Category Archives: Climate Destabilization

The Pollution Solution That Will Make Us All Sick

Posted on May 23, 2012 by lzerbe| Leave a comment

By Rich Bindell, senior writer and blogger at Food & Water Watch

The path to a green economy is dotted with many mirages. Eco-compensation is one of them. World Resources Institute (WRI) describes eco-compensation as if it’s a just reward to companies for providing sustainable solutions to environmental problems, but it really just encourages business as usual for big polluters. It doesn’t solve the problem of poor water quality. In fact, it allows companies to profit while they continue to compromise our resources. It’s market-based pollution trading. Continue reading →

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How Corporations Greenwash Kids

Posted on April 20, 2012 by lzerbe| 3 Comments

 

By Kai Olson-Sawyer, Leslie Hatfield, and Jennifer Bunin, EcoCentric
Main Image for: Green Lessons: What Corporations Are Telling Kids and What Kids Are Saying about Environmental Issues

Somewhere, over the rainbow…everything is slightly more pastoral when you’re drilling it. Continue reading →

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Solar: Is It Even Safe?

Posted on March 28, 2012 by lzerbe| 2 Comments

by Pierre Bull, Air & Energy policy analyst at Natural Resources Defense Council

Many people have asked me lately, “What goes inside solar panels and does any of it pose a health risk?”  A report released today by the corporate watchdog group,  As You Sow , titled, Clean & Green: Best Practices in Photovoltaics, gives a fair and comprehensive overview of the health and safety risks with regard to solar photovoltaic manufacturing and end of life management. The report discusses:

  . . .  in non-scientific language, the process of manufacturing PV panels, the risks involved, and how companies mitigate those risks. It focuses on practices and policies companies use to mitigate risks from hazardous compounds, reduce environmental impact, and responsibly manage their supply chains. Continue reading →

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9 Low-Tech Steps for Community Resilience in a Warming Climate

Posted on March 22, 2012 by lzerbe| Leave a comment

By Kaid Benfield, director of sustainable communities at Natural Resources Defense Council

heat vulnerability in the US (by: NRDC)

Over the past 50 years, our average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history.  That is fact, not opinion.  Scientists say that under current trends, average US temperatures could be 3 to 9 degrees higher by the end of the century. Continue reading →

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The Gas Price Blame Game

Posted on March 16, 2012 by lzerbe| 2 Comments

by Peter Lehner, executive director, Natural Resources Defense Council

Every year when gas prices rise, politicians and pundits like to play the blame game. On Fox & Friends, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal blamed the Obama administration’s “radical environmental ideology” for high gas prices. (The latest Bloomberg poll, however, showed that most Americans do not blame the White House.) The Christian Science Monitor points the finger at India. Continue reading →

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Saving the Planet Is Good For Your Health!

Posted on March 9, 2012 by emain| 1 Comment

by Peter Lehner, executive director, Natural Resources Defense Council

Environmental safeguards have clearly proven their value over the past few decades, bringing returns on investment as high as 40 to 1. Yet in its recent coverage of U.S. regulations, The Economist chooses to ignore this track record, and instead trot out a host of tired, unsubstantiated industry arguments against regulation. (NRDC chief economist Laurie Johnson has a detailed response to the article’s surprising errors in her blog.) Continue reading →

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Fracking Takes Center Stage in New York Show

Posted on February 21, 2012 by lzerbe| 3 Comments

by David L’Heureux, Senior Editor, Rodale

New York-based performance ensemble Strike Anywhere premieres its show Same River at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn from February 23 – March 3. The multimedia, interview-based, improvised production uses dance, music and theater as a lens for examining the practice of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) in the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation beneath New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. (Read how fracking works here). An audience-ensemble forum to discuss the show and the potential impacts that fracking could have on water supplies throughout the region follows each performance.

New York-based performance ensemble addresses the impacts of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in its show Same River.

“Ultimately we are trying to raise awareness and incite dialog around this issue,” says Leese Walker, an actor and the Artistic Director of Strike Anywhere. “That’s one of the reasons we do the post-show dialog. We want people in the audience talking to one another about fracking.”

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Massive U.S. Support Emerges to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline

Posted on February 16, 2012 by lzerbe| 8 Comments

By Frances Beinecke, president of Natural Resources Defense Council

People from across the nation have come together in their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline for dirty tar sands oil. Over the course of just 24 hours, Americans sent more than 800,000 messages to their senators condemning an effort to revive this dirty tar sands pipeline.

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Stopping the Keystone Pipeline—Act Now!

Posted on February 14, 2012 by lzerbe| 6 Comments

by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director of the International Program at Natural Resources Defense Council

Americans from all walks of life who want to fight climate change and build a clean energy future have sent a clear message: the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not in the national interest. Working with a large coalition of partners, our goal was to send a half million messages opposing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to the Senate in just 24 hours. Continue reading →

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Certain Favorite Sports Face Extinction

Posted on February 6, 2012 by lzerbe| 1 Comment

by Theo Spencer, senior advocate at Natural Resources Defense Council’s Climate Center

So far, it hasn’t been a great winter for skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers and folks who depend on a lot of snow for their recreation and livelihood. Some states—Washington and Alaska—and some ski areas like Taos in New Mexico, and Telluride in southern Colorado, have gotten dumped on. But most resorts across the country are hurting for snow and hurting for dollars as a result. (See my colleague Kelly Henderson’s recent blog post on this topic). Continue reading →

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