Category Archives: Environment

Jamaica-bound with Global Reef Expedition

Posted on March 5, 2012 by admin

This Friday I’m heading to Jamaica to blog for the Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation’s Global Reef Expedition to Pedro Bank (March 10-20). It’s part of one of the largest-ever studies of threatened coral reefs, a decade-long effort to … Continue reading →

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Ecuador Regreens the Galápagos

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Julian Smith

My latest piece for Wired describes the recent high-tech efforts to "re-green" the place, using wind and solar power, a new green airport and a new fuel handling facility. More and more visitors plus more and more inhabitants means a … Continue reading →

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No more Atlantic bluefin tuna in three years?

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Julian Smith

That's what the WWF predicts if this year's Mediterranean fishing season goes ahead as normal, which it is. The average mature tunas is less than half as big as it was in the 1990s.

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Portland in novel form, ca. 1974

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Julian Smith

The New York Times revisits Ecotopia, a 1970s novel about the Pacific Northwest seceding from the U.S. and becoming its own ecological-socialist society. It's getting renewed interest lately as many of its predictions seem to be coming true, or at … Continue reading →

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