Guest post by NWF Campus Ecology Fellow, Shaza Hussein As an NWF Campus Ecology Fellow at the University of South Florida in Tampa, my campaign goal is to bring the … Read more
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NWF Gears Up for 2014 Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference
Now in its seventh year, the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference will be in Washington, D.C., February 10-11, 2014. As a proud sponsor of the conference, National Wildlife Federation is excited … Read more
Portland-Montreal Pipeline Trek Wrap Up
Guest post by Brett Chamberlin Monday marked the end of Kaity Thomson and Brett Chamberlin’s traverse of the Portland-Montreal Pipeline, a journey that brought them across Vermont, New Hampshire, and … Read more
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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Read more
Restoring the Everglades, Restoring the Gulf
The Everglades and the Gulf of Mexico have much in common: They are both American treasures that have suffered from a half-century’s worth of degradation, resulting in ecosystems that are … Read more
Germany’s Offshore Wind Power Leaders Cross the Atlantic to Share their Success
“We here in New Bedford consider ourselves to be dry sponges. Determined dry sponges.” – Mayor Jon Mitchell On Tuesday, New Bedford’s dry sponges absorbed a whole lot of inspiration … Read more
