Cool Green Morning: Friday, March 12
Find yourself tongue-tied at those weekend ice cream socials? Here’s some talking points for you — fresh, cool and…oh, sing the last line with me:
- Deep sea creatures — what do they eat down there? Wood, heat and spinach…on a bed of whale carcass, natch. (Blogfish)
- Europeans love a new green toilet that separates #1 and #2. (CNET News)
- Just how tight are some U.S. Senate offices and the anti-climate action lobby? (Solve Climate)
- A new UN climate change group is (surprise!) all white, all male. (Dot Earth)
- A U.S. Congressman wants all federal buildings to become bird friendly. (Mongabay)
Nature Photo of the Week: Western Kingbird
This image of a perfectly framed Western Kingbird was taken by Flickr user Planet-10 and shared through The Nature Conservancy’s Flickr Group.
Check out all The Nature Conservancy’s featured daily nature images — submitted to the Conservancy’s Flickr group by people like you — at my.nature.org.
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, March 11
Get the latest green (and all-black penguin) news in today’s installment of Cool Green Morning:
- A new report says that the UK loses at least two animal and/or plant species per year. (Guardian Eco)
- An all-black penguin is discovered near Antarctica; researchers call it a “”one in a zillion kind of mutation.” (Yahoo Green)
- The US and EU are on board with a ban on bluefin tuna trade– Japan, not so much. (Treehugger)
- The latest in corn-based biofuel: ethanol out, isobutanol in. (Green Inc.)
- Support slips a tiny bit for green building and LEED certification, but overall remains pretty strong. (GreenBiz)
H2O = Life
A new traveling museum exhibit called “Water: H2O = Life” amazes our water blogger Jeff Opperman…with an alternative universe of water-concerned people.
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, March 10
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)
Climate Change Debates? There’s an App for That!
A new iPhone app gives you the factual edge in your debate with climate-change skeptics, says our green blogger Margaret Southern.
eBay, Starbucks Launch Green Marketing Efforts Around Rainforest
eBay has launched two green initiatives aimed at positioning itself as a conservationist in the eyes of consumers. The online marketplace has unveiled a new green shopping hub that will help consumers find millions of green products, and launched its eBay Green Team Challenge that commits the online giant to save up to a quarter [...]
To List or Not to List: The Greater Sage-Grouse Dilemma
Should the greater sage grouse have protected status? Conservancy scientist Joseph Kiesecker explains the importance of a recent USFWS decision for people and nature in the western United States.
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, March 9
Crack open a bottle of organic wine (no, it’s not too early) and dig into the day’s top green stories. Cool Green Morning is best paired with a full-bodied red (yes, this writer doesn’t know a thing about wine):
- How clean is “clean” coal, really? (Grist)
- A team of researchers says that consumers just aren’t interested in eco-friendly wine. (Journal Watch Online)
- This fall, Kentucky will become home to the greenest elementary school in all the land. (EcoGeek)
- In the wake of “ClimateGate,” science works on its defensive strategy. (dotEarth)
- New research indicates that extinctions are outpacing evolution. Here’s hoping we don’t eventually run out of species… (Mongabay)
Cool Green Morning: Monday, March 8
It’s like “Monday Night Raw” here on CGM — sharks vs. squid, bees vs. hornets. And then a little climate change news, just to calm you down…
- Why are great white sharks migrating 1,600 miles to pick fights with giant squids? (LA Times)
- The Maldives (famous for being threatened by sea-level rise from climate change) buys its own floating island. (CleanTechnica)
- Melting frozen Arctic methane might sell newspapers — but CO2 is still the greenhouse gas worth twisting your knickers over. (DotEarth)
- Which activity does NASA say is the greatest global warming culprit? (EcoGeek)
- Cultural clash: When Asian giant hornets and European honeybees fight. (The Vine)
