Archive for 'Green Living'
Ecotourism: Green Problem or Green Solution?
Ecotourism is often presented as the savior for wildlife and wild places — providing local communities with financial incentives to preserve nature while also reducing poaching and development pressure.
But, lately, others question whether rich Westerners jetting around the world really help much at all: They disturb animals, create demands for new development and only employ [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, Green Living, North America, Protected Areas, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods.
Tags: air travel, avitourism, Brazil, carbon footprint, Climate Change, ecotourism, ecotourism bad, ecotourism good, Galapagos, green travel, Matt Miller, Namibia, Serengeti herd, tourism, Yellowstone National Park
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Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, November 4
This edition of Cool Green Morning is all about bringing people together, like Glenn Beck and PETA, who are bonding over their mutual dislike of Al Gore’s diet. Or German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who’s encouraging the U.S. to team up with Europe to fight climate change. Read on for more heart-warming tales of love and [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2009 under Air Pollution, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Europe, Green Living, Media, North America, Policy, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: air pollution, Al Gore, Angela Merkel, Associated Press, Atlanta, Barcelona, congress, Duncan Marsh, emissions targets, Germany, Glenn Beck, GreenBiz, Huffington Post, Las Vegas, PETA, Treehugger, Twilight Earth
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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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Why ‘Green’ Isn’t Working: How Do We Reach the Other Half?
A few weeks ago I attended a “Green Festival” in Washington, D.C., tagged as the world’s largest environmental expo. As I walked around, I kept thinking about who this festival was really meant for. Everyone in attendance chose to go to (and pay to get in) this event. These are people who are already [...]
Posted: October 28th, 2009 under Business, Green Living.
Tags: after green, beyond green, bike commute tip, bike room, bike to work, biking, CFL bulb, compost, composting, Craigslist, double-sided printing, environmentalism, Freecycle, go vegetarian, green festival, green is over, green sucks, greenwashing, Margaret Southern, recycling, shop in season, TerraChoice, trash
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, October 27
It’s indeed a bright green morning today, with positive news everywhere: International Climate Day of Action a big success! Smart meters galore! And here’s the big news: a new study shows your personal actions can make a difference in the fight against climate change! Take that, all you climate change pessimists.
Bill McKibben says we need to “stop whining [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2009 under Animals, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Ecosystem Services, Energy, Environmental Science, Green Living, Green Technology, Markets, Media, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: 350.org, Bill McKibben, chytrid fungus, deadly fungus, energy efficiency, frogs, government energy grant, Grist, International Climate Day of Action, Mark Tercek, personal change reduces emissions, Reuters, smart meter
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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; Thursday, October 22
You won’t see it in any headlines today, but let’s just give a quick shout-out to The Nature Conservancy for turning 58 today! Yep, that’s right, today is the day we were incorporated back in 1951. Times certainly have changed – greenhouse gas emissions, iPhone apps and wind farms are the topics du jour – but conservation is still as [...]
Posted: October 22nd, 2009 under Animals, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Forests, Green Living, Invasive species, Science, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: bark beetle, city recycling, eating meat impacts, FAO, greenhouse gas emissions, Indiana bat, iPhone app, Mexico beetle infestation, monarch butterflies, San Francisco, vegetarian diet, wind power, World Watch Institute
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Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 21
A UN climate negotiator tries to deflate our hope for Copenhagen. The government of the Maldives holds a meeting underwater, practicing for the day when the archipelago nation might actually be underwater. Oh, and remember air pollution? Yeah, it’s still a huge problem, and it’s costing Americans a lot of money, and for some, their [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under Air Pollution, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Green Living, Policy, Science, United States.
Tags: air pollution, Bright Green Blog, California, Copenhagen, Financial Times, fossil fuel, Green Inc., GreenBiz, Maldives, National Academy of Science, New York Times, Treehugger, United nations Climate Negotiations, United States, Yale Environment 360
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