On Weekday, a program by Washington State NPR, NRDC trustee Gus Speth talks about how we can modify American capitalism to avoid environmental catastrophe while maintaining prosperity… David Beckman highlights the role of greenscaping in reducing urban stormwater runoff in a podcast for California’s Ocean Public Awareness website ThankYouOcean.org… In a high profile Washington Post piece, an excited Allen Hershkowitz discusses NRDC’s role in greening major-league baseball, which is happening in leaps and bounds.

Pieces on the topic of relisting gray wolves under the endangered species act ran in numerous outlets, including Salon.com… And Louisa Willcox commented on the importance of the relisting as a legal precedent as well as for wolf genetics in a lengthy Missoulian piece… Doug Obegi explains the impact poorly planned water management schemes are having on beleaguered salmon populations in Southern California in the San Francisco Chronicle… David Beckman airs his disappointment in the LA Times that certain beach pollution protections were voided by an Orange County judge Thursday.