Posted by Phil Gutis in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
I am determined. Next winter, Tim and I will travel to Baja California and Laguna San Ignacio to witness for ourselves a ritual almost too impossible to believe: mother whales encouraging their newborns to interact with humans. NRDC preserved the...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In recent weeks, I've discovered an affinity for gardening. For the first time, the mosquitos and the bugs and the heat haven't deadened my will to get my hands dirty. I've especially come to appreciate the experience of pulling weeds...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I took a day off today and spent a good portion of it with Tim as we put the results of the latest shopping trip into the ground and in terra cotta pots on the deck. In the late afternoon,...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Update, 11:31 eastern, from the NRDC News Release: More than 110,000 acres of Utah wilderness will be protected from oil and gas companies as a result of a ruling last night by Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of the U.S. District...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
About seven years ago I decided to try something athletic for the first time in my life and set a rather unrealistic goal: train for and run a 26.2-mile-long marathon. My first race was oddly addictive and I continued to...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Greening China , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , The Media and the Environment
One of the benefits of a long train commute is that you get to read headlines from all sorts of papers as my fellow commuters settle in (yes, I know "benefit" is a bit of reach). Anyway, given the steady...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
One of my first posts way back when was titled Bear Meets Bear. I described how I was a stocky hairy fellow and told the tale of how I saw my first bear in the wild.Recently I posted another entry...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
Hard to believe, but it was almost 25 years ago when my vegetarian voyage started. The journey started in a seafood shop somewhere on the south shore of Long Island. I had just been assigned to cover Long Island for ...
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 , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , The Media and the Environment
About a week ago, The New York Times published an article by my former colleague Anthony DePalma about what he called one of New York's "dirtiest environmental secrets." The secret was that whenever there is a heavy rain in New...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I won't go to Canada. Even though I'd love to experience Montreal and head west to Victoria and see the country's natural splendor, I refuse to give the Canadian government one cent of this tourist's dollar. Why? Baby seals of...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Louisa Willcox is one of my favorite people in the world. Her passion for all creatures great and small is almost too contagious (think viral). One of my colleagues recently taped Louisa talking about an hour-long encounter with a momma...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I'm a stocky hairy fellow, a guy known in the gay community as a bear. Last weekend, I came eye-to-eye with another bear, in this case a black bear who was wandering through the Murie Ranch in Moose, Wyoming. (For...
