• Dot Earth added to our blogroll.

    Andrew Revkin has been reporting on the environment for the New York Times since 1995, and just recently started working on a blog titled Dot Earth.

    Dot Earth will be providing information on climate change and sustainability. Revkin explains, “I’ve decided to focus Dot Earth on the broad-brush theme of sustainability for a few reasons. One is that “slow drip” issues are hard to capture and convey through traditional media tools, which are mostly (and appropriately) focused on dramatic events happening now, not eventually momentous trends that hide in plain sight.

    Another is that some of the underlying problems related to humanity’s impact on the environment are largely irreversible. The greenhouse effect appears a lot easier to amplify than to reduce. Extinction is forever (at least for now). Such issues deserve sustained attention.

    Finally, I just have this innate interest in subtle problems, or solutions, that over time can change the world, for better or worse.”