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One Fine Day
Lisa Day of socially conscious film company Participant Productions answers readers' questions |
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09 Mar 2007 |
InterActivist |
| Do you think that An Inconvenient Truth should have considered another "inconvenient truth" -- that animal-based agriculture is a major contributor to the global climate-change crisis? -- Richard Schwartz, Staten Island, N.Y. Lisa Day, Participant Productions. The film itself focused on the two biggest contributors to the problem: fossil fuels and deforestation. Ho ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, InterActivist, interview, movies (all these topics) |
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Something in the Way She Movies
Lisa Day of socially conscious film company Participant Productions answers Grist's questions |
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05 Mar 2007 |
InterActivist |
| Lisa Day. What work do you do? I am the vice president of social action and advocacy at Participant Productions. What does your company do? Participant is a film company with a twist -- we only make "issue" movies, and for each movie we create social-action campaigns. Our films have included An Inconvenient Truth and Syriana, as well as Good Night, a ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, InterActivist, interview, movies (all these topics) |
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The Matt Came Back
Matt Petersen, CEO of Global Green USA, answers readers' questions |
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17 Jun 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Matt Petersen, Global Green USA. What communities have had the greatest success with adoption of sustainability indicators? What sustainability tactics are the most successful? My county is seven years into a morass of choosing what steps to take. -- Bill Lavery, Saline, Mich. Don't give up, Bill. Soon you'll get through the morass and into the promised land of viable sustainability indicators! I ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, green living, InterActivist, interview, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Going to the Matt
Matt Petersen, CEO of Global Green USA, answers Grist's questions |
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13 Jun 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Matt Petersen. What's your job title? President and CEO of Global Green USA, the U.S. affiliate of Green Cross International. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? When founding Green Cross International, Mikhail Gorbachev presented a challenge: We must foster a value shift that reconnects humankind to the environment. Planet Earth ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, green living, InterActivist, interview, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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The Way You Move
Brenda Way, artistic dance director, answers readers' questions |
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04 Mar 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Brenda Way, ODC. What do you think should be the role of artists and performers in the face of injustice, environmental and otherwise? Do you believe, as Paul Robeson said, that "The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery"? -- Name not provided I think the artist's role is to alert us to whatever that individual artist is passionate about. Being awake and responsive is the precond ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Nobody Puts Brenda in a Corner!
Brenda Way, artistic dance director, answers Grist's questions |
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28 Feb 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Brenda Way. What work do you do? I founded ODC (originally the Oberlin Dance Collective) 35 years ago as a multidimensional arts organization -- that is to say, not just for dance jocks. We moved to the Bay Area from Ohio and now own 33,000 square feet of dancing/teaching/performing space in San Francisco. My primary time is spent as artistic director of the 10-member resident contemporary ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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