ProTraveller has put together a list of 20 tourist destinations that face devastation if our current global warming trends aren’t reversed. It’s a travel-focused glimpse at the economic impact of continued climate inaction. Here’s an excerpt:
In addition to those wine hot spots that will be economically destroyed when the weather warms up, there are […]
From Climate Ark and Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet:
Australia’s new “climate friendly” government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end.
Australia continues to industrially clear their last native ancient forests, even as their government promotes […]
The Alliance for Climate Protection has unveiled a new website called We can solve the climate crisis and is reaching out to a diverse array of groups to build broader awareness and support for solving global warming. They’ve also created this video to illustrate the importance of Americans taking leadership on the issue:
Click here to […]
My good friend and newly inspired poet Terry Feingold wrote the following poem that I think is worth a ponder …
Woolly Mammals
by Terry Feingold
I sit, before me
Loosely clothed of garments soaked,
Well-read thoughts, some memories,
Some doubtful.
I lay, from within
We speak of melting,
Tomorrow knowing, today comes ghastly,
Meteoric troubled times.
Standing comes easily,
As one from afar, no future,
Not only […]
January 30, 2008 – 3:08 am
Ponderosa pines in Caton Lake Roadless on
Payette NF, nine years after prescribed fire –
Photo courtesy of John McCarthy/ TWS
Last week, conservationists gathered in our nation’s capital to toast 10 years of Roadless Forests. They were marking the anniversary of a key piece of legislation that has helped to safeguard our public woodlands. Unfortunately, the Bush […]
January 6, 2008 – 8:24 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Peter Baker, The Washington Post, December 29, 2007. “For years, Bush bristled privately at what he considered sky-is-falling alarmism by the liberal, elitist Hollywood crowd. The clatter over climate change, according to friends and advisers, seemed to him more like a political agenda than a rational response to known facts. But ever so gradually, […]
November 10, 2007 – 8:23 am
ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2007) — Far removed from streams of gas-thirsty cars and pollution-belching factories lies another key player in global climate change. Circling the northern hemisphere, the conifer-dominated boreal forests - one of the largest ecosystems on earth - act as a vast natural regulator of atmospheric carbon levels.
Forest ecologists at the University of […]
October 30, 2007 – 8:47 am
TreeHugger
As was so succinctly put by Salon’s Andrew Leonard in a post about the controversy last week: “Nuance is a bitch”. Indeed, in the wake of the wildfires that ravaged large sections of Southern California, a debate that had largely remained on the sidelines - whether global warming was causing an increase in the number/intensity […]
October 28, 2007 – 7:01 am
The Summit is bringing together young adults and professionals with the common goal of improving the health of our ocean, October 26th 30th
Media Contacts:
Nick Drayton:
Email: ndrayton@oceanconservancy.org
Tom McCann:
Email: tmccann@oceanconservancy.org
Ocean Conservancy
St. Croix, USVI Today, Ocean Conservancy and partners throughout the U.S. and British Virgin Islands are convening the 2007 Youth Summit on the Oceans: Virgin Islands Future Leaders […]
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