Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably
Earlier this month, I asked readers in my blog, on NRDC's Facebook page and via our online newsletter to share what Earth Day means to them. And you did! Here are some of the responses that made me laugh, smile...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably
Here's what it means to me: That's my new son, Henry. (Sorry, I can't help showing him off a little bit.) I've cared about the environment for a long time, but while my wife was pregnant with Henry here, I...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Sometimes in New York, you get surrounded by steel and glass and brick and brownstone and it's easy to forgot that you live on an island -- and not a particularly big island at that.Then it pours for one afternoon...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Solving Global Warming
The snake discovered recently by scientists in Colombia was huge: as long as a school bus and heavy as a small car. Its remains, now being studied at the University of Florida, are about as long as a T-rex...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
Crossing the Triborough Bridge last night on the way home from LaGuardia airport, I smiled as my cab passed under a giant banner trumpeting today's renaming of the bridge in honor of Robert F. Kennedy. RFK is one of my...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Solving Global Warming
It all starts with a basket of coal.That's one of the first things you see when you walk into the American Museum of Natural History's ambitious new exhibition on global warming. Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably
The New York City Department of Transportation announced last week that bike commuting jumped 35 percent in the city over the past year. That's a lot of new bikers on the streets, and I'm proud to be one of them....continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Two years ago, while taking a year off to get a master’s degree at Columbia University (yeah, some "year off"), I took a fascinating class on the public health impacts of climate change -- a rapidly emerging field that’s just...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , The Media and the Environment
Answer: They’re black and white and read all over. Sunday’s New York Times was something of a bonanza (albeit a sobering one) for anyone interested in environmental news. In a front-page story, Elisabeth Rosenthal reports from Barcelona on the...continued→
