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Conservative conservationists

There's lots of talk about hunters and fishers being the original conservationists; the venerable publication Field and Stream seems to be walking that talk. They've got a conservation editor now, Bob Marshall, and he's got a lot to say that's good to hear.

You’ll never guess

… oil has peaked.

It ain’t just ‘beat coal’

The Oil Drum has a long and technically rich piece on the pros and cons of nuclear power (updated and reposted from last year) by Martin Sevior, an Associate Professor at the School of Physics in the University of Melbourne. It’s more sanguine about nuclear energy than I am, but it’s dense with great info. […]

Behold the mighty ag subsidies

As you probably know, Rep. Jack Murtha is trying to tie new funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to a set of requirements: equipment and training standards, time off standards, no more stop-loss programs, no more extended tours, etc. The conservative Blue Dog Democrats in the House are worried about this. They worry about […]

UW students use sex to sell green idea

"The UW is bringing sexy back," the Seattle P-I story begins. Well, you’ve piqued my interest. The story goes on to describe the Young Democrats’ "Sustainability Is Sexy" campaign to get students to bring their own coffee cups to campus. It even includes a quote from Grist’s own Kendra Howe on the value of using […]

ANTM premiere features vegan photoshoot

Alright, y’all know by now that I have a train-wreck-type fascination with bad TV. A Manhattan socialite sent to live and work on a rural hog farm for two weeks? I’m in. Tim Gunn telling a wannabe fashion designer to grab some bubble wrap and a banana peel and "make it work"? All over it. […]

Board Gomez’s biodiesel tour bus

What was it like boarding the Gomez tour bus last year to chat with Tom Gray about the band’s efforts to go green? Well, a bit like this:

Global warming sheds light on uncharted frontier

Captain Kirk said that space is the final frontier. But scientists studying marine life throughout a newly revealed portion of the Antarctic sea floor, which had been buried under solid ice for the last five millennia before global warming kicked in, beg to differ.

The collapse of two ice shelves on the eastern shore of Antarctica has exposed a Jamaica-sized section of sea floor teeming with thousands of species of marine life, including 30 believed to be completely new to science.

Can religion help save our biodiversity?

I listened to a lecture given by E.O. Wilson at the Harvard Divinity School a couple of weeks ago. I guess I'm spoiled by the slick documentaries on the Discovery Channel, and by the internet. For me, listening to a professor give a lecture is like watching grass grow. It was at a lecture just like this one that a self-righteous young college student, swayed by the arguments of her professor, once poured ice water on Wilson's head for what she thought were the racist and sexist ideas embodied in sociobiology.

Foodie kisses all around

We've got a pretty funny take over at Chews Wise on what went down at the Mackey-Pollan debate last night: It turned out to be more of a mutual love fest than a smackdown.