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Lindsay Patterson

EarthSky partners with Google on the cosmos

EarthSky Communications announced today that it has joined Sky in Google Earth in bringing astronomy to millions of Internet users around the world.

Lindsay Patterson

January 7, 2008

Ecological debt day: What is it?

By early October, we humans had already consumed all the resources Earth will produce for 2007. That's the basis of Ecological Debt Day, announced by Mathis Wackernagel of the Global Footprint Network.

Lindsay Patterson

December 21, 2007

Seed diversity essential to future food supply

Earth's climate and weather are tied to our food supply. And many scientists who model future climate believe that temperatures will rise and patterns of rainfall, freeze, and drought will become less certain while population increases.

Lindsay Patterson

December 10, 2007

Doomsday Vault stores the world’s crop diversity

Not far from the North Pole, deep in a mountain on a remote Norwegian island, is the Doomsday Vault. It will store a backup collection of the world's seeds.

Lindsay Patterson

December 9, 2007

EarthSky is a Davey Award winner

EarthSky Communications, Inc., is the winner of two Davey Awards, an international creative award which honors outstanding creative work from...

Lindsay Patterson

December 3, 2007

If we found alien life, would we know it?

NASA has searched for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. A 2007 report from the National Research Council recommended widening the search.

Lindsay Patterson

November 7, 2007

EarthSky receives two W3 Awards

EarthSky Communications is the winner of two W3 Awards, a competition honoring creative excellence on the web. Read more about the website and awards.

Lindsay Patterson

October 25, 2007

Early warning for famine with Molly Brown

NASA's Molly Brown developed a Famine Early Warning System Network. Brown talks about this life-saving technology in this 8-minute podcast.

Lindsay Patterson

October 21, 2007

BlogBurst rewards EarthSky for 2nd quarter

BlogBurst, a blog syndication service, has ranked the EarthSky website among its top 100 blogs on the BlogBurst Leaderboard for the second consecutive quarter.

Lindsay Patterson

October 19, 2007

BlogBurst rewards EarthSky for top headlines

BlogBurst rewarded EarthSky Communications for the 2nd quarter of 2007 for ranking second on BlogBurst's Leaderboard of most distributed blogs.

Lindsay Patterson

July 26, 2007

Lindsay Patterson

Learning to love science. As a producer for EarthSky, Lindsay Patterson interviews some of the world's most fascinating scientists. Through EarthSky, her work content is syndicated on some of the world's top media websites, including USAToday.com and Reuters.com. Patterson is also charged with helping to stay in steady communication with the thousands of scientists who contribute to EarthSky's work of making the voice of science heard in a noisy world. She graduated from Colorado College with a degree in creative writing, and a keen interest in all forms of journalism and media.