[Coral-List] Remnancy vs resiliency Part 3: making a list
Jeffrey Low
cat64fish at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 23 08:50:49 EST 2006
Hi Phil,
I collated some from the various emails on this issue
... mostly "personal" level stuff, though. Hope this
helps.
Key actions - local actions for global response
1. Education
- educate the kids
- reach out (don't preach to the converted)
- identify a mascot species
- create realistic, entertaining shows
- educate developers / politicians
2. Reduce consumption
- reduce energy consumption (air conditioners, lights,
electrical appliances)
- make recycling part of our life
- consume less
- buy local
- travel less
- use public transport, use the stairs, walk instead
of drive (for short distances)
3. Participate
- teach at a local school
- be active in NGOs
- blog about issues
- by creating websites on conservation issues
--- Phil Dustan <dustanp at cofc.edu> wrote:
> Dear Listers,
> Now that we have exhausted all the rhetoric and
> have cleared our minds
> and consciences, might it be possible to translate
> our feelings into
> actions that could be accomplished at the scales of
> Global, regional,
> and local?
>
> lease post your comments if youd like to contribute
> and I will work
> towards collating them
Please try to keep things
> short (and perhaps
> sweet).
>
> Here are a few possibilities:
>
> Global -
> US should sign the Kyoto Accord,
> Reduce generation of African Dust
>
> Regional in the Caribbean
> Large scale culture and release of Diadema
> antillarum
> Construct a basin-wide system of no-take MPAs
>
> Local:
> Larger no-take zones in the Florida Keys National
> Marine Sanctuary
> Construction of sewer and septic systems in the
> Florida Keys that
> actually meet design criteria for removal of
> nutrients,BOD, and
> microbial contaminants
> Provide incentives to restore the terrestrial
> landscape to
> minimize loss of nutrients and sediments
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
>
> --
> Phillip Dustan Ph.D.
> Department of Biology
> College of Charleston
> Charleston SC 29424
> (843) 953-8086 voice
> (843) 953-5453 (Fax)
>
>
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