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Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 3
Written by Madeline Breen | October 3rd, 2012
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Today’s green news may leave you singing and buzzing.
- DJ Spooky uses music to make a statement about climate change. (Grist)
- Rings on a tree reveal more than just age. (RedOrbit)
- A happy problem to have: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy has too many black rhinos. (Mongabay)
- Lunar phobia is common among bats. (BBC Nature)
- Bee brains will help make robots smarter. (Wired)
Cool Green Morning: Friday, August 17
Written by Madeline Breen | August 17th, 2012
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We’ve got a touching animal reunion for you in today’s green news.
- Gorillas reunite after 3 years apart. Hugs! Photos! (Huffington Post Green)
- Perhaps Shark Week will star this new shark species next year? (TreeHugger)
- Not a record to be proud of: Greenland suffers record melt. (Mongabay)
- A surfing robot tracks great white sharks off the coast of California. (BBC)
- Noisy ships makes it hard for right whales to communicate. (NOAA)
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, June 19
Written by Madeline Breen | June 19th, 2012
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A bear did not write Cool Green Morning today. We promise.
- Bears have big brains and use computers!? (BBC Nature)
- This just in: Antarctica was once as warm as Iceland. (TG Daily)
- Where have you been hiding all these years, Kandyan dwarf toad? (Mongabay)
- Feast your eyes on the 12 most pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables. (Huffington Post Green)
- Inspecting wind turbine blades is a dangerous job — so hire a robot. (Ecogeek)
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, March 6
Written by Madeline Breen | March 6th, 2012
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Climate changes claims another victim in today’s green news: ice hockey.
- The world’s most toxic frog gets a new reserve in Colombia. (Mongabay)
- Robotic “Cheetah” has set a new world speed record. (BBC)
- Climate change may mean the end of ice hockey in Canada. (Guardian)
- Alien species invade Antarctica? (Discovery News)
- Adobe launches new software to cut printing by 40%. (Green Biz)
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, January 10
Written by Madeline Breen | January 10th, 2012
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Green sidewalks? Yep, the rumors are true.
- New sidewalk slabs create energy from your footsteps. (Green Building Elements)
- Banned: uranium mining in the Grand Canyon. (USA Today)
- A hungry flower gobbles up worms… underground. (Mongabay)
- “Extinct” giant tortoise may not be extinct after all. (TIME)
- Lizards advance robot design — one tail at a time. (PCWorld)
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, November 29
Written by Madeline Breen | November 29th, 2011
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Still recovering from all that Green Gift Monday excitement? Here’s some cool green news to get your day started.
- Stare in awe at 2011′s top 10 oddest life-form discoveries. (National Geographic)
- Life’s not always a circus: Ringling Brothers allegedly violate the Animal Welfare Act. (Huffington Post Green)
- London fights air pollution with… glue? (Grist)
- It’s 65 degrees in D.C. today and not surprisingly, 2011 is tied for the 10th hottest year. (Washington Post)
- Sea creature-inspired robot bends and squeezes under obstacles. (BBC)
Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 21
Written by Madeline Breen | November 21st, 2011
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Happy Monday! Here’s your green news.
- Baltimore, Maryland takes a can-do approach to food justice. (Grist)
- A self-contained farming community in Indonesia schools us on eating local. (TreeHugger)
- Ocean robots set off on a 300-day transpacific voyage. (Forbes)
- Sierra Club is hiring: Chairman Carl Pope has stepped down (Green).
- Scientists unearth bus-sized whales in a mysterious graveyard in Chile’s Atacama Desert. (NPR)
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, April 27
Written by Nicole Levins | April 27th, 2010
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It appears to be a good day to be a robot, but a bad day to be a climate bill. (To all the climate bills in the audience: I really hope things start looking up for you.)
- Good news if you’re an unemployed robot– a bunch of green jobs are coming your way. (CleanTechnica)
- Get the latest on the U.S. climate bill fiasco/drama/chaos. (Treehugger)
- Indonesia plans to harvest the power of volcanoes and turn it into hot, clean energy. (EcoGeek)
- On Sunday, 150,000 people hit the National Mall in DC in support of climate legislation. Were you there? (Mongabay)
- The big-deal schmoozefest that is the White House Correspondents’ Dinner can also add “low-carbon” to that list of descriptors. (just plain Green)
