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Tackling Food Waste at the City Level: The Nashville Food Waste Initiative

Expert BlogTennessee, NashvilleDarby Hoover

NRDC has partnered with stakeholders in Nashville, Tennessee to build on the good work that's already being done in the city, bringing together people from across the community to document great initiatives already underway, identify new approaches to reducing the…

All’s Not Well

Latest NewsNorth DakotaSusan Cosier
North Dakota’s oil and gas boom is scaring away grassland birds.

Climate Change, Ahoy!

Latest NewsAfricaBrian Palmer
A new study says the Horn of Africa is going to get hotter and drier, driving poverty and piracy.

Climate Got Your Tongue?

Latest NewsColoradoPerrin Ireland
In the Rocky Mountains, long-tongued bumblebees are getting licked by warmer temperatures.

Remember the Kalamazoo

DispatchMichiganBrian Palmer
Five years ago, a pipeline spilled a million gallons of tar sands crude into a Michigan river—and we’re still cleaning it up.

Rogue Elephant

DispatchIndiana
What happened when the Republican mayor of Carmel, Indiana, bucked his party and embraced sustainability? He got reelected—four times.