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
- 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)
- The Post Office and E-Waste, Perfect Together (March 19, 2008)
- Today Show boost for Catalog Choice (January 24, 2008)
- Nice PSA and electronic recycling update (January 24, 2008)
- Getting Rid (Safely) of Holiday E-Waste (December 28, 2007)
- NRDC in Prime Time! (October 30, 2007)
- Talking "Paper or Plastic" with WNYC's Brian Lehrer (October 16, 2007)
- Putting a stop to all those unwanted catalogs (October 11, 2007)
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