January, 2010
Nature Photo of the Week: Purple Sea Urchin
Written by Margaret Southern | January 29th, 2010
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Dreaming of a winter beach vacation? Enjoy this serene image taken by Flickr user satchicat and shared through The Nature Conservancy’s Flickr Group 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.
Cool Green Morning: Friday, January 29
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Get your greens for breakfast — the freshest 5 eco-stories this morning:
- What’s the eco-friendliest country in the world? (Hint: Not the United States.) (Yale Environment 360)
- Tobacco plants have been hacked to grow synthetic solar-powering cells. (Treehugger)
- How do you test geoengineering — projects to cool the planet, such as shooting aerosols into the atmosphere to block sunlight — without screwing up the planet? (Climate Feedback)
- Rajendra Pachauri defends the IPCC’s credibility…and his own. (Ecopolitology)
- Will the United States finally be getting bullet (as in, “faster than a speeding”) trains? (The Vine)
Making the Mississippi Sustainable in the 21st Century
Written by Michael Reuter | January 28th, 2010
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Managing the Mississippi River for people and nature presents enormous challenges — and smarter conservation can play a huge role, says the Conservancy’s Michael Reuter.
Detecting Asian Carp in the Great Lakes
Written by Lindsay Chadderton |
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Asian carp are now in Lake Michigan — and that’s not good news for the Great Lakes, says Conservancy scientist Lindsay Chadderton. Find out how he and colleagues discovered the invasion!
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, January 28
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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Your daily cup of the coolest green news online is brewed and piping hot:
- DNA testing could help cut down on the smuggling of chimpanzees. (Extinction Countdown)
- Solar-powered bibles are the latest green-tech contribution to Haiti. (Good Clean Tech)
- Will biodiversity soon be as hotly debated as climate change? (Earth Watch)
- David Roberts admits to major cynicism over Obama’s State of the Union address on the topics of energy and climate change. (Grist)
- Thoreau wasn’t just hanging out in the woods writing… his observations of plants are proving useful to scientists studying climate change today. (Conservation Journal Watch)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, January 27
Written by Nicole Levins | January 27th, 2010
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Here you go– the five coolest, greenest links on the web. Dig in!:
- The people of a tiny Alaskan village claim that fuel and utility companies are responsible for their home’s rapid erosion, and they’re taking two dozen of said companies to court to sue for relocation expenses. (New York Times)
- A new study says that the health benefits and air-quality improvements that could result from cutting carbon emissions would offset the actual cost of cutting carbon emissions. (The Vine)
- A grassroots “gray water” movement is inspiring Los Angeles residents to recycle and reuse household waste water. (Christian Science Monitor)
- The latest Green Confidence Index shows that consumers want to go/buy green, but the state of the economy is why they’re not really doing any of that. (GreenBiz)
- Senators Kerry and Graham: bringin’ energy reform back. (Red, Green and Blue)
Keeping Down with the Joneses
Written by Margaret Southern |
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What’s the best way to get people to save energy? Would you believe making it a competition…and giving them smiley faces?
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, January 26
Written by Darci Palmquist | January 26th, 2010
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Today’s top 5 green news stories online:
- Can an energy-harvesting soccer ball reduce kerosene use in Africa? (Green Inc.)
- Wind power is on the rise… last year the industry grew 39 percent, despite the economic downturn. (NY Times)
- Just a 5 cent tax on plastic bags can make people bring their own to the grocery store. (The Vine)
- Twenty years later, the Exxon Valdez oil spill still lingers on Alaska’s beaches. (Christian Science Monitor)
- Could a ‘green’ industrial revolution — think electric cars and renewable energy — save Michigan? (The Daily Green)
Agriculture: The Other Global Change Agent
Written by Joe Fargione |
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How will we feed the world in 2050 — and what will it mean for nature? Getting the right answers is as important as dealing with climate change, writes Conservancy scientist Joe Fargione.
Can Nature Be Restored Like Shakespeare’s Globe?
Written by Dustin Solberg | January 25th, 2010
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Dustin Solberg visits the restored Globe Theatre in London…and wonders if restoring nature can ever be as simple.
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