Posts Tagged ‘Natural Resources Defense Council’

James Boyce: This Year’s Growing Green Award Winners Announced.

Last year, the Natural Resources Defense Council celebrated sustainable food with the first ." target="_hplink"Growing Green Awards And now NRDC has just announced the second...


How Green is My Game?

In recognition of Earth Day, which is later this month, we take an investigative look into the environmental impact of video games at all states of their development cycle. In this report, we look to several experts on the matter including Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council, to ultimately help us answer the question "how green is my game?"


Posts about Stop Cap and Trade as of September 25, 2009

NYC: Climate Activists Expose the True “Green” of Big Enviros, Deliver Giant Climate “Bill” to Offices - itsgettinghotinhere.org 09/25/2009 (New York) Climate justice activists from Rising Tide North America and Climate SOS in New York took to the streets on the final day of the UN Climate summit, making housecalls to the New York offices of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Nature Conservancy. NRDC’s street-level banner was festo


Environmentalists are Barking up the Wrong Tree

Apparently the whales have been saved… or they’re belly up and the tree huggers have moved onto their “2nd option.” Toilet Paper . “It’s like the Hummer product for the paper industry,” said Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “We don’t need old-growth forests . . . to wipe our behinds.” I’m all for going green and being eco-conscious, but there are some things that you shouldn’t mess with. I pay my God damn taxes so that I’m free from the tyr


Atlanta’s sustainability ranking is…better than nothing?

The Natural Resources Defense Council, a well-regarded environmental nonprofit based in New York, this week released its list of the country’s most green, or sustainable, cities. Seattle received top honors, followed by San Francisco and Portland, Ore.Compared to other cities with a population over 250,000, Atlanta ranked 33rd.The rankings are based on, left to right: air quality, energy production and conservation, environmental standards and participation, green building, green space, recyclin


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