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Behind the NRDC's Social Media Strategy

Eric Kuhn | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Blogs, Natural Resources Defense Council, Twitter, Social Networks, Nrdc, Netroots, NRDC Action Fund, Viral, Facebook, Obama-Environemntal-Policy, Global Warming, Green News

hen the Natural Resources Defense Council needs to generate attention for environmental issues, one of the people they turn to is Apollo Gonzales, the Netroots campaign manager.

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Bright Lights, Green City: Taking Off-Broadway Off Coal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Dirty Coal, Michael Bloomberg, Theatre, Mountaintop Removal, Broadway, NY Loves Mountains Festival, Coal, New York City, Green News

Theatre can educate and move people to create change for the common good, not just be another outlet for entertainment.

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Do We Have a Cap? Midwest Governors and Climate Leadership

Henry Henderson | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Cap and Trade, Midwest Governors Association, Illinois Governor, Minnesota, Carbon Cap, Midwest, Climate, Nrdc, Minneapolis, Governor Quinn, Clean Energy, Climate Legislation, Clean-Energy-Investments, Energy Policy, Green Energy, Green News

D.C. should take notice that the Midwest is opening the road to a reinvigorated economy and clean energy future.

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Destination: Greenland -- Lessons from the Ice

Ben Jervey | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Exploration, Greenland, Climate Change, Global Warming, Nrdc, Destination: Greenland, Arctic, Inuit, Green News

Surrounded by a vast expanse of white, the Arctic looks and feels completely untouched by man. Yet it is where the effects of our greenhouse gas emission are concentrated.

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Making Every Day Earth Day

Robert Redford | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Day 2009, Nrdc, Environment, Environmentalism, Earth Day, Robert Redford, Green News

Today, pause for a moment and take full advantage of the unprecedented array of tools we have for connecting with others and expressing your views on how to protect the environment.

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A Food Revolution in the Making, from Victory Gardens to the White House Lawn

Michael Pollan | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, Local Food, White House Garden, Sustainable Food, In Defense of Food, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Gardening, Local Farmers, Victory Garden, Victory Gardens, Green News

If we want to make significant progress in reducing global warming we will need to wean the American food system off its heavy diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of solar energy.

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When America Works Together, America Works

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

Read More: United Steelworkers, Green Economy, Green Business, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Unions, Waxman-Markey, Nrdc, Green Jobs, Blue Green Alliance, Sierra Club, CWA, Economy, Business News

It will probably be months before we know the outcome of the Waxman-Markey bill; in the meantime, it appears that more alliances of strange bedfellows will emerge.

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Report Says U.S. Birds in "Widespread Decline," Need Help

Scott Dodd | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Alberta Tar Sands, Climate Change, Boreal Forest, Birds, Conservation, Canada, Endangered Species, Red-Tail Hawks, New York City, Green News

Nearly a third of the 800 species of birds in the United States are endangered, threatened or in decline. The decline of birds is a warning sign about the overall health of our environment -- or lack thereof.

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"The Filthy Fifteen" States With Most Dangerous Coal Ash

NRDC | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Coal Ash, Pollution, Coal, Green Politics, Coal Ash Storage, Green News

In the wake of the December 22 disastrous spill of toxic coal ash into a Tennessee River -- into and over houses, leaving sludge behind that the Tenne...

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EPA's New Green Building Report is Really Good, but Stops Short of What it Should Have Been

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Building, Green Buildings, Nrdc, Epa Report, Epa, Chicago-Illinois, Green News

Let's not kid ourselves: "green building" isn't green when the buildings are in the wrong places; "smart growth" isn't smart if it doesn't include sustainable building practices.

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Study Shows Stimulus Will Fight Global Warming

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Mass Transit, Energy Efficiency, Recovery, Nuclear Energy, Congress Abstinence, Green Jobs, Climate Change, Economy, Jobs, Clean Energy, Greenpeace, Stimulus, ICF International, Global Warming, Stimulus Package, Green News

According to NRDC, floods, droughts, sea level rise, and other global warming impacts will create a $271 billion drag on the U.S. economy by 2025 alone.

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Court Agrees: Phthalates are Banned From Toys Effective Next Week!

Sarah Janssen | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Toys, Simplesteps, Cpsc, Petition, Phthalates, Children, Personal Health, Nrdc, Raising Children, Parenting, Natural Resources Defense Council, Kids, Health, Children's Health, Parents, Living News

Phthalates (pronounced thal-ates) are chemicals used in many common consumer products, including as softeners of plastic children's toys -- like a rubber ducky.

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A Victory for America's Land

Robert Redford | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Utah Wilderness, Redrocks, Oil and Gas Leasing, Salazar, Canyonlands National Park, Oil and Gas Industry, Arches National Park, Nrdc, Ken Salazar, Robert Redford Utah, Green News

The Interior Secretary has announced that he is canceling all 77 contested leases surrounding some of Utah's most stunning national parks. This redrock wilderness can now remain part of our natural heritage.

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Al Meyerhoff and the Chemistry of Life and Death

Diane Dulken | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

This environmental lawyer reminded us that the vast majority of commercial and industrial chemicals in circulation today are not tested for longterm health effects before being put on the market.

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Describing the Devastation of Mountaintop Mining

Peter Lehner | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Tennessee Coal Ash, Renewable Energy, Fertility, Animals, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Mountains, Trees, Mountaintop Removal, Grass, Tennessee, Topsoil, Kentucky, Coal Mining, TVA Spill, Toxic, Clean Coal, Carbon Emissions, Nrdc, Environmentalism, Winter, Tva, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bush Administration, Mining, Tennessee Coal Spill, Land, Environment, TVA Disaster, Valleys, Green News

We also need to cap carbon and make coal pay its true price so that clean energy can compete with it. NRDC will be working on all of that.

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Look Who's Following me... Yikes!

Julia Bovey | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Someday, coal-fired electricity plants will likely be able to capture and store their global warming pollution, and that's something that NRDC encourages, as long as it's done well.

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California's Water Problems Weren't Caused By a Fish: We Need a 21st Century Water Policy for Fish and People

Doug Obegi | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Rain, Low-Flow Showerheads, Drought, Water Demands, Natural Resources Defense Council, California, Fish and Wildlife Service, Precipitation, Orange County, Snow, Water, Nrdc, Toilets, Levees, Environment, Green News

California is at a crossroads; it can either follow its old course toward drought and an insufficient drinking water supply, or it can commit to a new, smart-water solution for the 21st century.

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Yes, We Can Regulate CO2!

Sarah Newman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Oil and Gas, George Bush, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Yes We Can, Carbon Dioxide, Obama, Co2, Transportration Secretary Roy LaHood, Bush-Era, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oil Industry, Transportation Department, Takepart, Kyoto Protocol, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Environment, Green News

Environmentalists are heralding Obama's decision to review the request by California and 13 other states to establish strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.

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Thank You Robert Redford, and I'm Sorry

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 02.23.2009 | Green

While other celebrities sit at home counting their money, you have used your fame to make the planet better, as did your good friend Paul Newman. Thank you!

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Now Let's Get to Work, Starting with the House Stimulus Package

Frances Beinecke | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Natural Resources Defense Council, Biden, Energy Efficiency, Van Jones, Economic Stimulus Package, Inauguration Day 2009, Economy, Nrdc, Inauguration, House Stimulus Package, Environment, Obama, Clean Energy, Waxman, Global Warming, Green News

For the first time ever, clean energy solutions like smart grids, weatherizing homes, and renewable power sit at the centerpiece of a national stimulus bill -- Obama's.

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Utah Lands Win a Reprieve at the Dawn of a Cleaner, Greener Future

Robert Redford | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Natural Resources Defense Council, Robert Redford Utah Wilderness, Bush Administration, Obama Inaugural Address, Nrdc, Environment, Bureau of Land Management, Obama, Wilderness Protection, National Parks, Utah, Green News

Destroying our natural heritage will do nothing to solve our energy challenges for the long-term, which to me, is even more reason to act.

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Bush Administration to Strip Wolves of Federal Protection... Except for Wyoming

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bush Administration, Montana, Environmental Protections, Earthjustice, Wyoming, Esa, Wolves, Northern Rockies, Gray Wolves Endangered Species, Bush Endangered Species, Animals, Endangered Species Act, Idaho, Wolf, Green News

With a viable population of this American icon so close to being a reality, we simply cannot allow the Bush Administration to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as they slink out the door.

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Tim DeChristopher Reinvents the Greenbuck in Utah

Jerry Cope | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green

Deforestation, chemical pollution in the world's oceans, biological diversity, species extinction, and greenhouse gas emissions are detrimental to life on Earth as we know it.

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Bush's New Marine Monuments: The Good, the Bad and Next Steps

Sarah Chasis | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Dozens of scientific studies show that fully protected marine reserves have more and bigger fish than similar habitats that are fished, which makes them highly productive.

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Major Turning Point in the Fight to Save Whales

Joel Reynolds | Posted 01.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Save the Whales, Natural Resources Defense Council, Marine Life, Natural Resources, Oceanic Life, Sonar Whales, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Nrdc, Environment, Mammals, Whales, Ocean, Green News

Despite mounting evidence that such sonar can kill and seriously injure marine mammals, the Navy refused to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act.

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