Conservation

Blow the Whistle on Polluter Abuse! [Audio]

,  |  Sep 28, 2010

Nebraska landowners and citizens will be able to blow the whistle on the heavy-handed tactics of Canadian oil giant TransCanada starting today. TransCanada is the company trying to run the … Read more

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Unveils Strategic Plan to Respond to Global Warming

 |  Sep 27, 2010

This just in: the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released its strategic plan to respond to global warming. “This defining challenge for the conservation community requires the U.S. Fish … Read more

Dr. Ian MacDonald: Over 50% of BP Oil Remains in Gulf

 |  Sep 27, 2010

Dr. Ian MacDonald of Florida State University is scheduled to testify at today’s meeting of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Testifying on … Read more

Jobs for the Future, National Wildlife Federation launch The Greenforce Initiative

,  |  Sep 22, 2010

The Greenforce InitiativeTM, a partnership of Jobs for the Future and National Wildlife Federation, launches in six regions of the U.S. – Illinois (Chicagoland), Michigan, North Carolina, Texas (San Antonio … Read more

The Greenforce Initiative underway on community college campuses

,  |  Sep 22, 2010

With jobs in the country’s emerging clean energy sector growing more
than twice as fast as jobs overall, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and Jobs for the Future (JFF) have joined forces on the two-year Greenforce Initiative, which will spur green jobs education, innovation and training at community colleges in the United States.
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Fracturing for Frankenfuels

 |  Sep 21, 2010

by Larry J. Schweiger I posted this response on National Journal’s blog in response to the question: Should the federal government seek to regulate a controversial extraction method for natural … Read more

Secretary Arne Duncan, Congressman John Sarbanes Address Sustainability Education Summit in DC

, ,  |  Sep 21, 2010

This post was written by Patrick Fitzgerald, NWF’s Director of Education Advocacy. NWF’s Campus Ecology Team is back for Day 2 of the Sustainability Education Summit where hundreds of environmental, … Read more

Ron Sims inspires at Department of Education Green Summit

,  |  Sep 21, 2010

Deputy Secretary of Urban Development Ron Sims took the podium yesterday during the Sustainability Education Summit: “Citizenship and Pathways for a Green Economy” to make a strong case for the … Read more

Sustainability Education Summit convenes in DC this week

,  |  Sep 20, 2010

Patrick Fitzgerald is NWF’s Director of Education Advocacy. I’m sitting in a room with 250+ leaders from the education, environmental, and business communities for the first ever Sustainability Education Summit, … Read more

Permanent Cap Marks End of Beginning of Gulf Oil Disaster

 |  Sep 19, 2010

BP announced Sunday a permanent seal had been placed on its Macondo well, site of the April 20th Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 people and led to an estimated … Read more