published August 14, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Courtesy of NY Daily News We've seen some pretty crazy stuff from stand-up paddlers recently, but challenge extreme athlete Tom Jones has been taking on for the last three months puts all other stunts to shame. Since May 13, Jones has been paddling 1,500 miles from
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published August 12, 2010 and has No Comments
The Sierra Club is excited to announce a new opportunity to participate in the growing youth-driven movement to engage in community service while also honoring those who defend our country every day. This week we launched Serve Outdoors , a call to participate in the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembr... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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published August 12, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Nesster /Flickr Jamming phone lines, fax machines or e-mail boxes with messages has been a key tactic ever since I first became an environmental activist. I remember one Senator telling me in 1994, before the internet existed as we know it today, before Facebook and Twitter and mass e-mails, that his staff was literally weighing the letters ...
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published August 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons The last great extinction occurred sixty five million years ago. You can visit the exact point on earth where it started, on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The Chicxulub crater , more than 110 miles in diameter, was formed by the enormous impact of a meteor the size of San Francisco hitting the earth. Life ...
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published August 9, 2010 and has No Comments
It should be unthinkable that in the wake of the worst oil disaster in history, the Senate has not yet passed a bill that would hold BP accountable for the damage they have wreaked on Gulf communities and businesses. And yet, here we are.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published August 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Credit: PowerShift 2011 via Refresh Everything In January, we told you about Pepsi's Refresh Everything initiative, giving away $20 million in grants to individuals, businesses and non-profits that are working for change in six categories: health, arts and culture, food and shelter, the planet, neighborhoods, and education. The grants are awarded by popular vote: ev... Read the full ...
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published August 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Pavlovsk Station, one of the world's first seed banks begun by Nikolai Vavilov in 1926. Vavilov personally collected seeds of over 200,000 plants ( HuffPo ) It could be a potentially devastating loss for global biodiversity: we've caught word over at Huffington Post that the world's largest collection of fruit and berries, housed in one of the world's ...
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published August 5, 2010 and has No Comments
We've been focused on educating people about reducing their oil consumption (see our Minus Oil series), so when we heard from DoSomething about their Weekend Without Oil it was as if the idea had been plucked straight from our heads. With a goal of getting teens to reduce their oil consumption, the Weekend Without Oil will be held August ...
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published August 4, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via EarthWatch Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute , a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds for Earthwatch initiatives. There is nothing like a deadline to galvanize the mind. The final hurdle before attempting my English Channel crossing was the ...
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published August 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via Ellie Marie When I first started Terracycle, I spent a lot of my time explaining what upcycling was . It was this foreign concept whose name wasn't on a lot of people's radar. Now, a handful of years later, more than 10 million people are collecting the brand specific waste that we've used to make a range ...
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