Posted by Kate Wing in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
I was intrigued by this piece in the NYT this week where pollsters use their knowledge of "microtrends" to associate certain products with the three Presidential candidates. Clinton = butter & fig newtons, Obama = olive oil & soft chocolate...
Posted by Kate Wing in Living Sustainably
There's something about Jon Stewart that reminds me of Kermit the Frog. The dark eyes, the pensive, self-deprecating humor. Or maybe just the greenness, which in Jon's case is coming less from a cozy felt skin than from the...
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 Living Sustainably
Rumor has it that upon hearing that NRDC was preparing our annual "Green Gifts" guide one staffer replied "Well, I hope we're telling people not to buy anything!" Um, no. No, we're not. If you want to go present free,...
Posted by Kate Wing in Living Sustainably
The unity of Thanksgiving makes it one of my favorite holidays. It's the one day when everyone in the U.S., regardless of religion or background, does essentially the same thing. More people celebrate Thanksgiving than vote, after all, and I...
Posted by Kate Wing in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
For some reason, we have a large number of people from New Jersey at NRDC. And not just in our east coast offices. One could speculate about how living in a state where the roadside signs say "warning: trees treated...
Posted by Kate Wing in Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
You've got to be at least a little curious about people to work in policy. Otherwise, you could just be a field scientist and spend all your time with penguins or microscopes. But people, well, they're kind of fascinating. What...
