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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Mark His Words New Nature Conservancy prez chats about jumping from Goldman Sachs to the green scene	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
The stereotypes of biz-begrudging enviros and planet-pillaging business leaders were upended years ago. These days, green groups and corporations team up on everything from preserving land to pushing for climate regulations. Now, in the latest example of cross-pollination, they're even swapping executives. Mark Tercek Photo: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservan ...
Topics: biodiversity, business, climate, economy, environmental movement, Nature Conservancy, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

All that we have left behind What was it like 430 million years ago	Adam Browning	01 May 2007	Gristmill
The earth, as a living organism, leaves behind breadcrumbs from millenia of development. And beautiful breadcrumbs they are. Check out Frans Lanting's project and fall in love all over again. From Stewart Brand's account of a presentation as a part of the Long Now series: It began on a New Jersey beach. Frans Lanting was photographing horseshoe crabs for a story about how they are being ground up for eel bait and at the same time their blood is used for drug test ...
Topics: climate, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Butterfly Flutter: Bye! Climate Change Could Wipe Out Monarch Butterflies		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Butterfly Flutter: Bye! Climate Change Could Wipe Out Monarch Butterflies Monarch butterflies could find themselves in serious trouble within 50 years because of climate change, according to new research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Monarchs make an annual migration of more than 2,000 miles from spots as far north as the U.S.-Canada border to wintering grounds in Mexican fir forest ...
Topics: climate, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

When Is a Caribou an Albatross? The Arctic Refuge could become Bush's gays-in-the-military	David Helvarg	09 Mar 2001	Soapbox
California's energy crisis has become a national Rorschach test, saying more about the viewer than about the ink blot. President Bush is a special case: He looks at the deregulation crisis and sees the need to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou-hoo-hoo. Photo: USFWS. Of course, given the number of oil and gas industry veterans in the top ranks of ...
Topics: Alaska, business, climate, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

In Other Words ...	Donella H. Meadows	20 Dec 1999	Global Citizen
A while ago I wrote a column full of solemn statements from august scientists and other wise persons, warning that we are trashing our planet at a sickening pace. The august persons didn't say "trashing" or "sickening." They spoke of "adverse consequences" and "significant geopolitical risk." An Alert Reader (to steal a phrase from Dave Barry), a retired professor of French named Chuck Ferguson, who s ...
Topics: climate, energy, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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