Tag: Texas
Cool Green Morning: Friday, April 13
Written by Brad Parker | April 13th, 2012
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Some (mostly) good news for a day known for bad luck.
- China no longer leads the world in clean energy investments. So who does? (TreeHugger)
- PHOTO: Spring storm dumps four feet of hail on West Texas. (Mother Nature Network)
- VIDEO: Baboons can recognize four-letter words on a screen. (BBC)
- A “strawberry” leopard, first of its kind, has been discovered in South Africa. (National Geographic)
- Large-scale engineering could rescue eroding Mississippi Delta region. (Scientific American)
Global Water Scarcity: Can We Solve It?
Written by Darci Palmquist | March 1st, 2012
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A new study offers the most comprehensive look at global water shortages to date. Find out what’s causing the water problem — and if we can solve it — from freshwater expert & optimist Brian Richter.
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)
Making the Business Case for Conservation
Written by Mark Tercek | January 27th, 2012
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Mark Tercek is at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here he looks at an innovative way one company is measuring the value of nature.
Live From SXSW Eco
Written by Nicole Levins | October 4th, 2011
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We’re live blogging from the first ever SXSW Eco conference. Come back for updates on what’s happening in Austin, live streaming video, and a link to our Twitter feed.
Austin City Limits Festival and The Nature Conservancy!
Written by Brad Parker | September 9th, 2011
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ACL is more than just a music festival. Our Texas state director explains why this year it provides a real opportunity to get an important message to a vital group of people.
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, July 27
Written by Nicole Levins | July 27th, 2011
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Don’t mess with Texas…if something happens to the rest of the world, we could all be living in it.
- Nash Prairie is a “beautiful representation of what Texas really looked like,” says our Texas state director. (Houston Chronicle)
- A new documentary explores how disappearing glaciers devastate communities. (Grist)
- If the entire world lived at New York City’s density level, we could all fit into the state of Texas. Crazy! (Treehugger)
- Warming Arctic temperatures are releasing long-buried, long-frozen toxins, which could eventually reach our food and water supplies. (YaleE360)
- Can you trust your local drinking water? (The Daily Green)
Prehistoric Bison Discovery
Written by Darci Palmquist | June 12th, 2011
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A surprising find on the Conservancy’s Independence Creek Preserve in West Texas leads to a late-night archaelogical dig… in the pouring rain.
Cool Green Morning: Monday, April 4
Written by Nicole Levins | April 4th, 2011
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Start your week with a big old helping of green news:
- A new aquatic beetle was discovered in Texas, and it’s got a pretty cool name– Ereboporus naturaconservatus. (The Guardian)
- Scientists find 2,000-year-old coral near the site of the BP oil spill. (Christian Science Monitor)
- Is this Whole Foods the greenest grocery store in the world? (ClimateBiz)
- A new study of the glaciers and ice fields in Patagonia indicates that climate change might be happening faster than we thought. (Green)
- When bats disappear, it costs the agricultural industry billions. (Mongabay)
Voters Gave One Issue Bipartisan Support
Written by Bob Bendick | November 4th, 2010
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The political landscape is as divisive as ever. But in this week’s elections one type of ballot measure had a passage rate of 83 percent. Our policy expert looks at the issue that brought voters together.
