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Memo to the Very Serious People: Resistance isn’t futile and irony can be delicious

by Ross Macfarlane on

Wyoming's only new coal mine, Kiewit's Haystack Mine in SW Wyoming, halted construction yesterday before shipping any coal. Why should we care about coal mining in Wyoming? Short answer: it is at the heart of the biggest coal mining region in the United States, and by some calculations the world. 

Harvesting Wind Power

by Bobby Hayden on

Through a community-wide investment in wind power, a rural county in Oregon is earning millions of dollars to build their economy, cutting carbon and demonstrating that clean energy is both practical and profitable.

Urban ecosystem services: the promise of green infrastructure

by Steve Whitney on

Urban green infrastructure is increasingly seen as an effective way to meet regulatory obligations for control of polluted runoff or high stormwater flows, while also generating an array of ecosystem service co-benefits.

Sweating global warming? Northwest Biocarbon Initiative might just cool you down

by Clark Gilman on

Why would 220 people come out on a rainy February night to Seattle’s Town Hall to discuss the well-known power of plants to absorb carbon? 

Restoring tidal wetlands: pioneering a biocarbon solution at the Snohomish River Delta

by Keeley O'Connell on

Tidal wetlands provide great potential to sequester and store greenhouse gases. Restore Americas Estuaries and EarthCorps are investigating the carbon sequestration value of tidal wetlands.

Blue carbon goes big Down Under

by Rhys Roth on

Australia is launching one of the most ambitious ‘blue carbon’ mapping projects ever.  ‘Blue carbon’ is the capture and storage of carbon pollution from the atmosphere in ocean plants and sediments on the seabed.

Meet the "Queen of the Forest Canopy"

by Rhys Roth on

Dr. Nadkarni is a forest ecologist, sometimes known as “Queen of the Forest Canopy” for her pioneering work in understanding the ecological dynamics up in the treetops. She is also incredibly creative and committed to fostering public understanding of science and nature.

Hillsboro, OR Tackles the Last Mile Challenge

by Elizabeth Willmott on

To say that transportation is a headache for city leaders, businesses, residents, and employees in Hillsboro, OR would be an understatement. These challenges are partly the result of good economic fortune: Hillsboro has grown from a sleepy town to an employment center over the past decade to over 90,000 residents—with two consecutive expansions of a large Intel campus in the past year, hundreds of residential housing units coming online in the span of months, and new companies locating in the city on a regular basis.

Local soil

by Rhys Roth on

Are you a “locavore”?  Do you like eating high-quality foods produced from not too far away, by farmers with real faces and families?

Community Energy Advice from Massachusetts

by Elizabeth Willmott on

On February 15, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources’ Green Communities Division announced the first six grantees of the Community Energy Strategies Pilot Program, a $500,000 state program to help local communities identify and implement strategies in energy efficiency and renewable energy to meet their local energy needs.

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