August, 2009
Pristine Myths, Noble Savages and Conservation
Written by David Cleary | August 31st, 2009
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A couple weeks ago, after another of those planning meetings that take up so much time in the less-glamorous-than-you-might-think world of international conservation, I spent a day in one of the world’s great museums, Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology. A day in a great museum teaches you as much about conservation as a month [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, August 31
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Cool Green Morning, defined: 1) We find the most interesting 5 green links every weekday morning. 2) You look at them. What could be easier? Begin your half of the bargain below… Adapting to climate change will cost the world at least $100 billion per year by 2030, according to a new estimate by former [...]
Nature Photo of the Week: Snail on a Leaf
Written by Robert Lalasz | August 28th, 2009
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I’m generally not a big fan of snails in the slinky slimy flesh (or with garlic and butter, for that matter) — but the delicate lighting on this guy’s whorling shell as shot by KoolPix/Flickr is tres magnifique, no? Check out all The Nature Conservancy’s featured daily nature images, submitted to the Conservancy’s Flickr group [...]
In Washington, It’s Not All Climate All the Time
Written by Bob Bendick |
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Believe it or not, there are environmental issues other than climate change on the minds — and agendas of — of lawmakers and regulators in Washington. As a commentator for the National Journal Energy and Environment Expert Blog, I was recently asked to weigh in on some of the “back burner issues” currently working through [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, August 28
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Salmon return to Paris, green consumers are kind of self-centered and maybe even dumb, and it’s illegal to drive without your headlights on in Copenhagen — just a few of the many things we found for you today in Cool Green Morning: Conventional agriculture erodes farmland “at a rate similar to the biggest glaciers and [...]
Climate Change Set to Get Personal
Written by Jonathan Hoekstra | August 27th, 2009
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What does climate change mean to you? Maybe you think about polar bears stranded on a melting ice block. But climate change is going to be a lot more personal to U.S. residents than that, according to a new analysis released today by The Nature Conservancy. Longer, drier droughts could wither crops and push family [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, August 27
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Could lions be extinct in Kenya within 20 years? Will Waxman-Markey help America kick its foreign oil habit? Are we at the Conservancy shamelessly self-promoting our new study on energy sprawl? Find out in this edition of the most essential green links you need today… check them out. Will the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill help reduce America’s dependence on [...]
Energy Sprawl and The Importance of Fact
Written by Rob McDonald | August 26th, 2009
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During a dinner several months ago, the former U.S. ambassador C. Boyden Gray pointed a gaunt finger at me and said: “You environmentalists dislike ethanol, therefore you must want people to die.” While rhetorically grand, the accusation made little sense in the content of our dinner discussion about the potential land-use impacts of large-scale ethanol [...]
New Energy Production and Nature: What Will the Impacts Be?
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Renewable energy is poised to be the wave of the future, but what impact will it have on landscapes and wildlife? In the United States, at least 67 million acres will be developed for new energy projects by 2030. While these projects — including wind, solar and biofuels — will help reduce carbon emissions and [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, August 26
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Could watermelon — my favorite melon — also become the hot new biofuel? It’s not an new episode of “The Simpsons” — it’s just another fabulous roundup of the top 5 green links o’ the morning, here in Coolness: 350 vs. 450? The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajenda Pachauri, has come [...]
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