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May 1, 2010
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Reviving the World's Oceans
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
- Tags:
- greening, gulfspill, oilspill, WHCA, whitehouse
Tonight is the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner. NRDC coordinated the greening of that dinner. But today it is impossible not to first think about the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and how it relates to...
April 13, 2010
Posted 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
- Tags:
- education, global, greening, recycling, sports, warming
Major League Baseball today announced what is arguably the most important environmental initiative in the history of professional sports, worldwide. I know that is a big statement, but it is true. As part of Major League Baseball’s ongoing commitment to...
April 6, 2010
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz
- Tags:
- appalachia, coal, miners
All of us at the Natural Resources Defense Council join our nation in mourning the miners tragically killed this week in the Upper Big Branch-South mine disaster in West Virginia. Day-in and day-out they did the anonymous, high risk, difficult...
March 10, 2010
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- biogems, birds, coal, environmental, forests, justice, law, MTR, religion, tennessee, waterquality
As we study the universe, sending telescopes into other solar systems and far off galaxies, one thing has become abundantly clear: perhaps the rarest phenomenon in the universe is organic life. To date, despite all our intergalactic travel and research,...
December 8, 2009
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- appalachia, christiansforthemountains, cleanwateract, coal, coalrivermountain, coalrivermountainwatch, dirtycoal, ericblevins, faith, judybonds, kentucky, larrygibson, loreleiscarbro, mariagunoe, mountainjustice, mountaintopremoval, MTR, robertfkennedyjr, rolandmicklem, westvirginia, zoebeavers
Yesterday, on the day that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change opened in Copenhagen, I attended an anti-mountaintop removal mining rally in Charleston, West Virginia, along with more than 300 concerned citizens from West Virginia and other parts of...
August 5, 2009
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- FSC, greenpeace, kimberlyclark, paper, recycling, simplesteps
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...
May 11, 2009
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
- Tags:
- paperprocurement, paperrecycling, simplesteps, washington
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...
March 9, 2009
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- greenbuildings, simplesteps, waterconservation
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...
February 27, 2009
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- boreal, brazil, deforestation, forests, KimberlyClark, NYT, Proctor&Gamble, simplesteps, toiletpaper
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...
