Posted by Phil Gutis in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
Three and a half years ago, the editors of NRDC's quarterly magazine OnEarth published a particularly arresting cover image of a chubby baby boy. The special report he illustrated was also particularly arresting: "Hundreds of man-made chemicals are interfering with...
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 Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
There's a saying in television journalism: if it bleeds, it leads. That's why whenever you switch over to the local news in your placid community, you could be forgiven for feeling as though you live in a level 10 crime...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
As you can see from the photo on the right, I'm a stocky guy (see, also, Bear Meets Bear). But I had my socks surprised right off me a few weeks ago when my doctor not so calmly informed me...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment
The Los Angeles Times this morning features a long piece from Ann Simmons, a former war correspondent who had been detailed to New Orleans to cover the city's recovery post Katrina. In many ways, it hasn't been much of a...
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 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...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
It was a beautiful afternoon, a day for moving slowly and enjoying the outside, even in New York City and even in the early evening as I headed off to Penn Station to begin the long commute home. And even...
