Articles tagged “Take Action”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Help Save Tigers with One Text (and $10) By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 9 2010 The World Wildlife Fund's Year of the Tiger Campaign aims to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022, and they're calling on everyone to donate $10 to the cause with a simple text message. + READ MORE

The Army Does What to Live Animals? By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Oct 4 2010 Every year, live goats, pigs, and monkeys are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and/or poisoned with toxic chemicals. + READ MORE

Eco-Activist Mike Roselle Declares: "Action is the Antidote to Despair" (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Sep 27 2010 "Today, I am 56 years old, own nothing bigger than a guitar, have no health insurance or savings, and yet I feel that my life is richer than that of many of the millionaires that I have met." + READ MORE

Street Smarts: Radical Author Paul Street Challenges Myths and Opens Minds (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Sep 20 2010 Contrary to all the free press talk and the delusions of equal access and all, only a tiny spectrum of opinion is widely heard in this country. If Paul Street has any say in the matter, that will change. + READ MORE

Avatar, Simpsons, Parks & Rec Make 'Best of' Enviro Media List By Jeff Kart IN Features Sep 10 2010 The Environmental Medi are coming + READ MORE

Chris Guillebeau Expresses "The Art of Non-Conformity" (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Sep 10 2010 "It's important to think about not only what makes us happy, but how our lives intersect with others and what we can do to contribute. That's what legacy is all about." + READ MORE

Distributed Energy Generation: A Global Solution By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Sep 7 2010 With locally-sourced, renewable energy, homes in remote and poor areas of the world could be powered sooner than current projections. + READ MORE

Can Comedy Be Organic? Green? Johannah Knott and the All Organic Comedy Tour Say YES (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Sep 6 2010 "I was single handedly polluting the Eastern Seaboard. I started to poke fun at myself and my weak green gene. It made others laugh and feel better about their small efforts. I realized we needed to do our best but also to decompress." + READ MORE

Video Contest: Melinda Gates Wants Your Vote By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Sep 3 2010 Vote in an online video contest highlighting progress toward the UN's Millennium Development Goals. + READ MORE

Paul McCartney Speaks Out Against NASA Monkey Irradiation By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Sep 2 2010 Paul McCartney has joined the call for NASA to cancel plans to use monkeys in radiation experiments. + READ MORE

Michael Greenwell Puts the Focus on Extinction with "Exit Stage Right" (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Sep 1 2010 We are in the early stages of what could easily become the biggest mass extinction the planet has ever seen. + READ MORE

Help Demand Chevron Take Responsibility For Spills in the Amazon By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 31 2010 Help Amnesty fight for justice in the case of Chevron vs. the Amazon. + READ MORE

The Rita Fund: Helping Women Activists Around the World By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Aug 31 2010 Kurland wants to fill the funding gap where women are overlooked by most foundation funding, and to put money directly in the hands of women around the world who are finding solutions. + READ MORE

Fair Trade Boom is Helping All But the Poorest Countries By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Aug 26 2010 Despite the growth of fair trade products on the world market, the poorest countries have yet to benefit. Here's why, and a few organizations to look for that focus on just those countries. + READ MORE

Animal Rights Hall of Fame Inductee Zoe Weil Works Towards a Humane, Sustainable, and Healthy Society (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Aug 25 2010 "Providing accurate information about the issues of our time so that people have the information they need to understand the consequences of their decisions as citizens." + READ MORE

Help the Sierra Club Support EPA in the Fight Against Big Coal By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Aug 24 2010 Help support stronger regulations from the EPA for the disposal of coal ash. + READ MORE

Really? Hospital Still Using Cats in Pediatric Health Experiments? By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Aug 20 2010 Program participants learn to intubate children by forcing tubes down cats' throats. + READ MORE

Author Gwynne Dyer Writes, Warns About the Coming Climate Wars (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Aug 18 2010 It's not that Gwynne Dyer, freelance journalist and specialist on international affairs and geopolitics, doesn't want you to recycle. It's just that he's got his eyes on the bigger prize, and he's written an important book about climate change, and the wars he foresees happening as a result. + READ MORE

Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols on Going Green at Home, at Work, and In Between (Interview, Part 2) By Blythe Copeland IN Work & Connect Aug 17 2010 Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols, stars of the CW's One Tree Hill, are a busy couple. They recently returned from a visit to Louisiana to have a closer look at the impact of the Gulf oil spill but when they aren't working to help uncover the real impacts of the worst environmental disaster in our history, they're working hard to green their lives, both at home and at work. + READ MORE

Is an Industry Group Really Doing the Most to Stop the Blood Diamond Trade? By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Aug 16 2010 A positive development in the conflict minerals trade from an unlikely source: an industry group. + READ MORE