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Climate change no gangsta's paradise for this rapper
Coolio to educate students about global warming |
Sarah van Schagen |
14 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Grammy-award-winning rapper Coolio is on a fantastic voyage ... to spread the word about climate change to historically black colleges and universities across the country. As an official spokesdude for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change campaign (a partnership with Gore's 'we' campaign), he'll aim to engage students in the climate justice debate and educate them on why global warming is no gangsta's paradise. |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Social networking goes green ... sorta
LinkedIn, a social network for professionals, is introduced today |
Daniel Bachhuber |
24 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| From Mashable.com: Nonprofit organizations will be able to use LinkedIn as a platform for involving the LinkedIn community with their causes, leveraging the 11 million users that are present within the online community. Provided with this new feature are free badges to be placed on profiles, and registered nonprofits free job listings in order to find new members to join their teams. British rockstar James Blunt is already using LinkedIn to raise over $23,000 for ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, grassroots activism, green living, websites (all these topics) |
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Vanity Fair: The unbearable whiteness of green
Where are low-income and minority greens in the media? |
Van Jones |
20 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Once again this year, the spring season brought a flood of green-themed magazines to super-market checkout stands and airport news racks all across the country. And once again, the faces of non-white and non-affluent Americans were almost entirely missing. Our new environmental movement is rapidly gaining visibility and momentum. That is very good news. Life-or-death ecological issues finally are starting to get the attention they so urgently deserve. And we can all ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental justice, environmental movement, green living, politics, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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Time's 100 most influential people
Plus some other folks |
Sarah van Schagen |
07 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Last week, Time magazine announced this year's Time 100, a list of the most influential people in the world. A handful of greenies made the list, including Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and even "light greenie" John Mayer.That list was chosen by a group of well-informed Time editors and other experts, but maybe more interesting is the magazine's Alt Time 100.This list probably has more names you recognize (w ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, Prius (all these topics) |
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Green so light it barely leaves an impression
From pop star John Mayer |
David Roberts |
30 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| John Mayer. Photo: sushla via flickr Congratulations to pop star dreamboat John Mayer for penning what can only be termed a reductio ad absurdum of the light-green, change-your-lightbulbs, ten-things-you-can-do, don't-sweat-it-too-much, caring-a-little-is-OK but caring-too-much-is-square environmentalism. I was going to pick excerpts, but really you gotta read the whole post to get the full impact. Ladies and gentlemen, John Mayer: (Preface: Don't get tur ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, funnies, green living, messaging, music (all these topics) |
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Back in Black: Earth Day edition
Lewis Black on celebs giving green advice |
Sarah van Schagen |
27 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Lewis Black on celebs telling America to go green: "So there you have it, advice on saving the planet Earth from a bunch of people who couldn't even save Planet Hollywood." |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, funnies, green living (all these topics) |
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Eating Crow
Notes from the road |
Kate Sheppard |
23 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Just as the whole Karl Rove v. Sheryl Crow thing was blowing up in the news, I was arriving in Washington, D.C. to cover ... Sheryl Crow. Taking on climate change. You can read about Crow's big arrival over on my blog, but a few quick thoughts on the Rove encounter before I head for the airport to come home. When I mentioned this story yesterday morning, I had no idea this would become the story-of-the-moment on all the major mainstream media outlets. But Sheryl Cro ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, politics (all these topics) |
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Earth Day TV
Check your local listings |
Adam Browning |
21 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| All the magazines have gone to press with what's become their annual Green Issue. And now TV is in on the act. MTV has a special Earth Day edition of Pimp My Ride: they take a '65 Impala, put in a 800 hp diesel engine, fill the tank with biodiesel, and race it against a Lamborghini. My money is on the Impala. Cameo by Governor Schwarzenegger, check local listings (April 22). While this isn't exactly a recipe for sustainability, that's not really the point, either. Ever ... |
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| Topics: cars, celebrity, environmental movement, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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Converts and heretics
Time to start welcoming rather than bashing eco-newcomers |
David Roberts |
19 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger is being offered up as an eco-hero, so naturally some folks in the green movement rush to point out that it's all a big fraud. Why they do that -- why progressives eat their allies -- I'll never understand. Let's approach this through a semi-related phenomenon. I had the privilege of meeting Andrew Dessler in person the other day (how'd your talk go, Andrew?), and we discussed, among other things, how several climate change skeptics start ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, celebrity, environmental movement, green living, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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The Sundance Green party
Green glitterati come out to toast new eco-programming on Sundance Channel |
Amanda Griscom Little |
13 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The green glitterati of New York City -- a surprisingly expansive and glamorous bunch -- convened last night to celebrate the launch of Sundance Green, the new block of green programming that will begin airing on the Sundance Channel this coming Tuesday. (Full disclosure: I am a member of the project's advisory board.) While Robert Redford wasn't in attendance (he was en route to D.C. where today he will wrap up the filming of his political thriller Lions fo ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, Robert Redford, TV (all these topics) |
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Vanity Fair's green issue, part deux
In which Knut gets even cuter |
Sarah van Schagen |
11 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Vanity Fair's second annual 'green issue' hits newsstands today (though it arrived last week in 'special' cities like New York, L.A., and, apparently, Seattle). And I must say, though its inside contents can't compete with last year's edition featuring Grist's own Chip Giller, it does feature on its cover the equally lovable and (sorry, Chip) even more adorabler Knut. And for that, I applaud them.I do not, however, applaud them for their use of non-recycled paper. ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, magazines (all these topics) |
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American Idle
What else might we do with our time? |
Erik Hoffner |
06 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Every week, 30 million people tune in to at least a couple hours of American Idol. Whether this show has truly "jumped the shark" this year or not remains to be seen, but I submit that if a portion of these folks would join the ranks of the American Idealists instead, we'd all be in for a more interesting Wednesday night. Idealist.org's brand new connections platform is already linking up 28,000+ people who are meeting up to build community in their towns ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living (all these topics) |
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Travolta: biggest, fattest, hypocritest
The latest on this earth-shattering story |
David Roberts |
02 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This past Friday, I was once again invited to be on FOX's Hannity & Colmes. Last time, you'll recall, I was to discuss the grave and momentous subject of Al Gore's hypocrisy. This time, the subject was even graver and momentouser: John Travolta's hypocrisy. (Last time I got bumped for Daryl Hannah. This time I was both too busy and too sick. Someday!) Travolta, you see, recently opined on the subject of global warming, just after driving a Harley down the red ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, environmental movement, green living, jackassery, TV (all these topics) |
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Hollywood Golightly
An interview with Hollywood eco-crusader Laurie David |
Amanda Griscom |
16 Jun 2004 |
Main Dish |
| Those who are quick to snub Hollywood environmental activists as dabblers in eco-chic or peddlers of a pet cause would likely have a change of heart after shooting the breeze with Laurie David. Laurie David Photo: Tierney Gearon. David began her career booking comedians for David Letterman and met her husband Larry David -- co-creator of Seinfeld and creator and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm -- ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, consumerism, education, environmental justice, environmental movement, green living, greenwashing, interview, NRDC (all these topics) |
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