but this way they are at least captured by week. I thought I'd share one from this past week. See below. See blog at greengracepostings.blogspot.com for more. <br /><br /><br /><br />“A goal of the collaboration between Dow and the Nature Conservancy is to create software that helps a company assess its natural resources so that they can be compared with man-made assets. What is a swarm of wild bees worth? One way to answer this question is to determine the coast of pollinating a crop with managed honeybees. To assess the value of a clean river to a soda bottler, you could tabulate the price of purifying a gallon of polluted water. The assumption is that if you want companies to care about nature you must put a price tag on it. Otherwise, as one Nature Conservancy economist told me, “it implicitly gets a value of zero.” The idea is not new: for two decades New York City has been buying up land in its watershed or paying property owner to stop polluting, because the cost is lower than building the purification plants that it would otherwise need. But the Dow collaboration extends this principle much further. They key piece of software, still under development is the Ecosystem Services Identification and Inventory program, which will make it easy for engineers – ideally, in the field, with a tablet – to enter data about a company’s natural resources. The Nature Conservancy plans to make the software publicly available.”<br />Green is Good: The Nature Conservancy wants to persuade big business to save the environment,” by D.T. Max, The New Yorker, May 12, 2014.<br />johan berghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13882528755501915160noreply@blogger.com