The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) [1] is a leftist, New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Founded in 1970, NRDC today has 1.2 million members and online activists nationwide, and a staff of more than 250 scientists, attorneys, and other specialists. Along with Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, World Resources Institute, and Earthjustice, NRDC is widely considered to be one of the leading environmental groups. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... The historic Blue Marble photograph, which helped bring environmentalism to the public eye. ... An advocacy group, interest group or lobbying group is a group, however loosely or tightly organized, doing advocacy: those determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected. ... The physicist Albert Einstein is probably the most famous scientist of our time. ... An attorney is someone who represents someone else in the transaction of business: For attorney-at-law, see lawyer, solicitor, barrister or civil law notary. ... The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization founded on May 28, 1892 in San Francisco, California by the well-known conservationist John Muir, who became its first president. ... Environmental Defense (formerly known as the Environmental Defense Fund or EDF), is a US-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group. ... World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was established by James Gustave (Gus) Speth. ... Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm that specializes in pro-environmental litigation. ...

The NRDC seeks solutions to defend human health, the environment, and vanishing natural landscapes against urban sprawl, pollution, and habitat destruction. Top priorities include global warming and non-petroleum energy technologies, guarding children's and community health; and protection of ocean habitats. Urban sprawl (also: suburban sprawl), a term with pejorative implication, refers to the unplanned, rapid and expansive growth of a greater metropolitan area, traditionally suburbs (or exurbs) over a large area. ... Pollution is the release of environmental contaminants. ... Habitat destruction is a process of land use change in which one habitat-type is removed and replaced with some other habitat-type ... Global mean surface temperatures 1856 to 2005. ...

To achieve these goals, NRDC works to pass strong legal safeguards like the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act, and fights to make sure they are enforced. While NRDC lawyers have used the courts to force dozens of polluters to clean up, the organization has also worked with more than 200 companies of all sizes to devise safe, cost-effective environmental solutions. A Clean Air Act describes one of a number of pieces of legislation relating to the reduction of smog and atmospheric pollution in general. ... The Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C.A. § 1251 et seq. ...

In 2001, NRDC launched the BioGems Initiative [2] to mobilize concerned individuals in defense of exceptional and imperiled ecosystems. The initiative matches NRDC's courtroom and advocacy expertise with the passion and determination of citizen activists who have sent more than 7 million messages to corporations and government officials calling for wildland protections.

NRDC was also one of the only major national environmental organizations to become and stay involved with community activists on the ground in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.^[1] Lowest pressure 902 mbar (hPa; 26. ...

The NRDC has also published a number of studies on nuclear weapon stockpiles around the world, both as monographs and as individual studies in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ... The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a journal concerned with global security issues, especially related to the dangers posed nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. ...

In December 2006, Green Day and NRDC opened a web site in partnership to raise awareness on America's dependency on Oil.^[2][3] Green Day is an American rock band consisting of three core members: Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass) and Tré Cool (drums). ...

References

1. ^ NRDC's N.O. Environmental Quality Test Results
2. ^ Green Day Authority
3. ^ Green Day + NRDC

External links

• Official website
• Official bios of John H. Adams, NRDC's Founding Director, and Frances Beinecke, NRDC's President.