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Link Your Utility Bill On Facebook and Compete With Friends On Energy Efficient Behavior

December 18, 2011

OPower teams up with Facebook and NRDC to roll out a new app that lets you add your utility bills to Facebook to see if you can use less than your friend network. Think of it as “Farmville” for utility bill savings.
OPower is a new customer engagement platform for the utility industry. It reinvents the way utilities interact with customers—from the quality of the information provided to the way it’s presented and delivered. It helps people use energy more efficiently and ultimately save money on their energy bills. And it vastly improves the overall customer experience by making energy use personally relevant.

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How Facebook Is Going Green and Taking Consumers Along for the Ride. Facebook Partners with Opower and the NRDC to Offer Home Energy Efficiency App in 2012

October 21, 2011

How Facebook Is Going Green and Taking Consumers Along for the Ride.  Facebook Partners with Opower and the NRDC to Offer Home Energy Efficiency App in 2012

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Young St. Louis Farmer Snags NRDC Growing Green Award

April 27, 2011

In 2009, I spent several months volunteering with a new non-profit organization dedicated to small-scale, local food production… EarthDance. The organization’s founder, Molly Rockamann, was a total powerhouse of energy and passion… I had trouble keeping up! Though I couldn’t give the organization the time it needed, I really loved the concept: getting urbanites and… Read More…

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Answer Your Climate Skeptic Relatives PDQ With NRDC’s Holiday Global Warming FAQ

December 22, 2010

photo: William Brawley/Creative Commons

During any holiday where seldom-seen family members may gather, for the green-minded awkward conversations often arise. If your relatives are of the climate change questioning, if not outright climate change de…

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FDA Underestimating Gulf Residents’ Carcinogen Exposure From Eating Seafood: NRDC

December 9, 2010

photo: Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Louisiana State University/Creative Commons

Something to bring the horror of the Gulf oil spill back fresh to memory: The NRDC says that the FDA is grossly underestimating the exposure to carcinogens in sea…

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2010 Smarter Cities for Energy

August 17, 2010

Is your city energy-smart? 22 cities across the nation are according to the most recent “Smarter Cities for Energy” publication put out by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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Go Below the Surface of the Gulf Oil Disaster With This Great NRDC Interactive Graphic

July 16, 2010

Oh! Moving, graphic and informative all at the same the same time! If you want a quick overview of all the impacts that the BP oil spill has had (and is having) on the entire marine ecosystem, from the ocean floor to the air above the surface, look n…

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Live From The BP Oil Slick: NRDC Finds Dolphins & Birds Diving Through Dispersed Oil (Video)

May 7, 2010

As everyone still waits to see what BP’s efforts to do to stop the massive flow of oil from the sunken Deepwater Horizon, NRDC has been out on the water, an hour off of the Br…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Gulf Coast Oil Spill & Your Health: Who’s At Risk?

May 7, 2010

breton island oil booms photo
Booms set up on Breton Island in preparation for oil landfall. Photo: NRDC via flickr.

This is a repost of an article written by Dr Gina Solomon from NRDC, originally appearing on Switchboard.

I continue today with Part 2 of my Q&A about oil spill health concerns with a look at different groups of people who are at a particular risk to health impacts associated with the oil spill. In…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Republicans Nationwide Fight to Repeal California’s Global Warming Laws

February 11, 2010

Across the nation, Republican elected officials are working to repeal California’s global warming laws by pushing a new piece of legislation that would defer more than half of California’s greenhouse gas regulations if statewide unemployment exceeds 5.5 percent. Unfortunately, today California holds the highest unemployment rates at 12.4 percent, however many prominent eco-activist groups such as the Natural Resource Defense Council affirm that repealing these imperative bylaws are, in actuality, “saying no to jobs and opportunities for Californians.” The initiative arrives at a crucial time for environmental organizations, especially as the…

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