Water Economics

Los Angeles is one of the busiest cities in the world and is home to natural wonders such as the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains, not to mention Hollywood.  Many people dream of living in such a beautiful place. Yet, according to an article in Scientific American from  Matthew Kahn’s book Climatopolis, climate change is going to shift the competitive landscape of cities, and L...

A Sticky Proposal

A proposal written by an advisory group of industry, municipal, aboriginal and environmental groups has led to the recent unveiling of a plan by the go...

Europe’s Coastal Ecosystems

Europe’s coastal ecosystems are under increasing pressures including habitat loss and degradation, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of...

1 Million Trees Map

Trees help us in so many ways.  As MillionTreesNYC writes, trees help clean our air, and reduce the pollutants that worsen asthma attacks and other respiratory ...

Bicknell’s Thrush Conservation

A Conservation Action Plan for Bicknell’s Thrush has just been published, setting a course of conservation and research for the next five years for th...

Eco-Summer Fun

With children spending more time around home in the summer, it can become a challenge to keep them entertained.  Since so many kids like computers, how about helping them to learn about our planet and its wildlife while they have fun? The most compl...

Museum Climate Exhibits

Recently, several museums have introduced new exhibits raising awareness about current environmental and social issues.  On June 25, The Field Museum of Chicago introduced a Climate Change exhibit (Open till November 28, 2010).  Meanwhile, the Tr...

Wild Weather Solutions

Weather and humanitarian efforts are becoming more and more linked. The UN and its aid partners have appealed for $1.9 billion for this year for Sudan, Africa, which makes it the world’s largest humanitarian operation. Along with tribal and political...

Happy Earth Day

Happy Earth Day, 2010, Everyone! Let’s celebrate our fabulous home planet today, as well as pledge that we will help make a positive difference in the next year.  Read the last paragraph in my blog entry below (”Earth Days”) if you ...

Happy Earth Hour

Saturday, March 27th, at 8:30 pm, join 3,100 cities across 121 countries and territories and turn out your lights.  You will be joining them to send a strong message that more needs to be done to fight climate change. World Wildlife Fund seems to be lea...

State of the Birds

Nearly a third of the United States’ 800 bird species are endangered, threatened or in significant decline, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and several leading conservation organizations. The organizations recently released a report (The State...

American Attitudes towards Climate Change

George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication has five recent and interesting reports about climate change attitudes that can be downloaded when you visit their website.  They’re well worth a good look. The reports include a January 2010 update to their Global Wa...

Energy Sustainability, Olympics-Style

Dancing on a sustainable power floor that lights up when dancers move on it, a film that connects the dots between Olympic athletes and powerful electrical energy, and an environmentally-friendly home – that’s BC Hydro’s Power Smart Village pavil...

Weather and Wildlife

Do you ever read a news item that makes you go “hhmmm”?  Recently, several news items from the world of wildlife had that effect on me. The first was from CNN online,  about Kenyan wildlife officials rounding up and moving thousands of zebras and wildebeest from a northern park to ...

Palm Oil and Rainforest Destruction

In Guatemala just over a year ago, I flew in a small plane so low over the rainforest that we could see some large birds circle and land in a tree.  For the first time in my life, I witnessed what I’ve read about tropical rainforests for years ...