If you think navigating a thick forest using a map and compass is hard, just try making a strategic internet strike to get the latest news on, say, deforestation. You’ll find yourself 20 clicks and 30 minutes deep before you remember that you didn’t come here to discover the hottest eco-inspired baby names. Which is to say, the world of environmental blogs could use some curation. Toward that end, here are ten (well, 11) bookmark-worthy blogs that offer consistently noteworthy, compelling reportage on the environment.
It wasn’t an easy list to whittle down, and your own personal favorite may be missing. HuffPost Green, for example, has certainly bolstered its editorial staff and original content, but it’s still a challenge to find and focus on the news amid an onslaught of celebrity posts and OMG headlines. Here are some more honorable mentions: Time’s Ecocentric, which does a good job covering business and energy; RealClimate’s commentary, a blog written by working climate scientists that is can't miss for climate nerds; Civil Eats, if food is your thing; and Streetsblog, which obsessively covers transportation and planning.
The sites we list each cover a range of topics. None are comprehensive, but together they'll keep you on target as you wend your way through the so-called green blogosphere.
10. Grist and Treehugger (Tie)
9. OnEarth Blog
8. The Guardian: Environment Blog
7. Discovery News: Earth
6. High Country News: The Goat
5. The Cleanest Line
4. The New York Times: Dot Earth
3. Mother Jones: Blue Marble
2. Yale Environment 360
1. The New York Times: Green
Comments
I have to say that I find this list bizaare. For example, neither Climate Progress (http://thinkprogress.org/romm/issue/) nor Think Progress Green (http://thinkprogress.org/green/issue/) make this list? Could I say: Huh ???
Flag ThisI have to say that I find this list bizaare. For example, neither Climate Progress (http://thinkprogress.org/romm/issue/) nor Think Progress Green (http://thinkprogress.org/green/issue/) make this list? Could I say: Huh ???
Flag Thisum... how could anything but Grist be #1?
Flag ThisWhere is http://inhabitat.com/ and yes, http://www.ecofriend.com/ ???
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