I Wonder How Long Stanley Park Would Last Against Chainsaws?

(Via Sully) Watch this profoundly humanist anti-deforestation ad by Maya Lin. The basic visual arithmetic of loss of habitat + global warming + mass extinctions = you losing your favourite city park might not balance out, but that doesn’t make the final minute or so with the tree felling seen in reverse any less poignant. Can you imagine Stanley Park gone in sixty seconds? I’d rather not. More at WhatIsMissing.net.

New Species Of Crab Discovered Just Before Going Extinct

The saddest story in the world as of 2pm today comes to us via the Huffington Post:

“A marine biologist says he has discovered a new crab species off the coast of southern Taiwan that looks like a strawberry with small white bumps on its red shell.

National Taiwan Ocean University professor Ho Ping-ho says the crab resembles the species living in the areas around Hawaii, Polynesia and Mauritius. But it has a distinctive clam-shaped shell about 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) wide, making it distinct.

Taiwanese crab specialist Wang Chia-hsiang confirmed Ho’s finding.

Ho said Tuesday his team found two female crabs of the new species last June off the coast of Kenting National Park, known for its rich marine life. The crabs died shortly thereafter, possibly because the water in the area was polluted by a cargo ship that ran aground.”

And just like that, the strawberry crab enters and exits. No word yet on what the researchers ate instead.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Polar Bears Falling To Their Deaths…

A new ad brings the high environmental costs of commercial flying down to earth, rather literally.

How To Scare Your Kids & Make Them Think Parents Kill Bunnies

A new British advertisement poignantly stirs the climate change pot (via AdFreak).

Whitening Clouds With Sea Salt Might Postpone Climate Change

A few months ago I posted a few thoughts on several inventive last ditch efforts scientific solutions to the many coalescing problems currently screwing the planet. Some bordered on the humorously bizarre, while others had more than just a slight whiff of feasibility. Tonight I’m particularly digging this one, which sees mankind building 2000 robotic yachts to inject a super fine spray of sea salt from the oceans into maritime stratocumulus clouds. Read more

Vancouver’s 2.5 Hectare “Living Roof” Mimics BC Grasslands…

Landscape architect Bruce Hemstock takes filmmaker Dave Budge on an explanatory tour of the living roof on top of the new Vancouver Convention Centre. Pretty amazing…

All We Can Do To Keep Growing Pinor Noir Instead Of Cabernet

From a Treehugger slideshow piece on Sokol Blosser, the “greenest” winery in the United States.

In 2008, for the first time, the winery started tracking its overall carbon emissions with help from The Climate Registry. Sokol Blosser is one of 27 Oregon wineries participating in the Carbon Neutral Challenge Initiative, a project headed up by the Oregon Environmental Council. While the wine industry isn’t a big carbon emitter in the region, they’re going to be very adversely affected by climate change. As [winery co-president] Alison [Sokol Blosser] told me, “We’re interested in doing everything we can so we can keep growing pinor noir instead of cabernet sauvignon.”

Cheers.