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April 8, 2010
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Reviving the World's Oceans
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- bestofgreen, bestpoliticalwatchdog, edbegleyjr, nrdc, treehugger
On behalf of all of NRDC -- our Board, our Members, supporters and activists and, of course, our staff -- a huge thank you to the editors and readers of TreeHugger. This afternoon, the NRDC family learned that NRDC was...
December 11, 2009
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
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- CNN, copenhagen, deforestation, globalwarming, mayalin
NRDC Trustee Maya Lin has a remarkable mind. The art and memorials that she's created have moved millions of people and left many of them speechless with emotion. This afternoon CNN will air a story about one of her newest...
December 17, 2008
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- Changeinwashington, climatechange, energy, jimmycarter, obama
Call me a masochist. I've been doing some reading of Jimmy Carter's speeches lately and I'm struck by two points: he called for all the right stuff when it came to energy policy, but, and most importantly, he fell completely...
November 22, 2008
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
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- automakers, betterway, bigthree, electriccar, infrastructure, michigan, oakland, sanfrancisco, sanjose
On the same day that congressional leaders threw in the towel on a bailout for the auto industry, three Bay Area mayors joined an innovative startup in backing a $1 billion plan to create the modern day Detroit. According to...
November 5, 2008
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- buckscounty, changeinwashington, climate, election08, energy, fairlesshills, solar, ussteel, wind, yeswecan
I'm not much of a party guy so my husband, our laptops and assorted dogs spent last night sprawled around our family room watching the election returns. We'd often speak over the drone of the talking heads to blurt out...
September 18, 2008
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
- Tags:
- bigoil, energylegislation, politico, tomfriedman
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...
September 17, 2008
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
- Tags:
- energylegislation, losangelestimes
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....
September 12, 2008
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Greening China
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
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- cisco, forbes, greendatacenterblog, IBM, USOpen, wallstreetjournal
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...
June 24, 2008
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...
June 18, 2008
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- alliancetosaveenergy, fuelsurcharge, georgia, hollyspring, speeding, usatoday
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...
June 18, 2008
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- efficiency, energy, energystar, goldstein, rosenfeld, theeconomist
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...
November 19, 2007
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- plasticbags, recycling, sanfrancisco, sfchronicle
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,...
September 16, 2007
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
, The Media and the Environment
- Tags:
- coke, PET, recycling
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...
September 11, 2007
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- energyefficiency, globalwarming, livestock, methane, PETA, unitednations, vegetarian
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...
September 2, 2007
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
- Tags:
- energy, gatesfoundation, globalwarming, khosla, mit, mit-technology-review, nanotechnologies
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...
