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US – China Building Efficiency MOU

July 17, 2009

Posted by Brandi Colander in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Greening China , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
china, climatechange, demand, energyefficiency, globalwarming, legislation, MOU

Yesterday, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced an agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Chinese Ministry of Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) aimed at developing more energy efficient building designs and sustainable communities.  This MOU enables the U.S....

IOBY: IN OUR BACKYARDS!

June 5, 2009

Posted by Brandi Colander in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
climatechange, energy, greenhousegasemissions, greenmovement, NIMBY, urbanagriculture, yale

Far too often, we hear cries of NIMBY: NOT IN MY BACKYARD! Well, with the recent birth of IOBY: environmental action is fostered and encouraged to occur precisely IN OUR BACKYARDS!  ioby.org (pronounced eye-OH-be) enables you to support neighborhood level...

The Next Frontier: Secretary Salazar looks to wind power to replace 3,000 coal plants

April 6, 2009

Posted by Brandi Colander in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
coal, fossilfuels, hearings, marinespatialplanning, oceans, ocs, offshorewind, secretarysalazar, windpower

Today, my colleague Ali Chase  participated in a regional public hearing  by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar aimed at addressing the future of offshore energy development. As a representative of NRDC, Ali had three primary asks for...

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