In Depth 2008 Archive


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January, 2008


Year in Review (Jan 2)
The Next Great Hunt (Jan 3)
Climate Champion (Jan 4)
Portrait of a Carbon Trader (Jan 7)
Green Garage (Jan 8)
Sustainable Sounds (Jan 9)
The Write Stuff (Jan 10)
The Great Greeting Card Debate (Jan 11)
Superhero of the Seas (Jan 14)
Making a Stink (Jan 15)
The original toolbox for green living 40 years later. (Jan 16)
Feds want journalists to pay to report in parks (Jan 17)
The air car is poised for mass production. (Jan 17)
One cyclist's affair with a Jetta named EJ. (Jan 22)
The eco traveler's guide to Barcelona (Jan 23)
Lights out for stargazers (Jan 24)
New Bees on the Block (Jan 25)
Vermont’s big cheesy (Jan 28)
Wind Warrior (Jan 29)
A tornado-razed town is rebuilding green (Jan 30)
How green is your primary candidate? (Jan 31)

February, 2008


Craptastic cheapsakes are replacing the family heirloom (Feb 4)
The father of LEED takes on China and India (Feb 5)
The Californication of Golden State parks (Feb 6)
The carbon offset industry is booming. But how fair is the trade? (Feb 7)
Beet it: road ice needs to be defeated (Feb 8)
Green is Love (Feb 11)
Budding Movement (Feb 12)
Sweet satisfaction (Feb 13)
Let’s talk about (green) sex, baby (Feb 14)
Little-known green factoids about US presidents throughout history (Feb 15)
The Eco-Travel Toolkit (Feb 18)
Design of the times (Feb 20)
The States vs. the Fed – who’s making the climate change rules (Feb 20)
Swimming with killer whales (Feb 22)
Jacques Cousteau’s son fights to save the oceans (Feb 22)
Sewage on the Southside: Not in my backyard (Feb 25)
Fighting for fresh air (Feb 26)
Restoring wild salmon means restoring wild rivers (Feb 27)
Google Earth stops mountaintop removal in Appalachia (Feb 28)
Cleaning up the biggest US oil spill you never heard of (Feb 29)

March, 2008


$10 million up for grabs in international green car competition (Mar 3)
Fuel better (Mar 4)
How soap operas can save the environment (Mar 5)
Take a trip to Belize and save a crocodile (Mar 6)
Life after oil (Mar 7)
Mini Cooper: The car of tomorrow is here today (Mar 10)
Sink your teeth into green dentistry (Mar 11)
Patricia Wright: Way beyond the science (Mar 12)
The giving trees (Mar 13)
Trouble in paradise (Mar 14)
BMW cleans up diesel’s bad rep (Mar 17)
Monkeying with the message (Mar 18)
Solar Synergy (Mar 19)
This bud’s for you (Mar 20)
Lady in the water (Mar 21)
Fuel-free cars (Mar 24)
Hunting is just one way to manage wolf packs (Mar 25)
Converting a diesel car to run on cooking oil (Mar 26)
Rising up by baking organic bread (Mar 27)
Exhausted your vacation options? Take a trip to a car-free island (Mar 28)
The car of the future (Mar 31)

April, 2008


You can become a carbon sink (Apr 1)
One renowned chef explains why natural foods taste better (Apr 2)
Sending invasive rats packing (Apr 3)
Can green save the US economy? (Apr 4)
Uncovering mysteries at Earth’s poles (Apr 7)
Rounding up Arctic reindeer in IPY (Apr 8)
The walrus and the researcher (Apr 9)
People at the Poles (Apr 10)
Melting at the poles may be happening more rapidly than predicted (Apr 11)
Alternatives to ebay for the eco set (Apr 14)
Building more coal-fired power plants: big mistake (Apr 15)
Complexity be damned: the Farm Bill explained (Apr 16)
The people's weather: officials are betting weather modification can keep the sun shining on the Olympics (Apr 17)
Thirst for biofuels is driving up world food prices (Apr 18)
Slideshow: Earth Day images from around the world (Apr 21)
Movers and shakers and climate policy makers (Apr 22)
Grading the green mags (Apr 22)
Love to your mother: Earth Day facts and figures (Apr 22)
Green burials go mainstream (Apr 24)
Tackling global warming is the only hope for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (Apr 25)
Hot, wet, and steamy (Apr 28)
Green walls of China (Apr 29)
Chemical dependency: One woman's battle with weed killer (Apr 30)

May, 2008


Bill McKibben takes stuff porn (those unwanted catalogs in your mailbox) to task (May 1)
Is a Holocaust documentary environmental art? (May 2)
Chinese DNA gives life to an American tree (May 5)
Lost in migration: the perils of traversing a warming planet (May 6)
DIY: Rustic birdhouses made from scrap wood (May 7)
Billy Joel’s wife talks about conscious consumption (May 8)
The wedding planner goes green (May 9)
Leasing the ocean for wind harvesting (May 12)
Better battery technology for electric cars (May 13)
Foraging: the next food frontier (May 14)
Guatemala volunteer vacations: some work, all play (May 15)
Animals at the Edge of existence (May 16)
Farmers’ markets: not just for yuppies (May 19)
A french-fry addict's guilt isn't assuaged by McDonald's green claims (May 20)
Next-generation biofuels: nearly identical to gasoline and diesel (May 21)
Forecasting the next big earthquake (May 22)
Bananapocalypse: a favorite fruit slips toward extinction (May 23)
Nuclear energy: Is it good or bad? (May 27)
Welcome to Shirley – a memoir from an atomic town (May 27)
The hidden costs of nuclear power (May 28)
Can nuclear waste be recycled? (May 29)
Scientists disagree about the long-term effects of radiation (May 30)

June, 2008


Biofuels out of the forest and into your gas tank (Jun 2)
Baby Steps: A mother teaches environmental stewardship, one gum wrapper at a time (Jun 3)
The eco revolution will be televised (Jun 4)
Experts still looking for cause of mysterious bat die-offs (Jun 5)
First coffee and chocolate, now entire towns obtain Fair Trade status (Jun 6)
Storing carbon in the sand (Jun 9)
Carbon is the next gold (Jun 10)
San Francsico closes the lid on garbage (Jun 11)
Free public transit for all (Jun 12)
The next big step in sustainable design (Jun 13)
Rising from the ashes (Jun 16)
Sweet summertime treat from Dan Barber (Jun 17)
Everything old is cool again (Jun 18)
Harvesting power from raindrops (Jun 19)
Keep it cool this summer with these eco cocktail recipes (Jun 20)
Bursting the industrial-age bubble (Jun 23)
Climate change is causing some vineyards to suffer while others thrive (Jun 24)
Shark attacks on the rise as the animals’ numbers plummet (Jun 25)
Eco-friendly, custom-built prefab homes in demand (Jun 26)
The Festival of the Winds in Montana showcases alternative energy (Jun 30)

July, 2008


Lizz Winstead goes loco trying to buy local (Jul 1)
Green tips for your 4th of July celebration (Jul 2)


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