Posted April 12, 2013 from Seattle, WA Scroll down for April 17 Update! It's official!!! I'm going to be at the Gray’s Harbor Shorebird Festival, the big shindig in honor of the thousands of shorebirds that migrate through the Gray’s Harbor area in April and May. The...
posted Feb 4, 2013 from Seattle, WA The above schematic covers the key points I make in the diatribe below, which also gets into the more specific political issues in the I-90 tolling debate as well as the more general issues of taxation vs profit-on-publicly-owned-assets. Disclaimer: I...
posted Jan 28, 2013 from Seattle On Tuesday, Jan 20, 2013, the small ad shown below will be running in the A-section of the Seattle Times. The Jan/Feb 2013 Utne Reader has published an excerpt from Lester Brown’s new book Full Planet, Empty Plates. Brown recaps two recent,...
Posted December 20, 2012 from Seattle, WA. It's in the A-section of the Seattle Times as usual and the subject will again be World Land Trust-US's and its valiant attempts to save key parcels of land in disappearing rain forests that will essentially mean the difference...
Posted Nov. 14, 2012 from Seattle, WA Seattle Wildlife Artist is running an ad in the Seattle Times A Section on November 20 to again attempt to draw attention to the valiant do-or-die struggle against extinction being waged by the World Land Trust-US. The ad is...
posted Nov.2, 2012 from Seattle, WA See the Movie "Last Tango in Poulsbo," at YouTube or here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhiOrvxzOWs&feature=youtu.be The title makes reference to the fact that the last boat in the lineup is named the Tango, and the boats are in Poulsbo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhiOrvxzOWs&feature=youtu.be In the five-plus minute movie, I discuss...
posted Sept. 30, 2012 from Seattle, WA I'm putting this ad in the Seattle Times soon, I'm not sure exactly which day. It's intended to draw attention to WLT-US's effort to save a key piece of the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil. Here is the link to WLT-US's...
Posted July 5, 2012 from Seattle Press Release On July 18, 2012 leaders of the WORLD LAND TRUST-US will be at the Pike Place Market for an Open House at the newly-expanded Ed Newbold Wildlife Artist Store. DR. PAUL SALAMAN, Chief Executive Officer, DR. ROBERT RIDGELY, Honorary President,...
Posted from Seattle, WA April 29, 2012 I’ll be at the Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest! What’s more, two new originals will be on sale there. Events like these force me to part with paintings so are a essentially a rare opportunity to buy Newbold originals. (I...
Posted April 6th, 2012 from Seattle WA The Leavenworth Spring Birding Festival May 17-20 is set to be better than ever this year! Check out the website at http://www.Leavenworthspringbirdfest.com/ One closely-guarded secret about Leavenworth is that the whole town has incorporated a Bavarian theme into its architecture,...
Posted March 30, 2012 from Seattle, WA Ed Newbold is thrilled to announce that the British Birding Association’s UK400 Club is using his painting of a Nighthawk on its home page as a logo for member sign-in and sign-up. The UK400 Club strives to maintain the...
Posted March 12, 2012 from Seattle, WA Pike Place Market Wildlife Artist Ed Newbold has donated an original painting to the Skagit Land Trust. The Trust, which is embarking on an exciting new project this year, (google Skagit Land Trust) will hang the painting in their...
Posted Jan. 25, 2012 from Seattle, WA [caption id="attachment_3389" align="alignnone" width="540" caption="I'm pretty sure these were cheerleaders at the 2010 Men's Handball Tournament. Either that or reporters who had just turned in stories about biofuel to their respective news editors."][/caption] How did it become firmly implanted in...
posted Jan. 10, 2012 photo by Nicholas Heyward Monica Newbold Shay Jan. 10, 1953 -July 3, 2011 No brother ever had a better sister. Monica, you were the greatest. You taught me so much and I was in awe of you always. I will love you and miss you until...
Posted Dec. 2, 2011 from Seattle WA We live in the Age of Extinction. It’s nothing to get depressed about or you’d be depressed all the time. What’s exciting—the flip side of the coin--is that ordinary folks like you and me can actually make a...
Posted November 14, 2011 from Seattle, WA. I’m running the tiny ad shown here opposing the Keystone Pipeline in the Seattle Times this Tuesday the 15th. It will be in the A-section. The ad is half the size of my normal ads as an experiment to...
October 16, 2011 from Seattle, WA In an article that ran today on Morning Edition, NPR’s Margot Adler reported that a group of economists are blaming food speculators for the recent dramatic increases in food prices. The report goes on to debate the liklihood that this...
Posted Sept. 29, 2011 from Seattle, WA, Katherine Long of the Seattle Times deserves major kudos for breaking ranks from the herd of journalists who’s idea of a story on biofuel is a lively rewrite of a happy-face-industry press release. Long’s story is in today’s...
Posted Sept. 26, 2011 from Seattle, WA. After 13 years of deployment, our 1998-issued 14 x 18 Shade Coffee poster is being retired and replaced by a brand new 12 x 16 Shade Coffee poster. The new poster features paintings from a poster commissioned by a...
Posted Sept. 4 from Seattle, WA. After a hatchet-job by Mara Liason on the same subject, Scott Simon interviewed Ron Paul about his courageous position that FEMA should be dismissed. The show is here: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=140163743&m=140163952 Paul eloquently defended his position and made the point that environmentalists have been...
Posted September 2, 2011 from Seattle. Famed NOAA Climate scientist Jim Hanson says that if we approve the Keystone Pipeline—The Canadian pipeline that would bisect the country from North to South and deliver Canadian crude oil from Alberta’s tar-sands to Texas-- it’s “game over” for...
Posted August 21, 2011 from Seattle. It's almost a decade too late to influence the debate when it mattered and help forestall the tragedy of the ethanol mandate, but Scientific American has admirably come out with an article critical of biofuels in its August 2011...