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October 20, 2009
Last week's post on the architecture of the Make It Right Foundation's new homes in New Orleans brought some thoughtful comments, and it brought even more when I reposted it...
October 20, 2009
In August, I was able to spend a week in the Tongass National Forest with a NRDC group led by our Founding Director John Adams. Spanning 17 million acres of southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is the largest forest in the U.S. and the largest remaining temperate rainforest on Earth. It was truly beautiful with towering mountains, vast expanses of trees, fjords, and islands. The Tongass...
October 20, 2009
NRDC's President, Frances Beinecke, traveled last July to the Peace-Athabasca Delta BioGem in Alberta, Canada. She wrote in her blog about the visit that:
All four major bird flyways in North America converge in one spot in the boreal, right here. More than 1 million birds, including tundra swans, snow geese and countless ducks, stop to rest and gather...
October 20, 2009
Bristol Bay in Alaska is NRDC's newest BioGem. The Bay's watershed sits on the eastern-most arm of the Bering Sea, about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Its massive salmon runs provide food for grizzlies, wolves, eagles, beluga whales and orcas. The salmon-rich waters also support commercial, recreational and subsistence fishing.
Despite Bristol Bay's ecological and economic importance, its health is immediately threatened by the...
October 20, 2009
Today the Port of Long Beach violated the public trust and sold out the citizens of Long Beach by approving a worthless settlement agreement with the American Trucking Association ("ATA") in ATA's lawsuit against the Los Angeles ports' clean trucks programs. Rather than clean up the trucks that serve its port, Long Beach ran away from a fight with ATA - an organization that has opposed clean air regulation locally and nationally - and is content to sit on the sidelines while the Port of Los Angeles pays to...
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October 19, 2009
After barnstorming through much of the midwsest the Veterans for American Power tour is heading to the nation's capitol today. Since the tour started in Arkansas Oct 12, we been to dozens to towns and cities in a half dozen states, including Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio and West Virgnia. The vets on the bus are from a wide range of services and tours, ranging from Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf to recent tours to Afghanistan. They all have been spreading the message that climate change is...
October 19, 2009
A few years ago, the African Wildlife Foundation presented me with an unusual request: build a new school for Maasai children in Tanzania... one that is not right in the middle of an elephant breeding ground, preferably, and one in which the children would not have to share their playground with wandering lions, zebras, and other wild animals.We thought that sounded pretty reasonable. And so began the Manyara Ranch school project. See the video below for the introduction to the project. Follow up...
October 17, 2009
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October 16, 2009
October 10th, Moffen Island, 80°N, 14.5°E From this completely flat island on the horizon we see nothing, as if we are deposited in some alien sea. It is strangely warm and moist, nothing like the endless winter one might imagine at the end of the road of darkness. Through September it is forbidden to land on this island in case breeding walruses and seabirds might be disturbed. By October the law permits us, and it is now possible to walk right up to huddled walruses and tap them on the...
October 16, 2009
On Wednesday, Oct 13, the Veterans for American Power pulled out of St Louis in its brilliant Navy blue bus, wrapped with the names of 66 cities and towns in the 22 states that the bus tours will visit this month. Our busload of veterans, nicknamed "Team Alpha," assembled in the early morning darkness for a 6 am departure from St. Louis to Jefferson City, the capital of the Show Me State. There the vets were met by a variety of media, including the CBS station KRCG-TV, the Jefferson City News Tribune...
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September 30, 2009
I would love to buy "fresh, homegrown/farmer's market" produce, but I worry about the substances the grower uses to protect the plants from pests and fertilizer. Not all farmers'...
