Paul Tolmé
writer and journalist
writer and journalist
Recent Stories:
- National Wildlife/ClimateEdu: Get Smart with a New Grid Information technologies and advanced hardware would improve the efficiency and reliability of electricity production and delivery, while maximizing renewable energy generation.
- National Wildlife: Empty Skies Insect-eating birds that feed on the wing are vanishing from parts of North America, and scientists don't know why.
- Ski: Off the Grid: Renewable Energy Ski resorts are investing in wind, solar, and microhydro power.
- Defenders of Wildlife: Swimming Upstream Without our help, salmon runs in the Northwest may be history.
- National Wildlife/ClimateEdu: Universities to Use the Heat Beneath our Feet
The Oregon Institute of Technology hopes to tap the free heat from Earth's molten core.
- Popular Mechanics: High in Andes, World's Next Super Scope Takes Shape A breathless account of the construction of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
- Newsweek: Get Ready to Itch and Sneeze A warmer planet could mean we'll suffer more (and stronger) allergies.
- National Wildlife: Hidden Treasures of the Wild West Conservationists want to safeguard 26 million acres of little known federal lands ideal for watching wildlife.
- Ski: New Zealand Time Where the skiing remains pure, the vistas pristine and the ‘Kiwiana’ culture impossibly friendly.
Paul Tolmé in the News:
Paul is the center of 2008's sexiest plagiarism scandal.
- Listen to the interview and discussion on NPR's Talk of the Nation.
- Click here for Tolme's scintillating Newsweek.com story.
- Click here for the story that started it all, "Toughing it out in the Badlands."
- Read his 2007 story about threatened ferrets, "Pure Poison."
- also, choosing the true story on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Writing Award for Tolmé
The editors of National Wildlife awarded Paul Tolmé the Trudy Farrand and John Strohm Magazine Writing Award, an honor bestowed annually by The National Wildlife Federation for the best writing in the magazine. Tolmé was presented the award for "It's the Emissions, Stupid," an article that highlighed strategies for combating global warming.
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