Series By Alan During | Sightline Daily | March 15-19, 2010 Imagine an electric bike. Zipping through the city. Surging up hills without gasping for breath. Riding in business dress and arriving fresh and dry. Healthy, moderate exercise. No traffic jams. Free parking. Huge load-hauling potential. Near-free fueling. Zero emissions. Breeze in your face. Appealing! [...]
‘Ecological Intelligence’: Do humans have what it takes to survive? By Daniel Goleman | TheTyee.ca | March 11, 2010 [Editor's note: The following is excerpted from the new book Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, published by Broadway Business, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Copyright [...]
By Sid Perkins, Science News | Reported in WIRED | March 4, 2010 Prodigious plumes of planet-warming methane are bubbling from sediments across a broad region of Arctic seafloor previously thought to be sealed by permafrost, new analyses indicate. The resulting increase of methane gas in the atmosphere may accelerate climate warming, scientists say. Read [...]
By Bill McKibben – Guest Columnist | OregonLive.com | March 02, 2010, 5:00AM In recent years, every major scientific body in the world has produced reports confirming the peril of climate change. All 15 of the warmest years on record have come in the last two decades. And Earth’s major natural systems are all showing [...]
Oxygen-deprived areas in the world’s oceans usually found in deeper water are moving up to offshore areas and threatening coastal marine ecosystems by spurring the die-off of some species and overpopulation of others By Michael Tennesen | Scientific American | February 23, 2010 A plague of oxygen-deprived waters from the deep ocean is creeping up [...]
Will Walmart, not Whole Foods, save the small farm and make America healthy? by Corby Kummer | Atlantic Monthly | March 2010 BUY MY FOOD at Walmart? No thanks. Until recently, I had been to exactly one Walmart in my life, at the insistence of a friend I was visiting in Natchez, Mississippi, about 10 [...]
by Robert McClure | Dateline Earth as reported on Investigate WEST | February 22nd, 2010 It’s been apparent for some time that the public is not understanding the potential magnitude of the threat of climate change. The percentage of Americans saying it’s even taking place was recently measured at 57 percent, down 14 points since [...]
A European idea is catching on in Washington’s wine country: reusable bottles. It saves money and is kind to the environment. By Harris Meyer | Crosscut.com | February 18, 2010 Wine drinkers in many Pacific Northwest towns get frustrated that there’s no place to recycle the heavy glass bottles that hold their beloved vino. In Europe, [...]
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | The New York Times | February 16, 2010 It took more than a month for the container ship Ebba Maersk to steam from Germany to Guangdong, China, where it unloaded cargo on a recent Friday — a week longer than it did two years ago. But for the owner, the Danish [...]
By Tia Ghose | Wired Science | February 15, 2010 The California coast has seen fewer foggy days in the last century, threatening the health of the region’s majestic redwood trees. Over the last century, new research suggests the average daily fog has decreased more than three hours, causing the coast redwoods to lose more [...]