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Drought Politics In Colorado - Candidate For Governor Fostering State's Rights Or Ignorant Provocation?
Image credit:Colorado Trout Unlimited.
Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes seems to have a habit of hitting the xenophia-flavored cool aid. April's recent post covered his ranting about how promoting bike riding is part of a world government conspiracy designed to steal personal freedoms. At the time I thought 'well...it might win him some Tea Party-style votes and he won't lose too many bike riders who otherwise would have supported him.Read the full story on TreeHugger
  
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Asian Elephants Get a New Home at the Smithsonian National Zoo
Image Credit: Mehgan Murphy, National Zoo
If you've been to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. lately, you may have noticed that they've been working on the first stage of their "Elephant Trails" project- a bold initiative to build a complex of indoor and outdoor habitats for the zoo's Asian elephants that will allow the endangered animals to thrive. Phase I, which opened to the public yesterday, includes two new outdoor yards and an elephant barn, which is Read the full story on TreeHugger
 
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Handmade Online Marketplace Etsy Raises $20 Million Financing
Handmade is becoming big business -- reeeally big. Etsy -- the online marketplace for handmade items -- announced earlier this week that it has raised $20 million in venture capital financing and has now tripled its valuation at $300 million (not including the funding). With sales up a whopping 72% from last year, business is booming -- not to mention ex-Google exec Adam Freed being roped in as Etsy's new chief operating officer. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
 
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'Meet Eater,' the Plant That Lives on Social Media
 Credit: Photos via facebook.com/meeteater.
I like "Meet Eater," at least on Facebook. Not much happened after I hit the "Like" button to express my, um, admiration. Apparently, though, every time this plant makes a friend on Facebook, an electronic system delivers water and nutrients. No friends, no love? Dead plant. Unhappy Meet Eater....Read the full story on TreeHugger
 
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First-Ever Baby Seahorse Spotted in British Waters
A tiny baby seahorse was measured off the coast of Dorset, England. Image via the Seahorse Trust.
It must have been like finding a needle in a haystack, but somehow, in murky water conditions, diver Neil Garrick-Maidment, the executive director of the Seahorse Trust, spotted a single 1.5-inch-long female baby seahorse "clinging onto a piece of seagrass" off the coast of Studland, Dorset -- a finding so rare he said it was "akin to seeing a Read the full story on TreeHugger
 
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