Tag: Alaska - Page 6
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How Three Bicycles Touring from Alaska to Panama Equal a Herd of Cattle
The connection is not obvious until you know the story of The Cow Spokes. Tim Whittemore, Sam Stickney, and Noah Hoskins-Forsythe are farm boys who are trying to make their contribution to "just and sustainable
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Alaskan Volcanoes to be Surveyed, Tapped for Geothermal Power
Recently we wrote about the US Department of Energy investing in advanced geothermal research. Well, Alaska isn’t waiting around for the Feds to dole out the cash to begin tapping the mountains around them for
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Small-scale Hydro Allows AK Family to Live Off-Grid
When I think about people who live off the grid the first thing that pops to mind isn’t hydropower. Solar panels, small wind turbines, geothermal? Yes. Technology that dates back to 1870? No. Granted, the
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A Fisherman, the Inuit, and the Brooklyn Art Scene
As a young man looking for adventure, Jim Clark took a job as an Alaskan king crab fisherman. Fifteen years later, he had found as well a deep and abiding love for the land, the art,
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Most Huggable: Natural Tea For Mamas-To-Be, Solar Water Lilies, Alaska By Candlelight
Eco Child’s Play offers up an au natural prenatal tea recipe.
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Bears Just Want to Have Fun! Photos of Bears on Kid's Playground in Alaska
"They finished building it on Saturday evening, and the following morning,
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The TH Interview: Sigrid Ekran, Iditarod Competitor and Environmental Activist
When I heard that one of the member's of Will Steger's team heading out across the Arctic to raise awareness of global warming was a woman who practices subsistence living I was bound and determined to interview her. I mean really, How many people do
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Placing Bets on Alaska's Ice Melting
Under more traditional circumstances, avid gamblers and climate scientists would seem to make for strange bedfellows. Yet Alaska's Nenana Classic, a yearly contest to guess the amount of melted ice on the River Tanana, has steadily built a cult
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Tiny Eskimo Village Sues 24 Big Energy Companies
A tiny Alaskan village is suing 24 major energy companies for damages due to global warming. The 390 residents of Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo village built on a barrier reef in the Arctic Ocean, have
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Jewelers Join in Historic Pact to Help Stop Pebble Mine!
When Eskimo schoolchildren in Alaska recently took to the streets protesting the opening of the proposed Pebble Mine for Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed, the truth is that the prospects for their success looked grim indeed. But they got a welcomed
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There Goes the Forest: Bush Administration Opens 3 Million Acres to Logging
Any (admittedly dim) hopes that President Bush might choose to salvage his tattered - some might say non-existent - environmental credentials were dashed when his administration announced plans to open more
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Inuit Kids March in Streets to Protest Pebble Bay Mine in Alaska
So why are these 7th grade Inuit kids marching in the streets? Well, on first glance you might expect that they've taken to the streets to protest the relative indifference of many over the threat to their way of life posed by global warming. But
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Gisele Bundchen Launches Flip Flop Line Drawing Attention to Conscious Use of Water
The model and brand are supporting a
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Caring For Our 1,600lb Friends
I have a great job, but I now know that author Richard Nelson's job is a bit cooler - literally and figuratively. Recently Nelson sat on the icy ground at the Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast watching polar bears eat the remains of a whale.
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Boreal Forests Found to be Net GHG Emitters
The last few months have witnessed a flurry of debate in the scientific literature over the relative merits of using forests as carbon sinks to combat global warming. The broad-based consensus seems to be that, yes, trees can work - if planted in the
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Ice-Tethered Profilers: Monitoring Changes in the Arctic Ocean
Given the Arctic ice caps' precipitous decline over the past year and bleak projected outlook, an "early warning" system may seem like too little, too late. The scientists heading up the Arctic Observing Network, whose aim it is to assess the changes
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Study: Moose Moms Shield Young From Grizzlies With Unlikely Tool: Traffic
In a fascinating twist I certainly didn't expect, mother moose have been using the traffic around National Parks to shield their young from hungry grizzlies... In fact, the ten year study at Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park indicates that
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The Last Winter: A Climate Change Horror Flick
The subject of Climate Change is becoming fertile ground for new movies. It all started with the less-than-brilliant The Day After Tomorrow which nevertheless once made our list for Christmas DVDs, much to our readers' disgust, but has since lead to
