Kate Sinding's Blog
About
- Bio:
I am a senior attorney in NRDC’s New York Urban Program. I am a relative newcomer to NRDC, having arrived here in November 2006. Before that, I was in private practice at a small environmental law firm in New York City. One of the best things about being in the Urban Program is that I get to work on a really broad array of matters, some of which you wouldn’t even automatically think of as being “urban.” For example, right now, I am working on such diverse matters as pursuing legislation to require recycling of electronic waste (i.e., old TVs and computers); opposing the development of proposed massive casino complexes in the ecologically important Catskill Region, which is the source of the famed New York City drinking water supply; and reducing the number of unwanted catalogs that bombard most of us every day. I live in New York City, where I have been ever since I started college. What makes New York such a livable place for an outdoors fanatic like me is how surprisingly easy it is to get to activities like surfing, mountain biking and snowboarding, much of it by public transportation.
- Roots in:
- I grew up mostly overseas, but New York is my undisputed home now.
- Favorite place:
- Montauk in the summer and Utah in the winter.
- Why "environmentalism" matters:
- This is the only home we have, and it’s the only home our children and theirs will have. Everyone on earth today and tomorrow deserves for it to be the cleanest, purest, most abundant place it can be.
Recent Blog Posts
- New York City: Come Out and Tell the State to Keep Our Water Clean (November 5, 2009)
- New York Times Agrees: Ban Drilling in NYC's Watershed (October 29, 2009)
- No More Excuses: NY Must Ban Gas Drilling in the NYC Watershed Now (October 28, 2009)
- New York Proposes Risking Chemicals in Our Drinking Water (October 5, 2009)
- Industry Launches Attack on NYC E-Waste Law (July 28, 2009)
- Big advances in e-recycling for New Yorkers (April 22, 2009)
- Obama is Right to Ask Congress to Delay the Digital Conversion (January 13, 2009)
- Nearly One Million Strong (September 9, 2008)
- One step closer to all "green" yellow cabs for NYC (July 17, 2008)
- World Series Champs are Champs of Going Green (April 22, 2008)
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