January, 2009
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, Jan. 15
Written by Darci Palmquist | January 15th, 2009
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Here’s what’s lighting up our blog radar this morning: Rabbit, Run: A new study in the Journal of Applied Ecology says removing invasive species can lead to ecosystem meltdown. Enviro vs. Enviro: An experiment by the German science ministry to test the ability of algal blooms to sequester carbon came under fire from environmentalists and was [...]
Conservation, Policy and (Deliberate) Blogging
Written by Bob Bendick | January 14th, 2009
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In my role as director of U.S. Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy, I have been asked to blog on my perspective on national conservation policy issues. And so, with some anxiety, this is my first installment. I understand that the Internet and new media have become an important part of discussions about U.S. public [...]
Mammoth Discovery in California
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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California’s Santa Cruz Island is famous for its miniature foxes and baby bald eagles, but now a new creature is making headlines — the pygmy mammoth. At least, that’s what researchers think the four-foot-long bone — recently unearthed on the island — once belonged to. (Check out the full story here.) An archeology student from [...]
Bears and Bed Stands
Written by Matt Miller |
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How did I find myself in this recent condition — the Franken-scar, the bloody wound, the watermelon-sized head? Did I meet the grizzly bear my mother warned me about? It was, alas, nothing so dramatic. In short: I fought the wall, and the wall won. My mom did warn me about the grizzlies, though. I [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, Jan. 14
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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If it’s cool and green and online in the morning…we’ve got it: Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Keith Johnson at Environmental Capital says reports that using Google generates a lot of carbon emissions (because of the giant server farms Google uses) ignore a real environmental culprit: Your desktop computer. (Also see Dave Connell’s Cool Green Science [...]
Can We Spark the Economy and Make the Nation Greener?
Written by Megan Sheehan | January 13th, 2009
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Economic stimulus bills — and what should be in them — are a hot topic right now. The Nature Conservancy isn’t influencing the overall debate about what these bills should contain, but we do believe that we can improve the economy and the environment by investing in restoration and reducing the damages to natural environments [...]
Reward Posted for Evidence of Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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They call the Ivory-billed woodpecker the Holy Grail of birds. But what might be the last push to find it involves a reward and a “wanted” poster reminiscent of something you’d see on the wall of an old-time post office. You may recall the excitement nearly five years ago when a video clip was released [...]
Innovation From Crisis Will Save the World
Written by Dave Connell |
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It’s sometimes hard to see it, but these are good times in the course of human history. The economic crisis, climate change and the most rapid technological advancement since the Industrial Revolution are converging — and with that convergence comes the paradoxical potential of saving the world from itself and boosting the economic prospects of [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, Jan. 13
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Morning y’all. Read on for interesting tidbits from blogs we like: Porcupine Gets the Pink Slip: The Wildlife Conservation Society envisions animal layoffs at New York’s zoos and aquariums if proposed budget cuts go through — watch their video at Dot Earth. The Best Way to Save the Planet? Thomas Friedman says voting for a [...]
Everybody Stop Googling!
Written by Dave Connell | January 12th, 2009
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The big news around the green-tech blogosphere today are the results of a new study by Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross, which finds that two searches on Google produces about as much CO2 as boiling a kettle of tea. Shock and dismay! Wait, what the heck does that actually mean? What it means is that, if [...]
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