The Silence of the Swans
By Susan Fox Rogers NY Senate Bill S.6589 Calls for a Two-Year Moratorium on the State's Mute Swan Slaughter Susan Fox Rogers is an author, educator, adventurer and environmentalist. This post appears on her online journal. More about Susan and her work at the...
Hudson Highlands Valentine 2014 by Russell Cusick
Ed. Note: Pictured is my village of Cold Spring, where the Hudson River estuary cleaves the Appalachians, the only place that mountain chain is broken at sea level. This winter, the shore is indistinguishable from the river, the land and water merging in one broad...
The Sochi Olympics: The Media Discover There’s Bad Water on the Planet
The image on the left of bad hotel water, tweeted from the Sochi Olympics by Stacy St. Clair of the Chicago Tribune, has been retweeted 3,822 times and favorited 1,395 times, as of this writing. It was reposted in countless blogs and Facebook pages, and reprinted in...
February 14 – 17. Great Backyard Bird Count
Pace Professor Peggy Minnis writes EarthDesk: The Great Backyard Bird Count kicks off today, February 14. It is a great way to become aware of yoiur surroundings, begin identifying birds and provide the Cornell Ornithology Lab with a massive amount of data. There...
Water Shortages in CA Linked to Fracking. Time for Sustainable Energy
Among the many good reasons to not endorse fracking is its depletion of water needed for drinking. Marcellus shale fracking uses 4.5 to 5.6 gallons of fresh water per well -- water lost for drinking. (Grist.org) And there are approximately 82,000 wells operating...
West Virginia Water by Jeff Darcy
One month after the spill of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM) into the Elk River in Charleston, WV by Freedom Industries (EarthDesk, January 14, January 16, January 18), the reappearance of the telltale "licorice smell" and complaints of toxic symptoms have...
NYPrize: Building Community Microgrids in New York
By Lauren Baron Student Expert Pace Energy and Climate Center Pace Law School EarthDesk welcomes Lauren Bacon of Pace Law School and the Pace Energy and Climate Center. Her post also appeared on the Center's blog on January 27. With his $40 million dollar project to...
“My Life If You Want to Hear of It” by Pete Seeger
This week's EarthDesk Sunday is our second of three tributes to Pete Seeger, who died on January 27 at 94. Our third will appear in few weeks. In addition to his world renown as a musician, songwriter and performer, Pete was a lifelong activist and defender of civil...
State Dept Sponsored Analysis of XL Pipeline Seems to Go Keystone’s Way
By Scott Dodd Editor, OnEarth Natural Resources Defense Council Scott Dodd is editor of OnEarth, the excellent print and online magazine of the Natural Resources Defense Council. EarthDesk heartily recommends you follow OnEarth for top-notch analysis of breaking...
Water Problems, Water Problems Everywhere . . .
All water is local. For that reason, we do not see the hundreds of headlines about shortages, contamination and related issues that are daily spread across news sites such as The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, Ohio, the Times News of Twins Falls Idaho, the Cape Coral...
We Stand on His Shoulders
Pete Seeger May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014
Murmuration by Sophie Windsor Clive & Liberty Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNqhi2ka9k On their Islands and Rivers website, Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith describe their video: A short film that follows the journey of two girls in a canoe on the River Shannon and how they stumble across one of nature’s...