7/29/24: Global Problems Require Global Governance, Take a Puppy Break, Visit Someplace New, and More
Elizabeth Moore
Author | Consultant | Conservation, Parks, and Recreation Expert | [email protected]
Every week I share feature articles, news, tools, and actions to help everyone protect and enjoy our wonderful planet, from the sea to the sky and everything in between. In this week's issue:
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Something New: Global Problems Require Global Governance
When I worked for the National Marine Sanctuary System, I often wrote of the difficulties of managing protected areas in the ocean, partially due to human social and legal systems, including lines on maps, regulations, and human-driven events like oil spills and boat groundings, which have no meaning to the wild places and wildlife of the world. Birds are going to fly and fish are going to swim where their needs, desires, behaviors, and biologies dictate, not stop at some imaginary line we've drawn between two countries. I've yet to see a whale in a customs line or an albatross waiting to get a passport. A new essay from Aeon makes the same point and advances the idea that our national approaches to conservation aren't going to be effective enough to address global issues and that we need to empower the United Nations to work on behalf of all humanity. It's a great and important read.
Read more here .
Something New: Tips on How to Hire Neurodivergent People
One often overlooked aspect of diversity is people whose ways of thinking or looking at the world are often different from most others. Having a plethora of ways of knowing, seeing, or seeking among employees can increase an organization's creativity, innovation, and competitiveness, and help find better solutions to today's issues and problems. But how to find and facilitate the onboarding of folks with neurodivergence, who might be ignored or made anxious by traditional ways of hiring, can be difficult. Training Magazine has some tips that might help, including:
Read more here .
Something Different: Beach Cleaning Robot - Cool or Creepy?
Anything that helps keep our beaches and other environments clean can only help our global littering and pollution problem, is my way of thinking. But seeing the new robot vacuum cleaner VERO designed by an Italian lab in operation is still either really cool or really creepy (or both!) Maybe I watched Terminator too many times as a young adult but every time I see these dog-like robots I keep expecting Skynet and its killer droids to be just around the corner...
Read more here .
Something To Do: Take a Puppy Break
Who doesn't love a dog? A New York Gallery is celebrating our best friends with a Dog Days of Summer exhibit, including works by William Wegman, Grandma Moses, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Find more cuteness here .
Something to Do: Visit Someplace New
Overcrowding , tourists behaving badly , and worry about the cultural and environmental impacts of too many visitors have made many reconsider how, when, and where they travel. One way to help address the problem is to visit under-visited destinations , which include a beautiful beach in Brazil, the smallest province of Canada, the smallest state in Australia, and an idyllic Greek island.
Find your next vacation destination here .
That's it for this week - see you next week!