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Green Glossary: Meltwater 30 Jun 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS Meltwater is "the water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice and ice shelfs over oceans. Meltwater is often found in the ablation zone of glaciers, where the rate of snow cover is reducing."+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Pack Ice 15 Jun 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS Floating ice that has been driven together into a single mass is called pack ice.There are three different types of ice in the sea: sea ice, river ice, and land ice: "Land ice is principally icebergs. River ice is carried into the sea during spring breakup and is important only near river mouths....+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Tundra 14 Jun 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS Tundra is, according to the good folks at HowSutffWorks, "a treeless region located in the Arctic or at high altitudes. Tundra occurring in the Arctic is known as arctic tundra, that at high altitudes is called alpine tundra. Both types are relatively flat, and they have similar climates and...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Heat Wave 26 May 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS Martha Reeves knows a heat wave when she sees one but how about you? A heat wave is "an extended time interval of abnormally and uncomfortably hot and unusually humid weather. To be a "heat wave" such a period should last at least one day, but conventionally it lasts from several days to several...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Climate Vs. Weather 17 May 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS There is a difference between climate and weather.Says NASA: "When we talk about climate change, we talk about changes in long-term averages of daily weather.Today, children always hear stories from their parents and grandparents about how snow was always piled up to their waists as they trudged off...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Enviro-poke 24 Apr 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS The online Urban Dictionary is, by design, snarky. However, its creators appear to relish any chance to aim their venom at eco-types. For example, they define an enviro-poke as the "driver of a hybrid car who consistently travels well below the speed limit, smugly showing off how much fuel they're...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Dysergy 20 Mar 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS Dysergy, it's said is the opposite of synergy: "The idea that combined parts have properties that are more or less that the sum of the parts. The negative-sum version is sometimes called dysergy, leaving synergy to mean only beneficial effects."+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Biomimicry 16 Mar 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS Biomimicry Institute defines this term (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) as a "new discipline that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better solar cell is an example. I think of it as...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Green Alley 10 Mar 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS The concept of green alleys is usually traced to the Windy City. The Chicago Green Alley Handbook explains the genesis: "With approximately 1,900 miles of public alleys, Chicago has one of the most extensive and important pieces of infrastructure of any city in the world. That's approximately 3,500...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Indicator Species 3 Mar 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS As defined by the Environmental Protection agency (EPA), "biological indicator species are unique environmental indicators as they offer a signal of the biological condition in a watershed." In other words, it's the proverbial canary in a coal mine.+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Keystone Species 2 Mar 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS A keystone species is a species "so critical to an ecosystem that its removal could potentially destroy the entire system...It is important to consider keystone species when making any decisions that could affect the natural environment. A small impact on keystone species could cause major...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Lazarus Species 2 Feb 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS A Lazarus species (or taxon) is "an animal or plant which disappears from the fossil record, presumably because it is extinct, and then reappears. In some cases, an animal which is thought to be totally extinct may be spotted and described alive, sometimes millions of years after the last fossil...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Old Growth Forests 13 Jan 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS An old-growth forest is "a forest stand usually at least 180-220 years old with moderate to high canopy closure; a multilayered, multispecies canopy dominated by large overstory trees; high incidence of large trees, some with broken tops and other indications of old and decaying wood (decadence);...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Habitat Fragmentation 31 Dec 2008 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS Habitat fragmentation is “a process of environmental change important in evolution and conservation biology.+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Biome 30 Dec 2008 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS \| COMMENTS A biome is “a large geographical area of distinctive plant and animal groups, which are adapted to that particular environment. The climate and geography of a region determines what type of biome can exist in that region. ... Each biome consists of many ecosystems whose communities have adapted to...+ READ MORE	{ }

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