Outside Magazine, December 2011 Tuesday, November 15, 2011 WHY CAN’T WE: DIVERT FLOODWATER TO DROUGHT REGIONS Floodwater Diversion    Photographer: Illustration by Jameson Simpson Sounds sweet. Instead of letting the Mississippi River overflow its banks, how about sending a few billion gallons to the parched Southwest? The first barrier is the environment. Flooding regenerates farmland and cues fish to spawn, says Taylor Hawes, the Nature Conservancy’s program director for the Colorado River. There’s also the issue of invasive species infiltrating river systems. You really want to see Asian carp in the Grand Canyon? Then there’s politics. East of the 100th meridian, it’s…

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  Steven Cohen Executive Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University Posted: October 4, 2010 09:43 AM https://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-cohen/new-york-citys-green-infr_b_749011.html?view=screen New York City’s Green Infrastructure Plan and Sustainability Management The issue of combined sewer overflows is one of the most difficult water-quality issues faced by cities with old infrastructure like New York City. Simply put, the sewage from our homes is combined with the sewers in the street before it is piped to the local sewage treatment plant. If a large amount of rain suddenly sends a torrent of water through the streets and into the sewers, it can overwhelm our treatment plants…

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 07, 2011 BIGGEST PIPELINE PROTEST YET AT WHITE HOUSE Thousands of protesters, including environmentalist Bill McKibben and actor Mark Ruffalo, encircled the White House to voice their opposition to TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline No one expected it to get this big. Yesterday, a whole lot of people gathered in Washington, DC, and encircled the White House to protest Keystone XL, a 1,700-mile oil pipeline that, if approved by President Obama, would run from Alberta’s Tar Sands to Texas. Event organizers estimated that 12,000 protesters showed up. That number may be swollen, but not by much; there was a…

The indispensable Michael Pollan goes mano-a-mano with Colbert, who utters this priceless gem: “soda is the milk of America!” https://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/401382/november-02-2011/michael-pollan?xrs=synd_twitter

Pleased that The Ripple Effect has been nominated for a Books for a Better Life Award, in the Green category — though the competition is Ted Danson and Mark Kurlansky, so odds are long-to-overwhelming. Winners announced Mar 12. Fingers crossed!

Safe Water and a Toilet — Is That Too Much to Ask… for 2.5 Billion People?   https://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-damon/clean-water-_b_1064394.html

  A recent study released by Green For All in conjunction with American Rivers, the Economic Policy Institute, and the Pacific Institute found that we could create nearly 1.9 million jobs simply by investing $188 billion in upgrading our water system to the minimum standard set by the EPA. We found that this economic environment was the ideal time for such an investment: people need the jobs, and the cost of financing is extremely low, as is the cost of construction. We’ve been postponing investments in infrastructure across the board – we now invest one-third less in water infrastructure as…

October 27, 2011 A Conversation with Editor Judith Jones: on 50 Years of Working with Julia Child By Chris Schluep Judith Jones, who retired just last week from Knopf after a long and distinguished career of editing and writing books, has recorded many a literary milestone. She is famously know as the editor who rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from a rejection pile in Paris, urging Ken McCormick to publish it at Doubleday. She was also the person who brought Julia Child to Knopf. That was fifty years ago, and we were recently lucky enough to talk to Judith Jones about the…

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, Nymphs, what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hat-tip to TRE reader Robert Oberdorf!