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Environmentalism

Avatar and the Vocabulary of Evildoers -- Or, Why James Cameron's Script Isn't as Bad as You Think

Josh Schrei | Posted 01.07.2010 | Entertainment

Read More: Rwanda, Linguistics, Avatar, Mining, James Cameron, Environment, Environmentalism, Nuclear Testing, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous People, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Entertainment News
Josh Schrei

The sad truth is that the history of the colonization and destruction of indigenous peoples brings with it a panoply of one-liners and inhumane vernacular that would make even Cameron cringe.

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Reuse or Recycle? Try Freecycling

Jonathan Merritt | Posted 01.02.2010 | Green

Read More: Time Magazine, The Environmentalist, Environmentalists, Green, Environmentalism, Green Like God, Green Living, Recycling, Green Movement, Recycle, Recycled Materials, Waste Management, Waste, Environment, Jonathan Merritt, Reuse, Freecycle, Reducing Waste, freecycle.org, Green News
Jonathan Merritt

Unfortunately, there is more to sustainable living than just recycling. Recycling is good, but it is even better not to use disposable goods if possible.

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The Must-See Environmental Movies Of The Decade (VIDEO)

Posted 12.29.2009 | Green

Read More: There Will Be Blood, The Road, Slidepoll, Ice Age, Wall-E, Erin Brockovich, Environmentalism, Green Movies, Film, Children-of-Men, Movies, Green News

The environment has been at the forefront of pop culture during the 2000's. HuffPost Green thought we'd compile some of the decade's best narrative gr...

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Ask Budweiser to Step Down From the Chamber of Commerce

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 12.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Bud, Epa, Horses, Environmentalism, Budweiser, Environmental Protection Agency, Satire, Parody, Environment, Climate Change, Anheuser-Busch, Chamber of Commerce, Bud Light, US Chamber of Commerce, Clydesdale, Climate Bill, Green News
Matthew Filipowicz

Many companies have quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its extreme anti-environmental views and actions. Apple has quit. Nike has quit. Exelon ...

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Taking Copenhagen Personally

Andrea Learned | Posted 12.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Living, Environmentalism, Sustainability, Green Consumers, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Sustainable Society, Green News
Andrea Learned

With climate change, as the psychologist put it -- the key may be in developing a culture of engagement that is visible, urgent and personal.

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Scenes From Copenhagen's Street Protests (Part II)

Andrew Sniderman | Posted 12.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Green News, Protests, Environmentalism, Climate Change, cop15, Copenhagen, Green News
Andrew Sniderman

The final tally on the day? 250 arrests. No people's assembly. And a whole lot of headlines, but about what?

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Copenhagen Needs 'Me First' Gumption

Lee Myung-Bak | Posted 12.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Green Living, Copenhagen 2009, Copenhagen, Green News
Lee Myung-Bak

A willingness to act where others pause is the only way we'll break the long-prevailing approach of "you first."

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Time for 'Housecleaning' in Copenhagen

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, Environment, Copenhagen, Environmentalism, Copenhagen 2009, Climate Change, Green News
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

If Copenhagen is to be a success, all must pull their weight. This means avoiding the temptation to polarize the debate along the North-South divide, or wasting time looking for scapegoats.

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A Key Private Sector Lever to Slow Climate Change: the Sustainable Supply Chain

Tony Prophet | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Environmentalism, Sustainability, Supply Chain, Green Business, Copenhagen 2009, Copenhagen, Green News
Tony Prophet

A powerful way companies can drive environmental change is through the supply chain -- the global network of suppliers, manufacturers and partners it works with to make and distribute its products.

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Local Governments Can Lead Fight Against Climate Change

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Environmentalism, Green Energy, Copenhagen 2009, Green Jobs, Copenhagen, State and Local Government, Green News
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Even in the absence of national and international commitments, we must not ignore the tremendous movement that is already under way to solve our environmental and energy problems.

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Don't Have a Cow

Elihu Dietz | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Organic Farming, Farming, Vegetarian, Waste, Environmentalism, Sustainability, Meat, Green News
Elihu Dietz

Meat is wasteful: it takes 10,000 pounds of grain to produce 1000 pounds of meat. But is abstaining from eating meat really the solution?

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Inconvenient Truth: Too many people

Diane Francis | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Environment, Environmentalism, Business, Copenhagen 2009, China, Emerging Economies, Economic Development, Green News
Diane Francis

The "inconvenient truth" overhanging the UN's Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world.

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Fabulous Fundraisers Use Fashion For a Good Cause

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 11.25.2009 | Style

Read More: Sustainable Living, Sustainable Design, Zareinu Fashion Show, Sustainable Fashion, Fashion Industry, Eco Fashion, Environmentalism, Eco-Friendly, Frocktail Party, Zareinu School, Fashion Week, Reduce, Fashion Trends, Canadian Designers, R4 Fashion, Recycle, Canadian Fashion, Reuse, Sustainability, Fashion, Fundraising, Children's Health, Fundraisers, Style News
Marissa Bronfman

Fashionphiles flocked to the first annual Frocktail Party on November 12th, eager to bid on a bevy of designer dresses up for auction in support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

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Deepak Chopra Picks World's Most Powerful Teachers

forbes.com | Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Equality, Deepak Chopra, Environment, Environmentalism, Teachers, Al Gore, Student, Teaching, The Inner Life, Feminism, Spirituality, Gender, Gloria Steinem, Living News

Deepak Chopra picks the world's most powerful teachers....

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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EMA's: Introducing the Legacy Award

Kevin George | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Paramount Studios, Walt Disney, Big-Cats, National Geographic, Values, Gorillas, Environment, Walt Disney Company, Environmentalism, Lions, Environmental Media Association, Media, Legacy, Disney, Cheetahs, Debbie Levin, Green News
Kevin George

The Legacy Award celebrates a vision of bringing environmental messages into entertainment -- television, film and music -- to educate and motivate the public.

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Caught in the Act: Philippe Cousteau's Pet Peeve

Kathy Eldon | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact

Read More: Clean Water, Environmentalism, Creative-Visions-Foundation, Conservation, Philippe Cousteau, Oceans, Philippe Cousteau Jr, Impact News
Kathy Eldon

I recently caught up with Philippe Cousteau Jr., following in the footsteps of his grandfather, famed French explorer Jacques Cousteau, encouraging young people to use their power to change the world around them.

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State Must End Threat to NYC's Drinking Water

Scott Stringer | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York

Read More: Watershed, Environmentalism, Marcellus Shale, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracking, David Paterson, New-York-Drinking-Water, New York News
Scott Stringer

New York State regulators trail everybody else in protecting New York City's drinking water from natural gas drilling, despite the fact that they alone have the authority to do so.

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Tim Nicholson: Green Views Now The Same As A Religion, UK Court Rules In Discrimination Suit

Mail Online | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmentalism, Green Beliefs Job Discrimination, Green Martyr, UK Court Green Martyr, Tim Nicholson, Green News

An environmentalist who claims he was fired for his views won a landmark legal battle yesterday after a judge ruled being green was just as worthy of ...

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Single-Eyed Vision

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peace Circles, Environmentalism, Cooperation, Power, Indigenous People, National Parks, Chicago, Politics News
Robert Koehler

For all our material progress, for all our ability to dominate just about anything or anyone we encounter -- this is our history, our manifest destiny -- things are falling apart in every sector of society.

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It's the Economy, Stupid: U.S. Can Cash in on Clean Energy Legislation

Rob Perks | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Congress, Climate, Green Jobs, Dirty Energy, Environmentalism, Clean Energy, Climate Legislation, Climate Bill, Global Warming, Green News
Rob Perks

New analysis shows that adopting comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation could create up to 1.9 million new jobs.

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Gas Drilling in New York Comes to a Head

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Energy, Epa, Fracking, Environmentalism, Green Living, Energy Policy, Fracking Fluid, Natural Gas, New York News
Andrew Reinbach

Cooperstown, NY: Gas drilling and the forces behind it are massed to exploit the rich deposits of upstate New York, in the process trampling on the basic idea of government.

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In An Important Step, U.S. Designates Polar Bear Critical Habitat

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Drilling, Polarbear, Polarbears, Biogems, Arctic, Environmental Protection Agency, Fish and Wildlife Service, Epa, Environmentalism, Endangered Species Act, Critical Habitat, Green News
Andrew Wetzler

If approved, the proposal would be the largest designation of critical habitat in the history of the Endangered Species Act.

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Growing Movement to Get Kids Outdoors Includes Where the Wild Things Are

Deanna Neil | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Teton Science School, Children, Earth Science Week, Be Out There!, Environment, Environmentalism, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, National Wildlife Federation, Where the Wild Things Are, Education Reform, Children's Health, No Child Left Inside, Living News
Deanna Neil

We want to get kids outside, but who should lead the way: teachers, parents or kids themselves? Deciding the best approach for reengaging kids with nature means knowing where the problem stems from.

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Sustainable Green Living in a Few Easy Steps

Margaret Hyde | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Living, Environment, Sustainability, Environmentalism, Sustainable Energy, Green Living, Green News
Margaret Hyde

No matter how large or small your home or your budget, here are some things you can do right now to make your home more sustainable.

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