Posted by Peter Lehner
At a recent climate conference, scientists John Holden and Thomas Lovejoy demonstrated the current horrors of climate disruption. They also asked a simple question: What’s the right target for CO2 in the atmosphere? Pre-industrial levels were around 280 parts per million. ...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner
Thomas Malthus has suddenly become popular again. While Americans are concerned about fuel prices, much of the rest of the world is concerned about food prices. In countries like Egypt and Bangladesh, and in regions of Africa, riots have...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner
Greedy shop owners are, sadly, not the only ones who both needlessly and thoughtlessly waste energy by keeping the doors to their air-conditioned shops open. A few Saturdays ago, I had to fly to Atlanta. Because of construction at La Guardia,...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner
We need a lot more environmental information to begin to address the lack of public understanding of environmental harms.This may seem obvious, but it isn’t. At a meeting a few years ago, I was shocked to find the head of...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner
In response to a recent post of mine, a commenter said, “American's can go back to the ‘stone age’ and walk to work and it wouldn't make any difference to the WORLD oil market.” I appreciate your comment, Dan, but...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner
Twenty years ago, Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the Senate that man-made greenhouse gas emissions were responsible for warming the climate. Yesterday, Hansen returned to the House to deliver a simple message....continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner
Yesterday, I wrote a post about the need to limit opening additional federal lands to offshore drilling. Two comments got me thinking, and made me want to expand upon my thoughts here.One commenter named Wayne said, “What this country needs...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming
Earlier today, President Bush called upon Congress to lift a ban on offshore oil drilling that was enacted more than 25 years ago. Since then, every President has extended the moratorium – first by President Bush’s father, in 1990, and...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner in Living Sustainably
A few nights ago, I gave a talk aboard the Clearwater sloop – a 106-foot wooden sailing sloop designed after 18th and 19th century Dutch sailing sloops – at an event sponsored by Earth Share. As we sailed around the...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner in Solving Global Warming
Last week, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act fell short of being passed by the Senate. It was an historic moment, in which the United States faced two choices: to accept the responsibility of limiting our carbon emissions for the sake...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
When I walk into our New York office every morning, I know I work with people devoted to the environment. In my colleague’s offices, there are pictures of all of their favorite mountains, rivers and oceans. In mine, I have...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner in Solving Global Warming
A study released last week by the Florida Coastal and Ocean Coalition, a group of nationally and internationally recognized environmental organizations of which NRDC is a member, outlines the ways in which Florida’s ecosystem, and its residents, are already feeling...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner in U.S. Law and Policy
Over the coming weeks, law schools all across the country are holding their commencement exercises. On Friday, for instance, I had the privilege to address the graduating class of the New York City Environmental Law Leadership Institute. By the beginning...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
I recently had the pleasure to meet Los Mamos de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta at an environmental philanthropy forum in Miami sponsored by Poder, a Latin American business magazine. The Mamos are known as the “Elder Brothers” of...continued→
