Tag: Green House
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, December 26
Written by Madeline Breen | December 26th, 2012
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Need a break from holiday family bonding? Catch up on the latest green news.
- We love a good top 10 list, especially this one: top environmental victories of 2012. (TreeHugger)
- Okay, okay, one more: this year’s top weirdest animal discoveries. (Mother Nature Network)
- Antarctica is warming fast. Really fast. (NY Times)
- New house in Washington, DC proves that green doesn’t have to mean expensive. (Grist)
- Deforestation in the Amazon is bad news for plants, animals and now microbes. (TG Daily)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, February 15
Written by Nicole Levins | February 15th, 2012
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What’s even better than Valentine’s Day? Discounted Heart Shaped Candy Day!
- See the world’s tiniest chameleon! (Grist)
- A new study uncovered a potential link between air pollution and heart attacks. (Guardian)
- One more reason to hate laundry day: washing synthetic clothes leads to ocean pollution. (Mongabay)
- A decent chunk of Europe is now powered by renewable energy. (Treehugger)
- Which new cars are the least toxic? (Green House)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, February 1
Written by Nicole Levins | February 1st, 2012
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Climate change: the atmosphere’s way of putting us all on low-carb diets.
- Get an update on a Conservancy partnership that’s helping one company tie nature into its bottom line. (Triple Pundit)
- That crazy Texas heat wave? This scientist says it was climate change’s fault. (Inside Climate)
- London restaurants, bars and hotels are campaigning to make plastic straws the new plastic bag. (Guardian)
- Bad news if you love carbs: warmer temperatures mess with wheat yields. (New Scientist)
- The National Mall goes LED. (Green House)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, November 30
Written by Nicole Levins | November 30th, 2011
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Caffeine? Check. Green news? Check. You may now proceed with your day.
- After 20 years, consumers are finally getting greener. (Maybe Green Gift Monday had something to do with that…?) (GreenBiz)
- COP17 just began, but is it doomed already? (Scientific American)
- Headline win of the day: “E. Coli: What doesn’t kill us, makes us biofuel.” (CleanTechnica)
- Climate change and crazy weather are driving up food prices. (Green House)
- Journalist Andy Revkin responds to critics questioning his role in the latest “Climategate” emails. (DotEarth)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, November 16
Written by Nicole Levins | November 16th, 2011
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King crabs: not just delicious, but also destructive.
- Alaska Airlines now offers cooking-oil-fueled cross-country flights. (EcoGeek)
- A new report reveals an unexpected threat to some marine life: king crabs. (Mongabay)
- Space lasers! Clean energy! (CleanTechnica)
- Here’s another “off-the-grid” dispatch from our scientist Craig Leisher’s family. (Green)
- More recycling=more jobs. (Green House)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, November 9
Written by Nicole Levins | November 9th, 2011
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It’s not easy being green.
- When it comes to climate change, do your eco-friendly choices really make a difference? (Grist)
- So now maybe marine reserves don’t promote coral recovery, according to a controversial new report. (Mongabay)
- For the first time in 75 years, an entire genus of mammal may go extinct. (National Geographic)
- As the population gets older, carbon emissions may subside a bit…maybe, says a new study. (Green House)
- Facebook’s adding solar panels to its new headquarters. Like! (EcoGeek)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, November 2
Written by Nicole Levins | November 2nd, 2011
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Today’s green news: +1/-1 for forests.
- Our lead scientist Sanjayan pens a letter to #7,000,000,000 to update the little guy on the state of the planet. (Huffington Post Green)
- Climate change is making California birds bigger. (Treehugger)
- Forests are more awesome at absorbing greenhouse gases than previously thought… (Christian Science Monitor)
- …but most U.S. forests aren’t adapting too well to climate change. (Green House)
- Americans need to put more energy into energy efficiency. (GreenBiz)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 26
Written by Nicole Levins | October 26th, 2011
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Would you trade meat for bugs if it could save the planet?
- Our president and CEO, Mark Tercek, says that we need to change the way we talk about nature. (Huffington Post Green)
- An unlikely source of carbon emissions: rivers and streams. (Green House)
- The Vietnamese rhino is officially extinct. Thanks, poachers. (Mongabay)
- Debris from the Japanese tsunami could reach the U.S.– and damage fragile marine habitat and wildlife. (NBC Nightly News)
- The latest addition to the food truck craze: sustainable insect cuisine. (Treehugger)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, August 3
Written by Nicole Levins | August 3rd, 2011
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You’ll view orthodontists in a whole new light:
- Here are seven key shark habitats that need protection NOW. (Treehugger)
- Is your apartment building an energy hog? New US regulations will require commercial buildings to measure and disclose their energy usage. (Green House)
- Are billion-dollar natural disasters our new normal? (Grist)
- After some help from an orthodontist and a year of rehab, Andre, the turtle with the broken shell, will be released back into the wild. (Huffington Post Green)
- Shoe fanatics: Make your next purchase an eco-friendly one. (The Daily Green)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, June 1
Written by Nicole Levins | June 1st, 2011
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What’s cool and green and read all over?
- Water released by a Washington dam is killing 100,000 fish a day. (Treehugger)
- Climate change has been linked to social collapses in Greenland since 800 BC. (Scientific American)
- Brazil vows to halt Amazon violence. (Green)
- A new report says food prices will double, thanks to climate change. (Green House)
- Basically, ocean acidification is still bad news. (Wired)
