February, 2009
Better a Logged Forest Than None at All
Written by Erik Meijaard | February 13th, 2009
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Erik makes the case why logging of tropical rainforests is not necessarily bad
Cool Green Morning: Friday, Feb. 13
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Long weekend, and maybe you’ll hit the mall, and maybe that’s not such an eco-crime after all. Read below to learn more — and all the green online news that’s fit to print. (And could you pick up some socks for us while you’re there?) But the UPS Driver is So Cute: Which is greener: [...]
Water, Energy and Climate Change: Oh My!
Written by Diedre Paterno-Pai | February 12th, 2009
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Hydropower is this weird “renewable energy” source that no one really knows how to talk about in the popular media. I don’t recall once hearing a campaigning Barack Obama mention it when he discussed the merits of renewable energy. Sure, hydropower doesn’t produce as much carbon as a big barrel of oil. But it’s certainly not [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, Feb. 12
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Would Darwin be shocked by the news coming out of the environmental world today? Read on and decide for yourself… The Darwin 200: The Great Beyond provides a wrap-up of all the Darwin hoopla out on the internet. Hamster Power: In the search for renewable energy sources, researchers at Georgia Tech are testing out hamster [...]
A Paradox from Hell: The Waiãpí and Carbon Markets
Written by David Cleary | February 11th, 2009
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The photo above shows the extraordinary way one can often trace the outline of indigenous reserves in the Amazon on satellite images: Total destruction outside reserve boundaries gives way to standing forest on the dividing line between indigenous and non-indigenous land. The image comes from the Waiãpí reserve in the Brazilian state of Amapá, in [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, Feb. 11
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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What an amazing photo of an Australian firefighter offering an injured koala bear a drink on Monday after fighting wildfires in Australia. But are those fires being made worse by climate change? Read all the latest in online green below: We’re All Arsonists: Is climate change the cause of Australia’s horrific wildfires? Tim Flannery of [...]
Taking Eco-Action for Your Mental Health
Written by Chrissy Schwinn | February 10th, 2009
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A Boston Globe article a few days ago discussed the impacts of climate change on mental health. A couple weeks back I posted about President Obama’s inauguration as a moment of hope among what can be days of depressing work in the field of climate change. The Globe article nicely dissects the potential mental impacts [...]
Should We Be Reintroducing Species?
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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It’s a much-debated question: Should we be reintroducing species to their former habitats? After all, most modern-day species extinctions came about because of human interference, from poaching to habitat destruction. And once those species are gone from their native habitats, the ecosystems change in response. But should we restore the balance? Bring back, say, elephants to South [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, Feb. 10
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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An underwater eye on climate change, a computer program for monitoring home energy consumption and species relocation to help adapt to climate change… it’s all about new ideas and technologies today. How Much Does That Wind Cost? According to recent data, the price of transmitting wind energy from Midwest turbines to the Northeast could be [...]
Seeing Red Over Salmon
Written by Matt Miller |
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Soon after I moved to Idaho, I fished a tiny little stream — the kind of water where you can catch trout of eight or maybe 10 inches. And then a behemoth swam by, literally parting the waters. A salmon. Half out of the water, it pushed on: the final part of a 900-mile journey to [...]
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