Majora Carter is one of the most powerful and inspiring environmental justice activists of the 21st century. If you haven’t heard her speak about her “Greening the Ghetto” project, listen up, it’s an incredible model that will hopefully be replicated in neighborhoods across the nation.
Continue reading... →“Mom – the rule is, no tweeting in the sandbox?” OK women, ‘fess up. When or where have you tweeted that you know you shouldn’t have?
Continue reading... →Greenpeace has been tenacious with trying to get Facebook to ditch coal as a power source for its data centers. Starting with their own Facebook page to show the company how many of its users would like it to “unfriend” coal, the activist group then moved on to set a world record in the comments section.
Continue reading... →For Leila Janah Charyath, one of the world’s biggest problems is wasted talent, particularly in Africa, where unemployment rates for skilled workers can be above 60%. She has addressed this gap in the workforce by rethinking outsourcing to provide green jobs for women in poverty across the globe.
Continue reading... →The buzz around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has grown to a fever pitch in recent months, with approval by the U.S. Department of Agriculture of three new kinds of genetically engineered (GE) foods: alfalfa (which becomes hay), a type of corn grown to produce ethanol, and sugar beets. And the approval by the Food and Drug Administration of a super-fast-growing salmon — the first genetically modified animal to be sold in the U.S., but probably not the last — may not be far behind.
Continue reading... →There are several studies emerging on the herbicide Atrazine that raise serious questions about our ability to reproduce as a species…unless we stop poisoning ourselves, and our children, with chemicals. Wake up America!
Continue reading... →After two groups in a progressive area of Brooklyn, New York called aggressively for the removal of a 9 month old bike-lane this month, Elisabeth Rosenthal of the New York Times noted in an article in the Week In Review that “in Europe, bike lanes crisscross cities, wind turbines appear in counties with high-priced country homes and plants that make green energy from waste are situated in even the wealthiest neighborhoods.” What’s going on here?
Continue reading... →While five years ago a ‘green building’ was still generally understood as one that minimised its impact on the environment, today we recognise that a green building is also sustainable, ethical and liveable. Green buildings are designed to support not only the environment, but also improve the health and wellbeing of the people who live and work there.
Continue reading... →Erin Brockovich has returned to the town that made her famous and is once again rallying residents, sampling the water and at a water board meeting this week is expected to announce that the contamination may be worse than the utility says, reports Huffington Post. The pollution that Pacific Gas & Electric was suppose to clean up is once again seeping into the groundwater of Hinkley, CA. “We didn’t bring a giant to its knees, all we did was wake it up,” says Roberta Walker, a woman who was instrumental in developing the original case in 1993. “This is not happening again – I can’t believe it.” Julia, where are you?
Let’s raise our voices this time with Erin and see what happens and follow the story here.
Continue reading... →I think that anyone who takes a moment to consider the impact of their day-to-day actions on the world around them and then takes action on that thought is green.
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