Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Fellow green group Greenpeace has done a tremendous job educating the world about the needless destruction of ecologically irreplaceable forests to make products that are literally flushed down the toilet and thrown in the trash. And today the group has...continued→
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Obama Administration officials announced today that they are taking "unprecedented steps to reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop coal mining" in the six Appalachian states of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The announcement focuses on plans to...continued→
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Bravo to Washington State legislators and Governor Chris Gregoire for enacting on May 6th what is arguably the most ecologically progressive paper use and procurement law in the world. It is mind boggling to imagine the enormous ecological and economic...continued→
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The coal industry and its friends are threatening to destroy water quality protection in Tennessee, the heart of NRDC's Greater Cumberland Plateau BioGem. The Governor and the Tennessee Legislature should oppose this unprecedented assault on Tennessee's streams and rivers. The...continued→
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Last week I wrote about the ecological stupidity of manufacturing toilet paper from forests. Well, if that chat about toilet paper wasn't enough for you, today I'm writing to you about urinals. Why on Earth should we be flushing drinking...continued→
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday the New York Times published an article highlighting the ecological stupidity of making toilet paper from natural forests. Although toilet paper is a product that we use for less than three seconds, there are more types of forests at...continued→
