Articles tagged “Politics”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

The Real Mother Earth: 10 Inspirational Women Fighting for a Cleaner, Kinder Planet By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Nov 30 2009 When an environmental threat affects a community's health, most often it is women who take on these issues. + READ MORE

Planet 100 - This Week Recycled By Team Planet Green IN Features Nov 25 2009 Among the top stories this week, President Obama says 'yes he can' to Copenhagen, Bill and Melinda Gates pledge to fund sustainable farming and a controversial video of polar bears falling from the sky tries to make a point about carbon emissions. + READ MORE

Take a Good Look at the Health Care Bills with Easy-to-Use Search Feature By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Nov 24 2009 Introducing the best way to take a quick look into both health care bills. + READ MORE

Planet 100 - Copenhagen, Polar Bear Robots and Gore's Plan B By Team Planet Green IN Features Nov 23 2009 Today's Planet 100 looks at surprise top-level invitations to the Copenhagen conference, a mechanical zoo exhibit and Al Gore's crazy new tactics. + READ MORE

Planet 100 - This Week Recycled - November 20, 2009 By Team Planet Green IN Features Nov 20 2009 Today's Planet 100 looks at Obama in Asia, Palin on Climate Change, Disco Ball in Space, and Plastic Making Boys Feminine. + READ MORE

Planet 100 - November 16, 2009 By Team Planet Green IN Features Nov 19 2009 Today's Planet 100 looks at President Obama in Asia, Nissan Turns Over a New LEAF, and NBC Universal's Green Week. + READ MORE

Know Your Green Acronyms! By Mat McDermott IN Work & Connect Nov 19 2009 A quick guide to some of the more commonly used acronyms and abbreviations used on Planet Green and TreeHugger + READ MORE

Greenpeace Declares Human Existence is 'Under Threat,' Climate Change to Blame By David DeFranza IN Work & Connect Nov 16 2009 Greenpeace has a new executive director. Kumi Naidoo, a veteran of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and a leading advocate in the battle against global poverty, is the first African, and first person from outside the organization, to be selected to head Greenpeace. His background is in defending human rights, particularly those of people made vulnerable by drought and natural disasters. Though his career has not focused solely on environmental activism, he argues that the division between human suffering and environmental degradation has been erased. + READ MORE

Politics Is Show Business for Ugly People (Nellie McKay Interview) By Rachel Cernansky IN Features Nov 16 2009 Young and rising musician Nellie McKay talks about when she became vegan, how she talks about her politics to the media and to her audiences, and the political responsibility she feels she has not only as an artist, but as an individual: "you can't be neutral on a moving train." + READ MORE

Dear Audience: A Note from the Directors of Coal Country By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 13 2009 A note from the producer and writer/director of Coal Country. They have been personally touched by the destruction caused by mountaintop removal, but they have also seen the other side, met people who are proud of their work in the coal industry (when their companies follow the rules), and have tried to make a film that shows both sides. Here's why. + READ MORE

There's Still Time to Speak Out Against Natural Gas Drilling in New York By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 12 2009 If certain energy companies have their way, they'll be able to expand drilling and hydraulic fracturing operations in upstate New York in the near future. The public comment period on the environmental impact statement has just been extended until December 31. Make sure your voice is heard before then. + READ MORE

In Berlin, Eager to Knock Down More Walls By Mairi Beautyman IN Work & Connect Nov 11 2009 Bananas, the tropical fruit in such huge demand by East Germans or Ossis those first few weeks of undivided Germany in November 1989 are now the subject of dozens of East-West jokes. ("How can you use a banana as a compass? Place a banana on the Berlin Wall. East is where a bite has been taken out of it.") Some even credit the fruit for bringing the Wall down. + READ MORE

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Where the Coal Is Coming From By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 9 2009 Bobby Kennedy on the coal industry, the harm it is doing to the environment, and the politics that is allowing it all to happen. And why you should start acting now to stop it. + READ MORE

Where Life Revolves Around Coal: Shirley Stewart Burns on Coal Country By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 9 2009 Once you leave coal country after spending your whole life there, you have a whole new perspective once you return. But that makes you no less proud of your heritage, and Shirley Steward Burns writes here about how she is standing to protect hers. + READ MORE

Is the Western Wolf Hunt an Outright Battle Against Science? By David DeFranza IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 6 2009 Doug Honnold, the managing attorney of EarthJustice, writes that a sad milestone has passed: "More than 100 [gray] wolves have been killed since Idaho and Montana began hunting them this fall." Following President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list in parts of the Midwest, Montana, and Idaho, governors in the later states approved plans to allow wolf hunts to take place this fall. So far, the casualties have been severe. + READ MORE

Buy A Coal Country DVD, Help Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Nov 6 2009 Buy a Coal Country DVD, CD, or book, and learn all you need to know about coal mining and mountaintop removal to stun you into action to stop it. Best part, buying the CD supports an organization already working to do just that. + READ MORE

Nick Clooney On Growing Up in Appalachia By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 6 2009 Nick Clooney writes about his childhood memories from Appalachia: from Grandpa Clooney dragging him to the Ohio River when all he wanted was an Eskimo Pie, up to what he thinks the community's gift was to the rest of the nation, a community now threatened by the coal industry and mountaintop removal. + READ MORE

Ashley Judd on The Last Patch of Green Earth By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 6 2009 Ashley Judd takes her canine companion back home to Kentucky, but finds a scale of destruction from mountaintop removal coal mining that even her dog can sense. Here, a moving story that illustrates why so many activists are working so hard to stop the destructive practice. + READ MORE

Who Needs a Mandate to Compost? Be Your Own San Francisco By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Oct 22 2009 it's now illegal to throw away food scraps in San Francisco--and failing to recycle can hit you with a $500 fine. When the news first surfaced that the law had passed, many were worried. But instead of lamenting how the city government is taking over its freedoms, San Franciscans have embraced the new laws--and they're keeping more junk out of the landfill than ever. Here's how you can too. + READ MORE

The Top Ten Most Fuel Efficient Cars of 2010--And the Worst Gas Guzzlers By Brian Merchant IN Tech & Transport Oct 20 2009 Here are the greenest cars on the road this--and next--year. And then there's the 10 worst gas guzzlers . . . + READ MORE