Water Is the New Energy

by Beth July 22, 2010

Gentle reader, you may have been scratching your head over that headline. I mean that water is becoming as hot a topic as green energy and oil spills and energy use and all that stuff. And I say “becoming” for one simple reason: in the United States, most of us don’t have to worry about [...]

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Could It All Be Different?

by Beth July 20, 2010

While the US Social Forum was happening June 22–26 in Detroit, the media ignored it, for the most part (as did this blog). Now the New York Times’s Business section has recognized its existence. Nancy Folbre, the author of the article, compares the Social Forum to the February convention of the Tea Party, which drew [...]

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No More Big Dams

by Beth July 15, 2010

This story from Cultural Survival magazine’s spring 2010 issue makes me so sad. An American company, AES, has been given permission by the government of Panama to build a hydroelectric dam on the Changuinola River. That dam will put 4 Ngobe communities under water and harm many others. According to Cultural Survival, the government let [...]

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Trout Headwaters: A River Restoration Company

by Beth July 12, 2010

Just discovered a new restoration company: EcoBlu River, Stream, and Wetland Renewal. Check them out.

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Wading Birds Nests Quadruple in Florida from 2008 to 2009

by Beth July 9, 2010

Wow! There were an estimated 77,505 wading bird nests in south Florida in 2009, a much larger number than in 2008 and the best numbers since the 1940s. You can read all about it at American Bird Conservancy. What interested me most about this article was the implication that these populations can explode and dramatically [...]

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Nobody Is Making Us

by Beth July 9, 2010

I often ask myself why Americans don’t recycle more. I’ve lived in my current home for 14 years and the same percentage of my neighbors recycle: about 30%, or 2 of the 6 families on the cul-de-sac. At times I have made efforts to get them to recycle more, but neither the efforts nor the [...]

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Gold: No More Mining

by Beth July 2, 2010

My father-in-law brings by his copies of National Geographic from time to time, to add to the backlog of Sustainable Industries and World Ark and Cultural Survival and Yes! that are piled up in our main room. The January 2009 issue (yes, we’re behind on our magazine reading) featured on the cover an article titled [...]

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Restoration: How I See It

by Beth June 21, 2010

Since January, I’ve been writing about land and water restoration projects on this blog, but I realized in June I was selling myself and my idea of restoration short. Because what I really want to write here is much bigger and much more personal. I don’t really want just to recycle others’ posts about restoration [...]

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My Crazy Idea to Help Seabirds

by Beth June 13, 2010

I took a walk around Stearns Lake in Boulder County this afternoon, and I saw 1 white pelican out in the middle of the otherwise empty lake. It seemed like that small lake would have room for lots of pelicans. And that’s when I decided we should come up with a bird rescue and transfer [...]

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Will a Berm Stop the Oil?

by Beth June 8, 2010

Out of desperation, the state of Louisiana has decided to build up to 90 miles of berms to catch the oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill. Some of these miles and miles of sand embankments would repair damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The berm plan, which President Obama approved last week, initially involves [...]

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