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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><object width="480" height="291"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BYlGlOs5nuA&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324oe_/http://www.youtube.com/v/BYlGlOs5nuA&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="291"></embed></object></p> <p>The most familiar examples of outdoor urban public spaces are parks and plazas. </p> <p>But on Friday, design students and environmental campaigners took to the streets in New York City to remind people that pavement is public, too, with streets and sidewalks constituting 80 percent of the city’s public acreage. They did so by turning more than 50 parking spaces (with permits) into temporary vest-pocket parks complete with activities, seating, greenery and even water sports: in the case of the installation at 116th Street and Broadway, it was a water balloon toss. </p> <p><a id="aptureLink_tpPfWyZEpW" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.parkingdaynyc.org/">The installations in New York</a> were part of an international <a id="aptureLink_2fxmcWPE7f" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://parkingday.org/">annual event called Park(ing) Day</a> in which people in 100 cities in 20 countries turn parking spots into “human-friendly places” for a day. The goal, organizers say, is to inspire discussions about alternate visions of urban living and how cities divvy up common assets. </p> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_gk8Gfvup25" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.flickr.com/photos/11644662@N04/3933788024/"><img title="EugeneParkingDay16" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3518/3933788024_5f9db3be75.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="447.20000000000005px" height="335.40000000000003px"/></a></p> <p>The events grew out of a <a id="aptureLink_vnkLPmm73Q" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://parkingdaynyc.org/img/spotsquat1.jpg">2005 demonstration</a> by <a id="aptureLink_JEdaPsdfNB" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.transalt.org/">Transportation Alternatives</a>, a private group in New York City focused on public alternatives to automobiles. The demonstrators took over a parking space in Brooklyn, saying they wanted people to think “about whether $.50 an hour was a fair price for such a useful piece of public space, and whether that space should be occupied by cars at all.” [UPDATE: A <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.rebargroup.org/">San Francisco effort</a> started around the same time.] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/a-day-in-the-parking-space/#more-8375" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/a-day-in-the-parking-space/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/a-day-in-the-parking-space/', 'A Day in the Park(ing Space)', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/a-day-in-the-parking-space/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/a-day-in-the-parking-space/'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <div class="w190 right"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/18/science/bird_190.jpg" alt="mountain bluebird"/><span class="credit">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</span> <span class="caption">A different tweeter: Mountain bluebird.</span></div> <p>I’m increasingly, and to some extent reluctantly, becoming a <a id="aptureLink_HH9CNq6Xyo" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://twitter.com/revkin">regular on Twitter</a>. In the journalism world, I’m clearly not alone, as you can see on <a id="aptureLink_OqYUF3l394" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://muckrack.com/">Muckrack.com</a>. <a id="aptureLink_Terc7TI7oT" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html">David Pogue explored varied ways to get the most out of Twitter</a> a while back. Maureen Dowd <a id="aptureLink_CSbCx8RwXL" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/opinion/22dowd.html">visited the company’s headquarters</a> to find out “if the inventors of Twitter were as annoying as their invention.” (She said they weren’t.)</p> <p>I find it useful as yet another two-way pipeline: a sieve for snatching developments out of the global information fire hose and a place to post thoughts on connections, developments or questions related to the human-environment interface that I don’t have time to cover here. It also provides a way to explore reactions, good or bad, to my posts.</p> <p>Below I’ve pasted a few recent examples. Keep in mind they’re in tweetspeak, a cmprssd language forced by the 140-character limit. </p> <blockquote><p> 2C or not 2C. China’s view on dangerous climate question: <a id="aptureLink_Q3xH15agmp" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://j.mp/ChinaOn2C">http://j.mp/ChinaOn2C</a> More on temp. thresholds: <a id="aptureLink_iwxUPomPpi" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://j.mp/2Cdebate">http://j.mp/2Cdebate</a></p> <p>Goleman: WalMart displays eco intelligence: <a id="aptureLink_umjcDMXtsa" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://j.mp/37f8F0">http://j.mp/37f8F0</a> But isn’t it selling consumption as much as CFLs? <a id="aptureLink_MIt0u4PCnx" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://j.mp/BuyBuyBuy">http://j.mp/BuyBuyBuy</a> </p> <p>Dot Earth commenter raps on why poor countries are ticked at us for demanding they cut emissions / fertility: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://j.mp/SckBb">http://j.mp/SckBb</a></p> <p>Proof of peer-reviewer bias toward positive results <a id="aptureLink_LJcMxlBCvH" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://j.mp/JournalBias">http://j.mp/JournalBias</a> Akin to media/human bias toward drama? <a id="aptureLink_LoxW8BPHbQ" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://j.mp/A1bias">http://j.mp/A1bias</a> </p></blockquote> <p>If you use Twitter, why are you there, who do you follow, what do you say? 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_xafN3CMrqA" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png"><img title="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png" style="border: 0px none ;" width="297.375px" height="237.89999999999998px"/></a></p> <p>The National Snow and Ice Data Center, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/august-seas-warmest-in-120-years/">as expected</a>, said today that the cloak of sea ice drifting on the Arctic Ocean hit <a id="aptureLink_ySGNu4PpUZ" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2009/091709.html">its minimum extent on Sept. 12</a>, putting 2009 behind the last two years in the size of the retreat. </p> <p>As you might imagine, self-professed climate skeptics (most climate scientists say they are, like any scientist, implicitly skeptical), have been crowing about how this year’s ice conditions are confounding both climate campaigners and <a id="aptureLink_H57g4kD4CR" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/07/how-have-the-scientists-done-on-arctic-sea-ice-forecasts-this-year-maybe-not-so-good/">climate scientists</a>. At the same time, environmental groups are using the finding as <a id="aptureLink_suvBAGa4Hx" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/17-5">more justification for urgent action</a> to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. </p> <p>In the meantime, the small global network of <a id="aptureLink_4c58Gwhl04" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.arcus.org/search/seaiceoutlook/">ice, climate and ocean specialists</a> trying to make sense of ice behavior at both poles are — as always — working to use each year’s data to refine their still crude models. Many readily acknowledge that the Arctic is an extraordinarily complicated system in which ice conditions are determined by winds, currents and both air and sea temperature. It is a system that can amplify either a human warming influence or a natural one, making the task of disentangling a signal of human influence from other forces exceedingly tough. </p> <p>The Arctic Ocean ice sheath, which I got to know several years ago while camped near the North Pole on <a id="aptureLink_DtLXBsEZS2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_5SrBX9Qdw">floes that were drifting 400 yards an hour</a>, has some of the qualities of the <a id="aptureLink_5Avmb3703W" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/science/earth/23CLIM.html">vanishing snows of Kilimanjaro</a> when thrust into the climate debate. </p> <p>It’s iconic, but complicated. Have a look at this time-lapse video taken by a Webcam near the North Pole and weigh in: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/finding-meaning-in-shrinking-ice/#more-8301" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/finding-meaning-in-shrinking-ice/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/finding-meaning-in-shrinking-ice/', 'Finding Meaning in Arctic Ice', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/finding-meaning-in-shrinking-ice/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/finding-meaning-in-shrinking-ice/'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p>The Sloan Management Review at M.I.T. and the Boston Consulting Group have surveyed 1,500 corporate leaders and found that pledges of a shift toward sustainable business practices are <a id="aptureLink_CSFQ3Cd5td" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://sloanreview.mit.edu/special-report/the-business-of-sustainability/">often not backed up by substantial actions</a>. The summary concludes: </p> <blockquote><p> <strong><br/> -</strong> Less than a third of survey respondents said that their company has developed a clear business case for addressing sustainability.<br/> <strong>-</strong> Less than 45 percent said their organizations were pursuing basic sustainability strategies such as reducing or eliminating emissions, reducing toxicity or harmful chemicals, improving efficiency in packaging, or designing products or processes for reuse or recycling.<br/> <strong>-</strong> The majority of sustainability actions undertaken to date appear to be limited to those necessary to meet regulatory requirements.</p></blockquote> <p>It looks like there’s plenty of work out there for <a id="aptureLink_AFgQgDhdzm" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/six-sins-of-greenwashing-a-primer/?hp">Joel Makower</a> and the <a id="aptureLink_0GPOfW8LyN" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/a-greenwash-brigade-is-on-the-prowl/">Greenwash Brigade</a>.</p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/whos-walking-the-sustainability-walk/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/whos-walking-the-sustainability-walk/', 'Who\'s Walking the Sustainability Walk', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/whos-walking-the-sustainability-walk/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/whos-walking-the-sustainability-walk/'); 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Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_3utYxDhEOU" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TRLrKIMCiU"><img title="Hottest Summer Sea Surface Since at Least 1880" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4TRLrKIMCiU/hqdefault.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="456px" height="285px"/></a><br/> The National Climatic Data Center has released its review of <a id="aptureLink_zKy2JgjBKi" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090916_globalstats.html">worldwide sea surface temperatures for August</a> and for the stretch from June through August and finds that both the month and the “summer” (as looked at from the Northern Hemisphere) were the warmest at least since 1880, when such records were first systematically compiled. </p> <p>Sea ice in the Arctic appears to be starting the slow late-summer freeze after reaching its minimum extent several days ago, by a couple of estimates (<a id="aptureLink_mweLyZqmA3" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png">National Snow and Ice Data Center</a>; <a id="aptureLink_vSmRa6w5mo" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm">International Arctic Research Center / Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency</a>). Here’s the <a id="aptureLink_uIz3Ss3fH4" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg">global sea ice trend</a>, combining what’s going on up north and down south. This season’s Arctic ice retreat ranks well behind the extraordinary <a id="aptureLink_FpDqU6o4zf" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html?_r=1&oref=login.">ice retreat of 2007</a> and also last year’s but remains below the average ice extent for the stretch since 1979, when satellites started monitoring Arctic conditions with some precision. Here’s a compilation of <a id="aptureLink_xVLql1816F" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.arcus.org/search/seaiceoutlook/2009_outlook/update_september.php">various groups’ experimental ice forecasts</a> for this year and the results.</p> <p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration summarized ocean temperature conditions for August in <a id="aptureLink_tSLiADwFxJ" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=301&MediaTypeID=2">this description of the video above</a>:</p> <blockquote><p> The world’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest for any August on record, and the warmest on record averaged for any June-August summer season, according to N.O.A.A.’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Worldwide records began in 1880. Shown here is a visualization of the August global temperature anomalies — or in other words, how the average temperature in August differed from the average climate of 1961-1990. Notice that in some areas, such as the western United States, temperatures were much cooler than average. But overall, land and ocean temperatures were several degrees above normal. </p></blockquote> <p>Clearly the <a id="aptureLink_Q59aQrswbH" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/forecast.html">current El Niño warming</a> in the tropical Pacific Ocean has contributed to the warm sea conditions. (<strong>UPDATE, 9/17</strong>: I’ve asked N.O.A.A. officials about their choice of temperature data sets, <a id="aptureLink_UBWc8Ow0S6" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/17/noaas-august-global-record-is-the-result-of-one-data-set/">which has been criticized by some</a>.) Variations in polar sea ice on short time scales, up or down, are essentially meaningless, my contacts studying the cryosphere always stress. Keep track of the long-term trends at the links above.</p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/august-seas-warmest-in-120-years/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/august-seas-warmest-in-120-years/', 'Updates on Warm Seas and Arctic Ice', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/august-seas-warmest-in-120-years/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/august-seas-warmest-in-120-years/'); // ]]> </script></li> <li class="email-this"> <form method="post" name="emailThis_8263" id="emailThis_8263" style="display: inline;" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" action="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/mem/emailthis.html"> <input type="hidden" name="type" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="url" value="http%3A%2F%2Fdotearth.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F09%2F16%2Faugust-seas-warmest-in-120-years%2F"/> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Dot%20Earth%3A%20Updates%20on%20Warm%20Seas%20and%20Arctic%20Ice"/> <input type="hidden" name="description" value="Scientists%20measure%20the%20warmest%20global%20sea%20surface%20for%20June%20through%20August%20in%20more%20than%20100%20years."/> <input type="hidden" name="pub_date" value="20090916"/> <input type="hidden" name="author" value="By%20Andrew%20C.%20Revkin"/> <input type="hidden" name="section" value="Science"/> <input type="hidden" name="nytdsection" value="Science"/> <input type="hidden" name="nytdsubsection" value=""/> <input type="hidden" name="encrypted_key" value="Z5EfC3xRRuk/AGQu5hQ6ag"/> <input type="hidden" name="encryption_partner" value="about"/> </form> <a class="post-email" href="javascript:NYTD.Blogs.email_this('8263', 'http%3A%2F%2Fdotearth.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F09%2F16%2Faugust-seas-warmest-in-120-years%2F');">E-mail This</a> </li> <li class="print"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/august-seas-warmest-in-120-years/?pagemode=print">Print</a></li> <li id="share8263" class="closed share"> <a id="sharebox8263" onclick="NYTD.BlogShareTools.openEffect('8263'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_3WyzkrwKHw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUl-KKypD3g#t=216"><img title="How to make a condom..." src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QUl-KKypD3g/hqdefault.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="456px" height="285px"/></a></p> <p>More children equal more carbon dioxide emissions. And recent research has resulted in <a id="aptureLink_wsngbKoYZS" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091403308.html">renewed coverage</a> of the notion that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/having-children-brings-high-carbon-impact/">one of the cheapest ways to curb emissions</a> in coming decades would be to provide access to birth control for tens of millions of women around the world who say they desire it. A study by researchers at the London School of Economics and commissioned by the Optimum Population Trust came to the following conclusion:</p> <blockquote><p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.optimumpopulation.org/releases/opt.release09Sep09.htm">Contraception is ‘Greenest’ Technology</a></p> <p>U.N. data suggest that meeting unmet need for family planning would reduce unintended births by 72 per cent, reducing projected world population in 2050 by half a billion to 8.64 billion. Between 2010 and 2050 12 billion fewer “people-years” would be lived – 326 billion against 338 billion under current projections. The 34 gigatons of CO2 saved in this way would cost $220 billion – roughly $7 a ton [metric tons]. However, the same CO2 saving would cost over $1trillion if low-carbon technologies were used. (Here’s a link to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.optimumpopulation.org/reducingemissions.pdf">a pdf of the report.</a>)</p></blockquote> <p>I recently raised the question of whether this means we’ll soon see a market in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/fertility-rise-for-richest-boon-or-trouble/">baby-avoidance carbon credits</a> similar to efforts to sell <a id="aptureLink_ZDRk1BOEE8" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/measuring-the-carbon-savings-from-forests/">CO2 credits for avoiding deforestation</a>. This is purely a thought experiment, not a proposal. But the issue is one that is rarely discussed in climate treaty talks or in debates over United States climate legislation. If anything, the population-climate question is more pressing in the United States than in developing countries, given the high per-capita carbon dioxide emissions here and the <a id="aptureLink_W6cwIpa5yO" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/whats-the-right-number-of-americans/?em">rate of population growth.</a> If giving women a way to limit family size is such a cheap win for emissions, why isn’t it in the mix?</p> <p>A related story from the archives:</p> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_hAabBE92XX" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/world/29condoms.html"><img title="U.S. Jobs Shape Condoms’ Role in Foreign Aid" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://placeholder.apture.com/ph/400x270_NYTimesClip/" style="border: 0px none ;" width="400px" height="270px"/></a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/the-ultimate-green-technology-condoms/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/the-ultimate-green-technology-condoms/', 'Are Condoms the Ultimate Green Technology?', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/the-ultimate-green-technology-condoms/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/the-ultimate-green-technology-condoms/'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p>A Nobel laureate, <a id="aptureLink_Smt8YjrApc" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/s/joseph_e_stiglitz/index.html">Joseph E. Stiglitz</a>, has joined the circle of economists convinced that the world needs <a id="aptureLink_bBpMGG3eyK" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/wellbeing">new ways of measuring progress</a> as <a id="aptureLink_PqGfi9x8DX" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/puberty/">human numbers and appetites</a> butt up against the planet’s limits and old economic models have <a id="aptureLink_QpnCkOgNut" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/financial-crisis/">hit some speed bumps</a>. </p> <p>In <a id="aptureLink_yMWDIZVKj1" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/95b492a8-a095-11de-b9ef-00144feabdc0.html">The Financial Times yesterday</a>, Dr. Stiglitz, who teaches at Columbia University, outlined the results of <a id="aptureLink_JRYbSHEb0O" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/en/index.htm">a study he and other economists conducted</a> for President Nicolas Sarkozy of France providing advice on a basket of measurements that might better reflect whether a country is advancing the quality of lives while not diminishing the environment. <a id="aptureLink_iOG5n48XCt" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/26ea2978-a18f-11de-a88d-00144feabdc0.html">Mr. Sarkozy embraced the findings</a> and called on France’s econometric bureaucracy to shift how it assesses progress and on world leaders and international institutions to do the same.</p> <p>Dr. Stiglitz’s column on the report echoes many ideas promoted by a more touchy-feely crowd that has long been pushing for such shifts, a group whose members range from <a id="aptureLink_qSj0tUbrA9" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/herman-daly/">Herman Daly</a> to Jigmi Thinley, whom I met while writing my 2005 article on “<a id="aptureLink_buwT2RDK8N" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/on-work-wealth-and-well-being/">gross national happiness</a>” and is <a id="aptureLink_by6aWoy9m0" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigme%20Thinley">Bhutan’s first elected prime minister</a>. </p> <p>Here’s a set of statements, one by the Nobel laureate and one by Mr. Thinley, who is one of Bhutan’s leading promoters of what the country calls G.N.H. [UPDATE, 3 pm: I had these statements <em>transposed</em> earlier. Fixed now. Apologies!]</p> <blockquote><p> <strong>Dr. Stiglitz:</strong> “While there is no single indicator that can capture something as complex as our society, the metrics commonly used, such as gross domestic product, suggest a trade-off: one can improve the environment only by sacrificing growth. But if we had a comprehensive measure of well-being, perhaps we would see this as a false choice.”<br/> <strong><br/> Mr. Thinley:</strong> “We have to think of human well-being in broader terms. Material well-being is only one component. That doesn’t ensure that you’re at peace with your environment and in harmony with each other.”</p> </blockquote> <p>And here is a statement by Dr. Stiglitz paired with one by the Canadian political philosopher John Ralston Saul from my 2005 happiness article:</p> <blockquote><p> <strong>Dr. Stiglitz:</strong> “What we measure affects what we do. If we have the wrong metrics, we will strive for the wrong things.”</p> <p><strong>Mr. Saul:</strong> “It’s ideas which determine the directions in which civilizations go. If you don’t get your ideas right, it doesn’t matter what policies you try to put in place.”</p></blockquote> <p>For this concept to move beyond Bhutan and France and take hold in a country like the United States, politicians would have to get comfortable with the public’s paying more attention to things like rates of infant mortality, amounts of vacation time, access to health care and rates of imprisonment along with rates of job creation and economic growth. </p> <p>In reporting my 2005 happiness article, officials at the Census Bureau told me that lawmakers in Congress didn’t seem eager to pay for efforts to broaden the way the bureau assesses quality of life. 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_yVHEOzcTJe" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/23/science/embers900.jpg"><img title="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/23/science/embers900.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="394.3762376237624px" height="248.95000000000002px"/></a></p> <p>Back in February, when I wrote about the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/warming-embers-burning-brighter/">“burning embers” diagram of climate risk</a> that was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/why-2007-ipcc-report-lacked-embers/">left out of the 2007 reports</a> of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a reader,<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/warming-embers-burning-brighter/#comment18"> Josh J. of Snow Hill, N.C.</a>, gave the artwork this review: </p> <blockquote><p> That is a truly inspiring graph, even if it only inspires future generations of graphic designers on how not to design an easy to read for the masses graph to convey a point.</p></blockquote> <p>His response inspired me to propose that someone out there hold a contest “to see who can come up with fresh, captivating, accurate ways” to use various art forms to describe climate trends and their significance. It’s clear that the arts, from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/art">visual</a> to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/music-of-this-sphere/">musical</a>, can have a role in shaping how people perceive the planet and their place on it. Lo and behold, the nonprofit group <a id="aptureLink_iFkMqFt0wC" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.artistascitizen.org/competitions/burningembers/">Artist as Citizen</a> was inspired to hold just such a competition. Their contest was restricted to undergraduate and graduate art students. Four finalists were chosen by <a id="aptureLink_zeYDn1t0cl" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://twitter.com/pleaseenjoy">Ji Lee</a>, creative director of the Google Creative Lab (and an occasional contributor of <a id="aptureLink_JUTNRowb42" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/weekinreview/08segal.html">artwork for The Times</a>). </p> <p>You play a role now. The first four comments below essentially serve as a voting mechanism. Please use the “Recommend” function to choose the work you prefer. Of course you can also post separate comments with a more detailed critique. And while this contest was limited to college students, I hope you’ll also send in recommendations of other work out there, or work that you’ve done yourself. (Put links in your comment or send files to dotearth@nytimes.com.)</p> <p>The contest organizers will use the recommendations of Dot Earth readers in choosing winners. <a id="aptureLink_5kNhKBjcoq" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.artistascitizen.org/competitions/burningembers/">Details on their procedures</a> are at their site. Here are links to the submissions of the four finalists:</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.artistascitizen.org/projects/9/thin_ice/">Thin Ice</a></strong><br/> M. Drennan, School of Visual Arts, M.F.A., Photography, 2009</p> <p><a id="aptureLink_ZVVDvfo2jY" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.artistascitizen.org/projects/9/extinct/"><strong>Extinct</strong></a><br/> D. Kim, Parsons School of Design, B.F.A., Communication Design, 2009</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.vimeo.com/6241551">Climate Change</a></strong><br/> M. Shapiro, New York University, B.F.A. Film, 2011<br/> <strong><br/> <a id="aptureLink_3HHntev56G" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.artistascitizen.org/projects/9/tracing_emissions">Tracing Emissions</a></strong><br/> T. Holliday, S. Reagin, Pratt Institute, both M.F.A., 2011</p> <p>Read on if you’d like to see Ji Lee’s thoughts on these finalists: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/vote-on-climate-art-beyond-embers/#more-8105" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/vote-on-climate-art-beyond-embers/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/vote-on-climate-art-beyond-embers/', 'Climate as Art: What\'s Your Review?', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/vote-on-climate-art-beyond-embers/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/vote-on-climate-art-beyond-embers/'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <div class="w480"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/dotearth/11dotearth_arctic.480.jpg" alt="Ship on Ice"/><span class="credit">Beluga Group</span> <span class="caption">The view from one of two German ships that have <a id="aptureLink_YHsta3GyvY" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://j.mp/ArcticMap">nearly completed a voyage</a> carrying goods from Asia to Europe through Arctic waters. A Russian icebreaker takes the lead, but there has been <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/">scant sea ice</a> impeding the journey.</span></div> <p>The <a id="aptureLink_0Rw8xfP0fY" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/arcship">enterprising Arctic voyage</a> of two German cargo carriers, the <a id="aptureLink_vadv7xUAnk" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.beluga-group.com/en/#Fleet-MultipurposeHeavyLiftCarriers">Beluga Foresight and Beluga Fraternity</a>, is nearing its end. The ships, departing Siberia, are poised to complete the last leg of a journey that began in Ulsan, South Korea, in late July as they take 3,500 tons of cargo to Rotterdam later this month. In doing so they will complete the first known commercial shipment from Asia to Europe via the Arctic — <a id="aptureLink_ENeUQpCeyH" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dB11l4-qVo">a centuries-old dream of mariners</a>, after nearly 500 years of dreaming about such a trade route. </p> <p>I’ve co-written <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/science/earth/11passage.html">an article for Friday’s paper</a> on the latest developments and context with <a id="aptureLink_fmNsdPwGWX" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/k/andrew_kramer/index.html">Andrew Kramer</a> from our Moscow bureau, who gained unusual direct access to the officials who administer transit along <a id="aptureLink_ZO59lthDpV" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.fni.no/insrop/">the Northern Sea Route</a>. </p> <p><a id="aptureLink_m2Wk3svBDU" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.uaf.edu/accap/documents/2009_6_AMSA_Brigham.pdf">Lawson W. Brigham</a>, a longtime source for anything related to Arctic shipping, confirmed that this is, indeed, a first. But he said it would probably be decades before commerce expands from small specialized carriers like Beluga to <a id="aptureLink_DEJ1GkS398" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWIOnKrv4Mw">giant freight haulers like Maersk</a> (I once got to climb a ladder <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/23/nyregion/supership-carries-big-message-secure-trade-ports-need-deeper-safer-channels.html">up the slab sides one if Maersk’s behemoths</a> as it entered New York Harbor). Those companies need predictability for their “just in time” shipments between manufacturers and markets more than they need to shave off miles or gallons of bunker fuel burned.</p> <p>While the Beluga shipments are clearly a preliminary foray, as we described in “<a id="aptureLink_TgsOlt7cFK" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/arcticrush.html">Arctic Rush</a>” and “<a id="aptureLink_f3W6o9Yo0i" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/science/series/thebigmelt/index.html">The Big Melt</a>,” our 2005 series, it is becoming clear that the Arctic of our history books and lore — a frozen, largely forgotten sea (except to nuclear submariners) — is truly history. </p> <p>At least for a month or so each summer, the Arctic Ocean is becoming a functional waterway. On top of the shift in climate and ice, a rising thirst for energy and intensifying demand for efficiency and speed in commerce are also contributing to the push for new Arctic routes. And all of the issues that arise in other shipping corridors — from pollution to smuggling to conflict — will be simmering there as long as warming continues. </p> <p>In essence, the world has a new ocean to think about. </p> <p></p> <div class="w190 right module"> <div class="entry"> <h6 class="kicker">Past Coverage</h6> <h5><a href="URL" title="The Big Melt">The Big Melt</a></h5> <p class="summary"> In 2005, the New York Times described the effects of warming on the environment and on the four million people who live in the Arctic, and scientists’ assessments of the inevitability of Arctic melting.</p> <ul class="refer"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/the-big-melt/1194811622279/index.html" title="Video">Video: The Arctic Ice Cap</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/arcship/">Past Dot Earth Coverage of the Ships’ Journey</a></li> </ul></div> </p></div> <p>Here’s a separate <strong>Arctic news flash</strong> about a freshly discovered submerged mountain, or seamount: </p> <p>On the other side of the Arctic Ocean, an oceanographic survey of the seabed being conducted jointly by the United States and Canada has <a id="aptureLink_bkTTXAxNdw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://arctic-healy-baker-2008.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-seamount.html">found a previously unknown seamount</a>. The discovery points to the enormous persistent <a id="aptureLink_roKjsP5Lwu" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/arctic-melt-yields-hints-of-bigger-us-seabed-claim/">gaps in our knowledge of the seabed</a>. Reached by e-mail, Larry Mayer, an oceanographer from the University of New Hampshire scouring the sea bottom from the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, said this: </p> <blockquote><p> The new seamount is small but unusual in its isolation (at least we think it’s isolated — remember we didn’t know it was there - and I suspect there are many others that we don’t know about) — but this one is sitting in the middle of nowhere in the abyssal plain and will only add to the mysteries of the origin of this part of the Arctic. </p></blockquote> <p>Despite decades of cat-and-mouse sonar hunts by American and Soviet nuclear submarines, no one had mapped this vast chunk of rock until now, or run into it (as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/15/national/15submarine.html?_r=1">has happened elsewhere</a>). </p> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_WyUlach1yC" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://arctic-healy-baker-2008.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-seamount.html"><img title="Arctic Mapping and the Law of the Sea: A New Seamount" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://placeholder.apture.com/ph/400x270_WebClip/" style="border: 0px none ;" width="400px" height="270px"/></a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/asia-europe-voyage-via-arctic-nearly-done/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/asia-europe-voyage-via-arctic-nearly-done/', 'Welcome to Earth\'s \'New\' Ocean: The Arctic', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/asia-europe-voyage-via-arctic-nearly-done/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/asia-europe-voyage-via-arctic-nearly-done/'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_ff6QSS4TDU" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/40000/40123/timor_tmo_2009246_1.jpg"><img title="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/40000/40123/timor_tmo_2009246_1.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="478.40000000000003px" height="239.20000000000002px"/></a><br/> As the world’s <a id="aptureLink_WnXkJNdXZc" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/business/24OIL.html?ex=1392958800&en=dc727c73cd688914&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">oldest, biggest oil fields slowly tap out</a>, companies are spending ever more to <a id="aptureLink_XP3LWN5leu" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/04/business/technology-oil-drilling-offshore.html">drill farther afield</a> and in <a id="aptureLink_AQSgjWpjpx" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/business/global/03oil.html">deeper water</a> to keep the world’s cars and furnaces going. This has led to environmental disruption from <a id="aptureLink_tTqh00U83G" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7YCFKpAKzI">the Amazon</a> to <a id="aptureLink_5RQztZj9Qp" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.riversymposium.com/index.php?element=SALMINA">the Arctic</a>. Now, it has <a id="aptureLink_XqIVCBOOvg" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aZKKupAR9bGM">caused a spreading stain</a> over hundreds of square miles of <a id="aptureLink_ADmDnk1tyj" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blog.skytruth.org/2009/09/timor-sea-drilling-spill-worse-than.html">the Timor Sea</a> between Australia and Indonesia, where oil is spilling unabated from a well drilled by <a id="aptureLink_nmO3Y0TVj4" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.pttep.com/">PTTEP</a>, based in Thailand. Still, for the most part, damage from oil spills happens far from the gas stations and parking lots frequented by consumers of this enduring commodity. That’s one reason Peter Maass, no friend of big oil, said here last year that it was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/climate-energy-politics/">more ethical to drill in United States waters</a> than to continue to outsource our environmental problems.</p> <p>It’s clear the Timor Sea spill will keep spreading for weeks to come, given that the company announced last month that it <a id="aptureLink_WrzlZOnoas" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http:// http//www.pttep.com/en/newsDetail.aspx?ContentID=285">plans to stanch the flow</a> by sending a new rig to drill a temporary well, hopefully lowering the pressure driving the leak in the failed platform. 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <div class="w480"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/dotearth/09dotearth_bear.480.jpg" alt="bear in chair"/><span class="credit">Eric Richter</span> <span class="caption">A black bear sat in a lawn chair briefly during a backyard foray in Philipstown, N.Y., in mid-August.</span></div> <p>Here’s a remarkable photograph recently taken by a neighbor of mine, Eric Richter, in <a id="aptureLink_IglwDvUmfr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://maps.google.com/maps?om=0&iwloc=addr&f=q&ll=41.380305%2C-73.940367&hl=en&z=13&ie=UTF8">Garrison, N.Y.</a>, 55 miles from midtown Manhattan. The black bear decided to take a quick break in a lawn chair after hunting for food around the house. It’s fuzzy only because it was shot on the run in partial shadow. (There’s no digital weirdness, promise). </p> <p>Dot Earth has occasionally explored <a id="aptureLink_y2KsLBO9KE" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/your-dot-porcupines-and-driftwood/">readers’ experiences with wildlife</a>. I’m not sure if this exurban bear constitutes wildlife. It brings to mind the <a id="aptureLink_HIv3YQ8F2X" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/urban-life-for-bears-short-violent/">recent study from Lake Tahoe in California</a> showing that bears frequenting the town were 30 percent heavier than those living the truly wild life. (When I reported on that research, that was my first exposure to <a id="aptureLink_gFipu4FGPz" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.berrymaninstitute.org/journal/index.html">Human-Wildlife Conflicts</a>, a journal devoted to this intersection of humans and wild species.) <strong><br/> What unorthodox wildlife encounters have you had (and/or photographed or videotaped)?</strong> [<strong>UPDATE 4 pm:</strong> I've started adding some below. :-]</p> <p>Here’s a description of the bear episode by Amy Richter, Eric’s wife: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/bear-in-a-chair/#more-7933" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/bear-in-a-chair/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/bear-in-a-chair/', 'Still Life: Bear in a Chair', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/bear-in-a-chair/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/bear-in-a-chair/'); 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Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_7tvfmwjHr5" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.flickr.com/photos/revkin/3653437303/"><img title="Fin Whale, Gulf of St. Lawrence" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3603/3653437303_0138be6253.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="474.44628099173553px" height="239.20000000000002px"/></a></p> <p>Some marine conservation groups last Friday <a id="aptureLink_ShWEhcfDgR" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.wdcs.org/index2.php">decried Iceland’s final tally</a> of more than 150 whales killed in this year’s harvest, including 94 fin whales — the second largest whale and one that is still on <a id="aptureLink_crajOL1FL0" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/cetaceans/finwhale.htm">some lists of endangered species</a>. I asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington for a response. The agency sent this reply from <a id="aptureLink_VsUTNCJchw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.mywire.com/a/PRNewswire/Statement-From-Monica-Medina-Director/5235314?&pbl=273">Monica Medina</a>, the United States alternate commissioner to the <a id="aptureLink_mStBUPP2V8" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/iwc/">International Whaling Commission</a> and a senior adviser to the agency’s leadership:</p> <blockquote><p>We’re optimistic that the new Icelandic government may be reassessing its commercial whaling program. But at the same time, we are deeply concerned about this season’s commercial hunt exceeding the number of whales taken in the recent past. We encourage the government of Iceland to focus on the long-term conservation of whale stocks, rather than on the short-term interests of its whaling industry.</p></blockquote> <p><a id="aptureLink_fxIqTT81kT" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/international/countriesandterritories/iceland/index.html">Iceland’s government</a> just sent me this response to its critics (I’ve added the links): </p> <blockquote><p> As a coastal State, Iceland is a consistent advocate of the principle of sustainable use of living marine resources. This is reflected in Iceland´s whaling activities, which are sustainable and only directed at abundant whale stocks. As our economy is dependent on living marine resources, Iceland fully appreciates the need for careful conservation of these resources. 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_K2LH3H6gob" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.inforain.org/maparchive/sp1999.jpg"><img title="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://www.inforain.org/maparchive/sp1999.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="400.4px" height="250.24999999999997px"/></a><br/> Oil companies operating on Alaska’s Arctic coastal plain have <a id="aptureLink_F9OXpnbBKv" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/30/science/hunting-for-oil-new-precision-less-pollution.html">substantially cleaned up their operations</a> in the 40 years since the first drilling in Prudhoe Bay. The ability to <a id="aptureLink_aY8D3MxBSW" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional%20drilling">drill in many directions</a> from one spot on the surface has substantially reduced the footprint of pipelines and gravel pads and the like. </p> <div class="w190 right"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/08/science/birds.190.1.jpg" alt="gulls on pipes"/><span class="credit">Steve Zack/Wildlife Conservation Society</span> <span class="caption"> The glaucous gull preys on songbirds in the oil fields of Alaska.</span></div> <p>But one reality in Arctic Alaska is that almost nothing can be buried, so a spreading mesh-work of pipelines and supporting structures is still required to get fuel to markets. Another reality is that, even with the concentrated drilling, the infrastructure for extracting and moving oil now fragments 1,000 square miles of tundra. (To see how the maze of wells and pipelines has spread over the coastal region of the North Slope in four decades, ook at the <a id="aptureLink_15zgA3fICF" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.inforain.org/northslope/anwr_oildev6801.html">sequence of maps</a>, produced by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.ecotrust.org/">Ecotrust</a>.) </p> <p>As with a coral reef or a rain forest, structure is habitat, and on the treeless coastal plain the oil structures provide welcome cover, perches and nesting or denning sites for predators, particularly arctic foxes, ravens and gulls. I have a story in Science Times on new research showing that these “<a id="aptureLink_4Kvv8s0yni" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/08-1661.1">subsidized predators</a>” are <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08bird.html">having a significant impact on migratory birds</a> that next within three miles or so of oil infrastructure.</p> <p>More than 90 percent of the Arctic coastal plain remains free of such structures, at least for the time being. 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><div class="inlineVideo left"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324js_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">NYT_VideoPlayerStart({playerType:"article",videoId:"1247464439913",adxPagename:"dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/video"});</script></div></p> <p>Our story on the punishment of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/world/africa/08sudan.html">a woman in Sudan who dared wear pants</a> brings to mind a theme that has percolated on Dot Earth for a while: the relationship among the conditions facing <a id="aptureLink_wVqGZZZ5gl" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/family-planning-and-the-path-to-progress/">women (and girls) in developing countries</a>, progress toward prospering, stable populations and, in the end, societal and environmental stability. </p> <p>Various studies point to the importance of <a id="aptureLink_CNmoP8tOA6" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/getting-girls-in-school-in-africa/">girls having access to education</a> and women having <a id="aptureLink_herkuLhqek" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.fhi.org/en/rh/pubs/wsp/wrkngpapers/conceptframe.htm">awareness of and access to contraception</a>, allowing some influence over the size of their families. But there are other issues, as well. In many developing countries, women are often more involved than men in managing small farm tracts and in many cases have to <a id="aptureLink_loaZHF0WW6" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://books.google.com/books?id=WXrHd0RlykAC">hide their earnings from husbands</a>.</p> <p>In a broader sense, then, there appears to be simmering tension over “who wears the pants.” How that gets worked out probably will help determine whether there is a relatively smooth journey toward more or less 9 billion people on a finite planet in the next few decades.</p> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_erBg8KcrQG" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2005/12/22/international/20051223_ETHIOPIA_SLIDESHOW_2.html"><img title="The New York Times > International > Slide Show > Puberty and Education in Africa" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://placeholder.apture.com/ph/400x270_NYTimesClip/" style="border: 0px none ;" width="400px" height="270px"/></a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/progress-and-who-wears-the-pants/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/progress-and-who-wears-the-pants/', 'Progress and Who Wears the Pants', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/progress-and-who-wears-the-pants/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/progress-and-who-wears-the-pants/'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <div class="w480"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/06/science/earth/dotearth-shark-480.jpg" alt="White Shark"/><span class="credit">Gregory Skomal, Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries. </span> <span class="caption">One of two great white sharks tagged near Chatham, Mass., by state biologists on September 5, 2009. </span></div> <p><a id="aptureLink_EelbQ5fVPe" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2FInaOCqoo">Great white sharks</a>, one of the ocean’s <a id="aptureLink_vnzOZWxqPn" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/sharks/">greatly depleted predatory species</a>, tend to cause a stir any time they show up near populated places, and that was certainly the case on eastern Cape Cod this weekend. Marine biologists for the state of Massachusetts, working with a commercial fisherman who is a talented swordfish harpooner, <a id="aptureLink_sxcBfYoPTP" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/09/two_great_white.html">tagged two of several 8- to 10-foot great white sharks</a> spotted in waters off the eastern shore of the Cape. Previously, only one great white shark had been successfully tagged in the Atlantic Ocean. 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He sent this note about the experience: </p> <blockquote><p> To see nature’s perhaps best-known predator up close is exhilarating, but at the same time scientifically fascinating because we understand very little about them. Its also striking how elusive the great white is even for very experienced researchers - without the help of spotter planes and environmental police boats to keep onlookers at a distance, the tagging would very likely not have been successful. I’m proud that Massachusetts is taking the lead on research - the information we get back will help natural resource managers here and elsewhere tremendously and begin to pull back the shroud of mystery about these singular animals that capture the public’s imagination. </p></blockquote> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/white-sharks-cause-stir-on-cape-cod/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/white-sharks-cause-stir-on-cape-cod/', 'White Sharks Cause Stir on Cape Cod', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/white-sharks-cause-stir-on-cape-cod/', 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This narrated slide show describes his extensive travels.</p> </div></div><div class="box module"> <div id="VideoPlayerCCol"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324js_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">NYT_VideoPlayerStart({playerType:"homepage", playlistId:"1194820401358", adxPagename:"dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/video", parentDomId:"1", targetDomId:"VideoPlayerCCol"});</script>  </div><div class="box module"><h4>Video</h4><div class="entry"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.youtube.com/revkin"><img alt="revking at the north pole" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/15/science/andy.northpole.jpg" class="callout"/></a> <h5><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.youtube.com/revkin">Dot Earth on YouTube</a></h5> <p class="summary">Many of the videos featured here can be found on Andrew Revkin's channel on YouTube. Recent reader favorites: </p><ul class="refer"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://youtube.com/watch?v=WVCMBozpoA0&feature=PlayList&p=8AF5D9647F3B67AB&index=1">Dr. James Hansen</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://youtube.com/watch?v=H_OJ24AHu8c&feature=PlayList&p=8AF5D9647F3B67AB&index=2">Local Cooking</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://youtube.com/watch?v=JlFIfCETooo&feature=PlayList&p=8AF5D9647F3B67AB&index=3">41 Days at the North Pole</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://youtube.com/watch?v=mW4PbW893ik&feature=PlayList&p=8AF5D9647F3B67AB&index=6">Cuttlefish Camouflage </a></li> </ul> </div></div><div class="box module"><h4>Blogroll</h4><div class="entry clearfix"> <h6 class="kicker">News</h6> <ul class="refer odd"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.sej.org/headlines/list" title="Environmental Journalism Today">Environmental Journalism Today (SEJ.org)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/energy" title="Wired Science (Energy; see also /environment)">Wired Science</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/business/green/" title="Business of Green » Business Blog » International Herald Tribune">The Business of Green</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/business/globalization/" title="Managing Globalization » Business Blog » International Herald Tribune">Managing Globalization</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://e360.yale.edu/" title="Environment 360 (Yale)">Yale Environment 360</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blog.sciam.com/" title="Sciam Observations: A blog from the editors of Scientific American">Scientific American Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/" title="Climate Feedback (Nature)">Climate Feedback</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/green_room/default.stm" title="BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Green Room">The Green Room</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/" title="Earth Watch (Richard Black of BBC)">Earth Watch (Richard Black of BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.scidev.net/" title="SciDev.Net">Science and Development Network</a></li> </ul> <ul class="refer even"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/environment/" title="Dateline Earth">Dateline Earth</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/" title="New Scientist Environment Blog">New Scientist Environment Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/" title="Physics Today News Picks">Physics Today News Picks</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.loe.org/" title="Living on Earth (radio)">Living on Earth (radio)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.environmentreport.org/" title="Environment Report (radio)">Environment Report (radio)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/" title="Environmental Capital (WSJ)">Environmental Capital (WSJ)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://energyoutlook.blogspot.com/" title="Energy Outlook">Energy Outlook</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.theoildrum.com/" title="The Oil Drum">The Oil Drum</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://startelegram.typepad.com/planet_dfw/" title="Planet DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth)">Planet DFW (Dallas/Ft. Worth)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blog.oregonlive.com/pdxgreen/" title="PDX Green">PDX Green (Portland, Ore.)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo" title="Coal Tattoo">Coal Tattoo (Charleston Gazette)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="entry clearfix"> <h6 class="kicker">Earth and Environmental Science and Engineering</h6> <ul class="refer odd"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://scienceblogs.com/channel/planet-earth/" title="ScienceBlogs : Planet Earth">ScienceBlogs : Planet Earth</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.realclimate.org/" title="RealClimate">Realclimate.org</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://rs.resalliance.org/" title="Resilience Science">Resilience Science</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/" title="Discover Magazine Blogs (4)">Discover Magazine Blogs (4)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.twas.org/" title="TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World">The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World</a></li> </ul> <ul class="refer even"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://sustsci.aaas.org/" title="Forum: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development">Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://thepimmgroup.org/" title="The Pimm Group">The Pimm Group</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://knight.miami.edu/blogs/joe/" title="Water and the World">Water and the World</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.mongabay.com/" title="Mongabay">Mongabay</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="entry clearfix"> <h6 class="kicker">Poverty, Development, and Design</h6> <ul class="refer odd"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://consiliencejournal.org/" title="Consilience Journal">Consilience Journal (Columbia U., student-edited)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://squattercity.blogspot.com/" title="squattercity">Squatter City</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.tveap.org/" title="TVE Asia Pacific">TVE Asia Pacific</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.nextbillion.net/" title="NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise | Eradicating Poverty through Profit">NextBillion.net</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://aidg.org/blog/" title="Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG)">Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://chemistswithoutborders.blogspot.com/" title="Chemists Without Borders">Chemists Without Borders</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://globalvoicesonline.org/" title="Global Voices Online">Global Voices Online</a></li> </ul> <ul class="refer even"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/" title="YaleGlobal Online">YaleGlobal Online</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://designthatmatters.org/news/dtm-blog/" title="DtM Blog">Design that Matters</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.planetizen.com/interchange" title="Planetizen">Planetizen -- The Planning and Development Network</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blog.ted.com/" title="TedBlog">TedBlog</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.sustainabledesignupdate.com/" title="Sustainable Design">Sustainable Design</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.inhabitat.com/" title="Inhabitat">Inhabitat</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://psdblog.worldbank.org/" title="PSD Blog - World Bank Group">Private Sector Develoment Blog</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="entry clearfix"> <h6 class="kicker">Media and Environment</h6> <ul class="refer odd"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory" title="The Observatory (CJR)">The Observatory (CJR)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.cejournal.net/" title="CEJournal">CEJournal (U.C., Boulder)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/" title="Inkstain">Inkstain</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://developingradio.org/" title="Developing Radio Partners">Developing Radio</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.earthjournalism.org/" title="Earth Journalism Network">EarthJournalism.org</a></li> </ul> <ul class="refer even"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/" title="Knight Science Journalism Tracker">Knight Science Journalism Tracker</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/" title="Framing Science">Framing Science</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/" title="Yale Climate Media Forum Home Page">Yale Climate Media Forum</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="entry clearfix"> <h6 class="kicker">Environment and Sustainability Voices</h6> <ul class="refer odd"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.worldchanging.com/" title="WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future">Worldchanging</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://gristmill.grist.org/" title="Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist">Daily Grist</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://green.yahoo.com/" title="Yahoo! Green">Yahoo! Green</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.envirowonk.com/" title="EnviroWonk">EnviroWonk</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://earth-info-net.blogspot.com/" title="Earth-Info.Net">Earth-Info.Net</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://wildlifedirect.org/blogsList.php" title="Wildlife Direct (blogs)">Wildlife Direct (blogs)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.greentechforum.net/" title="Green Technology Forum">GreenTechForum</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://ecogeek.org/" title="EcoGeek">EcoGeek</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/www.thecityfix.com" title="The City Fix">The City Fix</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://dailygreen.com/" title="Daily Green">Daily Green</a></li> </ul> <ul class="refer even"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.treehugger.com/" title="Treehugger">Treehugger</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://animalethics.blogspot.com/" title="Animal Ethics">Animal Ethics</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/ethical_man/default.stm" title="Ethical Man (BBC)">Ethical Man (BBC)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://ethicurean.com/" title="The Ethicurean">The Ethicurean</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/" title="Switchboard">Switchboard (NRDC)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.energysmart.wordpress.com/" title="Energy Smart">Energy Smart</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.climateprogress.org/" title="ClimateProgress">ClimateProgress</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.desmogblog.com/" title="DeSmogBlog">DeSmogBlog</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.thissphere.blogspot.com/" title="This Sphere">This Sphere</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://blog.islandpress.org/" title="Eco-Compass Blog">Eco-Compass Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.mnn.com/" title="Mother Nature Network">Mother Nature Network</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/" title="Sustainable Cities Collective">Sustainable Cities Collective</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="entry clearfix"> <h6 class="kicker">Analysis and Policy</h6> <ul class="refer odd"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.ejsd.org/" title="- Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development">Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.prcdc.org/blog" title="Population Counts">Population Counts</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.terrain.org/" title="- TerrainE">Terrain - A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/" title="Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog>Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog</a></li> <li><a href=" http: www.energypolicyblog.com " title="EU Energy Policy Blog">Energy Policy Blog</a></li> </ul> <ul class="refer even"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/" title="The Breakthrough Blog">The Breakthrough Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://climateethics.org/" title="Climate Ethics">ClimateEthics.org</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.climatepolicy.org/" title="ClimatePolicy">Climatepolicy.org</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://commontragedies.wordpress.com/" title="Common Tragedies -- Thoughts on Environmental Economics">Commontragedies.wordpress.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/" title="The Intersection">The Intersection</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/" title="Science and politics of global climate change">SciencePoliticsClimate Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.setamericafree.org/wordpress/" title="Set America Free (energy security blog)">Set America Free</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="entry clearfix"> <h6 class="kicker">FREE-MARKET ADVOCATES, "SKEPTICS," INDUSTRY VIEWS</h6> <ul class="refer odd"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://masterresource.org/" title="Master Resource">Master Resource (a "free-market energy blog"</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.worldclimatereport.com/" title="World Climate Report">World Climate Report</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.reason.com/blog" title="Hit & Run (Reason)">Hit & Run (Reason)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.shopfloor.org/" title="ShopFloor.org: Manufacturing, Business News and other Mischief">Shop Floor</a></li> </ul> <ul class="refer even"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090920131324/http://www.climateaudit.org/" title="Climate Audit - 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