December 2011
43 posts
OnEarth’s Most-Read Stories of 2011 →
The official year-end traffic stats are in, and the list of the most-read stories of 2011 proves one thing: our readers are smart and awesome. From arctic hybrids to wildlife crossings to superbugs, y’all flocked to stories about things that really mattered.
We love you all. And see you in 2012.
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doddcasting: My Top Five #Greenreads of 2011 →
scottdodd:
This list is in no particular order. I also included a selection in OnEarth magazine’s best-of-the-year roundup, so technically, I’ve got six favorites. Find Top 5 Greenreads from other OnEarth contributors here, and share your own on Twitter and Tumblr with the hashtag #greenreads. (Note: As is standard for these sorts of things, I avoided picks from my own publication.)
“Who Cries...
Google Is Searching for Young Scientists →
jtotheizzoe:
Google Science Fair entries open on Jan. 12! What are you gonna explore?
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Happy 38th Birthday to...the Endangered Species... →
motherjones:
There are currently 1900 species listed under the ESA, 1,380 of which can be found in the United States.
If you can name them all, you will win our undying respect and/or fear.
Um….Florida panther, Pseudorca crassidens, Yaqui Chub, Mexican long-nosed bat, Pikeminnow…hmmmm…that’s all I’ve got. Shameless plug: Kim Tingley covers these and other...
Top 10 States Ravaged by Extreme Weather in 2011 →
From our friends and partners at Climate Central. Is your home state on the list?
George Black's Top Greenreads of 2011: Good News,... →
Our executive editor offers his take on the best #Greenreads of the past year.
Ignoring Decades of Science, FDA Drops Plan to... →
The Food and Drug Administration has done everything in its power to prevent you from reading this post.
Just before the holidays, the agency charged with protecting Americans’ health reneged on a 35-year-old pledge to order farmers to stop feeding low levels of antibiotics to healthy livestock. These antibiotics have little to do with curing disease. They’re used mainly to increase...
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Barry Yeoman's Top Five #Greenreads of 2011 →
Our regular contributor’s take on the year’s best environmental journalism.
My Top Five #Greenreads of 2011 →
Our esteemed Online Editor Scott Dodd offers his five favorite pieces of environmental journalism of this past year. Including: JFK’s goose killer, fracking, apples & tomatoes, and how to hatch a dinosaur.
Shell spills 13,000 gallons while drilling near... →
cultureofresistance:
Shell International spilled 13,000 gallons of oil and drilling fluids into the Gulf on Sunday while drilling an exploratory well near the site of last year’s Deepwater Horizon accident, according to a federal report on the spill.
The area where the well was being drilled is about 20 miles from the site of the BP oil spill. Shell is working in water more than 7,000 feet...
Occupy BP →
David Gessner is pissed about how the media deserted the BP Gulf oil spill after the “gusher” was plugged.
Why do we seem to have zero concern now, since now is when we are beginning to learn what those consequences actually are:a failed shrimp harvest, dolphin deaths, sea turtle deaths, dire worriesabout human health, an ocean floor deadened by blankets of oil and dispersants,...
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Do You Realize?
Jill Sisson Quinn on why we shouldn’t say “the sun rises,” and screwing up other natural metaphors.
This year, in my classroom at Stevens Point Area Senior High, in Wisconsin, I strategically hung a poster of “The Blue Marble” — the first photo of Earth, fully illuminated and in color, from space — beneath another poster bearing the Pledge of...
Introducing the (Slightly) New and Improved... →
'Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Shifts,... →
plantedcity:
From Science Daily:
By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth’s land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecological community type — such as forest, grassland or tundra — toward another, according to a new NASA and university computer modeling study.
Researchers from...
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Our friends at Climate Central pinpoint the places... →
Find out if your state is on the list.
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Beyond Growth
George Black interviews British economist Tim Jackson, author of Prosperity Without Growth.
You say in your book that “questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists, and revolutionaries.” Is that more true or less true now than when you wrote it in 2009?
Both. It’s more true in the sense that there’s a ferocious backlash against those who question the...
“I, for one, am supremely disappointed at the prospect of the U.S. missing out on...”
– David Attenborough on the U.S. censorship of the Discovery Chanel’s episode on climate change.
More at io9
(via climateadaptation)
You can’t have a conversation about climate change if you … well, refuse to have a conversation at all.
(via jtotheizzoe)
Our plea to Discovery here.
Parks and Rehydration: Some Things Don’t Go Better... →
Our resident expert on all things waste, Elizabeth Royte, weighs in on the big absurd Grand Canyon, Coca Cola controversy.
Last month we learned that, in an attempt to cut down on litter, the supervisor of Grand Canyon National Park was set to ban sales of bottled water within the park, starting in January of 2011. (Dasani is the brand sold by concessionaires.) But two weeks before the ban...
“We ignore what could be easily known — that factory farm animals, including...”
– Sheryl Eisenberg, in her latest This Green Life post, on how to find Ethical Eggs, Dairy and Meat. (via nrdc)
