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David James Duncan, author and fly fisher, answers questions
David James Duncan. What work do you do? I’m an author and essayist, a fly fisher and river guardian, a public speaker, and, compared to a lot of people, a contemplative. How does it relate to the environment? I’ve been breathing and drinking water and eating food and chasing fish all my life. I’ve tried […]
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Massachusetts Passes Wind
Cape Wind gets state OK, boosting chances it will get built If you’re not up on the history of the controversial Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, here’s the brief version: It’s alive! It’s dead! It’s alive! It’s dead! Repeat. Our news today: It’s alive! Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s (D) administration declared Friday that the […]
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Chaos and Effect
New climate report from IPCC will have bad news and worse news On Friday, a comprehensive new report will map the likely effects of global warming — and it ain’t pretty. The good news is, we can expect higher food production in northern, more affluent regions. Whee! Now the bad news: globally, we can expect […]
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Fun video
This is a pretty clever stunt by Greenpeace activists. They infiltrated the filming of a Kleenex commercial to get the word out about the fact that Kimberly-Clark (maker of Kleenex) uses 100% virgin wood pulp in their products — as a result, the Canadian Boreal Forest, one of the biggest carbon sinks in the world, […]
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More, please
This is a much more significant story than it might appear at first glance: Brazil’s government said it will provide free Internet access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world’s biggest rain forest. The environment and communications ministers signed an agreement Thursday with the Forest People’s Network […]
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Cause and effect
This … Bush met with General Motors Corp. chairman and chief executive Rick Wagoner, Ford Motor Co. chief executive Alan Mulally and DaimlerChrysler AG’s Chrysler Group chief executive Tom LaSorda. They discussed Bush’s support for flex-fuel vehicles and his administration’s proposal to reduce gas consumption by 20 percent in 10 years. The three auto executives […]
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Tomb Aiders
Taiwan freeway officials help butterflies find their way Bracing for the migratory peak of millions of purple milkweed butterflies, officials in Taiwan are closing one lane of a major highway, installing netting to encourage the butterflies to rise above traffic, and using ultraviolet lights to guide them under a busy bridge. “Human beings need to […]
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Yellowstone grizzlies to be delisted, Harry Potter goes greener, and more
Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: The Goracle Hogwarts and All You’ll Be Fine, Yogi You Mean Bombing Doesn’t Help? Not In My Back Yardarm Everything’s Up To Date in Kansas City Power & Light Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: A Van With a Plan Whiz […]
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Unseamly Behavior
Federal judge blocks West Virginia coal-mining permits Foes of mountaintop-removal mining got a break late Friday when a federal judge blocked four permits for mines in West Virginia. The permits, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, had said it was A-OK for Massey Energy’s subsidiaries to fill valleys with the dirt and other detritus […]
