Tag: Great Plains
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, June 20
Written by Megan Sheehan | June 20th, 2012
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It’s morning, so it’s time for some cool green news.
- It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…a plane fueled by vegetable oil! (Treehugger)
- 36 percent of chinstrap penguins are missing from Antarctic island. Why? (Scientific American)
- Rio+20: Chief Justices say it’s illegal to reneg on environmental promises. (Guardian)
- If you live in the Great Plains, read this: no more groundwater in 30 years. (Christian Science Monitor)
- Solar myths busted: check out this infographic. (CleanTechnica)
Conservation Lessons of the Dust Bowl
Written by Mark Tercek | May 7th, 2012
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May 9th marks the anniversary of one of the worst man-made disasters ever to hit the U.S.: the Dust Bowl. Our CEO explains how conservation practices put in place as a result have helped prevent similar catastrophic events.
Spring on the Wing: Can You Hear It?
Written by Dustin Solberg | March 29th, 2010
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Spring comes in signs — and for the Conservancy’s Dustin Solberg, that means migrating birds. So which bird means spring to you?
