Cool Green Morning: Friday, June 29
This is your assigned summer reading list. Don’t worry it’s only 5 stories. The Colorado wildfires have been declared a disaster. Get answers to the 5 biggest questions about the fires. (Mother Jones)...
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TGICGM: What’s killing dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico? (Green) These palatial Vegas digs? Built out of 500,000 beer bottles. (Treehugger) Generally, affordable housing=not so energy efficient....
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Prescribed Burning Helps Save the Family Ranch
Conservation to the rescue! Ok, it’s not quite the action-packed, superhero story you might see in movie theaters. But maybe it should be. A new study from The Nature Conservancy shows that prescribed...
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A Good Thing for Our Forests
[Editor's note: Jeremy Bailey is the Fire Learning Network Coordinator for The Nature Conservancy.] Last week, deep in a ponderosa pine forest north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a radio crackled to life....
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Farming Carbon with Fire: Helping Northern Australia Restore Natural Burn...
Michael Looker is the director of The Nature Conservancy’s Australia division. By going back in time, Fish River Station is making history — again. For millennia, this piece of northern Australia was...
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Considering Climate Change from a Country on Fire
Three recent events have made Australia a flashpoint for the global discussion around severe weather. The first: a rash of record temperatures and raging bushfires that has garnered international...
View ArticleThe Green Buzz: Wednesday, March 20
On our radar this morning: more bad news for elephants. 89 elephants have been slaughtered in Chad (and ivory passed $2000 a kilogram on Asia’s black market). (Aljazeera) John Kerry pushes for an...
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Does Snow Burn?
Jeremy Bailey is the Fire Learning Network Coordinator for The Nature Conservancy. It started with snow and ended with snow. Our goal was to train 65 fire workers and students from five western...
View ArticleThe Green Buzz: Monday, May 6
Bikes shares, sea turtles and wildfires are a part of this Monday’s green news. Want to help fight climate change? Then don’t mention it. At all. (MNN) The largest bike share is about to begin in the...
View ArticleThe Green Buzz: Tuesday, May 14
Sharing today’s top green news headlines… with a side of bugs! How can you fight this summer’s wildfires without firefighters? (Washington Post) The eagle death toll at wind farms shows renewable...
View ArticleThe Green Buzz: Monday, June 10
Hidden wildfires, ocean trash, and wolves are just some of the green news tidbits we’ve found for you this morning. The USFWS announced that wolves are losing their federal protection in almost all of...
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Father’s Day: Playing with Fire
“Don’t play with fire.” As kids most of us heard that line. But what if your job is setting managed, controlled fires to benefit people, water and wildlife? And how exactly would you explain that to...
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How Fire Can Restore a Forest (TIME LAPSE VIDEO)
Editor’s note: The following guest post is from Rich Reid, an outdoor photographer based in Ojai, California. Rich recently returned from an assignment for Nature Conservancy magazine documenting the...
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Nature Needs New Financial Solutions
Giulio Boccaletti is Managing Director of Global Freshwater at The Nature Conservancy. This post originally appeared on The Guardian. In recent years, the American Southwest has become the theatre of...
View ArticleThe Green Buzz: Monday, August 26
Cooking in your dishwasher? Disappearing beaches? It’s all in today’s green news. No more federal funds means endangered desert tortoises at a nature center must be euthanized. (Spokesman-Review)...
View ArticleThe Green Buzz: Tuesday, August 27
Today’s green news round-up reveals an interesting idea for naming hurricanes… In California, saving this species also means saving seagrass. (BBC) What if Hurricanes were named after climate change...
View ArticleThe Green Buzz: Tuesday, September 3
A round-up of Labor Day weekend’s top green news, featuring weird animals and unexpected climate change news. You won’t believe how this tiny frog hears — it’s not with its ears. (Discovery News) Hmm…....
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Burning Through Vacation Days
Most people wanting to spend their vacation someplace relaxing. Wisconsin Land Manager Eric Mark spent his in Northern California volunteering on a crew helping to fight the massive wildfire that’s...
View ArticleThe Green Buzz: Tuesday, October 22
Epic smog and epic food waste — it’s a tough morning in the land of green news (we’ll end on a positive note though!). Is there a direct link between Australia’s bushfires and climate change? (CNN)...
View ArticleThe Green Buzz: Friday, November 15
Today we’re getting a new perspective on deforestation. Find out why in today’s Green Buzz. Google Earth reveals an incredible (yet heart breaking) high-resolution deforestation map. (TreeHugger)...
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