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: 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
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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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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, November 3
It’s Election Day in the United States — get out and vote! Then immediately get back on your smartphone and check out the hottest in online green this morning — including what might possibly be the best green name ever…
Mt. Kilimanjaro’s ice cap is disappearing — but is that climate change’s fault? Two research teams [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under Africa, Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Fresh Water, Green Living, Media, Science, Water Conservation.
Tags: Associated Press, carbon emissions, climate change survivor, Gaia Vince, glacier melt, green patriarch, Himalayan glacier, Kilimanjaro ice cap, Kilimanjaro melt, Laos, Nepal cabinet Everest, Orthodox green, Patriarch Bartholomew, The New York Times, Toto, Toto Africa, Treehugger, Washington Post, Yale Environment 360
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 2
Orangutan-friendly palm oil sales are on the rise! Yah! Vandals are throwing the community bicycles of Paris into the Seine! Boo! Beware emotional whiplash in this roller-coaster edition of Cool Green Morning — just slip the buckle into the clasp and pull tight across your waist…
Can long-range climate forecasting get good enough to help us [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 under Animals, Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Europe, Green Living, United States.
Tags: Climate Change, Climate Feedback, climate forecast, climate scare, Dot Earth, energy sprawl, Environmental Leader, global warming, Jane Lubchenco, New Scientist, NOAA, orangutan, palm oil, Paris bicycle, pets climate change, sustainable palm oil, Times of London, Triple Pundit, Wired Science
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 30
What’s more frightening than more Americans getting their news from Jon Stewart than a newspaper? When Jon Stewart says putting giant reflective mirrors into space will slow climate change…and he means it! It’s real scary stuff, kids, so we put it last in this morning’s Coolness to give you a good fright for the weekend! [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2009 under Air Pollution, Birds, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Media, Policy, Water Conservation.
Tags: air pollution global warming, bird extinction, bird threat, CleanTechnica, climate change bird, Climate Feedback, Copenhagen, EcoGeek, Freakonomics, global warming, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart climate, Jon Stewart geoengineering, Journal Watch Online, Nature Reports Climate Change, Science air pollution, Science magazine, solar farm water, solar water, Steven Dubner, Steven Levitt, The Guardian, Todd Stern, Treehugger, wind turbine bird
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, October 26
Halloween is hurtling at us like a thrown pumpkin…but there’s still time to duck and get the latest green news of the day…including how urine could hold the key to cheap auto fuel. (Remember: Practice safe gourd smashing this holiday.)
Do you run a company that pollutes, or do you love someone who does? CleanTechnica has [...]
Posted: October 26th, 2009 under Air Pollution, Business, Climate Change, Energy, Green Living, Policy, United States.
Tags: Berlin bicycle, Berlin biking, best bicycling city, best bike city, bike friendly city, cap-and-trade, CleanTechnica, Climate Change, David Owen, EcoWorldly, Environmental Economics, green city, green US city, greenest city, hydrogen car, hydrogen fuel, hydrogen fuel urine, John Whitehead, New York green, Ohio University, The Vine, urine hydrogen, Yale Environment 360
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 23
Some days you wake up and find everything you’re doing and believing is wrong — like eating tomatoes or thinking your fellow Americans trust the scientific consensus that man is causing climate change. This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of those days. But tomorrow is Climate Action Day, so…maybe slice a tomato and take [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2009 under Animals, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Green Living, Policy, United States.
Tags: American believe global warming, Americans believe climate change, biofuel, biofuel carbon emission, biofuel climate change, biofuel science, biofuel Science magazine, carrots carbon emission, clean energy, Climate Action Day, Climate Change, coal climate, Dave Roberts, Environmental Capital, global warming, Grist, Jeffrey Sachs, Pew Climate poll, reptile extinction, Richard Black, Science magazine, Sweden food emissions, The Guardian, The New York Times, tomato carbon emission, Washington Post
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, October 19
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 from [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2009 under Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Europe, Fire, Green Technology, Media, United States.
Tags: Ask Pablo, Biological Conservation, Chinook salmon, Climate Change, climate change TV, climate change TV study, Columbia salmon, Communications Research, conservationists, extinction, Freakonomics, Journal Watch Online, Kew Gardens seed bank, Kew seed, Mongabay, Oregonian salmon, Royal Botanic Gardens seed, salmon, seed bank, Snake salmon, solar panel climate change, solar panel global warming, Treehugger, WaterWired
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 16
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 [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2009 under Animals, Arctic, Climate Change, Fish, Fresh Water, Green Living, Media, Policy, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: American driving, Arctic ice cap, Arctic ice melt, Arctic melting, Blog Action Day, Bright Green Blog, China Doll turtle, climate change national security, climate change security, EcoWorldly, Environmental Leader, freshwater species, Green Inc., Kate Galbraith, Lindsay Graham climate, Mongabay, The Vine, University of Cambridge ice, Yangtze turtle
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