Rental costs are becoming out of reach for millions who are at the mercy of a national affordable housing crisis at the center of a disconnect between housing prices, what people earn, and decades of institutional and systemic housing inequities.
China’s aggressive moves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand clean energy could help protect the world from climate catastrophe, but only if it further escalates its efforts. That’s the conclusion of a new book about China’s role in the…
Using high-efficiency electric heat pumps instead of gas for residential heating needs in California could cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in half or more, according to a new NRDC analysis published in the Electricity Journal [link]. This makes heat pumps…
NRDC's Green Neighborhoods Initiative partners with low-income and underserved communities in order to put in place the building blocks of better living—high-quality, environmentally sound, and affordable transportation, energy, food, and housing.
This visionary green thumb is bringing food justice, and heirloom fruit trees, to low-income communities in Atlanta where grocery stores are few and far between.
Reality is catching up with the deniers. Who are you going to believe? Politicians who say climate goes up and down, ebbs and flows? Or the world's top scientists and your own eyes?
Even if President Trump refuses to act on climate, citizens, state and local lawmakers, and businesses must all continue to band together to save the planet.
The United States is 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer, on average, than it was a century ago and will warm at least another 3 degrees, and perhaps much more, by 2100, unless the world moves swiftly to cut its use of coal…
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