April, 2009
New Poll Results: Nature Wins
Written by Clay Carrington | April 13th, 2009
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I’ve always been a little wary of polls. They often call to mind political hatchet men or Madison Avenue hucksters. Occasionally, though, polls can make even a cynic like me take heart. Two recent polls – conducted by independent research companies on behalf of The Nature Conservancy and partner organizations — surveyed voters in Texas and [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, April 13
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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While you’re nursing a candy hangover and wondering where you, too, can get a Portuguese water spaniel puppy, we spent the night gathering the freshest green news from around the Internets for you! So how about handing over some of your candy… Do Scooters Pollute More Than Hummers? That’s a claim made in a Chicago [...]
Bald Eagle Video: Mama Feeds Chick!
Written by Robert Lalasz | April 10th, 2009
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Our preserve on Santa Cruz Island has been the site of some amazing conservation work by The Nature Conservancy and its partners — the restoration of the adorable, cat-sized Santa Cruz Island foxes; protection of rare species (12 of which are found nowhere else); and the overall reversal of 150 years of habitat degradation by [...]
What Our Public Demands
Written by Chrissy Schwinn |
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It’s seemed a pretty good couple of weeks for those who have hoped for a new era of climate-change action by the new U.S. administration and Congress. And given where the United States is coming from, it has been. Todd Stern (the U.S. special envoy on climate change) put the United States firmly back in [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, April 10
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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It’s Good Friday in most of the Christian world, and this Midwestern, Catholic-raised boy’s thoughts are naturally turning to…Easter candy. What’s that you say? Bad for my waistline? Well, that’s a lost cause anyway…and besides, Easter candy is actually getting greener. Find out more in this morning’s meltingly hot green roundup: I Likes My Peeps: [...]
Climate Change, Bailouts, and an N of 1
Written by Rob McDonald | April 9th, 2009
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What do the TARP and global warming have in common?
Baseball’s Buggy Problem, and Ours
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Major league baseball (which just started its season this week) is considered the national pastime. But it’s also a curious leading indicator for the impending doom of some of North America’s greatest tree species. You see, baseball bats used to be made out of elm and chestnut wood — both tree species that have been [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, April 9
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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We’re covering the globe today… from Australia to Bolivia to Oregon to the depths of the ocean, here are the top green news stories you should read. Australia Holds the Grim Distinction… of being the place scientists point to for evidence of climate change. Drought, wildfires, heat waves and agricultural collapse plague the country, and [...]
Can the Suits Save the World?
Written by Dave Connell | April 8th, 2009
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As anyone who follows The Nature Conservancy’s Twitter feed knows, I spent much of yesterday attending Carbon TradeEx in an event that can be best described as a carbon markets wonkfest. So what does such a meeting look like? Well, first of all everyone (except for yours truly) wears a suit — or at least [...]
A Flood of Birds in Australia
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Every ten years or so, flood waters rush through Australia’s Red Centre and transform dry, barren creek beds into rich habitat for water birds. 2009 is one of those years. This year’s rare flood has drawn huge flocks of silver gulls, banded stilts, gull billed terns, cormorants, black swans and pelicans to feed and breed in the waters. [...]
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