November, 2009
Nature Photo of the Week: Spawning Coho Salmon
Written by Robert Lalasz | November 20th, 2009
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This amazing shot by Flickr user “Soggydan” Dan Bennett of a leaping coho salmon in Issaquah Creek, Washington state was taken with a 60mm lens — which basically means the photographer could have reached out and touched this fish. Like we said — amazing! Thanks for sharing it through The Nature Conservancy’s Flickr Group, Soggydan! [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, November 20
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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This really should have been last week’s (Friday the 13th’s) Cool Green Morning — filled with The Worst Nightmares of whales, wasteful companies, and people who like to paint their cars a lot. (Are they going to take car painting away from us, too?) Prepare yourself — real scary stuff in today’s best green news [...]
Do Global Conservation Initiatives Undermine Local Conservation Action?
Written by Eddie Game | November 19th, 2009
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Here’s an all-too-frequent out-of-office autoreply from conservationists these days: I am currently away from the office attending a UNDP meeting. Following this I am participating in a CBD working group, an IUCN advisory committee, an NGO roundtable, then presenting at a Millennium Declaration follow-up, and attending a regional conservation forum convened by aid agencies as [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, November 19
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Too bad that feeling guilty isn’t enough to reduce carbon emissions. But we’re excited that California passed efficiency standards to cut television electricity use in half by 2013. And how about the recovery of a rare giraffe species in Africa? Not bad news for a cool green morning. There’ll be no more energy-sucking televisions in the state where TV was born, now [...]
Telecommuting: How to Save the World in Your Pajamas
Written by Margaret Southern | November 18th, 2009
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I’ve talked a lot about biking as a great alternative to driving to work, but there is another option that may be a little less daunting: telecommuting. If you regularly drive to work, telecommuting can save thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere and save you a bundle of money [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, November 18
Written by Nicole Levins |
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Coke’s introducing the “PlantBottle.” Houston’s taking a modest step toward a greener image. Enviros are teaming up with the religious right to encourage climate action on the Hill. Today’s news is exceptionally cool AND green. Read on for more: What’s more important than reaching a global agreement in Copenhagen? Scientific American thinks a U.S.-China deal [...]
Veracruz: River of Raptors Runs Through It
Written by Dave Mehlman | November 17th, 2009
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I recently returned from my near annual pilgrimage to Veracruz, Mexico, to see the fall hawk migration at the biggest hawk migration site in the world. The area on the Gulf Coast of Mexico near Veracruz City has become well known in recent years for its astounding hawk migration, a phenomenon that has become known [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, November 17
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Rish and shine! There’s a cool green morning out there, waiting to greet you with some oh-so-refreshing news: marine sponges are important, the Dutch want to tax drivers and there could be a rot-free apple in your future. The Daily Green asks, Is everything you know about being green wrong? Here’s the scoop: it’s not about what car [...]
How to Achieve a Global Climate Change Agreement
Written by Jonathan Hoekstra | November 16th, 2009
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What will a successful global climate change agreement look like? That question is only more important to ask in the wake of this weekend’s agreement by President Obama to a plan that will ask world leaders to reach a political agreement at this December’s UN climate talks in Copenhagen, ahead of a more binding agreement [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 16
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Good news about cow poop. Good news (?) about Copenhagen. Good news for those of you who’ve always dreamed of a dress made of LED lights. Happiness is the smell of a new Cool Green Morning, to paraphrase Don Draper… The rehabilitation of poop continues: The Netherlands has opened its second cow-dung power plant, reports [...]
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