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Allison Boyer in Action & Activism 405 days ago
Most teenagers are busy texting their friends or playing video games. Not Angela Primbas. This teen is taking matters into her own hands when it comes to pollution. She and two friends of hers have formed Save Our Streams (S.O.S.), and new group dedicated to stopping the pollution of their backyard streams and the entire… Read More…
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Timothy B. Hurst in Action & Activism 419 days ago
US’ oldest environmental group launches social network for hikers You’ve heard of trail networks, well how about the network, Trails? Sierra Club Trails, that is. Don’t feel bad if you haven’t because it’s brand new. On Thursday, The Sierra Club launched what is being billed as the world’s first-ever comprehensive hiking wiki. Like other wikis,… Read More…
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Adam Williams in Action & Activism 565 days ago
Project H has completed a Learning Landscape design, putting reclaimed tires to uses of exponential value: educating youth at the Kutamba School for AIDS Orphans in southern Uganda. The tires are used in various math lessons, teaching the kids addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. When the sandbox grid of tires is not being used for… Read More…
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It’s that time of year again for all do-gooding nonprofit organizations who’ve made videos “to inspire and ignite social change” to step forward. The third annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards are collecting your submissions. This year’s theme: “Everyone’s Doing It.” Round one of judging will be completed on or around Mar. 26, 2009. As DoGooderTV… Read More…
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mcmilker in Action & Activism 578 days ago
An order of Episcopalian nuns in New York City are setting a high bar for devoted ecoratti as they embark on a quest to build a new green convent. The new building will feature, solar heating and on-roof vegetable garden, rainwater collection and even compost toilets.
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Usually, people who recycle and donate to charity are commended for their efforts, but Robert Jessberger of Bexley, Ohio is being asked to stop, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Jessberger reportedly collects items that people in his neighborhood set out as trash. With some cleaning and fixing, most of the items he collects are good… Read More…
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Ever doubt the power of one person? Bob “Sea Otter” Jones has proven just how important a single person can be. He has single-handedly saved the Aleutian cackling goose. The Aleutian cackling goose was once abundantly found in North America and Asia, but fur trappers in the 17th and 18th centuries all but eliminated the… Read More…
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Pope Benedict XVI has once again called on Catholics everywhere to go green. This past week, he used his Epiphany Day homily to call for action against global warming and polluting. This isn’t the first time the Pope has pushed to save the environment. In September of 2007, the Vatican installed solar panels; in December,… Read More…
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Division keeps tabs on what it considers some of the planet’s most egregious foes — and it has recently released that most wanted list. John Karayannides (above) is one of a couple dozen offenders on the EPA’s list. Along with the headshots and descriptive information, the crimes are… Read More…
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The story goes that in recent years, Jeff Clapp has made eco-art that helps preserve the sanctity of Mt. Everest’s natural beauty, and extends the value of a particular bit of Himalayan adventurers’ waste: oxygen canisters. Clapp has collected a number of the tanks that once littered Everest, and has crafted them into bells, bowls… Read More…
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Jennifer Lance in Action & Activism 650 days ago
On Wednesday, thousands of Macedonians planted six million trees to reforest their country. Buses took people, including 1000 soldiers, to planting sites. The tree planting project was organized by opera singer Boris Trajanov, “If Macedonia, a country of two million people, can plant six million trees, we can only imagine how many trees can be… Read More…
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Former mailman Steven Padgett received probation in federal court for failing to deliver years worth of junk mail. Although the mailman did not stop delivering junk mail based on the environmental impact of junk mail, which accounts for 30% of all US mail. He did it because he couldn’t keep up with the volume of… Read More…
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Joan Pick hasn’t driven a car since 1973 and has only been in a car twice since then. She hasn’t flown on an airplane since 1971. She eats only raw food, thus using no energy for cooking, and she runs everywhere. She uses electricity only for a single low-energy light and her kettle, which… Read More…
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Shirley Siluk Gregory in Action & Activism 680 days ago
If an ordinary picture is worth a thousand words, an extraordinary one — like those chosen as finalists in the Prix Pictet sustainability-focused photo competition — should be worth even more. Better yet, their value should be measured in terms of the action they inspire to right wrongs. See if you find inspiration to act… Read More…
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College activists are greening it up by kicking the lights off while they’re having fun with a bit of sexy recycling — and whatnot. But that’s just one of the campus ‘green’ scenes, as reported in Grist‘s series on campus activism. It turns out there are ways to make saving the planet hip and sexy… Read More…
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Kelli Best-Oliver in Action & Activism 742 days ago
Alt-country stalwart Wilco is using their touring success to benefit green groups in the communties they visit. Wilco donated over $3,000 from poster sales at their three sold-out St Louis shows to New Roots Urban Farm. New Roots, located in North St Louis, is a collectively-run group that transformed a blighted parcel of land from… Read More…
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/oUkiyBVytRQ&hl=en&] Last week, a tourist in NYC videotaped a police office body slamming a cyclist during Critical Mass, the monthly event where bicyclists take over city streets. On Friday, violence also erupted during Critical Mass in Seattle between a driver and bikers, after riders practiced “corking,” in which they block cars while the mass of… Read More…
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Alex Smith in Action & Activism 805 days ago
In what some called a crazy stint, this April the LA crew of riders who call themselves the Crimanimalz hit the highway to make a statement in a city renowned for its hours and hours of commuter traffic. The ride through the city’s Friday commuter traffic jam, also dubbed the “If You Rode a Bike… Read More…
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Philip Proefrock in Action & Activism 814 days ago
Restaurants in seven cities across the US are part of the initial wave of the Food & Water Watch “Take Back the Tap“ Campaign. “The consumer advocacy group is working with cities across the nation to urge local restaurants and chefs to sign a pledge to switch to serving only tap water, help educate customers… Read More…
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If you want to catch someone’s attention, go naked (I hear this is also a good way to stop Jehovah’s Witnesses from coming to your home)! Yesterday in Madrid, protester rode bikes in the buff to protest the expansion of automobile usage and draw attention to the benefits of bike riding. Via (including image): Interesting… Read More…
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Sharon Troy in Action & Activism 834 days ago
I had the pleasure of attending Carrot Mob’s first event in San Francisco a few months ago. They’ve got a unique approach to incentivizing local businesses to go green. Watch their video and check out Paul Smith’s post about Carrot Mob on Triple Pundit. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/LUz0kM1u_jk" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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The Anti-Advertising Agency needs your help. Send a SASE to: Steve Lambert/Anti-Advertising Agency c/o Eyebeam OpenLab 540 W.21st ST. New York, NY 10011 You will receive a package full of “you don’t need it” stickers to plaster on ads in your community. Via: fashionindie
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An introduction to how Earth Day 1970 got its start, and the framework of environmental policy it left in its wake [courtesy of Project Butterfly - running time is 4:41]. [kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/yMFILFijFb0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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British actress, Dame Judi Dench, who played Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, protests building an eco-town Stratford-on-Avon. The 73 year old actress is furious over British government’s plans of a carbon-neutral village about six miles (9.65 kilometres) from Stratford upon-Avon. Photo Courtesy Miramax Films
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Gavin Hudson in Action & Activism 878 days ago
Springtime has arrived in the northern hemisphere. To the hippest of energy hipsters, that means cold shower season is here! I took my first cold shower of 2008 today after a run and found it refreshing and invigorating. Of course, showering cold isn’t only for greenies and energy genies. Roanne Weisman writes about some of… Read More…
