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Lobster in a Pot

October 6, 2007

Posted by Phil Gutis in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
globalwarming, lobster, longisland, vegetarian

Hard to believe, but it was almost 25 years ago when my vegetarian voyage started. The journey started in a seafood shop somewhere on the south shore of Long Island. I had just been assigned to cover Long Island for ...

A Dirty Secret

August 21, 2007

Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , The Media and the Environment

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beach, newyorkcity, newyorktimes, sewage, stormwater

About a week ago, The New York Times published an article by my former colleague Anthony DePalma about what he called one of New York's "dirtiest environmental secrets." The secret was that whenever there is a heavy rain in New...

A Turtle Visits Miami Beach

August 20, 2007

Posted by Phil Gutis in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
babyseals, canada, miamibeach, threatenedspecies, turtles

I won't go to Canada. Even though I'd love to experience Montreal and head west to Victoria and see the country's natural splendor, I refuse to give the Canadian government one cent of this tourist's dollar. Why? Baby seals of...

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