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Portland-Montreal Pipeline Trek Day 4 – Visiting Area Businesses
Guest Post by Brett Chamberlin Rivers and forests aren’t the only places intersected by the Portland-Montreal Pipeline. The aging crude oil pipeline also passes under dozens of business properties. Hundreds more are situated downstream along waterways at risk of contamination […] Read more >
Portland-Montreal Pipeline Trek Day 3 – Visiting the Site of a Previous PMPL Spill
Guest post by Brett Chamberlin With every step along our traverse of the Portland-Montreal Pipeline, one question weighs on our minds – what if crude oil were to spill from the pipeline right here? A pipeline spill isn’t as remote […] Read more >
Portland-Montreal Pipeline Trek Day 2 – A View from Victory State Forest, VT
Guest Post by: Brett Chamberlin The first day of our weeklong trek along the Portland-Montreal Pipeline was unseasonably warm, despite the persistent rain. In Northern Vermont, the few remaining patches of snow melted, evaporated, and settled upon the fields and […] Read more >
Students Trek the Portland-Montreal Tar Sands Pipeline
Guest Post by Brett Chamberlin On Tuesday, NWF Campus Ecology Fellow Kaity Thomson began a week-long trek of the Portland-Montreal Pipeline, a WWII-era pipeline that Big Oil wants to retrofit to pump tar sands crude through Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. For […] Read more >
The Top 5 Reasons to Put Solar On It in 2014
Last summer, a long time friend in Half Moon Bay, CA, asked me what she and her friends and neighbors can do to promote solutions to climate change. Her question inspired the theme of my 2014 New Year’s Resolutions blog on […] Read more >
When Scientists Get Tattoos, Do Instructors Respond for Students? A Survey Inquires
Back in fall of 1989, in one of my earliest experiences as a conservation organizer, a professor stood up before about 200 students and faculty we’d assembled at the University of Georgia (UGA) and declared: “Isn’t global warming a red […] Read more >
The Wildlife Benefits of Acorns and Oaks
The time of year has come during which, when I’m reading in the evening in the silence of my home, I hear a sharp thwack! on the roof, followed by an increasingly quieter bump bump bump bump. Ah yes, the […] Read more >
Calling all Colleges and Universities — Campus Conservation Nationals 2014 is Open
National Wildlife Federation, through its Campus Ecology Program, in partnership with Lucid Design Group, the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council and the Alliance to Save Energy, are very excited toannounce Campus Conservation Nationals 2014. From […] Read more >
How Are Students Staying Green At College This Fall?
Guest post by Sapna Batish The environment is a significant concern for many of today’s young adults. As students start or return to college this fall, they will have a range of options to help minimize their impact on the […] Read more >
From Playing in the Garden to Environmental Scientist
College student Deji Akinpelu has been spending time in nature and learning how to save the planet with National Wildlife Federation for most of his life – get inspired by his story! Read more >
