March 10, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
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In January 2010, we embarked up Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro to bring awareness to the world’s clean water crisis, a plague that kills 1.8 million people each year worldwide. Masterminded by Grammy-nominated musician Kenna, ”Summit on the Summit, which also included Lupe Fiasco, Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch, Isabel Lucas, Alexandra Cousteau and others, the climb was
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March 10, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
Three Greenpeace activists were taken into custody after deploying a floating banner in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building in plain view of a favorite destination for polluter lobbyists - Senator Lisa Murkowski’s Washington DC office. The banner exposed Murkowski’s close relationship with dirty energy interests and promoted PolluterHarmony, a spoof online dating
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March 9, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
More and more home gardeners are interested in growing their own food this year. Plant nurseries and seed companies are already showing sales of vegetable seedlings and fruit trees on the rise this spring. For the most part, this is fantastic news. Bring me more garden geeks! But here’s my dilemma. Are home gardeners going
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March 9, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
Originally posted on grist.org.
Tom Friedman had a column over the weekend lauding a couple of American clean-energy innovators and entrepreneurs. Like almost all his green-focused columns, it’s good stuff. However! In the course of accomplishing his worthwhile objective, Friedman and one of his subjects both say something I just can’t let pass without comment. I
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March 5, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
While the spotlight is focused on Hollywood this week for the Academy Awards, Matt Petersen, President and CEO of Global Green USA, wanted to “raise awareness, help support the work of Global Green and have fun” at the 7th Annual Global Green USA Pre-Oscar Party held at Avalon Hollywood on Wednesday night.
“Given the enormous
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March 4, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
Crossposted with www.thegreengrok.com.
General Electric is “changing the perception of coal energy in America.” It’s clean — and sexy. Just watch this TV ad. But wait there’s more.
Checking methane levels at a coal mine in Pound, Virginia — taken during an Enhanced Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (black lung screening) survey. (Source: CDC’s National Institute for
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March 4, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
During the summer of 2008, the right worked hard to contrive a cynical, willfully ignorant message that offshore drilling would somehow be the answer to high gas prices. Never mind that it wasn’t true. Never mind that even the oil companies were lackluster in their support of this high risk, low return scheme.
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March 4, 2010, Posted by admin at 6:28 am
If you were to ask what’s on my mind when I get a faraway dreamy look in my eyes, the answer wouldn’t be love and it wouldn’t be sunny beaches. It’d be shoes. I daydream about specific styles and colors and shapes and looks. And the shoes I dream about always have two attributes -
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March 2, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
Modern coal extraction methods in the US today continue a legacy of deception and destruction that the vast majority of Americans are entirely unaware of. In recent years, the environmentally devastating practice of Mountain Top Removal (MTR) has become a flashpoint for an industry under increasing scrutiny for the adverse impacts on health, welfare and
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March 1, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
As Lucky and I prepare for our trip to Los Angeles for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards on March 7th, Lucky had to bark the question: Has an animal ever won an Academy Award (most likely to later beg the question: If so, how can she)?
The truth is that no animal has ever won an
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