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Can His Water Bank Help Montana Solve its Water Troubles?
The state of Montana has more outstanding water rights than it has water, and it’s taking a toll on the state’s ...
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State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2011 is Launching!
Ecosystem Marketplace, a project of the non-profit organization Forest Trends, is pleased to announce the upcoming release of our ...
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Sheri Lewin: The Tie That Binds
Not that long ago, wetland banking was just an interesting idea backed by a gaggle of nature-minded entrepreneurs looking to make ...
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EM Podcast: Planting Empowerment (and Spreading the Wealth)
Project developer Planting Empowerment earns carbon credits by leasing – rather than buying – degraded forest so that local owners can ...
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Odigha Odigha: Speaking Truth to Power
Part businessman, part politician, and all activist: Nigeria's Odigha Odigha has managed to slow deforestation in his native Cross River State ...
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Jessica Salas: The Human Watershed
For more than two decades, Jessica Salas has been helping the people of her native Philippines preserve the watersheds on which ...
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George Jambiya: Bridging Theory and Practice
Ecosystem service payments can, in theory, be a boon to Africa's economy and environment, but the reality falls well short of ...
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Jeff Hayward: Quantifying Carbon, Communities, and More
The debate over Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) hinges on how to verify the amount of carbon captured in ...
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David Brand: Harnessing Markets to Save Forests, Old and New
Few people have influenced the growth of ecosystem markets like New Forests founder David Brand. His career, like the industry ...
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Dorjee Sun: Rockin' for REDD!
When not raiding illegal Indonesian logging operations with the Governor of Aceh or hanging ten off the Australian coast, Dorjee Sun ...
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Mark Tercek: Investment Banker Brings Market Finesse to Conservation
The new head of the Nature Conservancy is a 24-year Goldman Sachs vet who thinks big and acts globally. The ...
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Andrew Mitchell: Forest Utility Meter Man
Andrew Mitchell's Global Canopy Programme has helped people around the world understand the role that rainforests play in regulating the environment ...
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John Reid: Teaching Ecologists the Economics of Nature
Conservationists can protect nature by demonstrating the value of ecosystem services and showing which development projects deliver the most benefits at ...
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The Innovator: Can Lars Christian Smith Take Protected Areas to Market?
On a trip to Africa in 2003, business professor Lars Christian Smith spent four weeks in Tanzania, exploring the bush with ...
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It's Not Easy Being Green in Aceh, Indonesia
John-O Niles of Carbon Conservation Pty. Ltd writes about the challenges of utilizing carbon finance to protect Indonesian forests.
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Shaun Paul: The Angel Investor
For the last fifteen years, Shaun Paul has been connecting local communities to global sources of technology and funding. The Ecosystem ...
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Pennsylvania's Environmental Revolutionary: Kathleen McGinty
The Ecosystem Marketplace follows the career of Kathleen McGinty, head of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), as she works ...
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Connecting the Dots Between Timber Investment and Conservation
Peter Stein has inked 86 innovative conservation partnerships on working forestlands for Lyme Timber during his career. Is there a model ...
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Charles Ehrhart Makes Markets Multitask
Charles Ehrhart, the coordinator of CARE International's new Poverty and Climate Change Initiative, wants more people to make the connection between ...
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Green From the Ground Up
When Greg Paramor started discussing sustainability with the board of his multibillion-dollar development and investment company, new opportunities started to emerge. ...
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