Marshall Road in Kirkwood. Photo by Ursula Ruhl, South County Times.
Mom says, “Don’t talk about politics with the relatives, just talk about the weather.” But now even the weather is political, especially after the Great Flood of 2015 in the St. Louis region.
Photo by Diana Linsley, Webster-Kirkwood Times.
Carl Campbell, retired petroleum investment advisor, spends every morning searching for climate and environmental information. By early afternoon, he releases an analysis on his most important finds in a daily newsletter called “Carl’s Climate Letters.”
Happy New Year from Environmental Echo!
Wishing everyone a year filled with peace, health, family, friends, and outdoor adventures!
Photo by Holly Shanks
The Missouri Prairie Foundation and its Grow Native! program recognizes “outstanding efforts to conserve prairie and to use and promote native plants” by awarding efforts by individuals around the state. This year, there were 18 awardees.
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) recently released a video of accomplishments and successes from 2015.
By Don Corrigan
The Baby New Year and old Father Time were walking up North Grand Avenue right before New Year’s Eve. I caught up with them as they were checking things out by the Fox Theatre, across the street by Best Steak House.
Photo from the back cover of Henry’s new book “David and the Giant Mailbox.”
David Henry walked 1,000 miles to talk with strangers about climate change. He braved rainy weather conditions, difficult roadways, and dodged texting drivers.
Henry talks with Don Corrigan about his journey across part of the U.S. on this edition of “Behind the Editor’s Curtain.”
Pixabay
By Don Corrigan
Just days before Santa Claus launches his sleigh for the 2015 worldwide, whirlwind Christmas gift tour, the less-than jolly fat man blasted man-made global warming. He said climate change threatens the future of his work at the holidays and he predicted that Christmas as we know it could end before 2020.
Dawn Reeves covering the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris. Photo provided by Dawn Reeves.
Environmental Reporter Dawn Reeves, based in Washington D.C. with the Inside EPA subscriber news service, reports back from the Paris Climate Change Summit. Reeves shares insights from the conference and explains elements of the agreement reached by countries attending the conference with Don Corrigan on this week’s edition of “Behind the Editor’s Curtain.”
Hedge ball. Photos provided by Dan and Sharon Perry.
