March 2011
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Tongass National Forest: Rainforest, USA
Last week, conservationists won a big victory when a federal judge overturned the Forest Service’s exclusion of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska from the Roadless Rule.
How the Market Can Keep Streams Flowing
Rob Harmon explains the biggest problem facing America’s western rivers and streams, the doctrine of prior appropriation, and how the application of innovative market-based ecosystem services can create economic incentives to conserve — and return much needed water to over-appropriated river systems.
Get Your (Electric) Motor Hummin’
The year is 2015. One million electric vehicles whoosh along America’s highways and the noise is, well, not likely to inspire fist-pumping rock and roll anthems. But if we reach the goal President Obama has set of one million EVs in four years, it’s the start of a quiet revolution that can ultimately free us from Big Oil.
Greenpeace Launches Incredible Digital Campaign to Build New Boat
To help raise the cash needed to finish build a new flagship, Greenpeace has deployed what is arguably the coolest interactive web tool any group has ever used to do so.
The Feds and Food=Fooderal Confusion
Wendell Berry’s 50-Year Farm Bill, attempts to address the destructive path down which our current 5-year farm bills keep us headed.
