Old Stoves + Global Warming

Nice piece in the NYT on an emerging strategy for quickly reducing global warming: upgrade the primitive cooking stoves in villages throughout developing world. These old soot-producing stoves may play a significant role as a cause of warming and present a potential quick fix for at least some of the major cause. See the story at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/science/earth/16degrees.html?_r=1&hp

(No) Drilly, Baby, Drill sez Friedman

Nice column by Thomas Friedman on how Costa Rica has rolled environmental management together with other priorities since the late '90s. That's when environment, energy, mining and water were all placed under one minister. This led to an integrated way of approaching the environment and development - seeing them as compatible rather than mutually exclusive. Though oil was discovered in Costa Rican territory, the country decided to ban drilling. See the column here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/opinion/12friedman.html?_r=1

Funny, a little sick, and very informative

That's how Isabella Rosselini described the new series she wrote, stars in and co-produced. It's called Green Porno 2, was released online April 1, and tells the story of how wild marine animals reproduce. (Green Porno 1 looked at the sex habits of insects.) In it Rosselini plays a number of animals, including a starfish, alongside dozens of different... well, you'll have to watch for yourself. It's amazing! See it at:

http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/