Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution
Dear Sony credit card services,Thanks so much for sending me this great can with your latest unsolicited credit card offer! It's true, I was ignoring those blah envelopes you usually send but how could I just toss this in...
Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
[I'm posting this on behalf of Darby Hoover, NRDC's "greening big events" specialist, who couldn't be with us tonight due to her problems getting a visa -- Kate]I'd like to thank the Academy, and my colleagues at NRDC, and everyone...
Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution
Spotted at the JFK airport gift shop. Kids, avoid a misconduct charge by practicing now to avoid those pesky bridges! ...
Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution
Today we're inviting our California activists and members to tell us their experiences with the Cosco Busan spill. Thousands of volunteers have now scrubbed the beaches with hair mats, helped rescue oiled birds, and gone to great lengths to protect...
Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution
Two great animations of the Cosco Busan oil spill:The Ocean Conservancy put together a video from NOAA's simulation of how the oil moved through the bay, hour by hour. Listen to the dulcet tones of Mr. Warner Chabot and watch...
Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution
When the signs say "OIL SPILL-BEACH CLOSED" this is why. I was heading back from Sacramento when I saw the signs up at the Albany bulb. I'd heard oil had made it east to the Berkeley marina so I stopped...
Posted by Kate Wing
By now, everyone out here is abuzz with the news that the Cosco Busan struck one of the support stanchions of the Bay Bridge on Wednesday and dumped 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into the water. Ideally, that buzz would...
Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil
My office neighbor is the talented Darby Hoover, who you may know from seat 12, Row 48 at last year's Oscars where she went to make them less wasteful. Do not blame her if they were not funny or short...
Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution , Reviving the World's Oceans
I try to keep up on the news but sometimes things do slip by. Still, I was surprised to see in the Aug. 23rd edition of NOAA's "FishNews" a reference to a report released nearly a month earlier on the...
