Christine MacDonald

Journalist, author

NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station from Jan. 29-Feb. 3 captured views of the aur

Tags: , , ,

NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station from Jan. 29-Feb. 3 captured views of the aur

It’s official: DC is a melting pot. We’ve got the 3rd highest increase in foreign-born residents

TAGS: None

It’s official: DC is a melting pot. We’ve got the 3rd highest increase in foreign-born residents

Texas drought wilting its rice crop

TAGS: None

“Although recent rains have put a dent in the Texas drought, a day of reckoning looms for the state’s long-grain rice growers, who pump millions into the economy in Southeast Texas each year and account for about 5 percent of America’s rice production. Come March 1, if there is less than 850,000 acre-feet of water in reservoirs along the Lower Colorado River, water managers will be forced to take the unprecedented step of withholding water from agricultural users, which will mean severe cuts to Texas rice production this year.” READ THE STORY: Texas Drought: Rice crop expected to suffer

Trouble with plastic trash in the oceans

TAGS: None

Trouble with plastic trash in the oceans

Sierra Club received secret funding from natural gas frackers

TAGS: None

“TIME has learned that between 2007 and 2010 the Sierra Club accepted over $25 million in donations from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy—one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking—to help fund the Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. Though the group ended its relationship with Chesapeake in 2010—and the Club says it turned its back on an additional $30 million in promised donations—the news raises concerns about influence industry may have had on the Sierra Club’s independence and its support of natural gas in the past.”

FULL STORY: Sierra Club took millions in natural gas cash but later cut the ties

Author of "Green Inc."

266

“In a no-holds-barred insider account, Christine MacDonald tells the story of how the biggest perpetrators of public relations "greenwash" are often the greens themselves. At their worst, she argues, conservationists sell themselves as willing dupes and apologists for some of the most environmentally unfriendly corporations on the planet.” - New Scientist

Recent Posts

Post Archives

RSS GreenDistrict Blog

  • New documentary highlights growing risks to whistleblowers
    Earlier this week, my friend Tom Devine invited me to a special screening of the new documentary, “War on Whistleblowers,” at the Newsmuseum. Tom is the legal director at the Government Accountability Project, a group that has represented hundreds of people in over the last few decades who have exposed criminal behavior and other wrong-doing […] […]
    greendistrict
  • Are these apps changing our lives?
    Hello! I’ve been writing a lot lately about how new apps and the proliferation of smart phones are changing our lives. Since I’ve neglected this blog for way too many months, I wanted to bring you up to date with some of these recent articles. Last week, the Washington City Paper ran my cover story […] […]
    greendistrict
  • Will Congress bargain away the last of old growth forests?
    My latest story for Alternet examines how some of the country’s last remaining ancient forestland may be bargained away this year as a political favor to the campaign benefactors of one U.S. Senator. READ THIS STORY […]
    greendistrict
  • New report takes aim at corporate funding for climate denial
    The Union of Concerned Scientists has just published a report outing corporations that publicly back action on global warming, while quietly bankrolling climate change denier groups. While the report acknowledged that not all corporations are engaged in this sort of Jekyll & Hyde behavior, it says many have adopted a strategy that “allows companies to ma […]
    greendistrict
  • WWF faces new charges of corporate greenwashing
    WWF faces new charges of corporate greenwashing […]
    greendistrict
  • Geo-medicine: Mapping our pollution exposures
    My latest post on The Atlantic’s Cities website explores geo-medicine, a new field that uses GIS mapping to correlate environmental conditions to health risks like heart attacks and cancer. There’s even a free app that allows you to map the types of toxic exposures in everyplace you’ve ever lived and correlate them to the likelihood […] […]
    greendistrict

Blogroll

Calendar of Events

February 2012
M T W T F S S
« Oct   Mar »
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
272829  

Recent Comments

© 2009 Christine MacDonald. All Rights Reserved.

This blog is powered by the Wordpress platform and beach rentals.