February 2012
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December 2011
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My Top Five #Greenreads of 2011
This list is in no particular order. I also included a selection in OnEarth magazine’s best-of-the-year roundup, so technically, I’ve got six favorites. Find Top 5 Greenreads from other OnEarth contributors here, and share your own on Twitter and Tumblr with the hashtag #greenreads. (Note: As is standard for these sorts of things, I avoided picks from my own publication.)
“Who Cries for the...
November 2011
2 posts
OnEarth magazine: NYC Invite: Drink (and Talk... →
onearth:
David Gessner is one of our favorite authors (which is why he’s also anOnEarth contributing editor, essayist, blogger, video maker, and whatever else we can squeeze out of him). He’s taken two pieces of his OnEarth reporting — a story on the Charles River, and his blogging on the…
October 2011
1 post
Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
September 2011
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“Joe Sovacool looked like Jesus and talked like jazz. I had no idea how old he...”
– Tommy’s Table: Observer, Sovacool
RIP, Joe.
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August 2011
12 posts
Finalists announced for the 2011 Online Journalism... →
onearth:
OnEarth is honored to have been selected as a finalist in the General Excellence category for the Online Journalism Awards. Cheers also to our fellow finalists, all of whom we greatly respect and admire.
Of course, we also want to kick their asses!
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“In transportation, we are shying away from major new projects like high-speed...”
– Yonah Freemark, “A Note on the Future of American Transportation” (via newleft)
“Summer may be over, but it still sucks.”
– The Awl - Be Less Stupid
3,816 high temperature records have been set in... →
climateadaptation:
On July 22, thermometers in Newark, N.J., peaked at a staggering 108 degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded in that region. Days later on July 27, Joplin, Mo., broke a 60-year-old record at 105 degrees, scorching an area already recovering from spring’s deadly tornadoes.
July 2011
3 posts
Climate Adaptation: FDA Launches Study on Climate... →
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the federal government will invest $60 million in three major studies examining the effects of climate change on forests and crops. The studies are designed to prepare foresters and farmers with information and strategies to aid…
June 2011
14 posts
“‘Let me tell you what I think of bicycling,’ Miss Anthony said, leaning forward...”
– Susan B. Anthony, interviewed by Nellie Bly
New York World, February 2, 1896
(via bellacasa)
mental_floss on tumblr: There Really Was a Granny... →
mentalflossr:
In 1868, Maria Ann Sherwood Smith found something odd in her apple orchard. Smith, who had immigrated to Australia from England, had a strange new type of apple growing near her creek bed. She thought that the apple might have been a mutation of a French crab apple that was popular Down Under,…
Revkin.net: New Study: Extreme Heat a Yawn in... →
revkin:
From Stanford U. news office: The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase, according to a new climate study by Stanford…
“The winner by a country mile is Pittsburgh’s PNC Park.”
– Ranking Baseball’s Best Ballparks - NYTimes.com
Finally, the Pirates win something.
A Labor of Wonder: Mapping 19,993 Trees in Central... →
millsandcontainers:
Ken Chaya and Edward Sibley Barnard detailed 85 percent of the 23,000 trees in the 843-acre expanse, including 174 species.
“Nearly 25 percent of North American bird species are known to routinely smack...”
– Raptors in the city (via outofcontextscience)
“I was defeated by facts”
– ~ D.R. Tucker, conservative author and talk show host who changed his mind on climate change science, as reported in Slate’s “Do Climate Skeptics Change Their Minds?” (via climateadaptation)
There's a tornado watch in the New York City metro...
sustainable-sam:
This is insane.
Any chance this WON’T lead to delays on NJ Transit? I’m guessing no, there is no chance of that whatsoever.
May 2011
22 posts
Climate Adaptation: Wanted: Climate Deniers →
climateadaptation:
NPR’s blogger Ursula Goodenough has put out a call to chat with climate deniers. She’s not looking for the usual arguments - conspiracies about emails, climategate, grant hungry scientists, de-regulation leads to more jobs, cooling, etc. No, she specifically wants to know what motivates a person…
Bluefin Decision Today - Threatened, Endangered,... →
revkin:
NOAA is preparing to announce whether it will list Atlantic bluefin tuna as threatened or endangered under the ESA just before noon today. (Lots on bluefin issues @dotearth).
NOAA has conducted an extensive scientific status review of Atlantic bluefin tuna and will issue a decision today based on this review on whether to list the species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered...
