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A Goal for Copenhagen: Keep the Focus on Enforcement

September 23, 2009

Posted by Peter Lehner in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
copenhagencountdown, costarica, enforcement, FUNDECOR, governance, nicaragua, rainforest

Few seem willing to address the issue openly, but one of the toughest issues to address when delegates gather in Copenhagen in December for the global conference on climate change will be governance. Many developing nations attending have stressed and...

Protecting the Rainforests: Sending out an SOS on behalf of the world's tropical forests

September 21, 2009

Posted by Peter Lehner in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
climateweek, deforestation, prince'srainforestproject, princecharles, rainforest, REDD

As all eyes turn toward the UN's Climate Week and G20 summit, now is a good time to focus on the international impacts of climate change and the actions we all can take to stop the further deterioration of our...

My Week With the Whales

February 27, 2009

Posted by Peter Lehner in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
bajacalifornia, biogems, graywhales, lagaunasanignacio, mexico, spyhop

Gray whales love to spyhop. That’s one of the primary lessons of my week in Laguana San Ignacio, one of NRDC’s premier BioGems. On the west coast of Mexico’s Baja California, the lagoon is the last pristine breeding and gathering...

Describing the Devastation of Mountaintop Mining

January 29, 2009

Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
coal, coalspill, jhenryfair, kentucky, mountaintopmining

As a lawyer, I've written about environmental harms quite often. Yet as I recently flew over several of the larger mountaintop mines in eastern Kentucky, I struggled to find the words to describe the devastation. The scars where trees, topsoil...

Taking a Break to Plant a Tree

January 28, 2009

Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
CATIE, centerfortropicalagricultureinvestigationandeducation, costarica, josejoaquincampos, rainforest, vochysia

TURRIALBA, Costa Rica -- There is a reason they call them rainforests. It was pouring as I put the first tree into the ground here in a new forest that NRDC is planting with the support of our members. The...

We’re Drowning In Our Own Trash

July 11, 2008

Posted by Peter Lehner

Tags:
chrisjordan, consumption, foodprices, gasprices, malthus, trash, waste

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...

The Heart of the World

May 19, 2008

Posted by Peter Lehner in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
colombia, globalwarming, latinamerica, losmamos, poder, sierranevada

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...