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Environment
'Prevention better than cure'
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Associate editor — Features thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com | Wednesday, April, 18 2018
In a bid last week to drum up support for disaster planning, the island's chief disaster management executive reasoned that since natural disaster is imminent given Jamaica's geographical location and subsequent exposure to climate shocks, it is wiser... Read More
Nature offers better protection
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Associate editor – features thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com | Wednesday, April, 18 2018
Clarendon solar farm withstands heavy rains, hurricane winds
Utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) plant Content Solar is reporting that while unprecedented torrential rainfall in 2017 damaged utilities across the region and caused extensive flooding and landslides in Jamaica, including its home base of Clarendon, its plant remained... Read More
Regional company to add drought, fisheries insurance
Provider of earthquake, hurricane and excess rainfall insurance to countries in the region, CCRIF, has plans to add drought coverage to its portfolio of products and intends to widen its clientèle to include sectors such as agriculture and fisheries, renewable and... Read More
Resilient islands
Following one of the most devastating hurricane seasons in recent history, environment groups are launching a four-year initiative to show Caribbean islands how to use nature to protect coastal communities from flooding, storm surges, hurricanes and other disasters... Read More
Greenpeace leaves SUSTAINABLE WOOD certification group
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Greenpeace is withdrawing from the main global group for certifying sustainable wood, saying the organisation it helped found more than two decades ago is failing to protect natural forests from exploitation. Read More
New Mexico forest manager planning prescribed fire in April
TAOS, NM (AP) — Forest officials in northern New Mexico are planning a prescribed burn in April that will cover nearly 3,000 acres (1,214 hectares). Read More
World's top cocoa producers fight to protect forests
MONT PEKO NATIONAL PARK, Ivory Coast (AP) — Park rangers in the world's top cocoa producer, Ivory Coast, are waging a campaign to protect national forests from the illegal farming of the raw ingredient in chocolate. Read More
We're losing money because we treat the environment poorly — PIOJ
The director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica has painted a grim picture of the state of the island's physical environment and has argued that poor environmental practices are to be blamed for much of the economic losses the country has sustained over the... Read More
Too much water going down the toilet
JN Foundation is teaming up with two multinational organisations to have Jamaicans install low-flush toilets as a means of saving water to improve the country's resilience to climate change events. Read More
Sandals guests take on fight against invasive lionfish Sandals guests take on fight against invasive lionfish
If you're a guest at any of the Sandals or Beaches resorts in the Caribbean, you could get the chance to participate in guided dives to hunt and kill lionfish, the non-native predator of juvenile fish. Read More
Don't dish the PARROTFISH!
BY Kerry-Ann Willis is a social development consultant. In her spare time however, she writes, mainly dedicating her talents to environmental subjects. She currently has four manuscripts, the most recent of which is dedicated to saving the parrotfish. Titled Don't dish the parrotfish, the... Read More
Base entrepreneurship on opportunity, not needs
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Associate editor — Features thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com | Wednesday, March, 21 2018
While Government has, over the past few years, been advancing arguments for the adoption of entrepreneurship — both as a discipline and a business model — members of academia are warning that it not be done solely on the basis of economic need, especially... Read More
Register now for Wigton solar energy
Registration is now open for a Solar Energy and Fuel Cells course which will run from March 19 – 23, 2018 at the Wigton Renewable Energy Training Lab in Rose Hill, Manchester is accepting applications for its a Solar Energy and Fuel Cells course which will run... Read More
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