Posted February 25, 2013 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
I just traveled to Nairobi for the first Universal Session of the United Nations Environment Programme Governing Council and then on to Paris for meetings with government officials and civil society on climate change and global goals. I have...continued→
Posted February 5, 2013 by Jacob Scherr in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
At just 24-years-old, Chris Castro is a successful Cuban-American eco- entrepreneur from Orlando, Florida. I met Chris in New York last week at a UN assembly of youth leaders from around the world. He was there to celebrate the progress of...continued→
Posted August 2, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
The mainstream media, outside of Brazil and particularly in the United States, did not pay a lot of attention to Rio+20 Earth Summit in June. However, Rio+20 did reach millions of people worldwide. It was first global summit of the...continued→
Posted July 9, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Greening China, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
Since returning from Rio, I have already participated in a number of debriefings about the Rio+20 Earth Summit. I am pleased to see the interest, but dismayed to find many people have already accepted the message that the Summit had...continued→
Posted June 12, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Solving Global Warming
“We’d never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky.” – Emily Dickinson The hour is upon us, my friends. This week we...continued→
Posted June 10, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
After a year of Racing to Rio, I was suddenly not sure whether I would be able to travel there as scheduled this Monday night. We've been long envisioning and advocating for a different kind of Earth Summit this June in Rio - one that would produce...continued→
Posted May 14, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, 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
It is easy to feel depressed about the state of the Rio+20 preparations after the recent two weeks of “informal informal” negotiations at the United Nations in New York. The governments managed to reach agreement on less than two dozen...continued→
Posted April 27, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Reviving the World's Oceans, Solving Global Warming
Just recently Rio+20 has started to get some attention in wider circles in Washington, DC with the focus on whether President Obama will attend the Summit. It began with Todd Stern, the US chief climate change negotiator, indicating on a press...continued→
Posted April 23, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
I was really pleased to get the chance last Sunday to speak on behalf of NRDC at the 2012 Earth Day rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The only problem was the weather – bone-chilling cold and pouring-down rain. As I...continued→
Posted April 12, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Reviving the World's Oceans, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
After participating in Rio+20 preparatory meetings last month at the United Nations, it appears that governments will spend thousands of hours this spring arguing over a draft Rio+20 output document now more than 200-page long. We heard for the first...continued→
Posted April 9, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Solving Global Warming
Today, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff will meet with President Obama in the White House. They will undoubtedly discuss the upcoming big international athletic matches to be held in Rio de Janeiro: the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. These...continued→
Posted March 30, 2012 by Jacob Scherr 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
This Saturday March 31st, millions of people around the world will observe “Earth Hour” at 8:30 p.m. As you’ll see in the awesome video below, people will turn off lights in cities around the world to demonstrate concerns about our planetary home and...continued→
Posted March 29, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
This post is first published on Sage Magazine by Angel Hertslet of the US Citizens Summit Blog Team The summit kicked off with a panel entitled “Twenty Years After Rio, Why are We Not There Yet?” According to Daniel Esty, Commissioner of...continued→
Posted March 20, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
With fewer than one hundred days before the start of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, there are reasons to be hopeful about prospects for this gathering: The United Nations just announced that 115 Heads of...continued→
Posted March 15, 2012 by Jacob Scherr in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
This post is co-authored by Philip Goo, a member of NRDC's Global Strategy and Advocacy team, and Marissa Ramirez, who works on NRDC's Sustainable Communities initiatives. ...continued→
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