May, 2009
Woodpeckers Hatch!
Written by Robert Lalasz | May 11th, 2009
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Red-cockaded woodpeckers have successfully bred hatchlings on The Nature Conservancy’s Disney Wilderness Preserve for the first time since the 1970s! See video above for the hatchlings of parents “George” and “Gracie” — and learn more about this conservation effort in the reality blog Knock on Wood!
Cool Green Morning: May 11, 2009
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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You give us one minute, we give you five hot green links — from the death of hydrogen cars to a swimming camera-tripping jaguar. That’s the deal every Cool Green Morning. Don’t disappoint us… Headline of the Month: Jaguar Swims Panama Canal, Then Takes Own Picture. (Hat tip: EcoWorldly.) The dream of a hydrogen-powered car? [...]
Conservation by Convention Center
Written by Chrissy Schwinn | May 8th, 2009
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Not all conservationists are in the jungle discovering new species and measuring tree cover, or counting reef species in crystal clear tropical seas. Some make the biggest difference in conference rooms.
How to Tech Responsibly
Written by Dave Connell |
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Twitter user K_M_Anderson asked the nature_org Twitter account recently: “Love new tech but worry that servers and bandwidth are coal-powered? taking open space? any info re enviro impact? how to tech responsibly?” Thanks for the tweet, K_M. As you now, the answers to your questions are not so simple. The fact is, it’s hard to [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, May 8
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Disappearance is everywhere this morning — disappearing seaweed, carbon emissions credits, legitimate carbon offsets, and rhinos. All going poof in the daily roundup of the five best stories out there every morning. Beam me up, Scottie… Check out this disappearing seaweed at the bottom of Egypt’s Red Sea (see video above, courtesy of Meignorant.com). It’s [...]
Traditional Conservation Methods for a New Threat
Written by Bob Bendick | May 7th, 2009
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Continuing our series of blog posts on the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation debate, senior policy advisor Tom Cassidy explains the nuances of domestic adaptation funding in the proposed bill. One of the Conservancy’s principal climate policy objectives — besides the fundamental necessity of imposing sharp reductions on carbon emissions — is to create a dedicated [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, May 7
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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In the last issue of Nature Conservancy magazine, writer Madeline Bodin reported on white-nose syndrome in bats. Unfortunately, as today’s lead story shows, the situation is getting worse. Read on to learn more… and check out all of today’s top news stories from the enviro-web. The U.S. Forest Service has ordered thousands of bat caves closed due to deadly white-nose syndrome, and [...]
A Message from My Daughter: ‘It’s the People, Dad’
Written by Bob Bendick | May 6th, 2009
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For the past month or so, my Nature Conservancy colleagues in U.S. government relations and I have been working hard on energy and climate legislation, as have a lot of other folks in the environmental community. As we work through the details of this process, I sometimes worry that we are not conveying a clear [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, May 6
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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After a raucous night of dangerous partying to celebrate nature.org’s two Webby Awards, we just got right up and did these five best green links of the morning for you. Because THAT’s how you win a Webby…(oh, and don’t forget to send us your ideas for our five-word acceptance speech at the Webby Award ceremony). [...]
Can We Stick to a Carbon Budget?
Written by Jonathan Hoekstra | May 5th, 2009
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If we want to contain global warming, then we need to constrain carbon dioxide emissions within an appropriate ecological budget. According to a new study published in NATURE, our cumulative carbon dioxide budget for 2000-2050 is 1000 gigatons.
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