Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Green?

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Changed the game by ... coining the phrase "blood dolphin." O'Barry, a longtime activist and star of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," has been the force in raising awareness of the plight of dolphins. Not only does he fight to close parks across the world that exploit sea creatures, but he risked his life to expose the yearly dolphin slaughter at the Taji national park in Japan. He was undaunted by the attacks from the dolphin slayers and the Japanese government itself, and led a campaign on and off the screen to stop the annual massacre that leaves 20,000 dolphins dead. In August Animal Planet released a new mini-series, "Blood Dolphins," that further explored the killings. How it all started: O'Barry originally made his name as a trainer on the set of "Flipper," the popular 1960s sitcom. He was appalled by the treatment of dolphins in captivity, and in 1970 founded the Dolphin Project to free as many dolphins as he could. "We have been brainwashed by this society to think dolphins belong in a concrete tank doing tricks for us," he told the Los Angeles Times in August. "Flipper was a blood dolphin." Must-click link: SaveTheDolphins.org

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Changed the game by ... coining the phrase "blood dolphin." O'Barry, a longtime activist and star of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," has been the force in raising awareness of the plight of dolphins. Not only does he fight to close parks across the world that exploit sea creatures, but he risked his life to expose the yearly dolphin slaughter at the Taji national park in Japan. He was undaunted by the attacks from the dolphin slayers and the Japanese government itself, and led a campaign on and off the screen to stop the annual massacre that leaves 20,000 dolphins dead. In August Animal Planet released a new mini-series, "Blood Dolphins," that further explored the killings.

How it all started: O'Barry originally made his name as a trainer on the set of "Flipper," the popular 1960s sitcom. He was appalled by the treatment of dolphins in captivity, and in 1970 founded the Dolphin Project to free as many dolphins as he could. "We have been brainwashed by this society to think dolphins belong in a concrete tank doing tricks for us," he told the Los Angeles Times in August. "Flipper was a blood dolphin."

Must-click link: SaveTheDolphins.org

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[globalcooperativeforum]

09:00 PM on 11/11/2010

The ultimate Green Game Changers
are not even listed

1.Amory Lovins
"The technical problems have been solved (causing climate change).
What remains are the political problems of implementation."
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=globalcooperativeforumDOTnet%20%20lovins%20AND%20collection%3Aopensource_movies

2. Paul Hawken
http://www.archive.org/details/PaulHawken-TheNewGreatTransformation-2007

3. Adi Da Samraj
The Global Cooperative Forum
http://www.globalcooperativeforum.net
http://www.dabase.org/not2.htm

[rougebaisers]

07:45 AM on 10/22/2010

The ultimate game changer in green is our Mother and only home, and oh is she about to change the game for humans.

[snowballinhell]

02:44 PM on 10/21/2010

Has the game changed? I didn't notice. This feel good piece is a waste of time and energy. We are easily entertained and led off the path of knowing and doing what is needed to save the planet. The fact is that we are the real game changers. How about a list of actions we need to take to do that. Suggestions, anyone?

[Dana Dallabetta]

05:00 PM on 10/21/2010

Go Vegan

[snowballinhell]

06:09 PM on 10/21/2010

Good one. The less meat we eat, the fewer trees we need to cut down to create pasture for livestock. Plus, it's better for our own health,

Other suggestions?

[Mashed Potatoes]

12:24 PM on 10/21/2010

James Cameron, check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKZ4RolQxec

[BebeLush]

12:18 PM on 10/21/2010

Hurray! A great man with a great cause. I hope he is successful someday.

[ontariogirl]

11:56 AM on 10/21/2010

Well its a Green Lantern of course.

[olesenj]

07:44 PM on 10/17/2010

Which is the more urgent environmental issue: global warming or cancer?

[Publicola]

09:11 PM on 10/14/2010

The following are scientific facts:

* The Earth has warmed significantly over recent decades, to what may be the highest level in 2,000 years or more.

* Anthropogenic greenhouse gases including CO2 -- which is generated mostly by fossil fuel burning -- warm the Earth. Without greenhouse gases including CO2 the average temperature of the Earth would be below freezing.

* Satellite measurements demonstrate that increasing CO2 atmospheric concentrations over recent decades has caused increased retention of heat energy in the atmosphere.

* The atmospheric CO2 concentration has increased by more than a third since the dawn of the fossil fuel era, to the highest level in at least 800,000 years.

* The scientific evidence strongly indicates that said increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, and there is no other viable scientific explanation for said atmospheric CO2 increase.

* There is a strong correlation between said atmospheric CO2 increase and said recent warming.

* Known natural forcing agents of past global warming - including changes in orbital cycles and increases in solar radiative output - cannot explain the bulk of said recent warming. Neither has any scientific theory to explain the bulk of said recent warming other than anthropogenic global warming (AGW) survived scientific scrutiny.

Again these are all scientific facts. Which is to say:

The scientific evidence supporting anthropogenic global warming is overwhelming.

[The Rewd]

04:57 PM on 10/14/2010

Marc Morano has basically brought the GW canard to it's knees, I say he might be a good choice.

[Dredd]

11:11 AM on 10/14/2010

Without a doubt it is MOMCOM.

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/10/methanol-economy-way-out-of-here-2.html

[SecondTime]

10:28 AM on 10/14/2010

I would not vote for anyone on that list. Many of them have a superficial, self-serving, self-dramatising position. I would nominate Steve McIntyre, Richard Lindzen, Lord Monckton, Roy Spencer, Anthony Watts, Ross McKitrick, and the Pielkes, father & son. So much harm has been done, so much energy, emotion, and integrity wasted on the CO2-scam, that anyone who has helped expose it deserves recognitio. The 'green' agenda has been poisoned by lies and distortions, and may never fully recover.

[paulschechter]

11:17 AM on 10/14/2010

Regardless of your views of the potential harmful effects of CO2, don't you think something rings false about our excessive, excessive use of energy? In my City of Houston, TX hundreds of thousands of solitary people drive oversized SUVs and pick-up trucks on massive commutes to office jobs each day. What is the point of using 300HP and 3000lbs of steel to transport a 150lb person? The energy consumed to actually move the human is probably 1% or less of the total amount burned--the rest is completely wasted. The same argument can be made for gigantic homes, useless junk traveling 8000 miles across the globe, unnecessary jet-sets across the country, and so much more.

To me this is just lavish and wasteful; I don't believe that any amount of gluttony can be swallowed without an equal and opposite repercussion. It's ying and yang, at the end of the day, everything must stay in balance. I feel the green movement is an attempt to take a closer look at the other side--to look at the often hidden or under-represented effects of our ultra-lavish yet ephemeral western lifestyles.

[The Rewd]

05:00 PM on 10/14/2010

Then don't get those things for yourself, but quit forcing your views about consumption and wealth on everyone else.

You care less about "green" than you do about people flaunting their personal choices.

[gpetz1]

09:26 PM on 10/03/2010

Global warming has stopped. Sounds like a deluded assertion made by someone who want to keep driving his or her car with abandon.

[ThePeoriaKid]

09:19 PM on 09/29/2010

Those shoes ruin women's feet.

Doesn't she care about deformation of human feet?

[VerizonCells]

05:49 PM on 09/29/2010

I would add Annie Leonard to this list...

[deezus]

02:04 PM on 09/29/2010

Cheech & Chong (for the only "green" that really matters)