September, 2009
Cool Green Morning: Friday, September 25
Written by Robert Lalasz | September 25th, 2009
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The really strange cao vit gibbon (see video above) has received a new protective reserve in Vietnam — good thing, too, because there are just 110 left. Read all this morning’s hot green news below: How do monarch butterflies migrate to the same location in Mexico every winter? Through a clock in their antennae, says [...]
Wisdom from the Mouths of Babes: Feeling Better through Conservation
Written by Jeff Opperman | September 24th, 2009
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I was tucking my five-year-old daughter into bed and, as kids tend to do, she launched into a series of questions — part curiosity, part stalling tactic. Her topic that night was employment, and she asked why various people did what they did, such as: “Why is Aunt Amy a doctor?” I mustered a response [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, September 24
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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“Coywolves” in the neighborhood? Death panels for pandas? Monarchs in need of a women’s lib movement? It’s all in a day’s news here at Cool Green Morning. BBC wildlife expert Chris Packham makes a statement that could send shivers down your spine: Giant pandas should be allowed to die out. His argument? The money put [...]
Climate Week: Who Controls the Earth?
Written by Chrissy Schwinn | September 23rd, 2009
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Climate Week is here — a series of meetings at the United Nations headquarters in New York among world leaders to discuss at the highest levels of government how to make progress toward a global climate change solution. But what does Climate Week — and all the negotiations through Copenhagen and beyond — really mean? [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, September 23
Written by Nicole Levins |
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President Obama spoke to the United Nations about the importance of climate legislation. The airline industry’s planning to cut its emissions by 50%. Some states are thinking about suing power companies. How are YOU celebrating Climate Week? You can start by digging into today’s top green stories: President Obama’s speech on climate change earned mixed [...]
Skagit River: How Farming and Bird Conservation Help Each Other
Written by Dave Mehlman | September 22nd, 2009
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Successful bird conservation is far harder than it looks. But there are some wonderful examples out there that show how we can have more and better bird habitat and benefit people, too. One of the coolest examples that I know about is the work being done by The Nature Conservancy in Washington in the delta [...]
Cryptic Coral Reef Organisms! (What Are Those?)
Written by Alison Green |
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Editor’s Note: Alison Green, senior marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy, recently traveled to Papua New Guinea to see cutting-edge marine work by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Coral Triangle, the most biodiverse marine region on Earth. Also read her first post from Papua New Guinea on sea-surface monitoring and [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, September 22
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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International Climate Week kicked off yesterday, and in honor of the special event, today’s issue of Cool Green Morning is all about… you guessed it: climate change, emissions, energy and global policy leaders. Catch up on all the latest, right here, right now. The Washington Post warns that domestic politics could thwart the goal of a global treaty by [...]
Planet Change: Speaking Out on Climate Change
Written by Dave Connell | September 21st, 2009
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Over the past several months, I and many of my colleagues across The Nature Conservancy have been working on Planet Change, a new microsite we are launching today to draw attention to the need for a global solution to climate change that significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions as well as two crucial, yet often overlooked [...]
Sustainable Seafood: What Reef Restoration Means for People
Written by Kate Frazer |
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One of the things I love about living in Boston is visiting Cape Cod after the high season has ended. Once the crowds have dispersed and the traffic has eased, I motor all the way up the Cape’s outstretched arm to Wellfleet, Massachusetts, to watch birds, eat shellfish and breathe the salty air. At this [...]
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