Articles by Biodiversivist
My real name is Russ Finley. I also have my own blog called Biodiversivist, which contains articles in addition to those submitted to Grist. I live in Seattle, married with children. Suffice it to say that although I am trained and educated as an engineer, my passion is nature. I very much want my grandchildren to live on a planet where lions, tigers, and bears have not joined the long and growing list of creatures that used to be.
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Transgressing identified and quantified planetary boundaries
Apparently, we’ve punched through three of those boundaries already, two of them big time. See here. You can read the entire paper in the journal Nature here. Now, largely because of a rapidly growing reliance on fossil fuels and industrialized forms of agriculture, human activities have reached a level that could damage the systems that […]
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Corn Ethanol Hoses Police Fleet
According to Green Inc., lab tests have confirmed that a high ethanol blend was to blame for taking about 70 police cars out of service in Baltimore. At first it was suspected that diesel had contaminated the fuel. Here is a video of the mechanics flushing out the fuel injectors. According to the maintenance supervisor […]
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Electric car sells out in Japan. It's downhill from here.
According to the Edmunds Green Car Advisor blog, Mitsubishi has already sold out the first production run of it’s electric car, the i-MiEV. Here’s the real deal. The i-MiEV is based on the Mitsubishi i. It’s expensive and will therefore have limited mass appeal. But envy, as is always the case, will drive a demand […]
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Another day, another cougar
A cougar was recently removed from a Seattle park just a few miles from where I live. I poked around looking for cougar sign by some ponds in the park but found only raccoon tracks. The last time a cougar was in this park he left behind a cache of raccoon heads. I chased some […]
