[caption id="attachment_26171" align="alignleft" width="150"] Staghorn coral[/caption] Star. Pillar. Elkhorn. Staghorn. Mountainous star. Pocillopora elegans. Pachyseris rugosa. Astreopora cucullata. Barabattoia laddi. Those are just nine of the 66 species of coral proposed for endangered listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). On Friday, November 30, after more than three...
[caption id="attachment_25905" align="alignright" width="240"] Moon-Ocean image[/caption] Sailors, fisherman, surfers, and Inuits are but a few of the communities that have an intimate relationship with the tidal effect in coastal environments. For surfers, the difference between high tide, when the water’s shoreline edge appears to move onshore, and...
What’s happening with recycling and wastes in our region? Does recycling even make sense in our remote rural region? Should you be buying beer in cans instead of glass bottles? For answers and a discussion of recycling and waste in our region come to the December...
Editor's Note: Of course there's a Telluride connection. Some of the biggest names in music will play at a benefit concert on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. The Stones join a trio of 1960s British rock royalty on the bill, including Paul McCartney and the...
EcoAction Partners is extremely excited to be partnering with The Nature Conservancy and Jagged Edge to bring Alison Gannett to town. Alison is scheduled to speak Thursday evening, December 13, 7 p.m. at the Sheridan Opera House, prior to a screening of the Sherpa Cinema...
“You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” When attempting to elevate climate change awareness in the United States, this time-weathered sage advice metaphorically represents the agonizing sentiments of climate scientists worldwide. After the International Panel on Climate Change released its initial...
Sometimes there are too many things to write about. This week's happenings are a case in point. [caption id="attachment_25447" align="alignleft" width="300"] Compost in a can[/caption] The COP18 Doha Climate Change Conference is happening in Qatar of all places, a corner of the globe that is completely dependent...
[caption id="attachment_25385" align="alignright" width="300"] Lawine Avalanche[/caption] Sandy, the horror-cane was a powerful force in our country in many ways. The human suffering continues even a month after the event. The infrastructure damage caused by Sandy has the states of New York and New Jersey asking the federal...
[caption id="attachment_25283" align="alignright" width="275"] Flags flying outside the United Nations[/caption] Sometimes, as a happily willing participant in humanity’s evolving global experiment on Earth, I “imagine” or more accurately I conduct a comparative analysis of protocol indicators over time to theorize the present and future needs of...
[caption id="attachment_25093" align="alignright" width="300"] Aqua Alta in Venice. Credit: Luigi Costantini/A[/caption] I usually leave climate change to my co-columnist, Billy Mason. His expertise in the subject way exceeds mine. But I make an exception for the specific subjects of flooding and sea level rise. Not only...
