Category: Media
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, May 25
Written by Robert Lalasz | June 1st, 2010
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Repeat after me: Out with the jive, in with the green (cool news, that is):
- Climate change and bacteria. Yes, something else to worry about. (Yale Environment 360)
- Wanna bike commute, but intimidated? Introducing…The Monster Bike. (Treehugger)
- Fake, posed “wildlife” photos: the continuing scandal. (Audubon Magazine; HT 10,000 Birds)
- Britain to Europe: Take our domestic waste fuel pellets, please. (CleanTechnica)
- Could a price on carbon spur nuclear power development? (Green/The New York Times)
James Cameron, Celebrity and How Not to Save the Amazon
Written by David Cleary | May 20th, 2010
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How can celebrities productively engage a cause? One case study how not to do it: James Cameron’s recent protests in Brazil against a proposed new dam there, says the Conservancy’s David Cleary.
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, May 12
Written by Nicole Levins | May 12th, 2010
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Get your Cool Green Morning on:
- Here it is: the long-awaited Senate climate/energy bill! (Huffington Post Green)
- The Nature Conservancy (hey, that’s us!) just announced its purchase of California’s Independence Lake, a popular hiking and angling destination as well as an important water source. (AP/Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
- We’re already pretty familiar with the damage an oil spill can do to the environment, but what about the effects on human health? (The Daily Green)
- The key to jaguars’ survival? Let them roam. (New York Times)
- The “next oil”: wind, solar, waves, trash…or something we haven’t even thought of yet? (Yahoo Green)
Cool Green Morning: Monday, May 10
Written by Robert Lalasz | May 10th, 2010
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What we’re all reading while waiting for our next Gulf oil spill updates:
- Google Maps maps the Gulf oil spill over your neighborhood. (CleanTechnica)
- Why does image matter for climate change? (Dot Earth)
- What you should consider when choosing a flagship species for conservation (like, oh, just hypothetically, a panda). (Conservation Maven)
- China energy snapshot: Nuclear and hydropower down, coal, oil and wind up (Green)
- Here’s a new online mag “with a vision to redefine the modern environmentalist.” (Carbon Insights)
Cool Green Morning: Monday, May 3
Written by Robert Lalasz | May 3rd, 2010
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The oil spill — we’ve got the latest below and above, from Louisiana and Alabama.
- Will the oil spill reach Washington, DC (metaphorically and politically speaking)? (Solve Climate)
- Because the spill is already flooding social media…and you can imagine the reaction. (Green)
- There’s now an “oil sheen” forecast running inside the New Orleans weather forecast. (Nola.com)
- Theft of solar panels is on the rise in the United States. (Green)
- Stopping malaria by stopping the environmental conditions that bring about mosquitoes. (Yale Environment 360)
Cool Green Morning: Monday, April 26
Written by Robert Lalasz | April 26th, 2010
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Lots of food for thought in today’s Cool Green Morning. Huh — why am I suddenly hungry?
- Indonesia plans to use volcanoes to power up its 35% of its population now off the grid. (INHABITAT)
- Do protests of U.S. mining projects just force mining to go abroad? (Yale Environment 360)
- Open-access journal studies aren’t cited any more than studies in subscription journals…says a new study in a subscription journal. (Conservation Biology; HT: Conservation Maven)
- 1% of us recycle our old cell phones; 98% would with the right incentives. Those incentives might now be here. (CleanTechnica)
- Green Inc. is now just Green. (Green)
A Favorite Earth Song List — What Are Yours?
Written by Jeff Opperman | April 22nd, 2010
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Jeff Opperman returns with a new top 10 (actually, top 14) song list for Earth Day — read it and leave your favorites in the comments section!
Cool Green Morning: Friday, April 16
Written by Robert Lalasz | April 16th, 2010
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How do you take this nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile? Cool Green Morning — the Mary Tyler Moore of green news roundups!
- Raw pig manure → crude oil? Now possible. Thank your local hog. (CleanTechnica)
- A hyperlocal pattern emerges in the geopolitics of climate change — will the United States be left behind? (Solve Climate)
- Could huge solar-powered dirigibles be the new cargo ships? Oh, the humanity! (CleanTechnica)
- Lax zoo security = exploding new invasive species populations in Europe. (Conservation Maven)
- This just in: Climategate was overblown. (The Vine)
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, April 15
Written by Nicole Levins | April 15th, 2010
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We can’t help with your tax problems, but we can help you with that whole “needing the day’s best green news” thing:
- Watch our lead scientist Sanjayan talk about northern white rhinos on this morning’s The Today Show. (MSNBC.com)
- Major League Baseball kicks off a major conservation and greenhouse-gas reduction program. (CleanTechnica)
- What happens if California’s climate law gets put on hold? (Grist)
- The GOP might be interested in getting on board with energy reform. That would be nice. (Treehugger)
- A new movement encourages pharmaceutical companies to make drugs that are just as safe for the environment as they are for people. (YaleE360)
Cool Green Morning: Monday, March 15
Written by Robert Lalasz | March 15th, 2010
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If your name’s “Julius Caesar,” this morning will not be cool and green (it will be red, warm, then very cold). If you name is anything else, relax and catch up on the day’s hottest green news…
- What’s killing the great forests of western North America? (Yale Environment 360)
- Who’s growing more skeptical of climate change in the United States? (The Vine)
- Why is Japan frightened of China’s green tech investments? (GreenBiz)
- Who has the world’s first skyscraper with built-in wind turbines? (Inhabitat)
- What’s the carbon emission toll caused by a single page view of Treehugger? (Treehugger)
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