Travels With TheGreenGrok

A series of dispatches on interesting places that my deanly duties whisk me off to

Arctic

• Thar She Blows: View from the Arctic
  August 5, 2010
  Sensory “underload” on the ocean. 
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• Echoes of Louisiana Bayou up North
  August 9, 2010
  In Labrador, as in the Gulf of Mexico, people cling to their unique but connected cultural and environmental heritage. 
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• Polar Bears on the Rocks
  August 11, 2010
  The iconic figure of global warming seen from a distance. 
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• Climate Report from ‘The Land That Never Melts’
  August 13, 2010
  You don’t need a climate scientist to which know which way the temperature goes. 
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• Ice Mine in Greenland
  August 16, 2010
  To visit Greenland is to commune with frozen water. 
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• The Environmental Song Remains the Same
  August 19, 2010
  Four weeks, three trips, but a similar environmental theme. 
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Arizona

• In the Shadows of the Red Rocks of Sedona
  June 2, 2011
  On the new and old ages in the arid lands of northern Arizona. 
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China

• Back in the PRC
  August 11, 2008
  The 2008 Summer Olympics are underway, and all the world is either in or watching China. I too am headed that way -– sitting in a Boeing 777-ER somewhere over the Bering Strait as I write. But, alas, my destination is Hong Kong not Beijing, but hearing talk of Beijing’s poor air quality while returning to China jogs cloudy memories. 
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Gulf of Mexico

• Oil Gushes Anew in the Gulf of Mexico
  July 29, 2010
  While in the Gulf of Mexico looking at impacts from the Deepwater Horizonblowout, I unexpectedly had the opportunity to see a blowout firsthand. 
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• ‘No Sign of Oil’ in the Gulf Now? Really?
  July 30, 2010
  The ABC News report entitled “Hopeful Signs on Day 100 of BP Oil Spill” that aired on Tuesday doesn’t jibe with my experience in the gulf this week. 
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• Gulf Oil Blowout and Gusher: Environmental Catastrophe or Much Ado About Nothing?
  August 2, 2010
  I saw an environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. Just not what I’d expected.
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• Working on the Wetlands: One Blade of Grass at a Time
  October 29, 2010
  Saving the Louisiana wetlands can be a dirty, mucky, sweaty job.
  Can planting grass and trees stem the tide of wetland loss in coastal Louisiana? 
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Nepal

• A Visit to Ground Zero in the Climate Change Sweepstakes
  December 15, 2010
  I visited Nepal last week for the first time in 15 years. Back then, Nepal was a cool place to test your metal on a trek. Today, it is a disaster-in-the-making as the globe warms. 
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• Save the Tiger … Indian Style
  January 21, 2010
  Ullas Karanth has dedicated his life to saving the tiger. 
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Pennsylvania

• A Trip to Fracking Land
  June 14, 2012
  Greetings from Pennsylvania. I’m here in the state this week leading a group of Nicholas School colleagues on an “eco-fact-finding” trip. 
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• A Visit With Some Folks in Fracking Land
  June 22, 2012
  Part two — the view from the grassroots. Last week I led a group of Nicholas School colleagues on an “eco fact-finding” trip to learn about fracking in Pennsylvania. Today I’m writing about the second half, which was devoted to hearing from people in the Keystone State. 
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• Fracking in Pennsylvania: A Boom That’s Fizzling?
  July 3, 2012
  On a recent visit to Pennsylvania, I saw signs of a natural gas boom on the wane. 
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New Mexico

• Thar She Blows? Wind on the Horizon in the American West
  November 16, 2010Ranching families in New Mexico face a difficult dilemma. 
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New York

• City Parks: Great Places to Visit and Good for the Environment
  October 9, 2008
  Summer’s over, but city parks are still great places to visit. Plus, they provide environmental benefits, such as cutting pollution. 
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• A Cautionary Tale of Trees
  April 22, 2009
  About 137 years ago the first Arbor Day was held in Nebraska. The idea to set aside a special day for planting trees and educating folks about the importance of trees sprang from Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), a Nebraska journalist cum politician. In honor of the holiday, The Green Grok brings you the story of three American trees. 
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Russia

• Fighting climate change, air pollution with one swat
  October 16, 2012
  I’ve just arrived in Moscow for a meeting — the subject will be soot. 
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• Black carbon science: From Russia with love
  October 22, 2012
  Tomorrow I board a plane from Moscow to return to the States following a workshop on “Addressing the Challenges of Black Carbon in Russia.” Some impressions … 
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Singapore

• Singapore: Labeled Asia’s Greenest City
  March 08, 2012
  A look underneath the label. 
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• Singapore Green
  March 5, 2012
  An initial quick look at Singapore (complete with a photo of a modern-day Noah’s ark??).
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United Arab Emirates

• The U.A.E. and the U.S.
  September 03, 2008
  While in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) on business last week, I expected to find an alien country. What I found instead was a place maybe not so foreign after all.
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• Green Technologies Get the Royal Treatment in Abu Dhabi
  January 21, 2010
  Green tech is the focus in Abu Dhabi this week at the World Future Energy Summit.
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West Virginia

• A Trip to Mountaintop Mining Country
  October 06, 2011
  John Denver called it “almost heaven,” but West Virginia is changing. Is it for the better? 
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Wyoming

• Jackson Hole: Balancing Nature and Development
  July 26, 2010
  A visit to paradise confronting the march of progress.
  How does one balance the need, indeed the necessity to preserve the natural and the wild while accommodating the economic imperative to develop? It’s a problem that in one form or another is being played out all over the globe. 
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