Category Archives: All Blog Posts

New Resources on Fisheries Information from CERMES and FAO/Barbados

Inspired by a posting by Iris Monnereau (UNFAO/Barbados) and Georgina Bustamante on the CAMPAM  e-mail list, Hazel Oxenford of CERMES/UWI Cave Hill (Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies) helped me put together these three recent articles or chapters about fisheries … [Read more]

Good Discussion of Indirect Costs for Non-Profits/NGOs

Based on a fifty year career managing non-profit organizations and programs, I REALLY think it’s existentially important for NGOs/CSOs to collect the true costs of their operations from contracts and donors. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that Mr. Klotz’s graphic presentation … [Read more]

Hurricanes, Recovery, And Resiliency In The US Caribbean’s National Parks

[This article from Apple News presents some good insights into the enormous scale of the ecological impacts of major hurricanes — in this case, Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September and October of 2017. ] Hurricanes, Recovery, And Resiliency In … [Read more]

Good Discussion of the Economic Value of Coral Reefs

from the Washington Post, 26 June 2017: Energy and Environment The Great Barrier Reef is literally a treasure. It’s worth $42 billion. By Chelsea Harvey June 26 at 1:17 PM A tourist snorkels above coral in the lagoon located on … [Read more]

Leader and Long Briefing from “The Economist” 2017 re FISHERIES MANAGEMENT

<http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21722647-ocean-sustains-humanity-humanity-treats-it-contempt-how-improve-health> Deep trouble How to improve the health of the ocean The ocean sustains humanity. Humanity treats it with contempt Print edition | Leaders May 27th 2017 EARTH is poorly named. The ocean covers almost three-quarters of the planet. It … [Read more]

Ocean Conference Addresses MPAs, Ocean Acidification

from the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s (IISD’s) daily coverage of the Ocean Conference 5-9 June 2017. STORY HIGHLIGHTS On the second day of the UN Ocean Conference, two partnership dialogues took place on: (1) managing, protecting, conserving, and restoring marine … [Read more]

Caribbean Philanthropy Network (CPN) — Reports 2010 to 2013

Linked below are three publications written, edited or reviewed by Judith Ann Towle for the Caribbean Philanthropy Network, These reports date from the period 2009 to 2013 and they are not up-to-date in terms of recent actions taken by Caribbean … [Read more]

Euan McFarlane Environmental Leadership Award for 2016 to Tadzio Bervoets of St. Martin

The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI) has just announced that the Euan P. McFarlane Environmental Leadership Award Fund (McFarlane Fund, which is administered by the CFVI, based on a grant from the now-sunsetted Island Resources Foundation) for calendar year 2016 goes … [Read more]

Another Perspective on the Need for DATA on WHAT WORKS

From the blog on the CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research, I think they do stuff with forests) web site at <http://blog.cifor.org/47876/time-to-get-it-together-on-mitigation-and-adaptation?fnl=en> Note that this article is based on a systematic survey of existing project documentation. WE NEED MORE, and, … [Read more]

“The Poetry and Pain of the Caribbean” book review by Amy Wilentz

[This is the on-line version of a book review of the travel book Island People by Joshua Jelly-Shapiro published in the Sunday Outlook section of the Washington Post under the title of this post. [I received a copy for Christmas. It’s … [Read more]