April 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
April 1, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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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
February 22, 2013
by Reduce
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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
Share on FacebookFebruary 19, 2013
by Reduce
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Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and others distribute unserved food to community agencies and organizations. Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 22, 2013
by Pete Altman
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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:
The goo… Continue reading
Share on FacebookNovember 8, 2012
by Francesca Koe
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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
August 22, 2012
by Reduce
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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
Share on FacebookAugust 21, 2012
by Ralph Cavanagh
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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
June 8, 2012
by Leila Monroe
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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
June 1, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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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
February 22, 2012
by Linda Greer
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Linda Greer, Director, Health and Environment Program, Washington, D.C.
As Apple moves forward to address environmental problems in its supply chain, the opportunity is wide open to become a model for other companies to follow.
As… Continue reading
February 10, 2012
by Allen Hershkowitz
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Allen Hershkowitz, Senior Scientist, NYC and throughout the world
When it comes to the functional integrity of the biosphere, small things matter. Indeed, it is the small things in the global ecosystem that keep Homo sapiens and other f… Continue reading
November 17, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
In a major report released yesterday, my colleagues at the Natural Resources Defense Council outlined challenges and solutions facing US cities in restoring and ma… Continue reading
November 7, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Environmental advocates have long given priority to protecting natural ecosystems and wildlife habitat. The organization I work for is called the Natural Res… Continue reading
October 20, 2011
by Roland Hwang
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Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco
Today’s auto dealers have come a long way from their past, less than flattering image. Unfortunately, National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA)… Continue reading
September 23, 2011
by Brian Siu
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Brian Siu, Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C.
Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a short term “Continuing Resolution” to fund federal government through mid November. Fortunately, it abandoned the familiar ca… Continue reading
April 12, 2011
by Noah Garrison
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Noah Garrison, Project Attorney, Santa Monica When your friends create a hit sitcom, you learn very quickly to be careful how much detail about your life you share with them – let slip something embarrassing and it’s likely to end up on TV…. Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 23, 2011
by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Recently I had the pleasure of engaging in a dialogue with friends of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles in the beautiful home of Marilyn Ziering. For nearly 60 years, the Jewish Community Foundation has helped individuals, families, instit… Continue reading
Share on FacebookDecember 10, 2010
by Valerie Jaffee
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The holidays are a festival of food, so what better time of year to celebrate the heroes that are filling our plates with fresh, healthy, sustainable food every day?
Across the country, farmers, producers and food pioneers are transforming the way we t… Continue reading
November 14, 2010
by Annie Notthoff
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As the Democratic daughter of a Republican father, I know firsthand that political parties don’t matter when it comes to family. And the coalition that came together to defeat Proposition 23 in California was a bipartisan breath of fresh air.
As the pu… Continue reading