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The One Billion Ton Opportunity Cont'd - Part V: Waste, Recycling and Responsible Consumption

February 23, 2010

Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
climatechange, globalwarming, simplesteps, waste

UPDATE 3/18: Table edited. Today Matt Eisenson continues his blog series on the NRDC-Garrison Institute Behavioral Wedge—a.k.a. the “Billion Tons Project”—with his fifth and final post.  The theme today is reducing waste.  To catch up on Matt’s earlier posts, see...

The One Billion Ton Opportunity Cont'd - Part IV: Diet and Food Waste

February 11, 2010

Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
climatechange, dairy, diet, food, globalwarming, simplesteps

UPDATE 3/18: Table edited. Today, Matt Eisenson continues his series of blogs on the Behavioral Wedge Project with the fourth of five posts, focusing on the climate impacts of changes to our daily diets. (For more on this work, check out...

The One Billion Ton Opportunity Cont'd - Part III: Household Energy Use

January 28, 2010

Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
climatechange, globalwarming, homeefficiency, simplesteps

UPDATE 3/16: Two measures added--delay retirement of personal computers by two years and use dryer more sparingly (line-dry in the summer). Today, my colleague Matt Eisenson continues his blog series on the NRDC-Garrison Institute "Behavioral Wedge Project" (see here and...

The One Billion Ton Opportunity Cont'd - Part II: Transportation

January 14, 2010

Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
climatechange, globalwarming, simplesteps, transport, transportation

UPDATE 3/16: Correction to aviation emissions reductions (56 MMtCO2e NOT 125 MMtCO2e).  Additional measures added to Household Energy to compensate for this shortfall. Last week on this Switchboard blog, my colleague Matt Eisenson introduced the Behavioral Wedge Project, a joint NRDC-Garrison Institute effort to see if...

Personal Actions Matter: The One Billion Ton Opportunity

January 8, 2010

Posted by Sasha Lyutse in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
climatechange, diet, energyefficiency, food, globalwarming, simplesteps, waste

I’d like to introduce Matt Eisenson, a new Fellow here at NRDC, who has spent the last few months working with experts at NRDC and friends at the Garrison Institute to develop the "Behavioral Wedge," the one billion ton personal action opportunity. ...

Sasha Lyutse
Sasha Lyutse
Welch Environmental Innovation Fellow
New York
The prospect of working for NRDC brought me back to NY following a 2-year stint...
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