April 17, 2013
by MoreRecycling
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Now that digital video is ubiquitous, there are vast oceans of data being stored in gigantic data centers around the world. To ensure the accessibility and integrity of all that data, multiple copies of the files are being held, sometimes within the same Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 4, 2013
by Allen Hershkowitz
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Allen Hershkowitz, Senior Scientist, NYC and throughout the world
The National Basketball Association’s Green Week is globally unique in all of professional sports: No other league or team dedicates an entire week every year to ed… Continue reading
March 28, 2013
by David Taylor, Contributing Author
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Making environmentally friendly choices is more than recycling or turning the lights off. Every decision can actually have a positive impact on the world. What many people don’t know is that applying for home loans can lower greenhouse emissions. Thus,… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 20, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Earlier this week Washington, DC mayor Vincent Gray announced a bold sustainability vision that is as comprehensive and ambitious in its aspirations as any in the … Continue reading
November 27, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Just yesterday, I was making the case for bringing more nature into urban environments, to soften the perceived and real effects of density and thus make density m… Continue reading
November 26, 2012
by Wendy Fok
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Wendy Fok, Project Director, High Performance Tenant Demonstration Project, Center for Market Innovation, New York
In the U.S., over $20 billion a year is spent on energy use in commercial office buildings. With tenant spaces resp… Continue reading
July 24, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
About eight miles or so south of London’s storied Mall, where the Olympic cycling road race will begin and end (look for Mark Cavendish to win), and a little… Continue reading
June 5, 2012
by Henry Henderson
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Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois
Today Mayor Rahm Emmanuel announced plans to tackle one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases in Chicago (or any city), and a key part of the City’s economy … Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 27, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Bridgette Meinhold writes in Inhabitat that Nashville’s Cumberland Park, along the Cumberland River, has transformed a former “wasteland” into “a 6.5-… Continue reading
February 6, 2012
by Frances Beinecke
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Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City
Hyderabad has turned out to be the perfect place to begin my first trip to India. This four-hundred-year-old city is rich in cultural history, but its sleek, gleaming IT sector points t… Continue reading
January 25, 2012
by Sasha Lyutse
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Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York
Last summer, EPA temporarily exempted the carbon emitted from burning biomass from pollution standards under the Clean Air Act and convened a panel of scientific experts to advise it on crafting ru… Continue reading
October 14, 2011
by Brandi Colander
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Brandi Colander, Attorney, Air & Energy – New York City
Today, NRDC joined forces with Facebook and Opower to launch a landmark initiative designed to kick energy efficiency up a notch. Seizing upon the potential for social networking t… Continue reading
October 6, 2011
by Reduce
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Oregon’s total waste recovery rate hit 50 percent for the first time in state history in 2010, according to a recent report by the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. Oregon originally set a goal to recover half of its waste by 2009 but met the total a year late. The state diverted 46.3 percent of [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookSeptember 16, 2011
by Pierre Delforge
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Pierre Delforge, Senior Engineer, San Francisco
The biggest energy and environmental impact of using Google and other internet services may not be where you think it is. The rapid spread of large data centers that power the internet is … Continue reading
April 22, 2011
by Globe Foundation
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Throughout its 40 plus year history Earth Day has been a rallying point for millions of personal acts intended to help save the environment. It has sparked rallies and marches, demonstrations and parades, contests and car washes, and with the aid of th… Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 18, 2011
by Reduce
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How you could score a free cup o’ joe and other highlights from Starbucks new Corporate Social Responsibility Report. Starbucks first started publishing its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports 10 years ago. Back then, according to Ben Packard, vice president of Global Responsibility, Starbucks was among just a handful of companies that reported such findings [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 5, 2011
by Barbara Finamore
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China’s annual parliamentary session opened Saturday morning, with 3,000 National People’s Congress members and 2,000 members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) gathered in the Great Hall of the People t… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 17, 2011
by Robin Roy
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Kevin Kampschroer, the Director of the Federal High-Performance Green Building Program at the General Services Administration, is an unsung hero of energy efficiency. Literally. Yesterday, the Alliance to Save Energy awarded Kevin an esteem… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 24, 2011
by Reduce
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The National Football League has been investing in environmental programs for 17 years, and there’s a reason for that, according to Jack Groh, director of the NFL Environmental Program. “We’re just part of the operation, not public relations,” he says. “At the NFL, it’s always been more ‘walk the walk’ than ‘talk the talk.’ We [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 7, 2011
by Reduce
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Think about everything that you use in one day – your morning shower, the coffeemaker, the work commute, your annual report, the short drive to lunch, watching television, doing laundry. It all adds up. Now think about how much time, money and resources you’d save if you just used a little bit less during your [...] Continue reading
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