October, 2009
Cool Green Morning: Monday, October 26
Written by Robert Lalasz | October 26th, 2009
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Halloween is hurtling at us like a thrown pumpkin…but there’s still time to duck and get the latest green news of the day…including how urine could hold the key to cheap auto fuel. (Remember: Practice safe gourd smashing this holiday.) Do you run a company that pollutes, or do you love someone who does? CleanTechnica [...]
Nature Photo of the Week: Elakala Waterfalls Swirling Pool
Written by Darci Palmquist | October 23rd, 2009
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WOW! Is there anything else to say about this stunning photo of Elakala Waterfall in West Virginia by ForestWander Nature Photography? You tell us — what do you think of our “Nature Photo of the Week”? 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.
Is Tweeting Against Climate Change Accomplishing Anything?
Written by Dave Connell |
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“Dad, what did you do way back when to help solve climate change?” “Well son, I tweeted my face off about it. I really did. I included some bit.ly links to petition sites, I updated my Facebook status almost every day and I even posted a video comment on YouTube. In short, I did everything [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 23
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Some days you wake up and find everything you’re doing and believing is wrong — like eating tomatoes or thinking your fellow Americans trust the scientific consensus that man is causing climate change. This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of those days. But tomorrow is Climate Action Day, so…maybe slice a tomato and take it [...]
Great Nature Photos: The Conservancy’s Williamson River Delta Preserve
Written by Jen Newlin Bell | October 22nd, 2009
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[Click the individual images to see them at full size, or click the "View With PicLens" link to see a slideshow.] Volunteer photographer Rick McEwan just finished an assignment for The Nature Conservancy, shooting wetland restoration work in the Conservancy’s Williamson River Delta Preserve in Oregon. It’s a place he just can’t bring himself to [...]
Cool Green Morning; Thursday, October 22
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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You won’t see it in any headlines today, but let’s just give a quick shout-out to The Nature Conservancy for turning 58 today! Yep, that’s right, today is the day we were incorporated back in 1951. Times certainly have changed – greenhouse gas emissions, iPhone apps and wind farms are the topics du jour – but conservation is still as [...]
From China: Entrepreneurs, Conservation and the Future of the World
Written by Charles Bedford | October 21st, 2009
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Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there. Read all his posts. Who’s going to lead the way for conservation in China? Local grass-roots groups? International NGOs? The government? Here’s another thought: [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 21
Written by Nicole Levins |
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A UN climate negotiator tries to deflate our hope for Copenhagen. The government of the Maldives holds a meeting underwater, practicing for the day when the archipelago nation might actually be underwater. Oh, and remember air pollution? Yeah, it’s still a huge problem, and it’s costing Americans a lot of money, and for some, their [...]
A Parent’s Paradox: Staying Green While Staying on a Schedule
Written by Kerry Crisley | October 20th, 2009
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“This is so much fun!” So shouts my three-year old, Erin, as she peddles her tricycle along the Main Street sidewalk toward her pre-school. My son Ben is walking, proudly wearing his bright red backpack like “the big boys do.” It’s Walk to School day at Ben’s elementary school, and my husband John and I [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, October 20
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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It seems that everything comes back to climate change… sudden aspen decline, Hurricane Katrina, the Patriots playing in the snow and more. Check it out in today’s round-up of Cool Green Morning news links. According to a new poll, American voters still don’t think climate change should be high on the government’s agenda. The poll from [...]
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