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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...

Wind turbines and solar panels as alternative renewable energy.

Nov 02, 2020 Predicting the Future – or Managing for the Future?

Posted at 14:02h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Letter from the President, Population, Resources, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

A relatively recent saying, attributed to many different people, is that “prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” In contrast, Peter Drucker, the global management guru, is quoted as saying that “the best way to predict the future is to create it.” ...

Mar 28, 2020 The State of Well-Being

Posted at 09:48h In Articles, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Resources, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In February 2019, Wellbeing News carried an article discussing ideas relating to the state of well-being of People, Animals and the Environment. This article was followed by an item on the United Nations’ World Happiness Report in Tales of WellBeing. The World Happiness Report is issued...

Feb 27, 2020 Protein Production and Consumption

Posted at 12:50h In Articles, One Health, Resources, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By Kathleen Rowan and Andrew Rowan

For those interested in data and understanding current global challenges but who have not yet visited the website, Our World in Data, we would strongly urge spending some time browsing the site. This January a new article appeared addressing the very confusing issue of the...

Feb 26, 2020 Managing Cats for Cats, Wildlife & People

Posted at 09:31h In Articles, Companion Animals, Letter from the President, Resources, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In the January 2020 issue of our Tales of WellBeing, we related the story of an outdoor cat project on Key Largo, Florida, called ORCAT – Ocean Reef Cat Project. To most people the cat management project has been a big success, reducing the number of...

Australian firefighter and wildlife | Photo credit: bbevrem

Jan 29, 2020 Australian Fires & Climate Change

Posted at 09:41h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Land Management, Letter from the President, One Health, Resources, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

For the past two months, the news has been full of stories about the fires in Australia. Australia has always had to deal with fires but recently they have been different in both magnitude and intensity. To date, with at least six weeks of fire...

Dec 25, 2019 WellBeing International 2019

Posted at 09:25h In Articles, Letter from the President, Resources, Well-being, WellBeing International, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

This will be our last newsletter of 2019 and WBI would like to take this opportunity to thank you for following our activities through the first full year of our existence. This letter will provide a summary of our activities for 2019 and serve as...

Dec 19, 2019 Hunting the Wren – A Holiday Bird by Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence

Posted at 09:11h In Book Review, Resources, Wildlife on Land - By Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence

Reviewed by Andrew Rowan - There are many celebrations involving animals around the world. Many will be familiar with the story of Peter and the Wolf and the version put to music by Prokofiev (his most frequently performed work) where each animal is represented by...

Oct 31, 2019 Three Books on Dog Cognition and Love

Posted at 06:45h In Book Review, Resources - By Andrew Rowan

Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You (2019) by Clive D.L. Wynne. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and his Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain (2013) by Gregory Berns, Amazon Publishing. The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think...

Oct 29, 2019 Global Animal Protection

Posted at 10:06h In Animals, Articles, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Resources, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

September and October are traditionally heavy conference months across the world and that is true in the animal protection space as well. In the past seven weeks, WellBeing International has attended and spoken at five conferences in Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Mombasa, Sydney and Dalian...

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