Volunteers Needed: California Coastal Cleanup Day, Saturday, September 19, is the annual volunteer event dedicated to removing the debris that has accumulated on our beaches, shorelines, and waterways over the past year. [...]
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18-year-old Erin Schrode is on a crusade to get harmful chemicals out of beauty products. She moonlights as a model (recently featured in Seventeen magazine), has testified before the California Legislature, helped found a national coalition called Teens Turning Green, and started an eco-friendly body care line now sold in Whole Foods stores nationwide. [...] As the founder of Sustainable South Bronx, Carter greened her community…This year, she left to create the Majora Carter Group, a consulting firm focused on training people who need work to shepherd in new green technologies, transforming polluted sites into lush community spaces, and generally ensuring that everyone has a stake in the clean energy economy. [...] When Mike Brune, executive director of RAN (the Rainforest Action Network) says “I can’t remember a more charged atmosphere,” you know it must be bad. Brune has been arrested dozens of times and has faced off with lumberjacks, oilmen and multinational corporate behemoths alike. But there is a general feeling from everyone I’ve spoken to about the protest [...] [...] #3 CLIMATE BILL.. VICTORY OR DEFEAT? While most environmental groups are hailing the passing of the ACES (aka Waxman-Markey) climate bill, some like Greenpeace gave up and called for a “no” vote. Here are the details. #2 BATTLEGROUND WEST VIRGINIA Daryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and RAN director Mike Brune were arrested while protesting a Massey Coal [...] [...] |
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