Posted by Frances Beinecke in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
NRDC Trustee Robert Redford has received the new LEAF award from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. The award honors Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts, and I think Redford is great inaugural recipient. Robert Redford has been...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
In the past few days, the editorial pages of the New York Times have identified an alarming trend in the current energy debate. Increasingly, candidates and their surrogates are peddling delusions and fraudulent claims about how we can drive down...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
The Washington Post just ran an editorial highlighting an ad the NRDC Action Fund printed in the paper. The ad, which featured a drawing of President Bush holding a bottle of elixir, said the claim that offshore drilling will drive...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
For the record, I have been a fan of the much-talked about tire gauge for years now. Long before it became a prop in this summer’s presidential campaign, I gave them away to friends and family. I even recommended them...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
We knew this day would come. We knew oil prices would break through the $100 ceiling. We knew gas prices would soar past $4 a gallon. We knew China and India would demand bigger pieces of the petroleum pie. The...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I recently drove to the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York and felt the $4 sticker shock so many Americans are now feeling at the pump. There is no doubt that soaring gas prices are making hard economic times even...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
For the second time in two weeks, President Bush returned to the Rose Garden to offer outdated ideas on how to manage America’s energy crisis. On April 16, he trotted out a plan for tackling global warming that was weaker...continued→
