Environmental Newsletter 11/19/2008

 

 Media

top storyHollywood ponders global warming (Yahoo!/AP, Nov. 19)

'It's part of the addiction': Obama talks energy on 60 Minutes (Grist, Nov. 17)

Environmental leaders lauded at edie awards (Edie, Nov. 14)

 

 Green Living & Social Trends

Awards Given For Green, Effective Workplaces (Red Orbit, Nov. 18)

Grin and Share It: iPhone rideshare app coming soon (Grist, Nov. 17)

A Seafood Snob Ponders the Future of Fish (N.Y. Times, Nov. 15) Free site registration required

Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year: ‘hypermiling’ (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 14)

 

 Business & Economy

Greens Spell Progress R-e-c-e-s-s-i-o-n (Yahoo!, Nov. 18)

At Exxon, Making the Case for Oil (N.Y. Times, Nov. 15) Free site registration required

 

 Commentary

Midnight Hour [Late-term regulations by Bush administration.] (New Yorker, Nov. 24)

From plow to plate (emagazine, Nov. 11)

 

 Ecosystems & Biodiversity

Experts warn of severe water shortages by 2080 (ENN/AP, Nov. 18)

Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West (N.Y. Times, Nov. 18) Free site registration required

top storyNew Life Beneath Sea And Ice (ScienceDaily, Nov. 17)

Guerillas threaten gorillas in Africa's oldest national park (TerraDaily/AFP, Nov. 16)

How A-Bomb Testing Changed Our Trees (NPR, Nov. 16)

Left untouched, world's largest mangrove forest recovering fast [The Sundarbans.] (TerraDaily/AFP, Nov. 15)

Mysterious Microbe May Play Important Role In Ocean Ecology (ScienceDaily, Nov. 15)

Giant clams make come back in Philippines thanks to science (TerraDaily/AFP, Nov. 14)

Giant Prehistoric Fish Rebounding in Canada (Nat'l. Geographic News, Nov. 12)

 

 Technology

Analysis: Bankrolling green technology (EETimes, Nov. 18)

Greenhouse Gases Going Underground (Red Orbit, Nov. 18)

 

 Pollution

Pollution Has Leveled Off, but the Figures Have Holes, Report Says (N.Y. Times, Nov. 17) Free site registration required

In Fighting Wildfires, Concerns About Chemicals (N.Y. Times, Nov. 15) Free site registration required

Insecticide! (An ecological disaster that will affect us all) (Independent UK, Nov. 15)

Dirty Brown Clouds Impact Glaciers, Agriculture And The Monsoon (ScienceDaily, Nov. 16)

 

 Public Opinion & Surveys

Despite Economy, Study Reveals Greening of Building Portfolios Remains a Priority for Commercial Real Estate Industry (MarketWatch, Nov. 19)

top storySurvey says over-50 set likelier to buy Earth-friendly (PhysOrg, Nov. 17)

 

 Green Building

Will Demand for Solar Homes Pick Up? (Yahoo!/BusinessWeek, Nov. 18)

Big Box & Beyond: Today's Temples of Consumption Don't Have To Be Tomorrow's Ruins. What's in Store? (Washington Post, Nov. 16) Free site registration required

How Bright is a Green Building? (PRNewswire, Nov. 14)

Recycled building materials trim waste and are cheaper, too (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 14)

 

 U.S. & Government

Cellphones in Yellowstone? (L.A. Times, Nov. 17) Free site registration required

Bristol Bay May Get Knocked Up: BLM opens land near Alaska's Bristol Bay to development (Grist, Nov. 17)

EPA Advisers Seek Perchlorate Review (Washington Post, Nov. 14) Free site registration required

Environmentalists Urge Obama To Stop Global Overfishing (Red Orbit, Nov. 13)

U.S. Navy Wins Dispute Over Sonar, Whales (Nat'l. Geographic News/AP, Nov. 13)

 

 International

Obama Won't Visit UN Climate Talks In Poland - UN (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 18)

Japan's whaling fleet sets out for Antarctic (Reuters, Nov. 17)

Argentina Vetoes Glacier Law That Curbed Mining (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 17)

Environmental conference will target regional governors from around the world (L.A. Times, Nov. 17) Free site registration required

Germany’s Green Party Elects First Ethnic Turk as Leader (N.Y. Times, Nov. 16) Free site registration required

 

 Climate Change

top storyWater Vapor Confirmed As Major Player In Climate Change (ScienceDaily, Nov. 18)

US, Vietnam to study climate change impact on Mekong Delta (Yahoo!/AFP, Nov. 14)

Adoption of Climate Treaty by 2009 in Doubt (Worldwatch Institute, Nov. 17)

Improving Carbon Measurements In Global Climate Studies (ScienceDaily, Nov. 17)

California Ordered To Prepare For Sea-Level Rise (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 17)

Under-ice flood speeds up glacier (BBC News, Nov. 17)

Climate change 'to halt ice age' (BBC News, Nov. 14)

 

 Energy

Russia and Green Energy: A Long Way to Go (MarketWatch, Nov. 18)

Better Wind Turbines (Technology Review, Nov. 13)

 

 


Compiled by Cathy Hunter and Michael Jourdan.