October, 2009
Evening Bat Flights: One of Nature’s Great Spectacles
Written by Dave Mehlman | October 13th, 2009
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Yes, I’m an avid birder and professional bird conservationist — but that doesn’t mean I don’t take time for other flying things…like hundreds of thousands of bats. I took a few days off in late August and went down to visit Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico, an easy drive for me from [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, October 13
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Good morning, Cool Green News addicts! We know you missed us yesterday, but we’re back with some hot links to get your day started. Dams are coming down, a literary classic offers lessons in the climate change debate and a note of hope emerges around the U.S. climate change bill currently stalled in the Senate. [...]
Green Travel: A Trip to the Greenest City in America
Written by Margaret Southern | October 12th, 2009
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As hard as “living green” can be at home, it’s even harder on vacation. All the miles driven or flown, all the eating out…all the things you just can’t control. Luckily, I just took a trip to what could be considered the greenest city in America: Portland, Ore. But how green was my vacation? And [...]
Nature Photo of the Week: Morning Dewdrops on Leaf
Written by Darci Palmquist | October 9th, 2009
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I call this one “nature in the abstract.” Are those glass beads? Marbles? Tapioca pearls? No, this pretty shot is of morning dewdrops on a striped leaf by Flickr user KoolPix. 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.
Putting Conservation Pieces Back Together: The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force
Written by Bob Bendick |
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I saw an old map recently that showed that parts of the National Mall here in Washington were once a tidal marsh attached to the Potomac River. I like to imagine places as they were before people plowed them up, filled them in, built cities on them. That marsh must have been beautiful, with great [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 9
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Congratulations to President Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize! Now, what about the real news of the day…such as the most bizarre claim against the dangers of global warming yet floated? Read below for that and more, as always in your daily Coolness: You’ve heard of The Sibley Guide to Birds — the serious [...]
Choosing Sustainable Fish: Whose Responsiblity Is It?
Written by Kate Frazer | October 8th, 2009
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In a recent New York Times blog, Mark Bittman points to a U.K. survey that says 90 percent of diners want sustainable fish on restaurant menus and claim they’re willing to put their money where their mouths are — but most of those people don’t currently choose fish from sustainable sources. So it must be [...]
Chronicles of Borneo: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Written by CJ Hudlow |
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“The forest is our supermarket,” says Bang Liling, the deputy chief of Long Oking village inside the Berau district of Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo. It tells you something that that’s a common phrase heard in this part of the world, which I visited earlier this fall. “We get all of our medicine from [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, October 8
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Solar roads, “artificial trees” that pull CO2 from the air, and using dead people to run the air conditioning unit… it’s just another round-up of Cool Green News. Driving on glass sounds kind of sketchy, but an Idaho-based engineer has invented solar panels that you can indeed drive on. The next step is lots and lots of testing. U.S. [...]
A Clarion Call: Fight Climate Change by Protecting Forests
Written by Mark Tercek | October 7th, 2009
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Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. Over the last few months, I have been participating in a bipartisan commission — The Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests — that is focused on the connections between climate policy here in the United States and protecting tropical forests. The commission comprises some of [...]
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