Tag: Planet Green
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, February 22
Written by Darci Palmquist | February 22nd, 2011
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Do you really need a hot dog to enjoy a good soccer game?
- Here’s a twist to the green sports trend–one UK soccer club bans the sale of red meat at its stadium. (Planet Green)
- How much oil will the U.P.S. save by switching from diesel to liquefied natural gas? A LOT. (Green)
- Humans are a noisy bunch, and our sounds may be causing wildlife to modify their behavior. (The New York Times)
- War, peace and climate conflict–can we resolve our issues? (Earth Watch)
- The scene at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is still oily, reports a University of GA researcher. (Mongabay)
Cool Green Morning: Friday, November 5
Written by Brad Parker | November 5th, 2010
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Finally, we give you a reason to really love worms:
- There are new close-up images of NASA’s comet fly-by! (Wired)
- Worms are becoming big business and helping you get more wine! (Treehugger)
- A notorious wildlife trafficker is going to prison for a few years. (Mongabay)
- How do electric cars work without starters, alternators or spark plugs? (Planet Green)
- A new transparent film may help turn windows into solar power generators. (CleanTechnica)
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, October 26
Written by Darci Palmquist | October 26th, 2010
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An (Ig) Nobel Prize winner tops our top 5 cool green news links today:
- First ask “why?” and then “why not?”: researchers collect whale snot via remote-controlled helicopter. (Planet Green)
- Is there a correlation between energy efficiency and political party? (Green)
- The sad (and absurd) effects of illegal wildlife smuggling. (Extinction Countdown)
- A new study makes no bones about what’s fueling deforestation in Madagascar. (BBC)
- Imogen Heap loves the Earth in her new crowd-sourced-nature-documentary-music-video-something-or-other. (Treehugger)
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, July 6
Written by Darci Palmquist | July 6th, 2010
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You said it! Beat the heat with some cool green news:
- An update on just how far the oil could reach. (Green)
- In more spill news, a new report comes to light showing that USFWS ok’d the risk to wildlife. (The New York Times)
- Which is better: real nature or technological nature? (trust your instincts on this one) (Planet Green)
- Can we save the world’s “last ocean” from human impact? (Mongabay)
- It’s hot around here: new record highs beat the record colds by 5 to 1. (Climate Progress)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, March 17
Written by Nicole Levins | March 17th, 2010
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It’s the greenest of all Cool Green Mornings– the St. Patrick’s Day edition. Grab a handful of Irish potatoes and dive into the day’s must-read news. Sláinte!:
- Make today’s green beer greener by using gentle, eco-friendly dyes. (Planet Green)
- Some greenhouse gases contributing to ice sheet melt might actually originate from underneath ice sheets. (Wired)
- If everyone adopts it in their homes and businesses, LED lighting could save Americans $120 billion over the next 20 years. (EcoGeek)
- Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld: the official climate skeptic of Paris Fashion Week. (Fast Company)
- A new study indicates that not all CO2 emissions are created equal. (The Vine)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, March 10
Written by Nicole Levins | March 10th, 2010
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Read on for your regular dose of the day’s coolest, greenest news:
- Watching “The Oprah Winfrey Show” might make you greener. There is actually science behind this. (Planet Green)
- A bike commuter does the math and finds that a year of regular rides keeps 3,260 pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere. (Treehugger)
- How green is the dentist working on your pearly whites? (GreenBiz)
- Big news in plastic recycling: scientists have developed an organic catalyst that can “build up and break down plastics over and over again“– and on the cheap, too. (The Vine)
- Your diet soda habit might not be so good for the planet. In related news, I now feel like a horrible person. (Huffington Post Green)
Man Up, Greens: The World Needs More Gary Nevilles
Written by Dave Connell | February 19th, 2010
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Gary Neville, an international soccer star and a guy’s guy, is an unabashed greenie. The enviro movement needs more like him, says Dave Connell.
Cool Green Morning: Friday, January 15
Written by Nicole Levins | January 15th, 2010
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Happy Friday! Nothing gets you in the celebratory weekend spirit quite like five cool green links, right?
- Good news! International efforts to combat climate change helped us earn us an extra minute of pre-doom on the Doomsday Clock. (DotEarth)
- Scientists discover a wealth of new species, including “glass” frogs and snail-sucking snakes, in the threatened rainforests of Ecuador. (Guardian Eco)
- Pope Benedict XVI: climate advocate? (Mother Nature Network)
- An ice shelf the size of Rhode Island totally disintegrated in just 24 hours. (The Daily Green)
- Here are seven tasks that you probably think require paper towels, but actually don’t. (Planet Green)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, December 23
Written by Nicole Levins | December 23rd, 2009
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These five links are guaranteed to get you in the green holiday spirit: The Pope’s Christmas wish: For you to stop buying so much (Planet Green). The Conservancy’s very own Steve Long explores the eco-friendliness of Christmas trees (Marketwatch/WSJ). The world’s 20 largest postal services are teaming up to lower their carbon footprints, hopefully lessening [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, March 5
Written by Bob Lalasz | March 5th, 2009
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China is today’s glimmer of green hope — yes, China — on Cool Green Morning. Here are the five links you MUST click on today to stay au courant en verde: Glug Glug Glug: Florida, Louisiana, Texas and North Carolina’s coasts are among the most vulnerable in the United States to sea-level rise (a widely [...]
