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Quote of the Day: Timothy Egan on A Mudslide, Foretold
It appears that this act of God had a little help from man, and was an accident waiting to happen.
Passive House movement gets noticed by the New York Times
If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.
4 reasons The Washington Post sale is no big surprise
Jeff Bezos' purchase is just another step in the long march away from newsprint.
New York Times spikes the Green Blog
Did I mention that nobody cares about the environment anymore?
Tired Title, Boffo Finish in "It's Not Easy Being Green"
Who says the New York Times is ignoring climate and the environment? David Leonhardt writes about the importance of doing something about climate, in a political climate that makes it tough.
85% of Americans Want Better Environmental Coverage. Let the Media Know.
What does it take to get improved environmental coverage in the media?
How Yoga Can Harmonize the Body & Planet
While the NYT article offers an exaggerated cautionary tale, its alarm-ism can lead many to throw the beautiful practice of yoga asanas (postures) out with the bathwater.
Bloomberg News Launches Sustainability Section
The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.
Egypt's Endangered Species in Media Spotlight
Amid all the upheaval in Egypt, one local newspaper is working to keep the fate of the country's natural resources from falling off the radar.
Wind Turbines May Blow Earth Out of Orbit, Coal Lobby Warns: The Onion (Video)
This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have
Breakdown of Solyndra Media Coverage Shows Everyone Ignored More Important Stories
Since its eruption in late August, the Solyndra scandal has been a lightning rod for political and ideological debates over everything from the role of government in business to the debate on global
Did News of the World Hack into Climate Scientists' Emails?
The scandal du jour is unquestionably the phone-hacking debacle surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid -- which, until it was canned due to allegations of myriad criminal deeds, was England's top-selling
Presenting: The New York Times' Best Paragraph of Climate Reportage in Recent Memory
Earlier today, I wrote about a New York Times article that described Chicago's ongoing efforts to prepare for and adapt to a warming climate. I'd like to revisit that article for a second, as it just so
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Is keeping up with TreeHugger too much work? Let us help with our newsletters. We have a daily, edited by me, and a weekly, edited by Warren McLaren. Today I muse about how Amazon is Now Selling More Digital Kindle Books Than Print Books. Have a look
Goodbye Yellow Pages, Hello Local Search
Remember the Yellow Pages Association? They represent the folks who print phone books. They've fought some efforts by cities to ban phone book distribution, and
Andy Revkin of the New York Times on Global Population Explosions (podcast)
We've reported before on Andy Revkin's assertion that "climate change is not the story of our time," as well as his sometimes provocative thoughts on geoengineering and other subjects (Rush Limbaugh once suggested the journalist kill himself to save the
We're Officially Reading More Online News Than Newspapers
Image: allaboutgeorge, Flickr, CC BY The Digital Migration Continues to Change the Face of Consumption A new study from the Ponyter Institute reveals that by the end of 2010, more people were reading their news online than in traditional newspapers. 34%
News Corporation Announces New Sustainability Targets for 2015 and Beyond
News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral.
This ancient gemstone found in the Galapagos is baffling scientists
This discovery could change how we think our planet works
Super sexual centenarian tortoise single-handedly saves his species
Tortoise sauve! The randy 100-year-old Galapagos tortoise has sired over 800 babies.
Galapagos Islands getting major renewable energy expansion
The current wind power installation has replaced millions of liters of diesel fuel and helped protect the islands' endangered animals.
New Galápagos sanctuary protects unique marine life
The stunning new marine preserve surrounding the Galápagos will be off-limits for fishing in a bid to conserve its unique habitat.
Lonesome George May Not Have Been the Last of His Species
On a remote island in the Galapagos, hybrid turtles have been found that suggest a long-lost purebred companion for the late Lonesome George may survive.
Operation Rat Kill: 22 Tons of Poison to Kill 180 Million Rats on Galapagos Islands
Usually, air-dropping over 20 tons of poison from an helicopter on a fragile island ecosystem would be a very bad thing...
R.I.P. Lonesome George, the Last of His Kind
Lonesome George, the world's last remaining Pinta Island tortoise, has died at age 100 -- marking the final end of a species millennia in the making, and inching that 'loneliest' mantle one notch closer to us.
Giant Tortoise Species May Not Be So Extinct After All
They were thought extinct, but in light of new DNA findings, scientists are echoing a very tortoise-y mantra: 'not so fast'.
Helicopters Drop Poison on the Galapagos Islands
The Galapagos Islands are the model of biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to surmise the theory of evolution, but scientists have made arrangements to ensure that the latest round of animal deaths
Finally Baby-Making Time For One of a Kind Tortoise?
If Lonesome George suffers from performance anxiety, it's hard to blame him. At the ripe old age of nearly 100, the last-of-his-kind Galapagos tortoise has been charged with preserving his species' genetic
Retracing Darwin's Steps, and Managing the Human Impact on the Galapagos Islands
The difference between visiting the islands largely untouched by humans and those once habited by people is
Up Close and Personal with Natural Selection in Action: The Tale of Two Islands of the Galapagos
Each of the islands in the Galapagos is incredibly different. From landscape to ecosystem to the endemic species that can only be found in that
Get to Know an Awesome Animal: The Galapagos Penguin
When it comes to the Galapagos, most people think: Islands; tropical; Equator; volcanoes; some variation on those general ideas probably pops to mind, unless you've been here. If you have been here, you probably know that a
3 Things About Recycling the U.S. Can Learn from the Galapagos
The ballooning rates of people coming to the Galapagos, as residents or tourists, over the past few years has created a variety of environmental concerns for the islands. Not least of these is waste management, as the
The Ballad of Lonesome George, The Galapagos' Most Famous Tortoise
Lonesome George is quite a character. He's a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago, he's the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he's gone, that's it -- his species will
What is Really Being Done to Save the Galapagos?
Conservation efforts, especially in places as renowned as the Galapagos, have something of a reputation. It's developers vs. protesters, consumers vs. conservationists, people
How Do You Teach Kids to Live Sustainably on an Island?
Environmental education is playing a bigger role around the globe as we all learn more about our environmental surroundings. As
Are the Galapagos Islands Ready for More Tourism?
The Galapagos Islands are like no place on earth. The Galapagos Islands have too many
5 Things Everyone Should Know About the Galapagos: An Introduction
Photo credit: Wikipedia/Creative Commons 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety of conservation and education issues
3 Lessons The Everglades Can Teach Everyone About the Environment
All photos credit Collin Dunn Ed. note: 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with a stop in the Florida Everglades, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety
Should The Galapagos Be Taken Off The Endangered Sites List?
Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List, concluding:
Six Selfish Reasons You Don't Want Dead Oceans
TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from
Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving (Slideshow)
A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many
Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving
Darwin made a smart choice when he picked Galapagos as the place to develop his theory of natural selection: This group of islands has some of the most incredible species in the world. Earlier this month, a star-studded group of adventurers with the Missi
Taking Time From Volcano Frenzy to Think About Oceans
On one side of the world, the hovering ash cloud is making it very, very difficult for millions travelers to get home and using up a lot of media air. Meanwhile on the other side of the
Shark Extinction Possible Simply From Too Much Soup
In China, it's shark fin soup, in Japan it's blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S. it's our love of nice thick fish fillets and billions of fish sticks consumed annually - these cultural habits are
Crowd-Sourcing Solutions to Plastic-Filled Oceans
Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize for her presentation on oceans, and this year got her Mission Blue project up and rolling to create marine preserves. Earle's wish was that we all use all the means at our disposal to tell the story of oceans in
Happy 200th, Charles Darwin!
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by
Greening Secondary School Education with the Institute of International Education
Though I delved into Toyota's reasons for annually executing their singular teaching program in the Galapagos, I amazingly failed to touch on the
Bringing the Rich World of the Galapagos into the High School Classroom
Now that the Toyota International Teacher Program has ended, I've decided to turn the spotlight on a few of the teachers involved. First came the middle school teachers. Next up, a couple of the high school-teaching