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Career Conversations | The Art of Natural Capital: Visualizing Ecosystem Services in Public Parks
Students Megan Chen and Zoe Rehnborg recount their experience in Stanford’s natural capital course and their final project: a “zine” on the many values of public parks.
April 10, 2026
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Nature’s Financial Value, GEP, and Scaling an Initiative to 75 Countries
Professor Gretchen Daily in conversation with Sam McClure, on the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast
April 03, 2026
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Career Conversations: Beyond the Bottom Line, with Narayan Iyer at the Asian Development Bank
A key NatCap collaborator reflects on 20 years in finance, the challenges of institutionalizing relationships, and the future of natural capital in the Asia-Pacific region.
March 27, 2026
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Beyond the Bottom Line: A Conversation with Narayan Iyer at the Asian Development Bank
On food systems and natural capital in the Asia-Pacific region. Edited from an interview by NatCap intern Anastazja Krostenko.
March 27, 2026
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Nature in Action | March 2026
Session previews for the Natural Capital Symposium
March 25, 2026
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Houston communities chart their own path to flood resilience
Stanford researchers partnered with neighborhoods hit hard by flooding to understand their experiences and explore potential solutions.
March 18, 2026
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Meet the 2026 Rising Environmental Leaders
The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment’s Rising Environmental Leaders Program (RELP) helps emerging scholars build the skills and networks needed to translate research into real-world impact.
March 17, 2026
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From Myth to Management: How Armenia’s High Altitude Water Towers, Once Guarded by Dragon Stones, Can Still Protect Economies and People
How we choose to manage the stock and flow of freshwater is and remains a primary human concern.
March 13, 2026
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The Nature of Business: What the IPBES Business Assessment Reveals About Biodiversity, Risk, and Corporate Action
IPBES Report Highlights Methods and more than 100 Specific Actions for Businesses, Governments, Financial Actors and Civil Society.
March 06, 2026
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Nature has a funding gap
A $942 billion biodiversity financing gap is forcing investors and governments to rethink how ecosystems are valued, funded, and accounted for
March 02, 2026
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Introducing: InVEST Reports
InVEST rolls out a new Reports feature for four of its models that automatically generates visual summaries of results.
February 26, 2026
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Tea, Turbines, and Trade-Offs: How Sri Lanka Is Rethinking Watershed Investment
The Sri Lanka project highlights ways natural capital information is shaping real-world policy, planning, and investment decisions.
February 19, 2026
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Der wertvollste Fluss der Welt
Lässt sich Natur in Geld aufwiegen? Ja, mit guten Methoden. Im Fall von Flüssen sind die Berechnungen zwar besonders knifflig, aber sie zeigen: Die Gewässer sind unbezahlbar.
February 17, 2026
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Time to align economic practice with ecological reality: the critical need to include nature in macroeconomic models
The macroeconomic frameworks at the centre of economic governance were developed for a world in which nature was assumed to be abundant, stable and external to economic activity: that assumption no longer holds.
February 16, 2026
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“A Map Is Not the Territory”
Mapping, Modeling, and the Power of Place - In Conversation with GIS Analysts Jesse A. Goldstein and Stacie Wolny on How Spatial Data Shape Real-World Decisions
February 13, 2026
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Businesses must take responsibility for biodiversity loss – for their sake as much as ours
Scientists believe we’re seeing the largest loss of life since the dinosaurs – and it’s a risk to the global economy. Governments and companies need to work together on solutions
February 13, 2026
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Businesses face extinction unless they protect nature, major report warns
Businesses risk extinction themselves unless they protect and restore the natural world, scientists across the globe are warning.
February 09, 2026
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More than 150 Countries Agree That Focus on GDP Harms Nature
The nations signed off on a major report, three years in the making, that concluded the global economy isn’t adequately pricing in biodiversity risks.
February 09, 2026
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The Ruckelshaus Legacy: Nature’s Way Out of the Vacuum
From the EPA’s founding to global natural capital leadership, the Ruckelshauses show that environmental policy can succeed with innovation, listening, and collaboration.
February 05, 2026
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Hello World!
Welcome to the Software & Modeling column on the NatCap Substack!
January 29, 2026
