News from June 2009

e Magazine

Patrick Rahming personally recommends this publication, that has been running for nearly 20 years. E - The Environmental Magazine is a bimonthly “clearinghouse” of information, news and resources for people concerned with issues surrounding the environment, answering all your questions about what you want to know, including the favorite “What can I do to make [...]

Generate your own Power and save $$$

So, you are interested in knowing how to generate power and reduce your electricity bills? In which case you have come to the right place.
With the ever increasing costs of living and global warming, there is no better time to consider the benefits of generating your own energy. Stop throwing your good money out the [...]

Sea turtle research database for the Pacific released

A seven-year effort to develop a Pacific region database on sea turtle research will culminated with the launch of the Turtle Research Database System (TREDS), at the 29th Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia.
TREDS collates and standardizes marine turtle data and is critical to understanding population trends throughout [...]

12 Facts about coral reefs

The Caribbean region has an estimated 26,000 km2 of coral reef surface, possessing an estimated 7% of the world’s shallow coral reefs.
In the Greater Antilles, coral reefs cover over 8,600 km2.
The Eastern Caribbean has a coral reef area of 2,600 km2.
The Wider Caribbean region has over 285 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), containing 20% of the [...]

Negotiating climate change in the Pacific Islands

Ensuring that the voice of Pacific Island countries is heard at the international level is critical for the success of the climate change negotiations. This was one of the many lessons stressed during a week of negotiation training and consultations at SPREP Headquarters in Apia, Samoa.
The world is now only six months away from the [...]

Pacific islands and the Clean Development Mechanism

Bringing the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) closer to the homes of Pacific islanders is one of the key happenings at a gathering in Fiji this week.
Close to forty participants from throughout the Pacific African-Caribbean-Pacific (PACP’s) countries are attending a regional capacity building workshop on the Clean Development Mechanism at the IUCN Oceania headquarters in Suva.
The [...]

Bahía Beach Resort & Golf Club Honored With Environmental Heritage Award

Audubon Environmental Project Honored With Environmental Award
Jun 16, 2009 – RALEIGH, N.C. – Miles M. (Bud) Smart, Ph.D., president of Audubon Environmental, a sustainability consulting firm that works with landowners, developers and government entities to protect and sustain land, water, wildlife and natural resources, has announced that the Bahía Beach Resort & Golf Club in [...]

Sustainable Construction firm Lafarge place 750Million Euro Security

Today Lafarge (Paris:LG) placed, under its EMTN1 program, a EUR750 million bond with a 7-year and 5-month maturity and fixed annual coupon of 7.625%.
With this transaction, the Group pursues its optimization of the maturity profile of the Group’s debt, refinancing shorter term bank facilities.
The settlement and issue of the bond is expected on June 24. [...]

Architecture is Architecture

In the struggle to define Bahamian Architecture, there is a simple fact that must be faced: Architecture is Architecture. That is, there are fundamental qualities that must be met for a building to be considered Architecture. Only after a work has met those criteria does the question of local identity become relevant. In A nutshell, [...]

Leave Only Footprints

Hermit crabs tiptoe
Across five days
Of Creation
Perfect harmony
Their fear echoes across
The yellow-green mangroves
Where bonefish dance
Herons, egrets and seagulls
Write poetry with their flight
Echoes down into blue holes
Which disappear deep
Into the unknown
In search of the sea
Echoes towards
A blue-orange sunset
Across the shallow silver blues
Of paradise
Hermit crabs tiptoe
Across an Andros fantasy
Carve their welcome in the sand
In words that dodge the [...]

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