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UN: Short-Term Economic Gains Harming Well-Being and Integrity of Nature
(Further than Pesticides, July 15, 2022) Nature is far too typically sacrificed to a world and outsized focus on shorter-phrase revenue and economic development, according to a new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Coverage System on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The report warns that plan generating, broadly, does not reflect the worth of Nature’s roles in supporting human lifestyle and exercise, by no means head all the peripheral added benefits (aesthetic, psychological, religious) people derive from the pure globe. The report calls on leaders in all sectors to combine the contributions of Nature in progress and deployment of coverage in a much more-extensive way — as Le Monde writes,…
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‘contractor integrity’ factor in lost Evans bid
WILLIAMSBURG, Ohio — The Ohio EPA did not want Evans Landscaping to work on a wetlands restoration project in Clermont County this spring, citing factors these kinds of as “contractor integrity” and “compliance with community coverage.” “A continual topic in contracting with federal or point out dollars is the idea of ‘responsibility,’” wrote Martha Spurbeck, a grants administrator for the Ohio EPA Division of Surface Drinking water, in a Jan. 11 e-mail to the Clermont County Water and Soil Conservation District. She did not recommend offering the Williamsburg wetlands task to Evans Landscaping inspite of it currently being the lowest bidder. WCPO attained these email messages as element of a…