Posted by Heather Allen in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment
As many NRDC specialists are posting blogs on critical water issues, you may be itching to get your fingers in the mix. Now is the time! The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is partnering with Helium to get your voice heard on the...
Posted by Heather Allen in Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Monday, March 22nd 2010 is recognized by the United Nations as World Water Day, a time to raise awareness of the global water crisis and focus on the solutions. The challenge is tremendous, almost 900 million people lack safe drinking...
Posted by Heather Allen in Health and the Environment
Its budget season in Washington, an opportunity to help shape how the U.S. will spend millions and sometimes billions of funds to improve the lives of the poor around the world. Safe drinking water and adequate sanitation can have the...
Posted by Heather Allen in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming
Given the environmental challenges we face, my new years resolution to go vegetarian this year is a small endeavor. For me, though, it will be quite a shift. In recent years, I have been acturately described as an omnivore. But I am going to take a...
Posted by Heather Allen in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment
It's a fun way to build awareness for a very serious problem. Safe water and sanitation are the world's most pressing environmental health challenges as NRDC has highlighted here and here. Luckily World Toilet Day celebrations in DC did reach lots of...
Posted by Heather Allen in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
We tend to think of climate change as an air pollution problem, or a threat to our atmosphere, but in fact water and especially watery ecosystems (wetlands, mangroves, mountainous cloud forests, and more) will play a major role in...
Posted by Heather Allen in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The typhoon Ketsana is pouring down on Bangkok this morning as I ready myself for day four of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings. Representatives of countries and hundreds of civil society organizations will continue to meet...
