Darby Hoover coordinates NRDC’s campaigns to promote the use of recycled paper products by US colleges with a 3 ponged approach: paper procurement, use reduction and recycling. Destroying precious forests to produce disposable tissues is the reason for targeting Kimberly Klark and pressuring the pulp and paper industry to change its ways. LISTEN (8 min)
More inforrmation: A shopper’s guide to home tissue products, saving paper in schools
Demian Schane, Staff Attorney with Earthjustice – Juneau office explains how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has authorized the giant Coeur d’Alene Mine corporation to operate the Kensington Project and dump millions of tons of gold mine tailings directly into
pristine Lower Slate Lake. LISTEN (8 min)
Dan Lashof, Science Director with NRDC‘s Climate Center explains the limits of the new energy policies announced by President Bush and what can be done to really end America’s oil addiction.
LISTEN (7 min)
Deborah Williams,
President of Alaska Conservation Solutions explains the role Alaska can
play to make people understand that global warming is real and
"something must be done". She quotes the report by the climate group, "Carbon down, profits up" that shows reducing global warming is good for business. LISTEN (7:50 min)
Kristen Boyles, Staff Attorney for Earthjustice explains the most recent judicial decision concerning the Klamath River. The Klamath that runs in Southern Oregon and California used to be the third largest salmon producer. Due to excessive irrigation and obsolete dams the flow has become to small and the water too warm for the fish. The court has now set a minimal flow level. Meanwhile the Federal government is urged to close salmon fishing along 700 hundred miles of coastline in Oregon and California.
LISTEN (7:50 min)
Jeffrey Kluger wrote the cover story in TIME Magazine: Global warming, be worried, be very worried. Read and LISTEN (11 min)
NRDC ‘s Daniel Hinerfeld reports on efforts to protect the sacred water of Black Mesa.
The main source of water for many Hopi and Navajo in northeastern Arizona is the pristine Navajo aquifer beneath Black Mesa. Its water is so pure that you can drink it straight out of the ground.
But according to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the aquifer is in trouble.
Decades of pumping by coal mining giant Peabody Energy are taking a toll. And now Peabody wants to pump out 50 percent MORE water to move coal through a pipeline in the desert. LISTEN (7 min)
Designer Kimberly Rider, author of The -just released- Healthy Home Workbook explains how to green your home and your daily life and Frances Goldberg shares her comments as an enthusiastic reader. LISTEN (12 min)
Sharon Buccino, NRDC’s Land Program Director talks about Gale Norton’s legacy and what can be expected from Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne:
"Gale Norton is
responsible for the destruction of public wildlands and key wildlife
habitat. Her goal was to give away as many of our publicly owned
resources as she could to the energy, timber and mining industries, and
by that measure, she was very successful. But the Interior Department’s
job also is to protect our land, protect our drinking water sources,
and protect the wildlife that makes that land home. She never took that
part of her responsibility seriously.
Ms. Norton said
she now is setting her sights on ‘the private sector.’ Unfortunately,
her record suggests she has been working for private special interests
all along." As for Dirk, "His abysmal environmental record as a senator and a governor speaks for itself. Dirk Kempthorne is Gale Norton in pants." LISTEN (7 min)
