For more than a dozen years, I put together a weekly compilation of the bulk of environmentally related diaries appearing at Daily Kos. Under various names, including Green Diary Rescue and Spotlight on Green News & Views, there were 667 such compilations, starting Dec. 4, 2006. Just before I retired from the paid staff here two years ago, I ended the series, having spotlighted more than 35,000 DK eco-diaries over the years. Now, with the environment and particularly the climate getting more media and popular attention, I’ve decided to restart the series.
When I wrote the initial edition, I included my rationale. It remains the same today:
I’ve long wished that environmental Diaries would get more face time at Daily Kos. Not that I think environment should trump all other issues, although global climate change (and all its offspring, like resource wars) surely must qualify as one of the top three major crises of this century. I would merely like to see Kossacks pay more attention to environmental matters than has been the case in the nearly four years I’ve been hanging around this site. So I’m going to do my part to give eco-Diaries a little extra boost every Monday by "rescuing" a couple of big handfuls of them.
As with Earth Matters, which has just returned after a summer hiatus, my inclusion of particular pieces does not necessarily indicate agreement with them. I include most eco-related posts, but one-paragraph diaries or those that are merely cut-and-paste without any commentary or analysis from the diarist are usually excluded. That also goes for posts that announce a protest, webinar, or other event that occur before the latest edition of the series appears.