April, 2009
Knock on Wood: Our Reality Blog About Nesting Woodpeckers
Written by Robert Lalasz | April 30th, 2009
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That’s right — a reality blog about woodpeckers. But why? Because after two years of successful reintroduction, red-cockaded woodpeckers (RCW for short) are now attempting to nest in prepared cavities all over The Nature Conservancy’s beautifully restored Disney Wilderness Preserve in Florida. Which will be the first pair to see their chicks hatch in this [...]
Recognizing People as Well as Forest Carbon
Written by Chrissy Schwinn |
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Last week, leaders from around the world gathered in Alaska at the Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change to form a strategy around their participation in December’s UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen and discuss how various communities are adapting to climate change. The meeting coincides with a growing concern that indigenous communities are [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, April 30
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Is ignorance bliss when it comes to climate change? And is the weatherman the closet thing we have to a climate change guru? Find out this and more in today’s round-up of green news. Blame it on the Weatherman: When the temperature gets hot in your neigborhood, do your thoughts turn to climate change? You’re not alone. Check [...]
Sprawl Inequality and Climate Change
Written by Rob McDonald | April 29th, 2009
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I’ve been studying the growth of U.S. cities from 1990 to 2000, trying to get a handle on how much habitat was lost to urban sprawl. When most people think of sprawl destroying natural habitat, they think of a big, fast growing city. Sure enough, if you look at the total number of acres lost, [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, April 29
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Hurricanes — can’t live with them, and can barely run away from them. But hurricane season predictions? How about we just outlaw those right now? That and today’s other top green questions asked (and perhaps answered) below: I Predict 100 Bad Hurricane-Season Predictions This Year: Predictions about the upcoming hurricane season are notoriously bad, reports [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, April 28
Written by Darci Palmquist | April 28th, 2009
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Swine flu may have all the news attention today, but let’s re-focus our thoughts on… frogs. Today is the first-ever international “Save the Frogs Day.” Learn more about how to save one of the world’s most threatened animal groups, and then check out all of today’s top news stories. Save the Frogs Day: Never heard of [...]
Forest Carbon: No News is Good News
Written by Bob Bendick | April 27th, 2009
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Continuing our coverage of the Waxman-Markey bill hearings on Capitol Hill, Jeff Fiedler, the Conservancy’s senior policy advisor for climate and forests, has the following to say about the debate – or lack thereof – over the proposed legislation’s forest carbon provisions: Like many climate junkies, I’ve been following this week’s hearings on the American [...]
10 Fashion Tips for Hip Conservationists
Written by Sanjayan |
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A president of a major foundation called me late one evening recently to discuss the agenda of a conference we were both attending the next day in Aspen. After going through the details he had one last question: What, he asked a little timorously, should he wear — what was the dress code? It may [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, April 27
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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The monorail episode of The Simpsons — it never stops being relevant. Case in point: today’s Cool Green Morning link about the Podcar (version depicted above). Just do yourself a favor — try not to think about how that episode ended with the monorail accelerating dangerously out of control and Homer stopping it by means [...]
Energy Conservation Can’t Reduce Energy Sprawl Completely
Written by Rob McDonald | April 24th, 2009
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Chrissy Schwinn’s recent post called me to task for not talking enough in my first post about the role of personal energy conservation in reducing the amount of land impacted by new energy development. There is a tradeoff: Renewable energy generation, so crucial to meeting the goal of preventing catastrophic climate changes, takes more space [...]
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