Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions - Ecosystem Restoration

 

1. Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses
   the ACSP is an award winning education and certification program that helps golf courses protect our environment and preserve the natural heritage of the game of golf. This program helps people enhance the valuable natural areas and wildlife habitats that golf courses provide, improve efficiency, and minimize potentially harmful impacts of golf operations.



2. Bioremediation
   any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the environment altered by contaminants to its original condition.
3. Carbon Sequestration
   processes that remove carbon from the atmosphere. A variety of means of artificially capturing and storing carbon, as well as of enhancing natural sequestration processes, are being explored. This is intended to help mitigate global warming.
4. Forest Certification
   Forest certification is a seal of approval for wood products, allowing consumers to purchase products that minimize harm to forest ecosystems.
5. Mycofiltration
   the process of using mushroom mycelium mats as biological filters. The term was coined by Paul Stamets.
6. Mycoremediation
   a form of bioremediation, the process of using fungal mycelia to return an environment (usually soil) contaminated by pollutants to a less contaminated state. The term was coined by Paul Stamets.
7. Natural Burial
   the body is returned to nature in a biodegradable coffin or shroud. Native vegetation (often a memorial tree) is planted over or near the grave in place of a conventional cemetery monument. The resulting green space establishes a living memorial and often forms a protected wildlife preserve.
8. Phytoremediation
   describes the treatment of environmental problems (bioremediation) through the use of plants.
9. Prairie Restoration
   an ecologically friendly way to restore some of the prairie land that was lost to industry, farming and commerce.
10. REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals)
    Legislation by the European Union that forces industries doing business in Europe to register chemicals and submit health and safety data, and replace the most hazardous ones with safer alternatives. The law, which took effect in June 2007, is impacting businesses worldwide and over time will result in a significant reduction of toxic chemicals released into the environment.
11. Reforestation
    the process of restoring and recreating areas of woodlands or forest that once existed but were deforested or otherwise removed or destroyed at some point in the past. The resulting forest can provide both ecosystem and resource benefits and has the potential to become a major carbon sink.
12. Restoration Ecology
    the study of recuperating degraded, damaged or destroyed ecosystems through active human intervention.