Articles tagged “Take Action”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Naked Protesters Do More with Less (Video News) By David DeFranza IN Features Apr 1 2010 digg_url = 'http://planetgreen.discovery.com/feature/planet-100/naked-activists-protesters.html';In an age that is saturated by media, protest tactics have had to change to ensure widespread recognition of the efforts. The result is sometimes shocking, sometimes outrageous, but always attention-grabbing: Take a look at the top five naked activists. + READ MORE

New Zealand Moves to Allow Whaling By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 1 2010 New Zealand has called for a "compromise" on whaling, saying a total ban is unrealistic and the only way to control whaling is to allow a limited number of kills. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value Water Usage (and Green Your Water Usage, Too) By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Apr 1 2010 Only 3% of the Earth's total water is freshwater. Of that, only 1% is available for human consumption. Do the math and you've a grand total of 0.01% of the Earth's total water being usable. + READ MORE

Architecture for Humanity Competition: Design Like You Give a Damn By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Mar 30 2010 Architecture for Humanity is hosting a competition for projects that "improve lives and the world." + READ MORE

Greening the Music: Solar Studio To Debut in New England By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Features Mar 30 2010 To offset the footprint of a music studio, be responsible stewards of environmental resources, and make great music; greening the studio is a monumental task. New England musician, Will Benoit plans to change that. + READ MORE

Comedy for Karma: NYC Comics Yuk It Up For Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Mar 26 2010 The brutal realities of the meat-based diet doesn't necessarily mean raising money and awareness to help animals can't be fun and empowering. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value a Vegan By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Mar 26 2010 We're talking about addressing issues like climate change, justice in the workplace, torture, the health care crisis, deforestation, unjust imprisonment, overfishing, poverty, corporate welfare, and more. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value Your Body By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Mar 26 2010 There are steps we can take to demonstrate how much we value our precious time here on Earth and how that value can translate into us being better earthlings. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value a Bee By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Mar 26 2010 Bees pollinate one-third of the food we eat. So maybe we need to figure out a new way to value insects. + READ MORE

In Overtime, Bill Maher Asks: "Is the Blood Diamond Thing Over In the Congo?" By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Mar 25 2010 "Tin, tantalum, and tungsten? Those are Sarah Palin's children." Bill Maher talks with Emile Hirsch about conflict minerals in Congo. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value Dirt By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Mar 24 2010 As is the case with many essential natural "resources," disappearing dirt (and its topsoil nutrients) is becoming a major global issue. + READ MORE

Ash Sunstein Campaign Calls On EPA to Regulate Coal Ash As Hazardous Waste By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Mar 24 2010 AshSunstein.com represents citizens affected by the growing mess that is coal ash. The campaign is calling on Ash Sunstein to stop playing bureaucratic games and treat coal ash as the hazardous waste it is. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value a T-Shirt By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Mar 24 2010 Some multi-national corporation is using you as a billboard to advertise their over-priced products and not only are you doing this without charging them for your advertising services, you actually paid big bucks for the shirt. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value a Cup of Coffee By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Mar 23 2010 Perhaps coffee is not the first thing that comes to mind when greening our lives, but here are 5 steps by which you can make it happen. + READ MORE

Gashaw Tahir is Ethiopia's Million-Tree Hero. His Mission: "Making Africa Green Again" By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 22 2010 When Ethiopian-born Gashaw Tahir returned to his home country from the U.S., where he is a citizen, he saw such environmental degradation that he started a movement that has now put more than one million trees into Ethiopian soil. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value a Book By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Mar 19 2010 Tweets, texts, and all that "lol" stuff will never put books on the endangered species list. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value a Coral Reef By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 19 2010 The "rainforests of the sea" are disappearing even faster real rainforests. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value an Automobile By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Mar 18 2010 There's nothing delicate about car commercials and car toys and the hundreds of songs and movies that venerate the irrefutable gratification of owning an internal combustion engine of your very own + READ MORE

"One World, One Love" - Charity and Peace In The House of Marley By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Features Mar 17 2010 With a spray of deadlocks, Bob Marley emerged on the scene with music that transcended racial and cultural barriers. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Value a Glacier By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 17 2010 At the rate we're going, there will be no glaciers left in Glacier National Park by 2030 and the Arctic region may have its first completely ice-free summer in 2040. Do we really wanna be the generation that allowed the glaciers to vanish? + READ MORE