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Southern governors sign on to EcoDriving campaign
 From Green Right Now Reports
EcoDriving, a national initiative to promote green driving habits, has won the support of 10 more governors. The Southern Governors Association announced yesterday the latest states to join the EcoDriving movement that was launched a year ago by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA), Gov. Bill Ritter (D-CO), the Environmental Defense Fund and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.
“EcoDriving was introduced to empower consumers to take green driving into their own hands by adjusting their driving and vehicle maintenance habits,” Dave McCurdy, president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, said in a statement. “The educational program offers Americans a simple way to be more fuel efficient, and save at the pump.
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Tags: · Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Dave McCurdy, EcoDriving, Environmental Defense Fund, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gov. Bill Ritter, Southern Governors Association
Report outlines green dining best practices for chefs and corporations
From Green Right Now Reports
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Restaurant Associates have unveiled a guide to green dining best practices, which is aimed at helping corporate cafeterias, museums and restaurants cut costs and spare the environment.
The science-based recommendations have been tested by two Restaurant Associates clients, Random House and Hearst Corporation. The two companies combined will save over $85,000 each year, cut 275 tons of carbon pollution and reduce landfill waste by 60 tons annually, according to early test results.
An earlier survey by the National Restaurant Association found that environmentally friendly equipment and sustainable practices topped chefs’ lists of hot trends and top cost-savers for 2009.
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Tags: · Environmental Defense Fund, Green dining best practices, Restaurant Associates
Report says LA County leads California in green businesses
From Green Right Now Reports
 Los Angeles County has more businesses than any other county in California that stand to benefit from the state’s leadership on climate change, according to a first-of-its-kind map of green businesses in California released today. The map was released in conjunction with an Environmental Defense Fund report outlining how the Los Angeles area can leverage its environmental leadership to create economic opportunities.
The California Green Economy map features more than 2,200 businesses statewide in four categories — energy generation, energy efficiency, green building and transportation — that are likely to grow as California transitions to a low-carbon economy.
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Tags: · Environmental Defense Fund, Los Angeles
How to shop for seafood
By Christopher Peake
Green Right Now
For most of us, walking into a seafood store is an exercise in both ignorance and hope: we’re ignorant of what’s available but we hope we’ll leave with what we want. We all know fish come in two colors: the red one is salmon and the rest are white. Here is what you should know about fish:
 Mark Musatto, a partner at Airline Seafood in Houston, says “There are three basic feelings I want every customer to have when they enter my store: they should feel, smell and see the freshness; notice that fresh fish has a sheen and a translucency and I want customers to tell me how they plan to cook their fish and we can talk about the best fish for that method.
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Tags: · American Albacore Fishing Association, bass, endangered fish, Environmental Defense Fund, lobster, local dining, Mercury, Monterey Bay Aquarium, oysters, pollock, Salmon, seafood, Seawatch, shrimp, Sushi, tuna
Steelworkers, environmentalists call for carbon cap
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Get ready for a new ad campaign pushing for a carbon cap. This one, though,  comes not from policy wonks in D.C., but is a direct appeal from the steel belt. And it will yank at your heart strings.
The United Steelworkers and the Blue Green Alliance, in partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund, have assembled four video spots featuring steel workers appealing for a carbon cap. Yes you heard that right.
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Tags: · Blue Green Alliance, cap-and-trade, carbon cap, Climate Change, Congress, Environmental Defense Fund, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, steel workers, United Steelworkers
Conservationists applaud as President Bush creates three marine monuments
White House photo by Eric Draper
President George W. Bush smiles after delivering his remarks on U.S. Ocean Action Plan last September at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. President Bush has now protected more of the ocean than any other president.
Green Right Now reports
President George W. Bush today announced the establishment of three underwater monuments that will protect a vast area of the central Pacific Ocean that spans nine tropical coral islands and their surrounding waters.
The action was cheered by conservationists and environmental groups, including the Marine Conservation Biology Institute and Environmental Defense Fund, which each worked with the administration to establish the protections.
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Tags: · Environmental Defense Fund, Marianas Marine National Monument, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Pacific Remote Island National Monument, President Bush, Rose Atoll National Monument, U.S. Ocean Action Plan
Green groups need your year-end donations
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Now that you’ve worn off the magnetic strip on the credit card buying presents for everyone, gotten the letter that your health insurance premiums are doubling and your job is being “redefined,” it’s time to think about those year-end donations. Sigh.
While environmental groups will likely have an easier time on Capitol Hill next year talking policy with a new Administration that sees global warming as a real threat, they paradoxically could be facing headwinds with donors.
Consider first that some of their large contributors may have been dragged down in the Bernard Madoff securities/Ponzi scheme, which savaged many charitable foundations. While the extent of that damage is being assessed, it’s safe to assume that even nonprofits that escaped that five-alarm fire, have been singed by the economic meltdown.
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Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Working Group, Greenpeace, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nature Canada, The Nature Conservancy
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