EnviroMentalog

I told you I would follow the fracking debate and this weekend as I was reading about White House crashers (seriously?) I was distracted by an article about the split in an upstate community over fracking. Many families in upstate New York own a nice chunk of land. Most were approached by energy companies [...]

Here is the 2nd part of the weekend- recapped. There were a few keynote panels that got progressively interesting and entertaining as the weekend went on. The first one was a “fireside chat” with Cornell President David Skorton and Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE. (Because I watch too much TV I could not stop picturing [...]

This past weekend I attended the Net Impact conference at Cornell University. It was sponsored by the Johnson School of Business and its purpose was to bring together MBA students and professionals interested and focused on sustainability and corporate responsibility. I felt a little out of place the whole weekend as many of the discussions [...]

I have recently been introduced to the term fracking. I thought the fellow telling me about it was just being cheeky but no, it’s an actual term. Fracking is the shorthand way of saying hydraulic fracturing- a method of drilling that includes injecting fluid into an oil/gas deposit to fracture the rock and release the [...]

As per one of my previous posts we know that Haagen-Dazs is trying to promote the repopulation of honeybees. Through November 11, Haagen-Dazs will donate $1 for every tweet about the honeybees. They will donate for up to 500 tweets a day with the proper hashtag. The money will go to honeybee research at UC [...]