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Ron Meador

Ron Meador

Ron Meador writes Earth Journal for MinnPost. He is a veteran journalist whose last decade in a 25-year stint at the Star Tribune involved writing editorials and columns with environment, energy and science subjects as his major concentration. After leaving the Star Tribune in 2007 he worked for Friends of the Boundary Waters and Fresh Energy. Ron's writing awards include The Wilderness Society's Aldo Leopold Award for Editorial Writing, 2000, and the Frank Premack Public Affairs Journalism Award for editorials, 2006.

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Earth Journal

Planet's health surveyed by Worldwatch Institute, and the news is not good

By Ron Meador | 04/18/13

The central theme is not global warming but resource depletion on a planet already consuming 50 percent more than its capacity.

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Earth Journal

Nature preservation is 'smartest investment': A Q&A with Mark Tercek

By Ron Meador | 04/16/13

In "Nature's Fortune," Mark Tercek calls for greater cooperation between conservationists and capitalists in preserving nature as green infrastructure. 

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Earth Journal

Wine-growing regions moving toward the poles; Côtes du Yellowstone, anyone?

By Ron Meador | 04/11/13

Fresh research shows climate change driving wine production out of Napa and Burgundy, and into Montana and China.

Earth Journal

Global temp trends may have paused, but hold off on the champagne awhile

By Ron Meador | 04/09/13

Each scientist and study referenced in The Economist's analysis predicts global temperatures will keep rising. Their disagreements are over the amount of that rise.

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Earth Journal

Minnesota researcher says saving lions requires that we fence them in

By Ron Meador | 04/04/13

The F-word to conservationists is "fence," says Craig Packer. But nothing else can halt their steep decline.

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Earth Journal

Honeybee collapse worsens; one Minnesotan's losses run to 65%

By Ron Meador | 04/03/13

Steve Ellis, a beekeeper from Barrett, raises a new concern: Surviving bees are losing strength.

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Earth Journal

Wildlife agencies create a consensus plan for adapting to climate threats

By Ron Meador | 03/28/13

The report is highly pragmatic, and part of its pragmatism lies in reminding Americans about the worth of wildlife as economic drivers. 

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Earth Journal

Owners agree to stop dumping ash from Great Lakes' last coal-fired ferry

By Ron Meador | 03/26/13

The deal represents a dramatic turnabout in the company's public position of just a few weeks ago, when it seemed to be daring EPA to shut the Badger down.

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Earth Journal

Sobering looks at groundwater, a critical resource we take for granted

By Ron Meador | 03/21/13

Minnesotans don't know how much we're using, how much is left, or when the wells might start to go dry.

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Earth Journal

Gene-splicing and cloning may restore lost species, but not their lost worlds

By Ron Meador | 03/19/13

Revisions to Minnesota's threatened and endangered lists show species heading in the wrong direction by a 5:1 ratio.