Weekly Web Roundup: Bonn, nature walks, coal
Posted June 5, 2009 in The Media and the Environment
- Today is World Environment Day.
- Grist offers a news roundup from the Bonn talks. Join a live chat with NRDC experts on Tuesday, June 9 at 1 pm EDT. Tune in to Switchboard to ask your questions and follow the conversation.
- West Virginia declares coal the official state rock.
- General Motors files for bankruptcy.
- Google launches Open Green Map, a series of interactive maps that chart natural, cultural and green living sites around the world.
- Taking nature walks can make you smarter.
- The Global Humanitarian Forum estimates that global warming-related disasters kill 300,000 people each year. Andrew Revkin writes about critics of the report.
- Scientists trying to track penguins in Antarctica follow their poop in satellite images.
- No Impact Man shares his top-ten suggestions for living a greener life.
- San Francisco unveils its first solar-powered bus shelter.
- More cities encourage car sharing by allowing condo developers to reduce underground parking requirements if they provide on-site spaces for car share firms.
- Customer gets Jet Blue to stop charging $50 to check folding bikes.
- NASA posts imagery of what the Earth would like if CFC's hadn't been banned.
- European groups demand investigation into connection between hog farming and swine flu.
- Toyota will lease plug-in hybrids in the U.S., Japan and Europe later this year.
- Ecologists enlist citizens to plant sunflowers and help monitor the activity of native bees to measure the impact of Colony Collapse Disorder on pollination.
Think I missed anything really great? Feel free to share it in the comments section. Want news updates every day? Check out my colleague Ben Jervey's blog on Greenlight.
