Posted by Phil Gutis in Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
During last year's election campaign, I often turned to FiveThirtyEight.com and its lead blogger Nate Silver for the best analysis of the electoral numbers and polling trends. Since then, I've seen Nate repeatedly on various MSNBC shows and he continues...
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 The Media and the Environment
During my Washington days at the ACLU, we worked quite often with the good folks at the consumer action group Public Citizen, which was originally founded by Ralph Nader in 1971. That's why I noticed a LA Times column about...
Posted by Phil Gutis in The Media and the Environment
This is a story of old versus new, of ink-on-paper versus pixels on a screen. It is a story of advocacy writing and social networks. Fundamentally it is a story of the future and it is not a happy story...
Posted by Phil Gutis in The Media and the Environment
In a night of remarkable images and memorable moments, one of the perhaps most mysterious for the millions of people watching around the globe was wondering who Oprah Winfrey was crying on as President-elect Barack Obama took to the stage...
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 Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
I don't remember when it started but by the time I graduated from college with a degree in school newspaper, I very much wanted to work for The New York Times. A very close friend even made me a needlepoint...
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 Moving Beyond Oil , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
"Sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms-length." So wrote the Inspector General of the Department of Interior today in an eye-popping report decrying "a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" in the Bush Administration program charged with collecting...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
This started out purely as a funny post. Browsing through my pile of magazines recently, I came across a story in SmallBiz, a bimonthly publication of Business Week magazine, about entrepreneurs who are reshaping the business of death.Not a particularly...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
I recently wrote about NRDC's public opinion research program and promised to tell additional tales from the often-humbling land of surveys and focus groups. In the category of humbling, we were recently told that the American public is deeply skeptical...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , The Media and the Environment
I'll admit it. There's a Ford Explorer towering over the Honda Civic hybrid in our driveway. A gas-guzzling monster of an SUV that my husband inherited years ago. But it will not be there much longer.Yep, rising gas prices and...
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...
