Web Roundup
Posted November 26, 2008 in The Media and the Environment
Happy Thanksgiving! Here are few holiday-related posts:
- A Chef asks us to reclaim the beauty of Thanksgiving.
- Check out Grist's slideshow of meat-free turkey and other vegetarian Thanksgiving fare.
- Joe Romm advises U.S. wine drinkers on how to buy low-carbon wine for the holidays (see also this Washington Post article).
- Salon notes the irony of the EPA's "go green for the holidays" press release.
In other news:
- Switchboard bloggers explain the "Transition to Green" recommendations that NRDC and other green groups sent to Obama's transition team yesterday.
- A Spanish cemetery doubles as a solar farm.
- Fast Company, NRDC's Lane Burt and OnEarth Citizen Journalist Ben Jervey report on the GreenBuild conference.
- NBC fires the Weather Channel's environmental unit.
- Andrew Revkin blogs about critics of the auto-industry bailout (last week NRDC's Andy Stevenson wrote about the bailout). Also on Dot Earth, Revkin worries that the world is slipping into a trance on climate policy.
- Joe Romm writes an open letter to James Hansen about why he thinks this energy strategy (pdf) is wrong. Andrew Revkin blogs about Romm's letter here.
- Study says that man-made pollution is raising ocean's acidity ten times faster than previously thought.
- The LA Times blog GreenSpace warns Los Angeles-area residents about toxins in the air from last weekend's wildfires.
Think I missed anything really great out there this week? Feel free to share it in the Comments section.
