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Natural Resources Defense Council

<p>Defending Yellowstone’s Wolves: As our legal team battled for wolf protections in the courtroom, a group of NRDC volunteers and interns helped spread the word about the wolves’ plight from an information booth inside Yellowstone National Park.</p><p>Defending Yellowstone’s Wolves: As our legal team battled for wolf protections in the courtroom, a group of NRDC volunteers and interns helped spread the word about the wolves’ plight from an information booth inside Yellowstone National Park.</p><p>Defending Yellowstone’s Wolves: As our legal team battled for wolf protections in the courtroom, a group of NRDC volunteers and interns helped spread the word about the wolves’ plight from an information booth inside Yellowstone National Park.</p><p>Preserving Utah’s Redrock Wilderness: For nearly eight years, NRDC fought back against attempts to turn southern Utah’s Redrock Wilderness — a  safe haven for antelope, bighorn sheep and other wildlife — into a maze of drill rigs, pipelines, roads and waste pits.</p><p>Greening China: NRDC worked with Olympics officials to “green” the Olympic Village, making sure that the project featured extremely high energy and water efficiency, full-scale use of renewable energy, extensive use of recycled materials, and a zero-emissions reception center.</p><p>Greening China: With cutting-edge green building techniques, the Olympic Village was awarded LEED-ND Gold certification, one of the world’s highest grades for environmental community design. NRDC is also partnering with Chinese officials to implement a national green building standard for China, just as it did for the United States more than eight years ago. <em>(photo: Laura Kleinhenz)</em></p><p>Saving Gray Whale Nursery / Laguna San Isnacio: In addition to protecting whales from sonar and other dangerous noise, NRDC works to preserve critical habitat such as Laguna San Ignacio, the last pristine nursery for gray whales in North America.</p><p>Chilean Patagonia is one of the last unspoiled places on earth, but its natural and cultural resources are at risk from a destructive plan to build mega-hydroelectric dams on two of the most powerful rivers in Patagonia and the world’s largest transmission line through national parks and protected areas.</p><p>NRDC is working with local Chilean environmental groups, the Chilean government, and the private sector to offer sustainable, alternative energy solutions to prevent this ill-conceived project and those that could potentially put the region at risk in the future. <em>(photo: Allie Silverman)</em></p><p>Day one of a nine day, off-road horse trek and demonstration against an ill-conceived mega-hydroelectric scheme through the communities in Patagonia that would be directly impacted by the proposed mega-hydroelectric dam scheme. <em>(photo: Allie Silverman)</em></p>

Defending Yellowstone’s Wolves: As our legal team battled for wolf protections in the courtroom, a group of NRDC volunteers and interns helped spread the word about the wolves’ plight from an information booth inside Yellowstone National Park.

 

NRDC is grateful to Newman’s Own Foundation for its support of our work to protect endangered wildlands and their inhabitants across the Americas and to promote green building in China. We are honored to be a part of Paul Newman’s remarkable legacy of service, and we strive to inspire similar civic engagement among NRDC members and activists. With the support of the foundation, our members and experts have achieved tangible results — wolves protected, whale nurseries saved, high-efficiency buildings constructed — that will endure for generations.

— Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC

About the Natural Resources Defense Council

The Natural Resources Defense Council’s purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends. NRDC works to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life — air, land and water — and to defend endangered natural places. It seeks to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment. It strives to protect nature in ways that advance the long-term welfare of present and future generations. It works to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment. It seeks to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.

www.nrdc.org

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