August, 2009
Guide to Bike Commuting 1: Get the Right Gear
Written by Margaret Southern | August 18th, 2009
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Editor’s Note: Margaret Southern is now Cool Green Science’s green living blogger. Look for her posts on the daily struggle to live green — everything from why anyone would buy clothes made from bamboo to how to be green on a budget — in this space. Bike commuting. I know what you’re thinking: “That sounds [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, August 18
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Will Steven Colbert try to stop Bill McKibben from saving the world? Will the tenkile — the world’s rarest tree kangaroo — recover from near decimation? Will Kenya and Uganda go to war over a fish? We can’t promise any answers, but we can deliver the top Cool Green News links you should read today. Bill [...]
The Chevy Volt: 230 Miles Per Gallon! What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Written by Timothy Boucher | August 17th, 2009
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Hold on a second…there’s a problem with the impressive claim made by Chevrolet last week of 230 miles per gallon for its electric Volt model (which is still under development). Actually, two problems. The first is how to measure the miles per gallon of an electric car. As has been noted in a number of [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, August 17
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Is bottled water propping up a dictatorship? Is Walmart’s green business club worth the dues? Is Mumbai headed for a climate change fall? And who stole nearly 100 loggerhead turtle hatchlings from a North Carolina beach? All this and more in this morning’s Coolness: Joel Makower looks at Walmart’s Sustainability Consortium — a sort of [...]
Report from Bonn: Climate Adaptation and Wrangling ’200 Pages of Nonsense’
Written by Chrissy Schwinn | August 14th, 2009
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Here’s a guest post from Suzy Menazza, a senior policy advisor for The Nature Conservancy for the Asia-Pacific region, from the international climate negotiations just concluded in Bonn: Suzy Menazza: “What we have is 200 pages of incomprehensible nonsense” — that’s how UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo De Boer commented on the status of the negotiations [...]
Nature Photo of the Week: Montana Vision
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Sure, it’s still summer — but can’t you just see a hint of chilly autumn in the sky over Bridger Canyon in this tranquil image by Jon Taylor Montana? Check out 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 [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, August 14
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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At least the Chevy Volt drives really well — that’s the best thing I can say about today’s top 5 green links. It’s been a long week — enjoy the weekend! Green Tech’s Martin LaMonica test-drives the Chevy Volt — you know, the 230 mpg plug-in electric Chevy Volt — and finds it handles and [...]
What Do Conservation and Policy Have to Do With Each Other?
Written by Chrissy Schwinn | August 13th, 2009
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Here’s a guest post from Rane Cortez, one of The Nature Conservancy’s policy advisors on reducing emissions from deforestation, who is back in Bonn for more international climate negotiations. Rane Cortez: It seems like just yesterday that I was here for the “Bonn II” round of international climate negotiations earlier this year. When we came [...]
Why Do Nurseries Sell Invasive Plants?
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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If you garden, you’ve probably been tempted once or twice to plant something beautiful, new, exciting… yes, exotic. But you know you shouldn’t. Wouldn’t it be easier to resist such temptations if it wasn’t possible to buy invasives at your local nursery or garden store in the first place? A reader from Michigan saw what [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, August 13
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Seen the marvelous spatuletail hummingbird? You must check him out — see video above — and read on to find out why this unusual little guy is endangered in Peru. It’s all the Cool Green News you need this morning. A new report from the American Bird Conservancy and a South American conservation group highlights the plight of the endangered marvelous [...]
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