October, 2009
Population Growth, the Personal and the Political
Written by Rob McDonald | October 19th, 2009
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One of the difficulties writing for Cool Green Science is that our name necessarily constrains our subject matter. While we are all conservationists and hence prone to write on environmental topics most of the time, the occasional truly bizarre tangents into other issues that you’d get on a personal blog as the author meandered intellectually [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, October 19
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Salmon adapting to dams? Solar panels causing climate change? Optimistic conservationists? There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust your monitor. We are now in control of the transmission…here on the best darn roundup of daily cool green news ever: The Royal Botanic Gardens in England announces that it’s collected seeds [...]
Nature Photo of the Week: Curacao Scorpionfish
Written by Darci Palmquist | October 16th, 2009
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With so many great photos from our online community this week, it was hard to pick just one… but this curacao scorpionfish by Flickr user DiamondPete has a certain “now you see me, now you don’t” quality that’s just too alluring to pass up. Check out all The Nature Conservancy’s featured daily nature images, submitted to the [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 16
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Phew, that was a furious Blog Action Day ’09 yesterday — with more than 13,000 blogs posting 27,000 blog posts in 24 hours on climate change in 155 countries to almost 18 million readers. (The Nature Conservancy and Cool Green Science were thrilled to be partners in the effort.) But the sun has risen again [...]
It’s Blog Action Day…to Stop Climate Change!
Written by Robert Lalasz | October 15th, 2009
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Hey, Mr. and Ms. Cool, Green and Scientific — it’s Blog Action Day! Thousands of bloggers are blogging against climate change today…including Cool Green Science! (Find out more in the video above.) What can you do RIGHT NOW to help slow climate change? Try these Nature Conservancy action items for starters: Use our Planet Change [...]
Bangkok Dispatch: Now It’s Our Turn
Written by Chrissy Schwinn |
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The international climate talks in Bangkok, Thailand ended last week with little progress but a clear directive. Political leaders must give their negotiating teams some parameters to enable real negotiations to take place and reach a final agreement in Copenhagen in December. The talks didn’t really do too much more or less than expected. We [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, October 15
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Marijuana causes drought, endangered species are expensive, and wetlands store carbon… who knew? Now you do, thanks to this morning’s round-up of Cool Green News links. New data suggest that wetlands could store six times more carbon per acre than forests, leading some scientists and companies to consider wetlands restoration as the next shining hope for carbon offsets. [...]
The Noel Kempff Climate Action Project: The Conservancy Responds to a Greenpeace Report
Written by Jonathan Hoekstra |
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Thirteen years ago, The Nature Conservancy teamed up with Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza, American Electric Power Company, BP America and Pacificorp to buy out four logging concessions adjacent to Bolivia’s Noel Kempff Mercado National Park. In addition to protecting almost 832,000 hectares of forest habitat and doubling the size of the national park, this [...]
Fish and People on the Edge: Why the Zambezi River Looks OK, But Isn’t
Written by Jeff Opperman | October 14th, 2009
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How do you convince people that a river they’ve known their whole lives is not the river it once was…or could be? That turned out to be my challenge last week, when I traveled to Zambia in support of The Nature Conservancy’s new project to restore the Zambezi River. After several days of meetings with [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 14
Written by Nicole Levins |
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If you’re anything like me, you can’t get your day started without your daily serving of Cool Green Morning. (Also, caffeine. Lots and lots of caffeine.) Read on to get your fix: Big snakes are becoming a big problem, says the United States Geological Survey. The group just issued a report concluding that, should the [...]
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