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Is green the new red?

May 30, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
america, charleskrauthammer, communist, georgewill, salon

Today, I found out I am a communist. I can't believe my parents never told me this, back when I was playing poker in the front yard and gleefully taking my friends' nickels. Apparently I was supposed to divvy up...

Recession Recession Recession

January 14, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
candyman, Google, Merrill Lynch, recession

Advertising folks will tell you that repetition is the key to getting an idea stuck in your head. Summer camp and Hollywood will tell you that saying something at least three times (preferably at midnight, while looking in a mirror)...

So this is the new year

January 2, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
Edge, newyears, paradigm shift

and if I were Ben Gibbard, I might not feel any different. But I do, just a little. Maybe it's three days of hikes in the sunny cold air, rearranging my office, lots of Yorkshire pudding, or the disquieting news...

What kind of Green am I?

September 26, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
beer, marketing, psychology, rationalismvsempiricism, SWA

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...

Greener than thou

August 22, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
environmentalism, incrementalism, Mos Def

At the Mos Def show on Saturday, I stood near a guy with a shirt that read "Militant Vegan". He had a fairly serious demeanor despite the sunny day and tight rhymes coming from the stage, so I started speculating...

PhDs are the champions, my friend

August 21, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
brianmay, queen, science

Sorry, NRDC webmasters, I just don't know how to categorize the news that Queen guitarist Brian May is now a doctor of astronomy. Candidate for best professor quote of 2007:‘I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a...

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Kate Wing was a senior ocean-policy analyst at NRDC between 2000 and 2008. She's now joined...
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