EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What is the Obama administration’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative and what does it hope to accomplish? — Doug St. James, New York, NY President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum in April 2010 establishing the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative to promote and support innovative community-level efforts […]
“It’s the single highest threat to sustainable wine grape production facing our industry,” says Todd Newhouse, owner of Upland Vineyards near Outlook, and one of the oldest vineyards in Washington. The threat Newhouse refers to is the lack of available clean plants for vineyard plantings. Viruses can reduce the life of a vineyard investment by […]
Dear EarthTalk: The three-year anniversary of the 2010 BP oil spill just passed. What do green groups think of the progress since in restoring the region? — Mary Johannson, New York, NY When an undersea oil well blew out 50 miles off the Louisiana coast on April 20, 2010 and caused an explosion on the […]
EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Why was the Colorado River named the most endangered river of 2013? — Missy Perkins, Jenkintown, PA American Rivers, a leading non-profit dedicated to the conservation of rivers and riparian corridors across the U.S., recently unveiled its annual list of the nation’s most endangered rivers. The mighty Colorado […]
