Conservation

Obama Comes Out Strong For Carbon Cap At Business Roundtable Meeting

 |  Mar 19, 2009

President Obama offered extensive remarks on global warming policy and supported a cap on carbon at a recent Business Roundtable meeting. The president warned the chief executives from some of … Read more

Coastal Louisiana’s Loss: 32 Football Fields a Day

 |  Mar 19, 2009

I went to the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference today to hear a talk on coastal Louisiana. Mind boggling! My National Wildlife Federation colleague Susan Kaderka told us … Read more

America Must Support Efforts to Repower the Auto Industry

 |  Mar 18, 2009

Cross posting from General Motors’ website: http://fyi.gmblogs.com/2009/03/america_must_support_efforts_to_repower_the_auto_industry.html What’s the head of America’s largest conservation organization doing posting on a General Motors blog? Let me start with a story. Back in … Read more

NWF President: “We’re All in This Struggle Together”

 |  Mar 18, 2009

There’s a new post on the General Motors blog from a surprising guest blogger — National Wildlife Federation President & CEO Larry Schweiger. So why why is the head of … Read more

Help NWF Win $200,000 To Change Climate Change!

 |  Mar 18, 2009

Cast your vote to help the National Wildlife Federation bring YOUR voice to the table. It doesn’t really need saying that America is home to many diverse communities.  We’re a KitchenAid … Read more

A Second Chance for Millions of Acres of Public Lands

 |  Mar 17, 2009

Last week, I visited Piney Point Park in Maryland. It was cold and a little rainy, but it was also truly memorable to see bald cypress trees whose roots grew … Read more

Clean Cars for California = A Cleaner Future for All

 |  Mar 12, 2009

It’s hard to make that trip to the gas station nowadays. Not only do we all need to pinch a few pennies in these tough economic times, but there’s the … Read more

Rainforest Education at Evergreen State College

 |  Mar 11, 2009

Nalini Nadkarni, a faculty member at Evergreen State College, talked to TED about her work studying and preserving rainforests, including outreach projects that get inner-city youth from Washington into the … Read more

Crist Accepts NWF Award, Asks GOP to Step Up on Clean Energy

 |  Mar 11, 2009

National Wildlife Federation President & CEO Larry Schweiger presented Gov. Charlie Crist yesterday with NWF’s Conservation Achievement Award for Government. Gov. Crist has helped position Florida as a leader in … Read more

Melting Ice in Alaska

 |  Mar 11, 2009

Last week a number of tribal leaders from across the United States came to Washington to lobby for strong climate change legislation. Olga Malutin is a Tribal Council Member, from Kodiak, … Read more