Habitat

• MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  HII’s (NYSE: HII) Mission Technologies division hosted its fourth annual Global Day of Caring on Saturday, Nov. 4.
• “At HII, we are committed to delivering the advantage to our nation’s warfighters and to the communities where our 44,000 employees live and work,” said Andy Green, executive vice president of HII and president of HII’s Mission Technologies division.
• More community service events are ongoing, including a virtual blood drive for the American Red Cross and local food drives.
• “It is giving time, care and service to a purpose that is greater than ourselves and in turn helping our community.”

• "The report underscores that wild horse herds can be responsibly controlled at scale through scientifically proven fertility control vaccines.
• This approach is implemented at no cost to Nevada taxpayers and enjoys widespread community support, a stark contrast to controversies surrounding wild horse helicopter removals.
• Over half a century ago, the Virginia Range wild mustangs inspired the successful campaign of Velma Johnston, known as "Wild Horse Annie," to protect wild horses in the American West.
• Now, they're pioneering a modern, science-based approach to wild horse protection for wild horses even those living on federal land.

• Today the company announced that throughout the week its team dedicated more than 5,500 hours of volunteer time benefitting 33 different nonprofit organizations.
• “At Avangrid, we want to create avenues for our employees to connect with and serve our communities through volunteerism,” said Pedro Azagra, Avangrid CEO.
• Volunteer Week is an opportunity for us to plan group volunteer and giving opportunities while also encouraging individual employees to engage their colleagues in causes that they care about.”
  Avangrid’s Volunteer Week is an annual event hosted in conjunction with the Iberdrola Group’s International Volunteer Week which aims to harness the spirit of giving in its employees across the globe.
• During the week, Avangrid employees engaged in volunteer work from coast to coast in New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Texas and South Dakota.

• Has Nature, framed as being separate to humanity, lost its relevance?
• Through our overwhelming influence on the atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, no ecosystem anywhere is sheltered from our influence.
• As some of these forces of change combine, ecosystems are being pushed past tipping points of collapse at a faster rate.

The crises of the Anthropocene

• As a result of the Anthropocene — this period of time when human activity is enormously impacting the planet — global biodiversity is in crisis, with species extinction occurring at 1,000 times the pre-human rate.
• The Half-Earth project contends that only by preserving 50 per cent of global surface habitat will we preserve 85 per cent of species.

Supporting biodiversity

• We are recognizing, however, that biodiversity can also be supported everywhere and in everything we do.
• Urban landscapes can support greater biodiversity such as of pollinators and farmed landscapes can contribute depending on the intensity of farming.

Relationships with nature

• For the rest of us present, “man” had been overrepresented when speaking of community.
• For essayist and philosopher Sylvia Wynter, the invention and overrepresentation of Man (a category that emerged from European rational thought) as distinct from nature, is the underpinning concept that enabled its history of colonialism and racism.
• Have we reached the end of nature in its traditional meaning as distinct from us?
• Reframing our relationship with nature is an important step to deepen our commitment to addressing these human-made environmental crises.