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Lippman Smacking Good Steve Lippman, green investment expert, answers readers' questions |
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11 Mar 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Steve Lippman, Trillium Asset Management. What criteria do you use to make the ultimate yay or nay decision on what constitutes a socially responsible corporation? -- Maire McDermott, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada We're in a little different boat than SRI mutual funds, because as an asset manager we offer individual investment portfolios to our clients and thus can customize their accounts to ref ... |
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| Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Not Just Lippman Service Steve Lippman, green investment expert, answers Grist's questions |
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07 Mar 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Steve Lippman. What work do you do? I'm the senior analyst on the Social Research and Advocacy team at Trillium Asset Management, a Boston-based investment management company dedicated solely to socially responsible investing. The biggest part of my job is actively engaging with companies we hold to encourage them to improve their social and environmental performance. So for instance, we played ... |
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| Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview (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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Heavens to Betsy -- Come in, Betsy Betsy Rosenberg, green radio-show host, answers readers' questions |
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21 Jan 2005 |
InterActivist |
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| Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, parenting (all these topics) |
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Radioactivist Betsy Rosenberg, green radio-show host, answers Grist's questions |
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18 Jan 2005 |
InterActivist |
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| Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, parenting (all these topics) |
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Dreamwork Kevin Doyle, environmental-career guru, answers readers' questions |
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17 Dec 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Kevin Doyle, The Environmental Careers Organization. Which environment-related fields do you see growing fastest right now? What type of jobs do you see declining in the future?    -- Name not provided, Nashville, Tenn. There are several answers to this question posted on the ECO website. If you go to our Career Tips section and click on the one for September 2004, you'll find detail ... |
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| Topics: Bill McDonough, green jobs, green living, greenish companies, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Hire Learning Kevin Doyle, environmental-career guru, answers Grist's questions |
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13 Dec 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Kevin Doyle. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm one of two national program directors at The Environmental Careers Organization (authors of the new book The ECO Guide to Careers That Make a Difference -- see below). At least, that's my current title. I've worked for ECO since 1984, and in that time I've been Pacific Northwest regional director, national general manager, director ... |
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| Topics: Bill McDonough, green jobs, green living, greenish companies, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Ross 'n' Roll Marc Ross, rocker and activist, answers readers' questions |
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15 Oct 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Marc Ross, founder of Rock the Earth How do you ensure the music doesn't drown out the message, that hot licks instead enhance learning? -- Carl F. Rebstock, Cofounder and Executive Director, Passionfish, Monterey, Calif. Although most people will be attending concerts to experience music, I really don't think the music will drown out the message, but rather will enhance it -- and vice versa. To have someone ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Hey, Man, Is That Freedom Rock? Marc Ross, rocker and activist, answers Grist's questions |
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11 Oct 2004 |
InterActivist |
| With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am president and executive director of Rock the Earth. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Rock the Earth is a relatively new environmental advocacy nonprofit organization based in Denver, Colo. It was created to work with the music community on environmental issue ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Amazon Women on the Move Judy Logback, enterprising Amazonian activist, answers readers' questions |
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01 Oct 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Judy Logback, founder of the Kallari Association. What is the level of understanding of the native people that you work with about the crucial role of the Amazon rainforest in biodiversity and global warming? Has their perspective changed since you first arrived there? -- Sue Kaufman, Portland, Ore. I think that when I arrived many of the people had an excellent view of the importanc ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, green living, InterActivist, interview, land stewardship (all these topics) |
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Livin' la Vida Pura Judy Logback, enterprising Amazonian activist, answers Grist's questions |
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27 Sep 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Judy Logback. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I arrived in Ecuador in 1997 and throughout the past seven years have visited and worked with more than 600 rural families to encourage them to establish the Kallari Association, a small farmers' and artisans' organization dedicated to sustainable organic production of a diverse array of products, made up of 24 Amazon indi ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, green living, InterActivist, interview, land stewardship (all these topics) |
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Bryce Mathern, Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network An eco-film booster answers readers' questions |
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12 Mar 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Bryce Mathern, of Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network. What was your favorite film from last year's festival? What was it about? Do you have any idea what to expect this year? Any likely faves? -- Brenda Jenson, Milwaukee, Wis. Well, there were so many good ones last year. There was a documentary on pesticides that affected children down in Mexico called Playing with Poison -- I ... |
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| Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations (all these topics) |
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Bryce Mathern, Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network An eco-film booster answers Grist's questions |
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08 Mar 2004 |
InterActivist |
| What organization are you affiliated with? What does it do? I work with the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network. I have been on the board for three years now. Every year this organization puts on a film festival in Leavenworth, Wash. This year it is March 18-21. We are showing more than 50 films from around the world. Over the span of four days, people from all over get to come togeth ... |
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| Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations (all these topics) |
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