Environment: Regional Effort
Hoorah! The Western Climate Initiative Partners announced their Green House Gas Reduction goals this week. Western Climate Initiative Statement of …
Category Archives: Environment
Books: The Blue Death
Caught my eye… In “The Blue Death,” Dr. Morris, a Seattle epidemiologist and leading water expert who has taught at …
Green in D.C.
Good news from the streets of small business…. …this summer, the owners of Ben’s Chili Bowl joined with nine other …
Green Grows in Corporate America
In the SF Chronicle [and hundreds of other papers], via the Minneapolis Star Tribune comes this Paul Serres article on …
Nuclear Plants Shut Down
Tucked away in this article about extreme heat in the south is this interesting fact. The heat wave in the …
Arctic Sea Ice
17 August 2007 Overview of current sea ice conditions Yesterday and today, Arctic sea ice surpassed the previous single-day (absolute …
Quake hits Peru
Hmmm, it’s a different set of plates but we don’t like to see such sharp movement along our west coasts…. …
Climate Change: North America
Climate Science Watch, the site to go to for reports “dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and …
Artic Sea Ice
Andrew Revkin of the NY Times highlights this report by William Chapman of the Polar Research Group at University of …
Fires In the West
The fires in Montana this year are getting more than a perfunctory glance from me. We just returned from the …
Drought Along the Colorado
Elizabeth Shogren has an interesting short piece on Weekend Edition today. It’s about water. Water and drought. 740 years ago. …
Heat in the West
This article from the Spokesman Review iin Washington doesn’t begin to tell the story and worry of local papers and …