Articles tagged “Take Action”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Focus on Focus Earth: Erin Brockovitch Still Going Strong--Because the Fight Is Not Over Yet By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Dec 4 2009 Almost a decade after the hit film showed off her legal success story and made her an environmental celebrity, Erin Brockovich still has contamination battles to pursue. And she's taking them on, full speed ahead. + READ MORE

This December 8, Let's Remember John Lennon's "Revolution" By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 2 2009 December 8, 2009 marks 29 years since the death of John Lennon. Many of us still "wanna change the world" but unfortunately, we've yet to "give peace a chance." + READ MORE

Jonathan Safran Foer on Factory Farming, Thanksgiving, and Birthday Cake (Interview) By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Dec 2 2009 What matters is how animals are treated and how the environment is treated. If we can move toward a place where people are eating less meat--and approach dietary transformation through meals, rather than through lifestyle patterns, I wonder if it wouldn't be more effective. I'm not interested in perfection. I'm interested in working on these issues. + READ MORE

How Much Poop is in Your Drinking Water? By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Dec 1 2009 digg_url = 'http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/poop-drinking-water.html';Sewage, including human excrement and dangerous industrial chemicals is spilling into waterways across America. + READ MORE

81-Year-Old on Hunger Strike to Fight Mountaintop Removal By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 1 2009 Roland Micklem is 81 and he just began a hunger strike. He is protesting mountaintop removal mining, the destructive coal-mining practice used throughout Appalachia. His actions should be an inspiration for us all. + READ MORE

What Exactly is the Greenhouse Effect and Why Should We Care? By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Dec 1 2009 Whenever we watch TV, use an air conditioner or microwave or dishwasher, drive a car, listen to our stereo, wash our clothes, play a video game, or read a post like this on our computer, we are helping to send greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. + READ MORE

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

Buy Nothing Day, Black Friday, or Jdimytai Damour Day? By Lloyd Alter IN Work & Connect Nov 27 2009 It is Black Friday, when everyone mobs the stores, chasing bargains. It is a big economic deal; all the financial media are watching the size of the lineups. It is a big deal; last year a Wal-Mart worker, Jdimytai Damour, was trampled to death by shoppers. + READ MORE

Save a Cow, Eat a Vegetarian? Let's All Agree: Factory Farming is the Real Evil, Not Vegans By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Nov 27 2009 Just imagine how much more productive it'd be if vegans and small farm omnivores worked collectively toward an equally palatable goal: End factory farming, battery cages, veal crates, etc. and all the damage this system is inflicting on humans, animals, and the planet. + READ MORE

Meditating With Your Hands: Ananda Harvest Feeds Ananda Ashram Sustainably, Affordably By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Nov 25 2009 Yogic philosophy is deeply rooted in a connection to the planet so it's no coincidence that this relationship influenced the establishment of the Ananda Harvest, a project which began in order to grow the food for the Ananda Ashram and then took on a life of its own. For founding farmers Dave Gottlieb and Jerri Chou it all started as an escape from New York City. + READ MORE

Greening the Future: Two South Bronx Programs Reach Out With Eco-Education By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Nov 25 2009 Green activism and education?for adults and children?is becoming entrenched in The Bronx. + READ MORE

Bird Watching: Not Just for Dorks Anymore By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 24 2009 The virtual birding experience may be precisely the inspiration you need to embark on your own bird appreciation expedition. + READ MORE

The First Rule of Green Club is... 7 Tyler Durden-Inspired Alternatives to the One-Size-Fits-All Culture By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Nov 24 2009 Imagine, if you will, this society-our society-channeling its anxiety not into covert, male-only meetings that feature hand-to-hand combat but instead into green community united by a commitment to tangible, long term social change. + READ MORE

Sorry Charlie: 8 Excellent Reasons to Stop Eating Tuna By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Nov 24 2009 Let's put aside ideology-for a moment-and instead state an unadorned bit of common sense: Bluefin tuna (and other large fish) would not be in danger if humans didn't kill and eat them. + READ MORE

The Only Thing We Have to Fear...3 Reasons We Don't Do More to Save the Environment By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Nov 24 2009 This country not only has the most potential to provoke enduring social change, it also has (well-deserved) bad eco-reputation. + READ MORE

Dark Green Holiday Choices Aren't Always Easy; Are You Prepared to Make Them? By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Nov 23 2009 It's progress that groups are working hard to make green shopping more accessible but the dark green choices we need to explore-the choices with the greatest impact on our eco-system-are, by definition not easy. + READ MORE

Not Just Another Celebrity Activist: Country-Bluegrass Singer Kathy Mattea Fights Mountaintop Removal (Interview) By Rachel Cernansky IN Features Nov 23 2009 Grammy award winner Kathy Mattea has taken on a second role in the public eye as an activist against mountaintop removal mining, which to her is a destructive practice that needs to stop now. She's trying to do her part. + READ MORE

Holiday Eco-nomics: Choose Green, Not Greed By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Nov 20 2009 The often antagonistic relationship between money green and environmental green is-paradoxically-where ideologies clash and also where some of the biggest social changes can occur. + READ MORE

A Roadmap for Coast-to-Coast Activism: 50 States, 50 Eco-Groups By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 20 2009 A tiny sampling of eco-groups across America. Just click on any state's name to find an activist lurking beneath. + READ MORE

What the Heck is Eco-Art? 10 Ways to Appreciate It By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Nov 19 2009 Maybe it's time we tap into our inner child-artist and try some more creative and open-minded approaches like, as a first step, using eco-art to convey the urgency without the ideology. + READ MORE