Designing Nature’s Half:
A Practical Guide to Conserving 50% by 2050
Book Debut to Rescue the Planet
Genre: Non-Fiction / Popular Science / DIY
What if we had the capacity to save the planet from the ravages of the climate crisis and, in the process, save a million species from extinction?
Would we do it?
We tried in the past and need to again…while we still have time!
Former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Senior Policy Advisor for the National Wildlife Refuge System, Robert Campellone, explores the U.S.A.’s current, and arguably most pressing, conservation challenge since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: the interlinked, wicked problem of pollution, climate boiling, and biodiversity loss, known as the triple planetary crisis.
In Designing Nature’s Half: A Practical Guide to Conserving 50% by 2050, Campellone:
reveals previous innovative and transformational approaches to address the climate crisis and biodiversity loss;
provides an easy-to-follow how-to guide for taking a collaborative, science-based approach to identify conservation actions across large geographic landscapes, commonly known as landscape conservation design; and,
advocates for taking a third…yes, third, nationwide try at designing sustainable and resilient landscapes during a time of rapid change.
Learn how to take a synergistic approach to mitigating the climate crisis and conserving biodiversity in Designing Nature’s Half: A Practical Guide to Conserving 50% by 2050, and be part of the global movement to save the planet!
Progress Report
The summer of 2023 was hot. Really hot. In fact, according to NOAA, the global temperature for the entire year was, on average, 2.4F (1.35C) higher than during the pre-industrial era, making it the hottest year on record – a record that dates back 174 years! Also that year, NatureServe, a nonprofit organization that serves as the authoritative source for biodiversity data throughout North America, published Biodiversity in Focus: United States Edition. The report addresses five essential questions about biodiversity that need to be answered if we are going to conserve nature effectively. The report’s findings indicate over 1/3 of species and ecosystems in the US are at risk of disappearing.
Dave Foreman, a conservation activist & author – and a mentor of mine when I was a young adult – once suggested: “….do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.” Five years into my retirement from public service, I decided to “do something.” I started to write a book. A modest proposal to save the planet: Designing Nature’s Half: A Practical Guide to Conserving 50% by 2050.
