Category: Forest Trade
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, August 3
Written by Darci Palmquist | August 3rd, 2010
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As always, your news of the day is cool and green:
- The EPA weighs in on the debate over using dispersants to break up the oil in the Gulf. (Green)
- No climate bill = no nukes. (The Vine)
- Climate change could force Adélie penguins to live in the dark. (Extinction Countdown)
- Researchers create a model showing how deforestation happens in 3 distinct ‘waves.’ (BBC)
- Sigh…it’s official: the BP spill is the world’s largest accidental release of oil into marine waters. (The New York Times)
Stopping Deforestation on the Amazonian Frontier
Written by Jonathan Hoekstra | May 18th, 2010
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How do you transform a Brazilian municipality from a lawless hotspot of deforestation into a leader in Amazon conservation? It’s complicated — but the Conservancy’s helped make it happen, says Jonathan Hoekstra.
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, December 10
Written by Darci Palmquist | December 10th, 2009
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Ever wonder just how much digital data you consume on a daily basis? Curious to know what the carbon footprint is of that big climate change meeting across the pond? And speaking of Copenhagen, is any progress being made? (Hint: the answer is positive, and includes the acronym REDD.) These questions and more… answered in today’s issue [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, December 3
Written by Darci Palmquist | December 3rd, 2009
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Electric cars, open ocean fish farms, REDD, Google. From California to Denmark and Brazil to Alaska. Yes, we’re covering all the hot issues in all the hot places around this little planet of ours. Check it all out in Cool Green Morning. Google and Arnold Schwarzenegger make a formidable team: yesterday the Gov of California unveiled a new [...]
Solomon Islands: A Community Model for Global Conservation
Written by Eddie Game | November 25th, 2009
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(Above video: Geoff Lipsett-Moore, director of conservation for the Conservancy’s Melanesia program, celebrates along with other Conservancy staff and chiefs from Choiseul province in the Solomon Islands celebrate the community’s support for two Conservancy recommendations at the 2009 annual meeting of the Lauru Land Conference of Tribal Communities (LLCTC). Credit: Richard Hamilton/TNC) “You and I [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, October 29
Written by Darci Palmquist | October 29th, 2009
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Does a “green” job make you an environmentalist? Will the world come forward and pay Ecuador not to drill for oil in the Amazon? And how do birds know where to migrate to anyway? We don’t promise all these questions will be answered, but we do guarantee you’ll get the hottest green news links around, or [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, October 13
Written by Darci Palmquist | October 13th, 2009
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Good morning, Cool Green News addicts! We know you missed us yesterday, but we’re back with some hot links to get your day started. Dams are coming down, a literary classic offers lessons in the climate change debate and a note of hope emerges around the U.S. climate change bill currently stalled in the Senate. [...]
Chronicles of Borneo: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Written by CJ Hudlow | October 8th, 2009
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“The forest is our supermarket,” says Bang Liling, the deputy chief of Long Oking village inside the Berau district of Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo. It tells you something that that’s a common phrase heard in this part of the world, which I visited earlier this fall. “We get all of our medicine from [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, October 6
Written by Darci Palmquist | October 6th, 2009
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Controversy abounds today: Ecuador institutes a new policy to limit the presence of certain people (poor locals) on the Galapagos, Apple leaves the Chamber of Commerce and concerns are raised about REDD becoming a vehicle for organized crime. Catch up on all the latest news here at Cool Green Morning. They look like shooting stars, but [...]
From Forest to Toilet Paper… and Back Again
Written by Cara Goodman | July 30th, 2009
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When nature calls, how do you respond? Just 2 percent of us in the United States use 100 percent recycled toilet paper at home, according to a recent New York Times article on the “Charmin effect”. Yet somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 percent of people recycle other products regularly. We buy local when possible, [...]
