Insider Podcast

Extreme Weather and Climate Change – What will it mean for your community?

By bchumney | Published: February 24, 2012

Featuring:
Eric Pooley, Sr. Vice President – Strategy and Communications
Steven Hamburg, Ph.D., Chief Scientist

2011 was a year of extreme weather with record-breaking heat and droughts, unprecedented flooding and snowstorms, and ferocious hurricanes. In a recent report, some of the world's top researchers provided the strongest evidence yet that climate change is bringing us wilder and more dangerous weather — and that it's likely to get worse over the next century.

Please join EDF’s Steven Hamburg and Eric Pooley for a discussion of the report's findings, what the extreme weather trend means for your community, and what we can do.

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Can Natural Gas Be a Bridge to the Low-Carbon Future?

By EDF Blogs | Published: December 5, 2011

Featuring:
Fred Krupp, President
Mark Brownstein, Chief Counsel, Energy Program

Natural gas production is at a crossroads. Abundant, newly accessible reserves make natural gas an affordable, low-carbon alternative to coal. Yet current production practices are under fire for compromising our water, air, and land. Environmental Defense Fund is looking for common-sense solutions that protect public health and the environment.

EDF president Fred Krupp — who recently helped shape natural gas policy recommendations as a member of The Department of Energy’s Natural Gas Subcommittee — and EDF chief counsel Mark Brownstein discuss the future of this controversial resource.

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Saving Sharks: EDF Supports Cuba-Mexico-U.S. Partnership

By EDF Blogs | Published: May 26, 2011

Featuring:
Dan Grossman, Regional Director, EDF Rocky Mountain Office
Diane Regas, Vice President, EDF Oceans Program
Pam Baker, Director, Gulf of Mexico Strategic Conservation Initiatives
Dr. Robert H. Hueter, Director, Center for Shark Research, Mote Marine Laboratory

Sharks are essential to healthy marine ecosystems and coastal economies in the U.S., Cuba, and Mexico, yet their numbers are dwindling to dangerously low levels.

Listen to EDF experts Diane Regas and Pam Baker, and Dr. Robert H. Hueter from Mote Marine Laboratory, as they discuss the new tri-national alliance to restore these highly migratory animals using catch shares, EDF’s proven approach that provides incentives for fishermen to work toward conservation.

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EDF Champions an Economic Solution for Safeguarding Rainforests

By EDF Blogs | Published: April 22, 2011

Featuring:
Dan Grossman Regional Director, EDF Rocky Mountain Office
Stephan Schwartzman, Director, EDF Tropical Forest Policy
Derek Walker, Director, EDF California Climate Initiative
Osvaldo Stella, Director of climate change, the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM)

The destruction of tropical forests causes up to 20% of the world's annual global warming emissions, and creates economic hardship for the indigenous people who depend on those forests to survive. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is an approach championed by EDF that can establish economic incentives for tropical forest conservation.

Discover how REDD is not only safeguarding the environment and the livelihood of people in Brazil and Indonesia, but why it's good news for the economy of California and other places closer to home.

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EDF Partnering with Farmers to Green Working Lands

By EDF Blogs | Published: February 7, 2011

Featuring:
Dan Grossman Regional Director, EDF Rocky Mountain Office
David Festa Vice President – Land, Water, Wildlife
Suzy Friedman Deputy Director, Center for Conservation Incentives – Land, Water, Wildlife
Tracy Blackmer, Director of Research, Iowa Soybean Association
Denny Friest, Iowa Farmer

The invention of synthetic fertilizer in the early 20th century transformed the way the world feeds itself. But this life-giving revolution in agricultural productivity has become too much of a good thing. Excess fertilizer not absorbed by crops runs off farm fields and pollutes our rivers, contaminates our drinking water and creates oxygen-deprived "dead zones" in oceans and bays.

EDF is working with farmers and the Iowa Soybean Association to slash pollution in key waterways. What are EDF's science-based strategies for cleaning our waters, boosting farmers' income and maintaining agricultural yield?

Find out directly from a farmer why he and thousands of other farmers, normally wary of environmental groups, are embracing this work with open arms.

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New Opportunities for Progress on Climate

By EDF Blogs | Published: December 16, 2010

Featuring:
Dan Grossman Regional Director, EDF Rocky Mountain Office
Steve Cochran Vice President, EDF Climate & Air
Vickie Patton EDF General Counsel

It's been a year of dramatic ups and downs. The U.S. Senate's failure to pass climate and energy legislation was a serious setback. But Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and our coalition partners successfully defended California's landmark climate law against Big Oil's ballot initiative attack this fall.

Another bright spot to celebrate is the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, a bipartisan triumph that continues to deliver cleaner, healthier air. We're gearing up to protect and toughen the Clean Air Act with new regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollution.

What are the biggest opportunities to make progress on climate at the state, national and international levels? Listen to the discussion to find out.

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Restoring the Ocean to Abundance: Ending Overfishing with Catch Shares

By Daniel Mckenzie | Bio | Published: November 18, 2010

Featuring:

Dan Grossman, Regional Director, EDF Rocky Mountain Office
Diane Regas, Vice President, EDF Oceans Program
Bill (Bubba) Cochrane, Fisherman

Decades of overfishing have emptied the ocean of fish — jeopardizing seafood supplies and the livelihoods of local fishing communities, and fundamentally altering the health of ocean ecosystems. EDF has done pioneering work on an innovative market-based approach to managing fisheries called catch shares, which is yielding dramatic increases in fish populations, reductions in wasted fish, and more stable fishing jobs.

Join EDF’s vice president for oceans and one of the many fishermen we work with as they discuss the transformative change we’re accomplishing in U.S. waters — and how we’re beginning to spread the benefits of catch shares to Latin America and the Caribbean.

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From California: A Loud and Clear Message

By EDF Blogs | Published: November 12, 2010

Featuring:
Fred Krupp, President
Steve Cochran, Director, National Climate Campaign
Wade Crowfoot, Political Director, West Coast

In the largest referendum on climate and clean energy this country has seen, California voters sent a loud and clear message to elected leaders across the country that the public supports action on climate change.

California voters said yes to the clean energy economy this month when they defeated Proposition 23 by a wide margin. Supporters of the ballot measure, financed primarily by two Texas oil companies, tried to suspend California’s historic clean energy and air pollution standards by claiming that they would harm the economy — but Californians didn’t buy it. They know that we can have a healthy environment and a healthy economy at the same time.

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Stemming the Tide: EDF’s ongoing efforts in the gulf

By EDF Blogs | Published: July 30, 2010

Featuring:

Elgie Holstein, Oil Disaster Response Coordinator
Paul Harrison, Coastal Louisiana Program Leader
Diane Regas, Vice President, Oceans Program

Environmental Defense Fund has worked in the Gulf Coast region for decades—restoring critical wetlands, pioneering sustainable fishing, and developing productive partnerships with conservationists, businesses and state and local governments.

What can be done to prevent similar tragedies in the future? What is EDF fighting for in the Gulf and in Washington?

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EDF Partners with Business for an “Efficient” Climate Solution

By EDF Blogs | Published: June 11, 2010

Featuring:

David Festa, Vice President, West Coast and Land, Water, Wildlife
Gwen Ruta, Vice President – Corporate Partnerships
Andrew Hutson, Project Manager – Corporate Partnerships

Energy efficiency is often called the lowest-hanging fruit of climate change solutions: it can be achieved now, save consumers and companies money, and yield big environmental gains: an estimated 23% greenhouse gas reduction in the next ten years.

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