Conservation Value Institute

02/14/2025

INVITATION TO PARTNER

Motivating people to change how they manage land is not easy!

Conservation Value Solutions' powerful process of developing Integrative Conservation Strategies synthesizes ecological science, behavior change science, and multi-stakeholder ideas of solutions to key barriers to change.

How can we help your organization develop an Integrative Strategy for achieving your conservation and natural climate solutions goals?

Please don't hesitate to drop us a DM - it's always a pleasure to connect, learn more about your important work and priority challenges, and let our ideas flow from there...

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10/09/2024

In today's surprising & cool news: Researchers find a new use for : filtering microplastics from farm soils: In initial experiments, they found that the biochar was able to remove a striking 86% to 92% of the plastic particles from soil samples.

In initial experiments, they found that the biochar was able to remove a striking 86% to 92% of the plastic particles from soil samples.

10/02/2024

Saw my first golden crowned sparrow of the season yesterday evening on the ground below our bird feeder, freshly arrived from its summer grounds up in the tundra.
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I maintain a backyard naturalist observations spreadsheet, and following nature’s clock, they (along with white crowned and white throated sparrows) return the same week every year. They’ll be here until April 25 or so…
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The large, handsome Golden-crowned Sparrow is a common bird of weedy or shrubby lowlands and city edges in winter along the Pacific coast. Though it’s familiar to many during winter, Golden-crowned Sparrows vanish for the summer into tundra and shrublands from British Columbia to Alaska, where lit...

08/20/2024

Battery Report : "Accelerating the trend along six key solutions...means we can reach net-zero mineral demand in the 2040s. At that point, end-of-life batteries will become the new mineral ore, limiting the need for any mining altogether."

A comprehensive strategy to address the rising demand for battery minerals.

08/08/2024

Reminder to folks to please check your voter registration (in swing states especially given shady voter registration purges that are occurring)! And of course, register to vote. You can do both at HeadCount.org

Please check again in Sept and Oct. Reminders to come...

07/01/2024

Elsewhere on social media… 🎯💯

06/26/2024

Monarch caterpillar on showy milkweed in our native xeriscape (w/a few fruit trees). Butterflies flying around too! Other native plants still out include butterfly mariposa lily, various clarkias, chick lupine, California skullcap! Goldfinches love purple sage seed!

06/19/2024

Be considerate in ! Chatty hikers (and especially idiots who hike & ski w/speakers - WTAF?!) cause wildlife to panic: A Wyoming experiment reveals the way sounds of outdoor recreation affect , and benefits to of traveling quietly.

A Wyoming experiment reveals the way sounds of outdoor recreation affect wildlife, and the potential benefits of traveling quietly.

06/03/2024

Native California wildflowers out now in Marin - favorites Yellow Mariposa Lily and Cardinal Catchfly, as well as California milkwort and pink honeysuckle (a vine)

05/30/2024

The beautiful butterfly mariposa lily in our native xeriscape is blooming!

05/29/2024

New research shows how more trees could cut ER visits in heatwaves:
A team of heat experts known as L.A. Urban Cooling Collaborative calculated exactly how much of a difference low-tech solutions like trees & white paint could make in an overheating world.

A team of heat experts known as Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collaborative calculated exactly how much of a difference low-tech solutions like trees and white paint could make in an overheating world.

05/29/2024

The future holds many, many more EV batteries. And therein lies a solution to grid storage: A new study suggests vehicle-to-grid technology and reused old EV batteries could meet all of the EU’s need for battery storage—and then some.

A new study suggests vehicle-to-grid technology and reused old EV batteries could meet all of the EU’s need for battery storage—and then some.