OK, some of you probably are not monitoring such hotbeds of environmental thought as NRDC's Switchboard... You are missing out. If nothing else, you are missing out on some fine writing from yours truly... I have not been blogging much here of late (I'll fix that soon, I promise)---and sadly, not as much as I would like there either. But I have posted a few things of late:
The Money Boat: Coins, Climate Change, and the Caribbean - dispose of your pennies, or the low-lying island paradises get it...
Snotty Tunnels of Love: tidewater gobies deserve protected territory - Not all of our endangered species work revolves around charismatic carnivores. This little fish has little going for it, aside from being fascinating and finding novel uses for mucous.
Wyoming Wolves: frustration on all sides...and one guy with serious guts - OK, I guess lots of the work is around charismatic carnivores... I wrote this before wolves were "de-listed" last month out of frustration with the way the rhetoric on this issue plays out from both sides. This is admittedly "inside baseball..."
Dam Those Mussels: Great Lakes invasive species now threatening Lake Mead - One of the less sexy issues I help with is reform of water ballast laws in the Great Lakes; but the impacts are astounding. Water from freighters have been bringing an average of one new species into the ecosystem every six months. Lake Michigan's ecosystem has been completely changed in the last couple of years by introduced mussels, algae, and fish. And now that stuff is moving west...
Nine Cents photo by Jonathan Pobre via Flickr
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