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Allen Hershkowitz, Senior Scientist, NYC and throughout the world
I am a Senior Scientist at NRDC, specializing in issues related to sustainable development, supply chain management, industrial ecology, the paper industry, health risks, solid waste management, recycling, medical wastes, and sludge. I coordinate some of the world’s most prominent institutional greening initiatives, including the Academy Awards telecast, the GRAMMY Awards, the “Broadway Goes Green” initiative, and the greening of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the USTA. I’ve served on the DuPont Corporation’s Bio-Based Fuels Life Cycle Assessment Advisory Board, the National Research Council Committee on the Health Effects of Waste Incineration and the EPA's Science Advisory Board Subcommittee on Sludge Incineration, as well as the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Peer Review Panel for it's Report to Congress on the Health Implications of Medical Waste. There’s more, but too much to list here.
Recent Posts
Posted April 4, 2013 by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
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- davidstern, energyefficiency, greeningsports, greensportsalliance, NBA Green Week, recycling
The National Basketball Association’s Green Week is globally unique in all of professional sports: No other league or team dedicates an entire week every year to educating tens of millions of fans about the importance of protecting our planet. NBA Green...continued→
Posted February 23, 2013 by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
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- Oscars,AcademyAwards,GreenBusiness,Recycling,RenewableEnergy,Greening,PaperProcurement,Argo
For the past six years, my colleagues and I at the Natural Resources Defense Council have coordinated the environmental stewardship work at the Academy Awards, this year known simply as “The Oscars.” The work began at the instigation of Laurie...continued→
Posted September 7, 2012 by Allen Hershkowitz in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, The Media and the Environment
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- baseball, billiejeanking, bobfisher, budselig, greensports, mlb, mls, nba, nfl, nhl, robertredford, sports, sustainablecities, usta
Last night, at an on-field Gala dinner at SafeCo Field in Seattle, celebrating the Green Sports Alliance Summit, I was honored to bestow the GSA’s first Environmental Leadership Award on Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. No one is more...continued→
Posted September 5, 2012 by Allen Hershkowitz in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, The Media and the Environment
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- budselig, energyconservation, greensports, greensportsalliance, recycling, robertredford, sports, sustainablecities
Today NRDC released its report on the sports industry’s embrace of environmental stewardship titled “Game Changer: How the Sports Industry is Saving the Environment.” The 120 page report provides a collection of never-before-assembled case studies of the sports industry’s most...continued→
Posted July 10, 2012 by Allen Hershkowitz in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, The Media and the Environment
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- all star game, baseball, energyefficiency, faneducation, globalwarming, greenbusiness, greensportsalliance, kansascityroyals, sports, sustainability
The sports industry’s growing embrace of energy efficiency, renewable energy, recycling, water conservation, safer chemicals and healthier food is educating millions of fans about the importance of protecting the environment and natural resources that we all depend on. Through their...continued→
Posted February 21, 2012 by Allen Hershkowitz in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, The Media and the Environment
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- elephants, macaque, poaching, thailand, wildlifefriendsfoundation
Dear Reader: Today I received the following disturbing letter via email alleging that poachers in Thailand are using their influence with corrupt government officials to intimate an animal rescue operation in Thailand that is active against elephant poaching and other forms...continued→
Posted February 10, 2012 by Allen Hershkowitz in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
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- cork, energyefficiency, GRAMMYs, greenbusiness, paperprocurement, recordingacademy, recycling, renewableenergy
When it comes to the functional integrity of the biosphere, small things matter. Indeed, it is the small things in the global ecosystem that keep Homo sapiens and other forms of life alive. Ants produce soil. Bees pollinate a third...continued→
Posted December 2, 2011 by Allen Hershkowitz in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
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- betterbuildinginitiative, energyefficiency, globalwarming, greening, greensportsalliance, portlandtrailblazers, seattlemariners, seattleseahawks, seattlesounders, seattlestorm, sports, vancouvercanucks
President Obama is today announcing nearly $4 billion of investments in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next 2 years. Today’s commitments, announced along with representatives from more than 60 organizations, are part of the...continued→
Posted November 15, 2011 by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
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- BlueGreenAlliance, GreenhouseGases, Jobs, LaborUnions, MunicipalWaste, Recycling
A new report released today by a coalition of labor and environmental groups estimates that recycling 75 percent of the nation’s municipal waste, in combination with incentives for manufacturers to use recycled raw materials, will create nearly 1.5 million desperately...continued→
Posted October 26, 2011 by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, U.S. Law and Policy
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- conversiontechnologies, incineration, landfilling, municipalsolidwaste, recycling, sustainability, wastetoenergy
Should municipal solid waste (MSW) be converted into energy? Is it a renewable fuel? Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) require electric utilities to generate a certain percentage of electricity from renewable energy sources. Although there are no federal renewable energy standards,...continued→
Posted July 29, 2011 by Allen Hershkowitz in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- Biodiversity, Cork, GlobalWarming, GreenBusiness, MediterraneanBasin, Portugal, SustainableForestry
When it comes to the functional integrity of the biosphere, small things matter. Indeed, it is the small things in the global ecosystem that keep Homo sapiens and other forms of life alive. Ants produce soil. Bees pollinate a third...continued→
Posted July 21, 2011 by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, U.S. Law and Policy
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- e-stewards, e-waste, EPA, greenjobs, recycling, whitehouseinteragencytaskforce
It is well known that recycling produces more jobs than any other form of waste management. Indeed, recycling is among the most productive of green jobs producers. Moreover, the environmental benefits of responsible recycling are well documented, especially when it...continued→
Posted July 12, 2011 by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, The Media and the Environment
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- allstargame, baseball, greensportsalliance, majorleaguebaseball, mlb, renewables, sports
As the movement to green professional sports continues to broaden its reach, (witness the recent launch of the Green Sports Alliance), those of us involved in this noble work continue to be inspired by the strong commitment to environmental stewardship...continued→
Posted June 23, 2011 by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- appalachia, biodiversity, henryfair, mountaintopremovalmining, mtr, nationalresearchcouncil, thelastmountain
In 2009, Dr. Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science brought together a distinguished group of the nation’s leading researchers from diverse fields to study the ecological effects caused by mountaintop removal coal mining. In January...continued→
Posted June 16, 2011 by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
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- composting, globalwarming, incinerators, insinkdisposal, landfills, management, recycling, waste
Food waste is approximately 14% of the household waste we discard. Food waste is of concern to environmental agencies and municipalities because in landfills food waste is a primary cause of methane gas emissions, a very potent greenhouse gas, and...continued→
