With beaches around San Francisco closed from a nasty oil spill, can Paul still enjoy being outdoors without getting bummed out?

Most of us face a terrible paradox: We love to spend to time in the great outdoors, but we have to drive to get there.

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In this Good Company podcast, Michael Conner talks to Reginald “Flip” Hagood, the Student Conservation Association's (The SCA) Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives about the S.C.A.’s unique MBA internship program with the US National Parks. The SCA Business Plan Initiative brings together student interns from the nation's top business schools and the US National Parks for an intense summer internship program focusing on environmental business management.

Twelve national parks in the West are under serious threat from climate change. That’s the message of a new report from the NRDC and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, “Losing Ground.” According to the report, the parks in 11 western states are “endangered” as a result of climate change-related phenomena including drought, decreased snowfall, and wildfire. The report says landscapes in these national parks could be “drastically altered” if nothing is done to stave off the potential impacts of global warming. (An RMCO report released last summer showed western temperatures on the rise and snowflakes in decline.)

If you're missing the bracing, beautiful, snowier winters of yore, check out Gorp.com's guide to national parks that are almost guaranteed to be snowy right now.