Conservation

Wood As The New Coal: Some Countries Implementing New Process

As the nation moves toward a clean energy future, wood is becoming a hot commodity. Power companies are burning more trees , Bloomberg reports, because the renewable fuel can be … Read more

Climate and Energy Bill: June Momentum in Congress

Action on the American Clean Energy & Security Act is heating up as Congress returned from recess and got busy with talks among the leadership.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has … Read more

Principals for Change Roll Into DC

Here’s a guest post from NWF communications intern Max Greenberg! Just a couple of weeks after Rolling Thunder roared through Washington, a very different kind of ride hit town. Not … Read more

Plant a Tree, Grow a Job

Got this email recently from Jeremy Symons, the National Wildlife Federation’s senior vice president for conservation and education: I was returning from a meeting in Congress a week ago and … Read more

NWF’s Larry Schweiger on the American Clean Energy & Security Act

Via the ClimateOne blog, here’s a clip of National Wildlife Federation President & CEO Larry Schweiger talking about how the Waxman-Markey bill affects international climate treaty negotiations coming up in … Read more

Urgent Request from Congress: Tell Us About Wildlife

I just got an email from Robyn, in the Western Regional Center, with an urgent call to action she’d seen in the Mercury News. Oddly enough the author was not … Read more

Zionsville Community Habitat and Indiana Wildlife Federation

Over the weekend, I was proud to join the community of Zionsville, Indiana at the dedication of a sign honoring their Community Wildlife Habitat. I joined Elizabeth Mueller, the Zionsville … Read more

Dutch Lessons on Managing Rising Water Due to Warming

Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson led a delegation of federal and Louisiana officials to the Netherlands, to learn how the Dutch manage their water. More … Read more

Global CEOs: Climate Action Key to Economic Growth

Hoping to create a global carbon market, the organizers of a world business summit on climate change said 2 million new jobs would be created in the U.S. alone if … Read more

Bipartisan Congressional Delegation Presses for China-US Climate Action

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led a bipartisan Congressional delegation to China last week, urging that "we must work together" to address global warming. "We believe China and … Read more