September, 2009
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, September 15
Written by Darci Palmquist | September 15th, 2009
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There might not be much hope for the Goose Creek milkvetch, but at least you can now heat your home with an ethanol fireplace. Read on for that and weightier topics like sunspots, the Peruvian Amazon conflict and REDD (one of the most important strategies in fighting climate change, says Conservancy president Mark Tercek). Goose Creek milkvetch (pictured [...]
Australia: Land of the Unusual, or the Homogenized?
Written by Michael Looker | September 14th, 2009
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The island nation of Australia has a long history of newcomers landing on its shores — beginning with the first indigenous people, who arrived over 40,000 years ago. With them they bought what was probably the first introduced animal to Australia – the dingo. While it is highly probable this canine had a significant impact [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, September 14
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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OK, so it turns out that you can’t get solar power from human hair, as we reported last week. But you can track a gorilla in Uganda online now, OK? Is that good enough for you? Read all this morning’s vetted and triple-fact-checked hot green news, only in Cool Green Morning: That story about a [...]
Boucher’s Birding Blog: Delaware Shorebirds in August
Written by Timothy Boucher | September 11th, 2009
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Late summer birding!? But it’s still hot in many parts of the country, hot and sultry and not much seems to be happening with songbirds, right? They’re in their post-breeding slump, molting and fattening up, getting ready to go south… But not every bird. There are birds are on the wing — shorebirds! They are [...]
Nature Photo of the Week: Living on the Edge
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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That’s a scarlet-and-green leafhopper, and it’s on a pitcher plant — that’s right, one of our green carnivorous friends with slippery inner surfaces to make bugs fall into its protein-digesting juices. A tragedy in the making? No, says the photographer, Vermont Lenses/Flickr, who reports the leafhopper made it safely away. (Whew!) The shot, BTW, was [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, September 11
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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From rehabbing injured birds to why your airport runway might need to get longer soon…it’s another action-packed best-daily-green-link roundup known in these parts as Cool Green Morning: Ever find an injured wild bird and not know what to do? 10,000 Birds now features a very informative Wild Bird Rescue 101. (Rule #2: Never try to [...]
Eat a Fish, Save a Fish? The Move to Sustainable Seafood Menus
Written by Kate Frazer | September 10th, 2009
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You’ve heard it before: Our oceans contain some of Earth’s most imperiled habitats. Shellfish beds, coral reefs and seagrass meadows once bustling with life have been depleted, and critical fish stocks have plummeted. Less than 1 percent of our oceans are currently protected. There’s even a giant garbage patch twice the size of Texas floating [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, September 10
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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From hair-powered solar panels and trees that produce electricity to species extinctions (Christmas Island bats) and species on the rebound (Mexican gray wolf), it’s a wacky wild world out there. Read on for today’s top Cool Green News links. Plug an electrode into a maple tree, and another into the ground, and what do you get? [...]
Hoping for a Hurricane? Coral Reefs Are
Written by Stephanie Wear | September 9th, 2009
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Having lived in the hurricane zone for most of the last decade, I have developed a bit of an addiction to The Weather Channel this time of year. Until recently, the general feeling around hurricane coverage and anticipation of hurricane season in the United States has been a fear of “the big one.” Now, and [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, September 9
Written by Nicole Levins |
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Did you know that there may be a new green fuel that’s literally green? Or that your GPS does more than prevent you from getting lost? Or that the term “climate change” predates “global warming” by more than 50 years? If not, well, you do now that you’re reading this morning’s roundup of green stories. [...]
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