[mou] Hornets Nest vs. Birds Nest

[Holly Peirson]

I haven't had time to actually read these articles yet, but if one looks a
little further at this issue, one can see -- and read :o)  about global
warming, a huge conservation issue, in several spots within, i.e., On Thin
Ice, pp. 66, about Greenland; Selling the Wind, pp. 55, pros and cons about
wind energy -- there is also a 1-day conference about this topic coming up
in mid-Oct in Wisconsin, for more info on that go to www.audubon.org/mn/mn
(The Audubon MN website); and a pull-out poster on what citizens can do at
home to conserve energy called Power to the People, pp 61; so I always try
to look beyond the travel ads to the substance. I've been finding a LOT more
to like about the magazine in recent issues.

Change sometimes takes place at a snail's pace, and old ways of paying for
publications die hard. They are making one of the only efforts to be
conservation-minded, while still getting their message out. When I go to the
book store's magazine section or the local Shinders, I see that hardly any
other publications even TRY to use paper that is at least somewhat recycled
and have no coatings to make them non-recyclable... And there sure are a lot
of them, therefore hundreds of opportunities to write letters to less
conservation-minded organizations, is I guess one way to look at it!

Holly Peirson
Forest Lake, Anoka Co.

BTW: I enjoyed reading about raingardens and the like in Bloomington on the
blog you put at the bottom of your post, thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu [mailto:mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu]On Behalf
Of Terry Houle
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 3:14 PM
To: mou-net@cbs.umn.edu
Subject: [mou] Hornets Nest vs. Birds Nest

I am going to lay one out there that will stir up controversy but
think needs being said.  I wil probably get all kinds of hate mail.
Anyway reading the Sep/Oct06 issue of Audubon Magazine and the Audubon
View by John Flicker. He talks of the urgency of Global Warming and
that is may be already too late. Flicker indicated that birds are a
baramoter of changing conditions that signal future danger.  Then
going on to the Letters to the Editor the first two talk of the
disconnect with Audubon and the travel within the magazine.  Some make
reference to Green Travel but I see none of that.  I sent in a Letter
to Editor with my comments that I think of it as more a travel
magazine that includes birds.
I have cancelled my subscription in the past because I do not look at
them as 'getting it".
I think they have been too tied in with the travel industry.  Also
realize that many birders want to go other places to see birds.
I would urge people to write to Audubon if you feel the same as me.  I
think we are killing our barometer.

--
Terry Houle
Bloomington, MN



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