Posted by Peter Lehner in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
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...
Posted by Peter Lehner in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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...
Posted by Peter Lehner in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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...
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
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...
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
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...
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...
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...
