July, 2009
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, July 21
Written by Darci Palmquist | July 21st, 2009
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What do green jobs, trash systems and shark attacks have to do with each other? They’re all part of today’s Cool Green Morning news round-up. Intrigued? Just read on… Green jobs skeptic Marc Gunther thinks a program modeled after Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps — which helped build state and national parks in the 1930s — could be the [...]
What Should We Do About Beef From The Amazon?
Written by David Cleary | July 20th, 2009
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I spent a day a few weeks ago in São Paulo at the headquarters of a major Brazilian beef company — or, to put it another way, the cutting edge of tropical conservation. The image people have of conservationists in the tropics is often drawn from Indiana Jones films: intrepid biologists in the jungle swatting away mosquitoes [...]
Five Things I Learned About ACES in Five Minutes on Twitter
Written by Dave Connell |
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One small step for man edition: It’s not called ACES in the Senate, it’s called ACELA. Which is weird because I thought that name was already taken. (@ACELAclimateBil) FiveThirtyEight genius Nate Silver thinks he can make some money from this whole climate change thing and has put out an open call to climate change skeptics [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, July 20
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Great — just how I like to start my Monday morning: With a miles-long blob of black goo. See video of this strange phenomenon above, and look below for more info (and some other and decidedly greener links) in this edition of Coolness: A 12-15 mile long mass of heretofore unknown black algae has been [...]
Nature Photo of the Week: Tails
Written by Robert Lalasz | July 17th, 2009
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The title says it all: Enjoy this rear-view image of Canada geese shot by farmhousephoto — and see all The Nature Conservancy’s featured daily nature images, submitted to the Conservancy’s Flickr group by people like you — at my.nature.org. And don’t forget to enter your best nature images in our 2009 Nature Photo Contest!
Diary of a Horseshoe Crab Counter on Delaware Bay
Written by Debbie Heaton |
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Each spring The Nature Conservancy recruits volunteers to survey two beaches along the Delaware Bay during horseshoe crab mating season (see video of what the survey looks like). The survey is part of a Delaware Bay-wide horseshoe crab population study, and the data collected each year is used to help set the commercial harvesting quotas for [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, July 17
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Have you seen these “night-shining” clouds everyone is talking about this week? And could they be an index of (what else) global warming? Read on for that and a lot of cool green tech news (including electricity from onions) in this edition of Coolness: Renewables now make up 13 percent of all electricity generated in [...]
Will We Repair Our Green Infrastructure?
Written by Rob McDonald | July 16th, 2009
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The Amtrak train sits idle in the station, as the passengers alternately make cell phone calls from the platform or drink warm beer from their seats. There’s a gas leak ahead along the tracks in Baltimore, and the whole Northeast rail corridor is shut down. Coming on the heels of the June crash in the [...]
Five Things I Learned About ACES in Five Minutes on Twitter
Written by Dave Connell |
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Seriously, this is going to be a regular thing. Why? Because we love twitter. Think ACES is going to be the end of coal as we know it? Think again. SolveClimate reports that 43 old fashioned coal-fired power plants that are either already under construction or into the permitting process will come online without the [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, July 16
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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No surprises here — this morning’s round-up is all about climate change. With a chicken thrown in for good measure. Read on for all the top Cool Green News you need. Has Steven Chu been tasked with the impossible: convincing China to take serious steps to combat climate change? Environmental Capital assesses. Environmental Leader’s Andy [...]
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