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Greening the South Bronx and empowering its community with Green Worker Cooperatives
This is a guest post from my travel partner, Todd Dwyer, head blogger for Dell’s ReGeneration.org. —– After spending 35 years of her life punching the clock for someone else, South Bronx resident Gloria Walker is ready to start working for herself. Fortunately for her, there’s an organization in her neighborhood devoted not […]
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Why are you still reading this? Go buy Van Jones’ new book!
Watch this video: Now watch this video: Now go buy Van Jones’ new book!
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Ingrid Jackson’s question about climate change put candidates on the spot
For the first time in this year’s presidential debates, the two candidates were asked point-blank about what they would do to address climate change in the first two years of their administration. Ingrid Jackson asks the candidates about environmental issues. This morning, Grist caught up with the young woman who asked the question — Ingrid […]
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Film Biz Recycling aims to roll credits on the wasteful film industry
When a director yells “cut!” on the set of a TV show, commercial, or feature-length film, the cameras may stop rolling but production is far from over. While editors are looking at raw footage, producers are eyeing premiere numbers, and actors are reading over new scripts, someone else is tearing down the sets and getting […]
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Obama names energy as first administration priority
The candidates have put forth ambitious proposals on a number of issues, but one of the great unanswered questions of the race has been what each would prioritize in office. The first policy initiative undertaken by the new president will benefit from a sense of first-term energy and momentum. Depending on what happens in ensuing […]
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Two new pieces delve into the denial industry
If you are interested in the climate change denial industry, you need to check out two crucial new pieces, which are running in conjunction. First, the American News Project’s "Smoke and CO2: How to Spin Global Warming," which highlights the the historical links between the effort to deny tobacco science and the effort to deny […]
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CNN reports on the battle for Coal River Mountain in W.Va.
In August, we brought you the story of Coal River Mountain, one of the last mountains in West Virginia’s Coal River Valley that hasn’t been destroyed by mountaintop-removal coal mining. Residents are lobbying to build a wind farm on the mountain, but Massey Energy is moving ahead on plans to strip-mine a 10-square-mile area of […]
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Fey is Palin, again
Watch about five minutes in for Palin to address “this climate change whosiwhatsit.”
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The Wolf Trap Center connects art and nature
This is a guest post from my travel partner, Todd Dwyer, head blogger for Dell’s ReGeneration.org. —– After our visit to the amazing Philip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis, Maryland, Sarah and I hopped in our trusty steed, Cletus the Prius, for a drive to the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts […]
