Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Day two and the feeling of being dunked in oil hasn't lifted. In fact, given the financial news rocking Wall Street and the soaring price of oil futures, I'm left feeling greasier than ever. The latest reports from Washington find the...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
I woke up feeling more than a bit greasy this morning. It was almost as if I someone had snuck into my bedroom and dumped a barrel or two of oil on me. And my shower didn't help all that much....
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Greening China , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
If your husband is a tennis fanatic like mine then your television is going to be commandeered for much of early September as the world’s tennis superstars slam their way through the U.S. Open. And this year, in addition to...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
This weekend, the husband and I stopped by Home Depot to see if we could find shelves to house my out-of-control Kidrobot collection. We got our shelves -- at a huge discount in fact -- but still walked out a...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Couldn't resist this nugget from the front page of today's USA Today: "Speeders to Pay Extra for Police Fuel."According to the paper, the City Council of suburban Holly Springs, GA, decided to help cover the spiraling cost of gasoline by...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
When we purchased our slice of paradise near New Hope, PA, we knew the house had not received much tender loving care. But we did not realize at the time, however, that it hadn't really been touched in the 30...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , U.S. Law and Policy
When you are deep in home renovation land, there are few places you visit more often than Home Depot and Lowes. Most weekends involve at least once visit and sometimes we actually end up going on both Saturday and Sunday.Yesterday,...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
I'll admit it. I'm an addict. I'm completely addicted to Diet Coke in all of its many varieties. Regular, with Lime and now even Diet Coke plus with minerals and vitamins added. (I do giggle when I buy those; the...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
NRDC hasn’t been visited by any chickens driving hummers, but we did get a letter from PETA earlier this summer asking about our policies regarding global warming and factory farming and vegetarianism. Our response to PETA just went out the...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
MIT's Technology Review (free registration required) just published its list of young innovators under 35, those scientists who the editors say have the most exciting inventions and research. "Their work -- spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology and more -- is changing our...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably
Wandering through Gristmill this evening, I discovered an amazing photo gallery on plastic bags from the UK. Hosted by a group called The Photographers' Gallery, the show is designed to remind "us of our ability to consume and dispose." It...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
UPS stopped by yesterday, delivering the product of another Internet shopping moment. (It really is too easy to shop on the Internet.) This time it was a print of a delightful New Yorker cover from July 23 of this year....
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
One of the favorite parts of my job at NRDC is that I get to serve as publisher of OnEarth, our quarterly magazine. Beyond being able to work with a superbly talented team of editors and designers, what makes this...
Posted by Phil Gutis
The latest issue of Men's Journal has an intriguing story about gold mining and the environmental detritus it leaves behind. The article cites the work of a campaign called No Dirty Gold, a co-production of Earthworks and Oxfam America. As...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment
In an interesting example of policy advocacy crossing into marketing land, this week's Advertising Age has an article titled "BP touts greenness, then asks to dump ammonia." The controversy involves a plan by the energy giant to increase the amount...
