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Circular Economy | credit: Igor Starodubtsev, Shutterstock

Jan 09, 2024 A Circular Economy and “Feel Better”

Posted at 10:18h In Education, Land Management, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Resources, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Well-being - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

Increasingly, the world recognizes human population growth, excess consumption, overuse of natural resources, and degradation of the natural environment as threats to planetary sustainability.Linear vs. Circular EconomyThe current global linear economic framework, characterized by resource extraction, product manufacture, and consumption, followed by product disposal, is...

Biodiversity | Video credit: Black Box Guild

Aug 24, 2022 United Nations – Convention on Biological Diversity and COP15

Posted at 11:30h In Animals, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Humane and Environmental Education, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Adeline Lerambert

With wildlife and biodiversity in an unprecedented crisis, pressure weighs heavily on the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a multilateral environmental treaty that went into effect in 1993.In December 2022, the CBD's fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP15) will convene in Montreal to adopt an...

Apr 18, 2022 Reflections on Earth Day 2022

Posted at 12:14h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Humane and Environmental Education, Tales of WellBeing - By Dr. Lance Gunderson

A few weeks ago, a few family members and I visited Trinity site in New Mexico. Trinity site is where the first atomic bomb was detonated in July 1945 and is only open to the public twice a year. Other than the black obelisk monument...

Oct 13, 2021 Celebrating “Fat Bears” to Promote Conservation

Posted at 16:53h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Education, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan

Every year since 2014, the Katmai National Park in Alaska has run a competition over the internet to identify a Fat Bear winner based on votes cast by members of the public who watch the Brown bears in the park via webcams as they fatten...

Invertebrate Animal Sentience Free Webinar Series

Sep 16, 2021 Webinar Series: Invertebrate Animal Sentience

Posted at 10:27h In Animal Sentience, Articles, Education, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The term sentience – referring to the ability to feel pleasures and pains – was used by philosophers in the 17th century to distinguish the capacity to feel from an ability to think or reason. This distinction was directly expressed in Jeremy Bentham’s famous phrase...

Jul 21, 2021 A Ruby-throated Hummingbird’s Travel Journal

Posted at 01:45h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Education, Tales of WellBeing - By Kathleen Rowan

It is February in Costa Rica, and Maria, a spunky Ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), is just waking up from her deep state of sleep (torpor). It was colder last night, and she needed to conserve her energy. The average hummingbird is approximately 7.1 to 8.9...

Horseshoe Crab on Slaughter Beach | Photo credit: milehightraveler

Jun 15, 2021 Horseshoe Crabs Come Ashore!

Posted at 19:00h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Education, Oceans, Tales of WellBeing, Wildlife in Water - By Laura Gosse

After 15 months of looking at the four walls of our house and now fully vaccinated, we were eager to be anywhere but there. So, for our first foray, we travelled 2 hours to Slaughter Beach, a small Delaware community on the shores of the...

Oct 15, 2020 Two Book Reviews on Animal Sheltering

Posted at 12:05h In Book Review, Education - By Andrew Rowan

Prodigal Pets: A History of Animal Sheltering in America and the Origin of the No Kill Movement (2018) by Susan K. HouserReplacing Myth with Math: Using Evidence-Based Programs to Eradicate Shelter Overpopulation by Peter Marsh, Town and Country Reprographics, Inc.There are very few publications that provide...

Sep 30, 2020 WellBeing International Studies Repository – Providing Access to Useful Data and Important Studies

Posted at 13:56h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Education, Environment Well-being, Human Well-being, Letter from the President, One Health, WBI Studies Respository, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 2020, there were reportedly over 5 billion unique mobile phone users worldwide (two-thirds of the world’s total population). Of these, 2.9 billion are using smartphones. These numbers translate to the growing availability of an extraordinary global marketplace for ideas and influence. Every smartphone user...

Jan 24, 2020 Marshall Rinquest – A Role Model For Environmental & Humane Education

Posted at 09:40h In Articles, Education, GFAS (Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary), Tales of WellBeing - By Nicky Vernon

South Africa, like many countries around the world, is struggling to balance the needs of the environment as well as the development and infrastructure needs of the people. The Western Cape (in the southern portion of the country) is the home of a unique Cape...

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