Alice Henly, Research Fellow, New York
Today, in conjunction with opening day of NBA Green Week 2013, the National Basketball Association is launching a league-wide online tool designed to measure their environmental impact.
In par… Continue reading →
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 →
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Washington, DC, April 1, 2013 – The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Congress for the New Urbanism announced today that the two national organizatio… Continue reading →
Allen Hershkowitz, Senior Scientist, NYC and throughout the world
For the past six years, my colleagues and I at the Natural Resources Defense Council have coordinated the environmental stewardship work at the Academy Awards, this year … Continue reading →
It’s safe say that the world has a food waste problem. Luckily, many groups, individuals and movements are stepping up with both large and small-scale efforts to fight food waste worldwide. Continue reading →
Alice Henly, Research Fellow, New York
Last week the University of Pennsylvania held a kickoff event for their newly formed Athletics Eco-Reps team in collaboration with Wharton’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership and… Continue reading →
Pete Altman, Climate and Clean Air Campaign Director, Washington, D.C.
It was thrilling to hear President Obama put climate change front and center in his Inaugural Address. In case you missed what he said, here it is:
David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C.
As living standards rise for tens of millions of people, India is on the verge of an enormous expansion in room and vehicle air conditioning that could stra… Continue reading →
Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco
In the wake of superstorms and flood wreckage across communities in the United States, India, Vietnam, and elsewhere, diplomats are meeting in Geneva this week to discuss action under the M… Continue reading →
Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco
Every holiday season, it’s a struggle to not start drooling when walking down the aisles of a grocery store. You know the feeling as the savory scent of tantalizing samples … Continue reading →
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
A thorough new report developed by my colleagues at the Natural Resources Defense Council, together with Move LA, a transportation and smart development partnershi… Continue reading →
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Lincoln Financial Field, the nation’s greenest stadium
Solar panels and recycling bins are becoming as common as hot dog vendors for professional sports tea… Continue reading →
Food waste does more than hurt consumers’ pocketbooks – it tugs at their heart strings, too. According to a new study from the Shelton Group, 39 percent of Americans feel guilty about wasting food. The percentage of participants who felt remorse for food waste was significantly larger than any other action polled in the survey. Comparatively, [...] Continue reading →
Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA
This week, I asked the California Public Utilities Commission to banish the word “ratepayer” from its institutional vocabulary and instead use a better term to de… Continue reading →
Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco
June 8 is World Oceans Day, and I’m thrilled to celebrate it from Rio de Janeiro, where I’ve just arrived for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. 50… Continue reading →
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Last week, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the US Green Building Council announced the opening of the 2012 Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Progr… Continue reading →
Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco
Guest Blog by Dr. Arunabha Ghosh, CEO of Council on Energy, Environment, and Water
In New Delhi, we recently launched our latest report, an evaluation of Phase 1 of India’s National S… Continue reading →
Fuqiang Yang, Senior Advisor on Climate and Energy, Beijing
China is rapidly expanding production and use of cleaner burning natural gas in an attempt to wean itself off heavily polluting coal for electricity and heating. In the next fi… Continue reading →