Archive for 'Water Conservation'
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: 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: 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: Thursday, October 15
Marijuana causes drought, endangered species are expensive, and wetlands store carbon… who knew? Now you do, thanks to this morning’s round-up of Cool Green News links.
New data suggest that wetlands could store six times more carbon per acre than forests, leading some scientists and companies to consider wetlands restoration as the next shining hope for carbon offsets.
How much [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2009 under Animals, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Fish, Green Living, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: California drought, carbon offsets, carbon sink, Chinook salmon, conservation spending, endangered species, gas leaks, say no to phonebooks, Terry Gosney, USFWS, wetlands restoration
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Fish and People on the Edge: Why the Zambezi River Looks OK, But Isn’t
How do you convince people that a river they’ve known their whole lives is not the river it once was…or could be?
That turned out to be my challenge last week, when I traveled to Zambia in support of The Nature Conservancy’s new project to restore the Zambezi River. After several days of meetings with our [...]
Posted: October 14th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, Fish, Fresh Water, Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, Water Conservation.
Tags: Africa dam, dam management, dams, environmental flows, fishing, floodplain, Jeff Opperman, Lower Zambezi National Park, river health, Zambezi dam, Zambezi fishing, Zambezi overfishing, zambezi river, Zambia
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Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 14
If you’re anything like me, you can’t get your day started without your daily serving of Cool Green Morning. (Also, caffeine. Lots and lots of caffeine.) Read on to get your fix:
Big snakes are becoming a big problem, says the United States Geological Survey. The group just issued a report concluding that, should the Burmese [...]
Posted: October 14th, 2009 under Australia, Business, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Green Living, Green Technology, Invasive species, North America, Science, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: Australia, Burmese Python, California, Climate Change, DotEarth, Environmental Capital, gray water, Green Inc., green products, The Vine
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Conservation? The Economy? People? It’s All the Same Conversation
There is a growing demand from science, from policy and from conservation itself to include people in conservation.
In the meantime, conservationists are still trying to figure out how to best conserve habitats and species and now how to do this with climate change. Now we’re piling on people, too?
But I would argue that thinking people [...]
Posted: September 2nd, 2009 under Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods, Water Conservation.
Tags: biodiversity, clean air, clean water, Climate Change, Ecosystem Services, G.D.P, nature, people, poverty, The New York Times, water funds. Rebecca Goldman
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In Washington, It’s Not All Climate All the Time
Believe it or not, there are environmental issues other than climate change on the minds — and agendas of — of lawmakers and regulators in Washington.
As a commentator for the National Journal Energy and Environment Expert Blog, I was recently asked to weigh in on some of the “back burner issues” currently working through Congress [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2009 under Fresh Water, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, Protected Areas, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: Bob Bendick, Chesapeake Bay, Climate Change, coastal restoration, coastal waters, colorado river, economic activities, energy and environment, environmental protection agency, environmental threat, EPA, Greater Yellowstone, house of representatives, Ken Salazar, marine governance, marine waters, National Journal, National Journal Environment and Expert blog, natural resources committee, northern forests, Obama, obama administration, ocean trust, Ocean Trust Fund, offshore leasing, regulation, secretary of interior, senate, Treasured Lands Program, University of Montana conservation, Washington, watershed planning
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, August 20
Tiger populations, suburban lawns, clean energy, green universities and a rice plant that will outgrow a flood… read on for today’s Cool Green Morning news round-up.
Suburban lawns and gardens are an uncounted source of water pollution, says new research. Water run-off from these neighborhood fixtures can pick up chemicals and toxins and wash them into rivers and [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Asia Pacific, China, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Fresh Water, Green Living, Green Technology, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: China, clean energy, dead zones, food production, Green Technology, green universities, Indian tigers, rice production, snorkel rice, suburban lawns, The Vine, United States, water pollution, water run-off
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, August 17
Is bottled water propping up a dictatorship? Is Walmart’s green business club worth the dues? Is Mumbai headed for a climate change fall? And who stole nearly 100 loggerhead turtle hatchlings from a North Carolina beach? All this and more in this morning’s Coolness:
Joel Makower looks at Walmart’s Sustainability Consortium — a sort of club [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2009 under Animals, Asia Pacific, Business, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Fresh Water, Green Living, Sustainable Livelihoods, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: 60-Second Science, Fiji military dictator, Fiji water, Green Inc., human right sanitation, Joel Makower, loggerhead extinct, loggerhead sea turtle, loggerhead stolen, loggerhead turtle, Mother Jones, Mother Jones Fiji, Mumbai climate change, National Marine Fisheries Service, Nick Aster, Nick Aster Fiji, Triple Pundit, Walmart, Walmart Sustainability Consortium, WaterWired
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