Robert Lalasz
Robert Lalasz is the associate director of digital marketing at The Nature Conservancy and serves as editor-in-chief for the Conservancy's website, nature.org, as well as its monthly e-newsletter, Great Places.
A long-time editor, he has also written hundreds of articles for leading publications such as the Raleigh News & Observer, The Wall Street Journal, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and Washingtonian Magazine. On Cool Green Science, he blogs about Conservancy web features and interesting green links from the blogosphere and the MSM.
Posts by Robert Lalasz:
Nature Photo of the Week: Spawning Coho Salmon
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!
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Posted: November 20th, 2009 under Fish, Nature Photo of the Week, The Nature Conservancy, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: coho salmon, nature image, nature photo, Nature Photo of the Week, salmon leap photo, salmon photo, salmon spawn photo, Washington nature image, Washington nature photo
Comments: 3
Cool Green Morning: Friday, November 20
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 [...]
Posted: November 20th, 2009 under Air Pollution, Asia Pacific, Business, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Fish, Green Living, Green Technology, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, Sustainable Livelihoods, United States.
Tags: Asia clean tech, Asia green investment, auto painting pollution, CleanTechnica, CNET Health Tech, Dot Earth, Ecopolitology, EPA, GoodGuide, GoodGuide app, green app, green invest, greenhouse gas emissions, Japan, Japan whale, Jeff Gordon, NASCAR, Obama climate, smartphone green app, sustainability app, Sylvia Earle, Thomas Friedman, Todd Stern, U.S. green investment, U.S. green tech, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, whale hunt, Yvo de Boer
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 16
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 CleanTechnica [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under Animals, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Copenhagen, Energy, Europe, Fish, Forests, Green Living, Green Technology, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, South America.
Tags: Amazon deforest, Amazon forest, biogas, Brazil Amazon, CleanTechnica, Copenhagen, cow dung electricity, cow dung power plant, Dave Roberts, Dot Earth, Grist, Inhabitat, LED dress, lights dress, Netherlands cow dung, Obama, shark, Swarovski, The New York Times, tuna, turtle
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, November 13
Feeling unlucky this Friday the 13th? Fortify yourself with the latest in green news — recycled diapers, undersea gliders, a historic comeback and a new way to shut up those global warming skeptics close to you (speaking of superstitious…)
So you’re at a family gathering, arguing with Uncle Climate Denier over the reality of climate change [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2009 under Birds, Business, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Green Technology, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, United States.
Tags: Andrew Revkin, brown pelican, brown pelican DDT, carbon sequestration, climate change denier, diaper recycle, Dot Earth, Los Angeles Times, track whale, Triple Pundit, undersea glider, United States low temperature, whale sonar, whale sound, Wired Science, Yale Environment 360
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Follow Nathan: Recap of a Remarkable Journey
In August, we blogged here on the extraordinary cross-country bike journey of Nathan Winters (AKA, “Follow Nathan”) to raise money for The Nature Conservancy and raise awareness for climate change and sustainable agriculture. At that point, Nathan had just crossed the Wisconsin-Minnesota border, halfway through his journey from Maine to Washington State — a trek [...]
Posted: November 11th, 2009 under Climate Change, Green Living, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Adirondacks, Adirondacks conservation, Bellingham, charity bike ride, Climate Change, Follow Nathan, Nathan Winters, sustainable ag, sustainable agriculture, The Nature Conservancy
Comments: 1
Open Thread: Which Eco-Issue Keeps You Up at Night?
Our former colleague and friend Scott Anderson over at The Green Skeptic posed (and answered) a great question last week — which issue keeps you up at night?
Is it climate change? Species loss? Ocean pollution? Enviromental refugees? That young people don’t get out into nature anymore? Or something else? Don’t bottle it up inside — [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2009 under Open Thread.
Tags: Green Skeptic, keeps up night, Scott Anderson
Comments: 54
Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 9
That’s not lice causing that scratching on your head (at least, we hope not) — it’s just a lot of head scratchers in today’s hot green news roundup. Stop the itch of curiosity right here!
Now here’s a question that’s been keeping millions up at night! Which is greener: Going into the refrigerator for a bottle [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2009 under Animals, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Green Living, Policy, Science, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: Ask Pablo, Bright Green Blog, carbon emissions, carbon price, CleanTechnica, Climate Change, climate change denial, climate change denier, Columbia University, communicating climate change, Copenhagen climate, energy conservation, greenhouse gases, Institute for Policy Integrity, Jeremy Hance, Mongabay, Obama, Obama endangered species, ozone hole, Richard Black, The Psychology of Climate Change Communication, Treehugger, Water conservation
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Nature Photo of the Week: White Sands National Monument
No, this isn’t a very good photo, is it? That’s probably because it’s an insanely good photo! Take a deep breath…and fall into White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, courtesy of Lightchaser/Flicker 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 [...]
Posted: November 6th, 2009 under Deserts and Aridlands, Nature Photo of the Week, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: desert image, desert photo, Lightchaser, nature image, nature photo, Nature Photo of the Week, New Mexico, New Mexico image, New Mexico photo, White Sands image, White Sands National Monument, White Sands photo
Comments: 3
Cool Green Morning: Friday, November 6
U.S. fish stocks defecting to Canada? We can just see it now on Lou Dobbs Tonight…but remember where you heard it first — Cool, Green, Morning. Have a great weekend!
Seems fishy, but overall U.S. water consumption has declined in the past 25 years — despite a growing population and increasing water use. Huh? Tina Casey [...]
Posted: November 6th, 2009 under Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Europe, Fish, Fresh Water, North America, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: Atlantic fish, Barcelona climate, CleanTechnica, Climate Feedback, Coastal Resilience, coastal wetland, Copenhagen climate, Environmental Research Letters, fish migration, fish ocean warm, Glenn Beck, Grist, Grist Copenhagen, irrigation, Jeff Tollefson, Journal Watch Online, Kerry Boxer, Obama, Obama climate, power plant cooling, sea level rise, Tina Casey, Water conservation, Yale Environment 360
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, November 5
Things are looking up today — climate talks are reportedly going well, America beats the world in geothermal R&D, and great white sharks now have their very own singles bar. Ain’t life Cool?
How are things in Barcelona (aside from the shocking underperformance of its namesake soccer team this year)? For the climate talks now underway [...]
Posted: November 5th, 2009 under Animals, Climate Change, Energy, Fish, Policy, Science, South America, United States.
Tags: Barcelona climate, Climate Feedback, Copenhagen climate, EcoGeek, EcoWorldly, Ecuador, genome sequencing, geothermal, geothermal R&D, google, great white shark, IUCN Red List, Jeff Tollefson, Journal of Heredity, Journal Watch Online, shark cafe, vertebrate conservation, Washington Post
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