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The Sushi Project: Farming Fish And Rice in California’s Fields
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Jacques Leslie on October 29th, 2015
Yale Environment 360: The idea of rearing salmon in fallowed rice fields started in a duck blind. Huey Johnson, California’s Secretary of Resources in the 1970s and at age 82 widely considered the “grand old man” of California environmentalists, is an avid hunter, who has spent hundreds of hours in Central Valley duck blinds. It is perhaps a testament to the contemplation induced by extended Resource Renewal Institute Aerial view of a “Fish in the Fields” site, where small forage fish are being raised in flooded, fallow...
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Shipping crude oil by rail: New front in tar sands wars
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Jacques Leslie on December 6th, 2013
Yale Environment 360: On New Year's Eve 2009, a train with 104 tank cars of light crude oil traveled 1,123 miles from North Dakota's Bakken oil fields to a terminal in Stroud, Oklahoma, and opened a new front in the war over development of Canada's tar sands.
It didn't seem that way at the time. EOG Resources, the company that owned the oil, simply needed a way to get its crude out of North Dakota, Andrew Burton/Getty Images Tanker cars at a depot in North Dakota, where railroads now move 600,000 barrels of oil a day...