Susan Casey-Lefkowitz's Blog

About

Bio:: With a daughter almost on her way to college, I've been looking at the world through new eyes. This has been helped by a new found love of walking. And I mean WALKING - to work, home from work, along the river on weekends, for the shopping, library and dinners with a friend. Growing up in a suburb of DC, we didn't do much walking. For the years I lived in Holland, bikes were our way of getting around. Now I am learning the joys of urban hiking and I feel as though the city has become one big national park for me.
Roots in:: Washington, D.C.
Favorite place:: Weaver Lake in Northern Manitoba
Why "environmentalism" matters:: My daughter Irene. My nephew Simon. The whole life that stretches out in front of us depending on a world that I see changing for the worse every year. How can we not all do whatever we can to keep our world healthy?

Growing international outrage and Carbon Big Foot welcome Canada to Washington (September 16, 2009)
One more reason we don’t need tar sands oil (September 15, 2009)
Tar sands raises sticky issues as Canadian Prime Minister meets with President Obama (September 10, 2009)
Approving a new tar sands pipeline hurts U.S. credibility on clean energy (August 21, 2009)
Tar Sands Keeps Canada from Climate Leadership (August 7, 2009)
Studies Confirm Tar Sands Dirtiest of Dirty Oils (July 23, 2009)
The new House climate and energy bill takes us one step further from dependence on expanded tar sands oil production (June 29, 2009)
Applauding the Call for Action on Climate, Tar Sands, Arctic and Boreal (June 4, 2009)
Tar Sands – Dangerous Distraction or Just Plain Dangerous? (May 29, 2009)
Expansion of tar sands oil is not central to U.S. energy supply – despite new report conclusion (May 18, 2009)