Posted in Endangered Species, Environment, Urban Nature, tagged birds, brunswick, coast, endangered, georgia, harris neck, harris neck national wildlife service, mycteria americana, national wildlife refuge, species, stork, travel, u.s. fish and wildlife service, wood stork on July 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last week I was on the Georgia coast for a work trip. I stayed an extra day to tag along on a couple of field trips arranged by one of my colleagues and got to visit a huge nesting colony of Federally Endangered Wood Stork, Mycteria americana at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge.
Here are [...]
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Last night, I went to see a screening of The Lord God Bird, a movie produced and directed by George Butler of Pumping Iron Fame. The event was co-hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and The Nature Conservancy. I really enjoyed seeing it, although I don’t feel strongly about whether or not [...]
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Posted in Art, Environment, Recycling, The Stuff of Life, tagged Art, atlanta, Environment, garbage, public art, Recycling, sunken garden park, trash on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Somehow, I managed to miss all pre-press about The Bottle Project in Atlanta, an installation in a park walking distance to my house. Last night, I was walking over there, and happened upon part of it that remains - it was supposed to be installed through September, but it looks like the Department [...]
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Posted in Environment, Geography, tagged cleanup, design, government accountability, pollution, Superfund, Superfund365, toxic cleanup, toxic waste, toxics, waste, web design on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Superfund - what’s that? Just a little program that made polluters pay to clean up after themselves - spurred by the infamous Love Canal case. But it was more or less killed by the Bush Administration (well, it has been defunded, which is the same thing).
I just ran across a review in American [...]
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Posted in Environment, Geography, Maps, Video, tagged carbon, carbon emissions, emissions, Maps, perdue, perdue university, project vulcan, Video on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
In the categories of maps and carbon emissions, I present Project Vulcan (and it has nothing to do with Star Trek, except perhaps some inspiration in naming). This is a project at Purdue University to distill information about carbon emissions by economic sector (power, industry, transportation) into useful visualizations. It is funded by [...]
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Al Gore premiered his new climate change talk and slide show at the recent TED conference. I tried to embed the video here, but it didn’t work, so here is the link.
Here is the blurb from the site:
In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change [...]
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Posted in Environment, Food, The Stuff of Life, vegan, tagged community supported agriculture, CSA, farmer's market, Food, fruit, herbicide, local harvest, organic, pesticide, songbirds, vegetables on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s almost CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) season! I just re-subscribed to the CSA I joined last year and am looking forward to the local, organic food that will be delivered weekly for distribution to my nearby synogogue. It’s important to eat local and organic food for a variety of reasons including reduced carbon [...]
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Posted in Citizen Science, Environment, Geography, Maps, Urban Nature, tagged envirionment, green living, green map, mammaking, Maps, tourism, urban environment on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I have been waiting to post on this for over a week while I became inspired to add some value to simply linking to Green Maps Around the World, but I really can’t add anything to their own self-description:
Green Map ® System promotes inclusive participation in sustainable community development around the world, using mapmaking as [...]
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Posted in Energy, Environment, Geography, Maps, tagged Appalachia, Appalachian Mountains, coal, electricity, Kentucky, mountains, mountaintop removal, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you haven’t heard of mountiantop removal, you are about to be in for a shock. Many people do not realize that a large portion of our electricity still comes from coal and that the preferred method for mining coal today involves the literal removal of the tops of mountains in the Appalachians. [...]
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