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Macaws and Effect An interview with author Bruce Barcott	Michelle Nijhuis	02 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Bruce Barcott. In his new non-fiction book Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, environmental journalist Bruce Barcott follows Sharon Matola -- a former Air Force survival specialist and circus-tiger trainer turned zookeeper -- as she fights the construction of a hydropower dam in her adopted country of Belize, and attempts to save the nesting site of the country's last scarlet macaws. During her years of ba ...
Topics: Belize, books, grassroots activism, green living, interview, wildlife (all these topics)

An Unimpressive Volley Wimbledon under fire for shooting pigeons		24 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:50 PM on 24 Jun 2008 As the Wimbledon tennis championships get underway, the real drama isn't on the court but in the air. After the players' lawn and an open-air restaurant were dive-bombed by pigeons, officials sent marksmen to take 'em out. The tournament employs two hawks for pigeon-scaring, "and by and large they do the job," says a Wimbledon spokesperson. "But unfortunately there were one or two ar ...
Topics: animal welfare, green living, news, sports, wildlife (all these topics)

Super Pupa On tent caterpillars	Umbra Fisk	19 May 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, In beautiful Virginia, this is the time of year that the caterpillars start making their "tents" in branches of shrubbery and trees in our yards. Conventional wisdom has been to destroy them, as they will surely eat the leaves inside the tent, causing some damage to the infected tree/shrub. So I have two questions: First, are these "tent worms" (which are really caterpillars) a stage of a butterfly or a mot ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, gardening, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Kate tested, nature approved Kate Hudson launches eco-friendly haircare line	Sarah van Schagen	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Kate Hudson's no fool ... her new haircare line, David Babaii For Wildaid, is free of sulfates, parabens, and animal products. The products were tested on Kate, not on animals -- and proceeds will benefit Wildaid, a wildlife conservation org. So jealous that she gets to hang out with these guys!
Topics: celebrity, cutesy, green living, green products, wildlife (all these topics)

Time in Memorial Maya Lin's latest memorial will pay tribute to the planet		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:45 PM on 01 Apr 2008 Maya Lin, an artist best known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is making plans for a tribute to what has passed from the earth -- literally. Her planned memorial will list the names of animals, birds, and plants that have gone extinct. "The top 10 songbirds we grew up with are in a 40 percent to 70 percent decline. Our oceans are being devastated by o ...
Topics: art, endangered species, extinction, green living, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Ever heard of a little film called Free Willy? This is what happens when Hollywood saves the whales	Sarah van Schagen	12 Mar 2008	Gristmill
50 Cent. A motley crew of Hollywood homeboys may be banding together for a benefit concert to free Lolita, a killer whale who's lived in captivity for four decades performing at the Miami Seaquarium. Efforts to return Lolita to her Pacific Northwest home have been underway for years, but it hasn't gotten much press until Hollywood producer Raul Julia-Levy signed on to help bring aboard as many stars as he could. So far, he's reportedly delivered J ...
Topics: animal welfare, celebrity, green living, music, wildlife (all these topics)

Muskrat Love Ain't Got Nothin' on This Romance novelist accused of plagiarizing green group's magazine		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:02 AM on 14 Jan 2008 Bloggers at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books have accused popular romance writer Cassie Edwards of plagiarism in a number of her tomes, including Savage Longings, Savage Moon, and Savage Beloved. Among the accusations of Edwards -- who, it may surprise you to know, often writes about the lustful dalliances of Native American characters -- is that a descripti ...
Topics: books, green living, news, sex, wildlife (all these topics)

Kitty Twister On cats and birds	Umbra Fisk	07 Nov 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I have three cats, and live in a close-in suburb of Boston. I love the cats dearly, and let them outside during the day to wander about, and generally not have to live an indoor, sedentary, boring life. My question concerns their hunting instincts: I haven't had any luck with any particular way of preventing them from killing birds, mice, etc. I worry most about the birds, having read repeatedly that the millions of pet cats w ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

A Better Mousetrap On live trapping	Umbra Fisk	03 Oct 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My wife and I live in a small town in Massachusetts, where I recently volunteered to head up an effort to certify our Unitarian Universalist congregation as a Green Sanctuary, an official recognition of our environmental stewardship. In discussing potential remedies for a mouse problem with a fellow congregation member, I recounted how I recently trapped four mice in our home and transported them gingerly to fields and par ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

WWF's Conservation Island A virtual world	Sarah van Schagen	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I scream, you scream, we all scream for an orangutan selling ice cream. On WWF's virtual island in online world Second Life. From the press release: On Conservation Island, if residents "buy" an ice-cream from Mr Tangee, the orangutan who runs the ice-cream van, they will have the chance to learn that plantations to provide the soy and palm oil found in an array of everyday products, from ice-cream to cosmetics and chocolate bars, already cover ...
Topics: education, green living, tech, websites, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

On the Ball: The birds and the balls And a bit of introspection	Sarah K. Burkhalter	18 Jul 2007	Gristmill
From the Oregonian: Wild birds competing with youth baseball. City wants to turn Little League diamond into wild space. Little Leaguers don't want to be forced out of their park. Should wild birds trump kiddie baseball players? If I say no, does that go against everything I allegedly stand for as an environmentalist a person strongly associated with the green movement? I wouldn't say birds shouldn't trump Little Leaguers. But I wouldn't say they should. I d ...
Topics: green living, wildlife, sports (all these topics)

Time for a 'Dear Knut' letter The cuddly polar bear's not so cuddly anymore	Sarah van Schagen	11 Jul 2007	Gristmill
It's not you, Knut. It's him. Zookeeper Thomas Doerflein, that is. The human companion to the polar bear 'cub' (he's now 110 pounds!) has decided Knut is getting too big and boisterous for their daily play sessions. Doerflein has said he 'feels 'burnt out' after months of frolicking with Knut.' (Um, is that possible?) Also, he's tired of all the attention: 'People want autographs, to touch me.' Really? Oh, and there's that whole 'safety' thing, what wi ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

The Beak In Review West Nile virus hitting bird populations hard, says new study		18 May 2007	Daily Grist
The Beak In Review West Nile virus hitting bird populations hard, says new study The West Nile virus soldiers on, declares a report published yesterday in Nature. Eight years after the virus left the West Nile and made its way to the U.S. Northeast, chickadee populations in the region have dropped 53 percent, while Eastern bluebird populations have been diminished by 44 percent. American crows have been hit the harde ...
Topics: green living, health, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Shark tales down under Bull sharks abound in Golden Coast canals	Andrew Sharpless	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
It's no wonder so many people flock to Queensland, Australia. The fastest growing region on the southeast side of the continent down under offers a subtropical climate with an outdoorsy lifestyle -- and an abundance of bull sharks? These feisty elasmobranches are so abundant in fact that residents are catching them off apartment balconies with rigs no more complicated than a pork chop tied to a string.Though bull sharks abound in the Golden Coast canals, sharks o ...
Topics: fishing, food, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Buzz Light Year Could cell phones be the culprit in honeybee disappearance?		17 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Buzz Light Year Could cell phones be the culprit in honeybee disappearance? Apiarists in the U.S. and Europe have been scratching their heads for months over rapidly waning honeybee populations. Now some scientists who have combed through the data are all abuzz with a new theory: cell phones. In bad news to mobile-attached ears, British researchers are suggesting that phone radiation could be disrupting bees' navigation system ...
Topics: green living, news, wildlife (all these topics)

The Roach Approach On battling cockroaches	Umbra Fisk	23 Oct 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Help! I'm having a mysterious cockroach problem. I found four in my apartment in two weeks, and not in the expected places: one in a stack of papers (I know, I should pay my bills faster), one near my vitamin bottles, one nowhere near water in my bathroom, and, the worst one, crawling along the arm of my couch (while I was sitting on the couch). I don't like to spray them with chemicals, but these things freak me ou ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Where the Wild Things Are Painted Walton Ford brings testosterone to nature painting	Lou Bendrick	18 Sep 2006	Arts and Minds
Walton Ford. Photo: Jason Houston They, whoever the hell they are, say that great paintings work on many levels, and on the first, visceral level, a Walton Ford painting is gorgeous. Because his paintings are done on a large scale, it's an in-your-face gorgeousness: You can't miss the luster on a bison's hoof, the plump pinkness of a zebra's tongue, the detailed fur of a lion. I was a ...
Topics: green living, wildlife (all these topics)

The Colbert Report A recyclable museum houses Gregory Colbert's photos of charismatic animals	Michael J. Kavanagh	25 Jan 2006	Arts and Minds
The Nomadic Museum ... wandering the globe. Photos: Gregory Colbert. Over the next few months, hundreds of thousands of animal lovers, art lovers, and the odd Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy will take a left off Santa Monica Boulevard and head down toward the Nomadic Museum, an extraordinary structure made entirely of reusable and recyclable materials by the Japanese arc ...
Topics: California, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Ape of Good Hope King Kong director campaigns to save wild gorillas		10 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Ape of Good Hope King Kong director campaigns to save wild gorillas The original 1933 King Kong gave gorillas a bad rep and inspired an upsurge in gorilla hunting, but the director of the 2005 remake hopes to use his blockbuster's appeal to help keep the apes from going extinct. Peter Jackson is backing efforts by the International Gorilla Conservation Program to save Kong's smaller and less terrifying prototypes. Jackson's co ...
Topics: green living, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Screen Acres Grizzly Man Trailer (Windows Media Player)	Emily Gertz	14 Sep 2005	Soapbox
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Topics: Alaska, Arctic, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Screen Acres March of the Penguins Trailer (QuickTime)	Emily Gertz	14 Sep 2005	Soapbox
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Topics: Alaska, Arctic, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Screen Acres March of the Penguins Trailer (RealPlayer)	Emily Gertz	14 Sep 2005	Soapbox
The RealPlayer is required. Get it now. (There is a completely free version. Make sure to click on the hard-to-find "FREE RealPlayer" link.) Back to review.
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Screen Acres March of the Penguins Trailer (Windows Media Player)	Emily Gertz	14 Sep 2005	Soapbox
The Windows Media Player is required. Get it now. Back to review.
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Screen Acres How I spent my summer vacation ... at the movies	Emily Gertz	14 Sep 2005	Soapbox
I'd love to tell you about my summer close to nature -- how I whiled away the days on a hidden Maine-coast isle, picking blueberries in the early morning and watching seals cavort in the sea. But the truth is, I spent quite a few of my July and August afternoons in a different sort of island haven: the dark, air-conditioned movie theaters of Manhattan. There's something dissolute about going to a movie o ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Black and White and Studio Head All Over Hollywood studios see greenbacks in them thar flightless waterfowl		29 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Black and White and Studio Head All Over Hollywood studios see greenbacks in them thar flightless waterfowl The summer's big hit documentary isn't about the antics of political weasels, or children at spelling bees; it's a nature film about flightless Antarctic waterfowl. French-made March of the Penguins, a heartstring-yanking saga about emperor penguins, cost $7 million to make. It's already earned over $10 million in North ...
Topics: green living, news, wildlife (all these topics)

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