I came to NRDC from NPR, where I was a senior editor and producer. A close friend there said the reason for my move to NRDC was obvious: “they have more initials.” While at NPR, I helped launch both The Tavis Smiley Show and Day to Day. Before that, I worked for California’s two big NPR stations, KCRW and KQED as a reporter and producer. Between public radio stints, I spent four years as a press and public safety deputy to a Los Angeles City Council member working on gun control, police corruption and creating a 311 city service phone system to take pressure off the 911 system. My wife, Laura Kleinhenz, and I live in Mar Vista with our amazing baby girl, Willa Belle, and our 12-year-old Weimaraner, Dory Ann Grey. Laura is a photojournalist, and runs a photography business, Docuvitae, out of a small studio in the backyard.
Posted May 3, 2012 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, U.S. Law and Policy
There were two great Switchboard posts this week (Melissa’s and Sylvia’s) on the shocking three-part exposé in the Sacramento Bee about USDA’s Wildlife Services program. Now that you’ve read about the secretive, brutal and unnecessary practices of this taxpayer funded...continued→
Posted April 19, 2011 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Environmental Justice, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, The Media and the Environment
NRDC’s new movie about the BP oil disaster, “Stories from the Gulf”, presented by Robert Redford, premieres this Saturday, April 23rd on Discovery Planet Green at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. It’s a powerful film about people hit hard by the largest...continued→
Posted February 17, 2011 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
As The New York Times reports today, oil giant BP now claims that victims of the Gulf oil disaster it caused could be receiving too much money from the compensation fund administered by Kenneth Feinberg. What a joke. It’s...continued→
Posted November 18, 2010 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans
The breadth of Harry Shearer’s talents might be intimidating if he weren’t such a funny guy. But how can you be cowed by someone who adlibs one-liners while shining a light on hypocrisy, corruption and malfeasance? That mix of irreverent...continued→
Posted October 8, 2010 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Moving Beyond Oil
We began our adventure in the Gulf with StoryCorps yesterday in the parking lot of the Chalmette Civic Center, outside New Orleans, the StoryCorps Airstream trailer/recording studio gleaming in the brilliant October sun. Our mission over the next 2½ weeks...continued→
Posted September 9, 2010 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Moving Beyond Oil
Public radio listeners say they’re having a “driveway moment” when a story on NPR is too good to turn off even though they’ve reached their destination. They just sit in their cars glued to the radio while passersby eye them...continued→
Posted August 26, 2010 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Environmental Justice, Moving Beyond Oil, The Media and the Environment
In New Orleans’ leafy Uptown district, about a dozen blocks from Tulane University, there’s a hidden dog park on the banks of the Mississippi River. Hounds from all over the neighborhood lead their humans over the levee and into a...continued→
Posted March 10, 2010 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, The Media and the Environment
Film director Louie Psihoyos called me last week to cancel a meeting we had scheduled for later that day. He explained, apologetically, that he was working on an undercover investigation with law enforcement officers and preparations were taking longer than...continued→
Posted March 2, 2010 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Health and the Environment
Last week I blogged about the event NRDC hosted with James Cameron and Elvis Mitchell at Fox Studios to bring attention to the environmental message behind the highest-grossing movie in history, Avatar. We now have video clips on the event online. It’s fascinating...continued→
Posted February 23, 2010 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Living Sustainably, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
“Avatar asks us all to be warriors for the earth,” said the film’s director, James Cameron, at a benefit for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) last night at 20th Century Fox Studios in Los Angeles. Before an enthusiastic audience...continued→
Posted February 18, 2010 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
This Monday, February 22nd, Avatar director James Cameron will participate in a discussion with Elvis Mitchell, host of KCRW’s The Treatment, to benefit NRDC. They’ll screen excerpts from Avatar and talk about public reaction to the powerful environmental message of...continued→
Posted January 21, 2010 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
This Saturday, January 23rd from 4pm-6pm there’s a public reception for photographer Mark Swope at the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station. Swope has a new exhibition of L.A. River photographs that are really worth checking out. Before...continued→
Posted December 4, 2009 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
As parents of a toddler, my wife and I don’t get to the movies much, but we’ve already lined up a babysitter for December 18, the night James Cameron’s AVATAR opens. Though I’m excited to see the 3D visual effects,...continued→
Posted November 4, 2009 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Environmental Justice, Reviving the World's Oceans
How can our country adopt a carbon pollution policy if Republicans won't even come to the negotiating table? All seven GOP senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee are now boycotting hearings on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, taking denial...continued→
Posted October 2, 2009 by Daniel Hinerfeld in Solving Global Warming
Sigourney Weaver is just awesome. What else can you say after watching her performance this morning on Fox and Friends. The show introduced her segment as a promo for the new James Cameron film, AVATAR, but Sigourney politely switched topics...continued→
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