Rene Ebersole's Posts
One of the fun things about my job as an editor at Audubon Magazine is seeing the topics that we feature in our pages making a splash in mainstream publications or on popular news shows, even if it's years after we wrote about them. And that's exactly what happened this morning when I opened the newspaper and read Anne Raver's article about rain barrels.
Did you see today's New York Times? Bill Vlasic writes that "Ford is Betting the Future on Small, Efficient Cars." Apparently, Vlasic got a head's up before Ford makes an official announcement this Thursday. Could it be true?
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Farmers' market season is in full tilt, and the bins of carrots, greens, beans, berries, and now peaches—glorious peaches—are overflowing. Famous New York City chef, Dan Barber, recently gave Audubon Magazine an exclusive on two of his favorite things to do with the season's fresh-picked carrots and fennel.
Finally, we had a slice of the American dream: a 100-year-old Victorian fixer upper in the suburbs of New York City. There was insulation to yank from the rafters. Linoleum to peel from the floors. Tar to be scraped from ceiling tiles. My husband and I were new homeowners, with a vision for our derelict domicile, and an ambitious mission to renovate it environmentally.
That was three years ago.
In yesterday's green issue of the New York Times Magazine Michael Pollan makes a case in his piece titled "Why Bother?" for growing our own food as a way to rein in our global warming emissions.
Tomorrow is Earth Day, and everyone is talking about the real steps people can take to fight climate change. What are you going to do this year? Buy a hybrid? It's a popular choice: The hottest hybrid models continue to cruise off car lots faster than dealers can restock. But is that hybrid really better for the environment than the standard car several aisles over? Or even, for that matter, your old car?
Patrick Tregenza, USDA
As if plump ripe tomatoes and fresh raspberries picked yesterday weren't already enough reason to shop at your local farmer's market, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have provided yet another justification for getting intimate with the origins of your produce.
Here's a new one for the record books of creative new uses and the environmentally reformed: Former poachers in the rural villages of Zambia are making fashionable necklaces and bracelets from the snares they once used for illegally hunting elephants, lions, and leopards. The jewelry, called "Snarewear," is product of voluntary co-op program known as Community Markets for Conservation, designed by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society.
