Posted by Kate Slusark in Curbing Pollution , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
At first, I was glad to see the Wall Street Journal headline "How Big Is That Widening Gyre of Floating Plastic?" yesterday. But after reading on, I found the piece really misses the point when it came to the giant,...
Posted by Kate Slusark in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans
The images of oil-soaked birds and other animals were burned on my brain as a kid in 1989, when the Exxon Valdez spill happened in Alaska's Prince William Sound. Those desperate, tragic pictures made a big impression on me at...
Posted by Kate Slusark in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
I was thrilled to see the New York Times editorial yesterday "The Oceans' Shifting Balance," which talked about what all the CO2 emissions in our air are doing to our oceans. CO2 pollution – the same that is contributing to...
Posted by Kate Slusark in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Just hours after the sad news that Broadway icon Gerald Schoenfeld passed away, Mayor Bloomberg took the stage of the O'Neill Theater to announce a plan that would have made Gerry proud - Broadway is "greening itself" by making its...
