Ethiopia Clean Water Project
You wonder sometimes whether your efforts to make this planet a better place to live produces results or just is more churn. This guy started wineforwater.org and in my book… he delivers… and he inspires me to do more. The Ethiopia Project from Wine For Water on Vimeo.
New water video…
Here is a new bottled water video that will premiere in Maine this summer. I read that review a couple years ago that described the environmental cost of drinking bottled water. So I stopped buying it except on road trips and stuff. My current bottled supply stock consists of 5 reused 16 oz diet coke [...]
Rio Parana Conservation Video
We are working on a conservation video from our latest expedition to the Rio Parana in Northern Argentina. This massive river is second in size the the Amazon River in South America and is home of the national fish of Argentina: the Golden Dorado. The river is also home to all the forces that slowly [...]
Cap and Trade Fishing
I think we all have struggled to understand the current carbon cap and trade debate. I don’t totally understand the rules of how the cap is set and what are the trading rules. But there is a new proposaed cap and trade that is easy to understand and has real merit – that is the [...]
Snake River Tea Cup Update 5/15/09
Here is the upper Snake River tea cup for May 15, 2009. The spring snow melt runoff is in full swing now with daytome temsp in the 70s. They are calling for the peak flows out of the Jackson Lake resevoir on June 7th. Palisades is only 38% full but there is plenty of [...]
The Teacup
The real story behind rivers in the American West is about what happens when the irrigation season begins. There is a very complex federal, state and local process to decide how to store snowmelt and how to move it down a river system like the Snake River for use by irrigators who have “rights” to [...]
