Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Oh to do a headstand outside on Thanksgiving, at 4300 feet in Montana! My bare feet reach skyward towards the immense blue. The crown of my head roots on thin soil covering glacial till, dumped here 10,000 years ago...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Living Sustainably
From the administration that views conservation not as a necessity but a virtue, this little nugget buried in yesterday's WashPost story about Bush's raft of 'midnight regulations' rolling back environmental protections stood out: "On Nov. 19, the OMB ordered the Energy Department to...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in The Media and the Environment
NRDC recently added a link to the front page of Switchboard, inviting you to follow our blog posts via Twitter. If you're one of more than a million people already using Twitter, it needs no explanation. If you're not, well...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
HOPE VI is by far my favorite government housing assistance program. Few in my world know how it got its name (Housing Opportunity for People Everywhere, Title VI - thanks, Payton), but we all know its mission of...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
We'll I'm in Poznan, Poland for two weeks for the next round of international climate negotiations. This session is an important "check point" as it is mid-way between the agreement in Bali (December 2007) and when the final agreement is...continued→
Posted by Phil Gutis in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Maybe it's the start of the holiday season, which has long been recognized to increase stress. Or perhaps it was the news from India where terrorists killed almost 200 people and injured hundreds more. Whatever the cause, I've found myself...continued→
Posted by Phil Gutis in Living Sustainably
We learned the true meaning of black Friday early this morning when a Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York was trampled to death by stampeding consumers. The New York Times reports that Jdimypai Damour was knocked over and crushed by...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Over the last decade or two, cities have begun to reclaim their urban neighborhoods from freeways. Boston buried its Central Artery in the Big Dig. San Francisco tore down the earthquake-damaged Embarcadero Freeway and replaced it with a more...continued→
Posted by Phil Gutis in Living Sustainably
Its not often that I can be found cowering under a blanket in front of the television. Yet there I hid earlier this week as MSNBC showed an unfiltered version of the great Alaska turkey slaughter of 2008. Compare that...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
During Thanksgiving week, it's appropriate to give thanks to important congressional champions for wolves: Nick Joe Rahall (D-WV), George Miller (D-CA), Jim Saxton (R-NJ), and Norm Dicks (D-WA). As they did last year, last week these congressmen once again...continued→
Posted by Amy Mall
The first time I visited Utah's wild redrock country was on a cross-country road trip. I was completely unprepared to wander into a part of the United States like no other. I felt like I was on another planet; words cannot...continued→
Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment
Happy Thanksgiving! Here are few holiday-related posts: A Chef asks us to reclaim the beauty of Thanksgiving. Check out Grist's slideshow of meat-free turkey and other vegetarian Thanksgiving fare. Joe Romm advises U.S. wine drinkers on how to buy low-carbon...continued→
Posted by Kate Slusark in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Just hours after the sad news that Broadway icon Gerald Schoenfeld passed away, Mayor Bloomberg took the stage of the O'Neill Theater to announce a plan that would have made Gerry proud - Broadway is "greening itself" by making its...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
I was going to award another satirical turkey to a deserving entity, as I did last year. But then I thought better of it: this is a more optimistic season, and I have decided to go positive and acknowledge...continued→
Posted by Barry Nelson in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The Bureau of Reclamation was conceived at the start of the 20th century (originally as the Reclamation Service) to meet the needs of a world that no longer exists. Now, at the start of the 21st Century, the Bureau needs...continued→
President-elect Barack Obama has the opportunity to channel American ingenuity into solving the economic, climate and energy crises, says NRDC president Frances Beinecke.
Frances's big-picture post sets the table for more from a swarm of NRDC experts blogging about a new set of recommendations to the Obama transition team, released Nov. 25.
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