Articles tagged “Act Local”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

No Reap Till Brooklyn: BK Farmyards Reconnects Farmers and Consumers By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Dec 26 2009 BK Farmyards mission is to bring communities together around the dinner table: our educational agenda includes eating seasonally, growing food locally, storing and preparing food, species biodiversity, and food democracy. + READ MORE

Our Newest Tool for Exposing Corporate Eco-Crimes: PolluterWatch By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 25 2009 If you are making money subverting America's interests in clean energy jobs and energy security, we're going to expose you and fight back. + READ MORE

Last-Minute Christmas Shopping? Be Sure to Avoid Toy Toxins and Sweatshop Clothes By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 21 2009 What's the ecological and social footprint of your holiday gift list? + READ MORE

5 Ways Big Corporations Pollute, and 5 Ways to Help Expose Them By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Dec 21 2009 The U.S. Department of Defense may be the planet's worst polluter but it gets plenty of help from the kindred spirits who runs things at multinational corporations. + READ MORE

5 Radical Green Actions That Could Get You Arrested and 5 Alternatives That Won't By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 18 2009 If we kept such a scorecard, we'd learn that vivisection, mountaintop mining, ocean floor trawling, and spraying pesticides qualify as "business." But if you even talk about, say, sabotaging the machine that sprays those pesticides, well...you run the risk of being rewarded with an orange jumpsuit and a one-way ticket for an all-inclusive vacation at Guantanamo Bay. + READ MORE

What Might a Green "Surge" Look Like? Scenes from a Mall... By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 17 2009 Imagine a dedicated collective of eco-activists launching a green surge in the name of Mother Earth...at the mall? + READ MORE

Dropped Greenhouse Gas Initiative a "Slap in the Face" From NYC Mayor By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 17 2009 Bloomberg dropped the "most far-reaching initiative of his plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions" because building owners said it was too costly. + READ MORE

All Aboard: Take the Green Train to The Bronx This Holiday Season By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 17 2009 Model trains make their way through miniature replicas of various NYC buildings and landmarks, made entirely from plant parts like bark, moss, berries, mushrooms, pinecones, and twigs. + READ MORE

5 Environmental Crises You Should Care About that Aren't Global Warming By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 17 2009 Climate change, of course, connects to many of the pressing green issues but our eco-system would be in peril even if the deniers are right. We'd still have 80% of the world's forests gone. We'd still have 90% of the large fish in the ocean gone. + READ MORE

Choke the Rich? Why Upper East Side Air Pollution Might Be a Good Thing for Environmental Justice By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 16 2009 If the folks on the Upper East Side recognize that particulates do not stop at their borders, we could be one step closer to environmental justice. + READ MORE

7 Resolution Reminders, Including: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle...Radical? By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 15 2009 When deciding where to start, it doesn't get any more fundamental than the original 3 R's, reduce, re-use, recycle, with a couple more relevant R's tossed in. However, we're not done once we have our own house in order. Far from it. + READ MORE

5 Things the Green Movement Can Learn from "The Godfather" By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 14 2009 The late great Kurt Vonnegut once said: "There is no reason good can't triumph over evil, if only the angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia." + READ MORE

Steel Cage Death Match: Climate Change Science vs. Corporate-Inspired Denial By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Dec 11 2009 The only players with a vested interest in the status quo are those who profit off our indifference and our conspicuous consumption, so why not alter our lifestyle as if our very existence were hanging in the balance? + READ MORE

Collective Soul: Identifying With Nature, Defending Nature By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 11 2009 The Tom Joad character in "The Grapes of Wrath" said: "Maybe we're not all individual souls, but maybe we're all part of one big soul." + READ MORE

Clean-Up in Aisle 3: How Many Shopping Days Do We Really Have Left? By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 11 2009 Statistically speaking, Americans love bargain hunting about 25 times more than cheering for the home team. + READ MORE

How to Bring Global Warming Out of the Closet: 3 Simple Changes You Can Make Today By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Dec 11 2009 The more we buy, the more space we need for storage, and this adds up to a bigger carbon footprint. + READ MORE

3 Steps You Can Take to Preserve Rainforest Right Now (and Slow Down the Effects of Climate Change for Everyone Else) By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Dec 10 2009 What if you saw opportunity when you thought about rainforests? After all, in effect, what's being done to rainforests is being done to all of us...and here's how we can fight back. + READ MORE

7 Things You Need to Know About Superfund Sites By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Dec 7 2009 The use of hazardous materials and the damages caused by such materials is not a given + READ MORE

How to Celebrate a Low Impact Big Apple Holiday By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 6 2009 Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Christmas, you're bound to get bamboozled into giving at least a few gifts each holiday season. So, rather than indulging your inner consumer, why not get creative and stay green? Spreading holiday cheer to the Big Apple denizens on your list is the perfect place to start practicing your DIY eco-skills. + READ MORE

Take Green Action Advice from Patrick Swayze (Hint: It Might Not Be Nice) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 5 2009 Note to those striving for enduring social and eco-change: It's time to not be nice. + READ MORE