Environmental Activism

Earth Saver Award Recognizes Sean Russell and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

Charles Orgbon | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Earth-Guardians, Youth Activism, Greening-Forward, Youth Empowerment, Environmental Activism, Teen News

Many of us fail to recognize that we can all be heroes. Youth such as Sean and Xiuhtezcatl took what they had and made a positive difference with it, thereby epitomizing a hero.

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Where is the Water?

Charles Orgbon | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Mecosta County, Water Conservation, Nestle Water Bottlers, Environmental Activism, Teen News

Seven billion humans vie for their share of the more than 30 billion gallons of water that are consumed daily in a global system of increasing interdependent human and ecological activities.

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How A Young Entrepreneur Is Helping To Save The Rainforest

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Video, Beth Doane, Activism, Environmental Activist Beth Doane, Beth Doane Rain Tees, Beth Doane Author, Beth Doane Environment, Beth Doane Environmentalist, Beth Doane Activist, Beth Doane Fashion Designer, Eco-Friendly Fashion, Environmental Activism, Green News

From Mother Nature Network's Starre Vartan: As one of America's youngest and brightest social entrepreneurs, Beth Doane launched her first fashion ...

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7 Year Old Girl Helps Protect The Environment

Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Solar Energy Use, Environmental Awareness, Solar Energy, Video, Enchanted Lands and Fables, Nature Protection Projects, Climate Change, 7 Year Old Himalayan Girl Helps Protect the Planet, Global Warming, Environmental Activism, Ishi Zangmo, Green News

Enchanted Lands and Fables is a project that uses photos and short films to "create awareness about some of the most endangered places and species on ...

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Framing Judi Bari

Stefanie Penn Spear | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Judi Bari Car Bomb, Documentary, Who Bombed Judi Bari, Darryl Cherney, Environmental Activism, Judi Bari, Video, Green News

In a time of tremendous disregard for the environment, the new documentary Who Bombed Judi Bari? shows how activists can take on the powers that be and win, though at a great cost.

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Eco Etiquette: How To Be A Gracious Green Guest (And Proselytizer At The Same Time)

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Sustainability Stockholm Syndrome, Recycling, Green Proselytizing, Green Advice, Eco Etiquette, Composting, Environmentalism, Organic Dinner Party, Green Living, Environmental Activism, Green News

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I went to an elegant dinn...

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Georgia Teen's Environment Club Spawns Network Of Earth-Saving Programs

dacula.patch.com | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Charles Orgbon III, Environment, Earth Savers Club, Mill Creek High School, Greening Forward, Environmental Activism, Greatest Person of the Day, Impact News

Three years ago -- while still in middle school -- Charles Orgbon III founded an environmental advocacy group called Greening Forward. "In 2008, I no...

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Social Consciousness in Green; Our Survival Depends on It!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Social Consciousness, Climate Crisis, Environmental Activism, Green News

The crisis we face is that time is no longer on our side to convince the masses to make an attitude adjustment towards authentic social consciousness for change.

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Nature Lessons From Vermont

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Clean Air, Patrick Leahy, Personal Democracy Forum, Vermont, Tar Sands Action, Bernie Sanders, Green, Hurricane Irene, Van Jones, Toxic Mercury, Epa, Smog, Moms Clean Air Force, Asthma, Lisa Jackson, Environmental Activism, Green News

Observing the rolling fields, horses and cows, undisturbed acres of rocks and trees, I felt particularly protective of what the earth offers us -- and what we need to do to defend it.

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A Modern-Day Prophet And Reconnecting To Sacred Places

Mallory McDuff, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Environment, Conservation, Wendell Berry, Tar Sands Protest, Eco-Theology, Green Activism, Green Faith, Christianity, Christian Environmentalism, Environmental Activism, Religion News

We need alternative road signs and luminaries if we are going to reconnect human communities with places. Wendell Berry's writings provide some direction: "What I stand for is what I stand on."

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Eco Etiquette: Help! I Feel Like Giving Up On Green

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Epa, Environmental Degradation, Tea Party, Green Activism, Michele Bachmann, Green Advice, Green Inspiration, Environmentalism, Keystone Pipeline, Green Fatigue, Green Faith, Environmental Activism, Green News

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I'm so fed up with what's...

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Chandra Brown: Fighting Pollution in Southern Georgia

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Canoochee River, Coal-Fired Plants, Ogeechee River, Chandra Brown, Epa, H.R. 2018, Water Pollution, Envrionmental Protection Agency, Environmental Activism, Environment, Green News

According to Chandra Brown, the heritage of southern Georgia's "primordial" river system was one of pristine beauty -- without much industry. But as more factories started to locate in the area in the 1970s, the situation began to change drastically.

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Changing the Game: Your Part, My Part

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: 2012 Elections, Tar-Sands-Pipeline, Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline, Green Activism, Climate Change Action, D.C. Sit Ins, Bill Mckibben, Keystone XL, Environmental Activism, Green News

Politics is about repetition, and we need to use every town hall meeting, every bus-tour stop, and every ribbon cutting ceremony to tell our representatives that we care about environmental protection. And then we need to do it again.

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Musicians United for Safe Energy Launch Mega-Concert in San Francisco This Sunday

Joan Brunwasser | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Music, No Nukes Campaign, San Francisco, Interview, Nuclear Power, Environmental Activism, Green News

Nuclear energy is unsafe and expensive to use not to mention to dispose of the waste. And there are green alternatives. So why can't we "just say 'No'"?

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Personal Responsibility and the Fight for Clean Air

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 09.26.2011

Instead of people just shaking their heads and sighing, "Well, what can I do?"... The answer is simple. Take a proactive step. The window of opportunity to send a comment of support to the E.P.A. is drawing to a close. August 4th to be exact.

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It'll Take a Mom to Save Mother Earth

Steve Valk | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Carbon Tax, Bill Mckibben, 350.Org, Mother's Day, Fossil Fuels, Green Technology, Environment, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Citizens Climate Lobby, Environmental Activism, Green News

Elli Sparks does not look like the kind of person who strikes fear in the hearts of fossil fuel lobbyists. But woe be to they who underestimate this diminutive mother of two from Richmond, Virginia.

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'Oceana': Amazing Images Of Our Endangered Seas (PHOTOS)

Ted Danson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oceana:Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them, Ted Danson, Endangered Oceans, Activism, Environmental Activism, Slidepollajax, Mike D'orso, Books News

I've been involved in ocean conservation for decades, and in that time, a lot has changed, but a lot has stayed the same.

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The Gospel Of Protecting The Environment

Rev. Chuck Currie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Warming, Climate Change, Environment, Focus on the Family, Budget Deficit, Environmental Protection Agency, Budget Cuts, Christians and Environmentalism, Christian Environmentalism, Drill Baby Drill, Care for Creation, Environmental Activism, EPA Budget Cuts, Religion News

We must continue to lift our voices in opposition to those who would harm the environment. The Gospel of Sarah Palin cannot be allowed to overcome to teachings contained in Scripture.

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"Sealing" the Deal: Canada's Legacy of Government Subsidized Cruelty Continues

Deborah Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sea Shepherd, Canadian Seal Hunt, Ifaw, In Defense of Animals, Animal Rights, Activism, Humane Society, Indigenous Culture, Animal Welfare, The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Deborah Bassett, Peta, Environmental Activism, Paul Watson, Green News

Just when environmentalists were beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel, Canada's Fisheries Minister announced that restrictions on exporting seal meat to China had been lifted.

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'Because It's Right' -- Is That All It Takes?

Marlise Karlin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Big Business, Equal Rights, Men and Women, Made in Dagenham, Made in Dagenham Activism, Feminism, Activism, Environmental Activism, Healthy Living News

When we recognize what is possible, we discover it is these small incremental shifts that have always caused evolutionary change.

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WATCH Laurie David: 'Modern Life Is Tearing Us Apart'

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Activism, Climate Change, Laurie David, Global Warming, Environmental Activism, Laurie David Global Warming, Laurie David Climate Skeptics, Laurie David the Family Dinner, Laurie David Parker Spitzer, Parker Spitzer Laurie David, Laurie David Climate Change, Green News

In her recent interview on "Parker Spitzer," producer, author, and environmental activist Laurie David discussed her newest book and her fight to rais...

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Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom': About Environmental Activism?

The Guardian | Amanda Little | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan Franzen Interview, Franzen, Freedom, Freedom Jonathan Franzen, Freedom Book, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Franzen Freedom, The Corrections, Environmental Activism, Books News

What reviewers have almost unanimously ignored, however, is that this indelible portrait of our times is also an indelible portrait of contemporary en...

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10/10/10 Global Work Party: How Social Media Made It Happen

Corbin Hiar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, 350.Org, Open Source, Diplomacy, Greenpeace, Online Organizing, 10-10-10, Social Media, Politics, Global Work Party, Jess Leber, Activism, Steven Chu, Climate Change, Skype, Un, Bill Mckibben, Tea Party, Green Politics, Environmental Activism, Malawi, The New Yorker, International Day of Climate Action, Barack Obama, Chris Eaton, change.org, Foreign Policy, Step It Up, Phil Aroneanu, Middlebury College, New Media, Koch Industries, Denmark, Climate Bill, Green News

With international negotiations at a standstill, 350.org, Greenpeace and others are using every new media tool available to share their climate message. Two days before 10/10/10, they had registered nearly 7,000 events in 188 countries.

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'Jesus Will Rip Your Head Off': Oil Spill Leads To Unexpected Environmental Alliances

Paul Loeb | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Bp, Oil Spill, Oil Spill Cleanup, Greenwashing, Environment, Environmentalism, Corporate Greed, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Fishermen, Environmental Activism, Books News

We often think of social involvement as noble but impractical.

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Exclusive Interview with Dr. Jane Goodall

Marianne Schnall | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Endangered Species, Jane Goodall, Animal Rights, Green Living, Jane-Goodall-Institute, Nature Health, Jane Goodall Chimps, The Inner Life, Spiritual Life, Environmental Activism, Healthy Living News

We've developed this language which has enabled us to talk about things that aren't present. We are in a position to understand our relation to the rest of the planet. And I think that's what's makes us different.

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