Image credit: Transition Culture It’s so much easier to be against something than for something. In fact, I’d argue that is one of the central strategic challenges facing sustainability activists . How do we convert opposition against something—say, nasty oil spills for example—into advocacy for the alternatives&md… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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From Anti-Runway Campaign To Community Sustainability (Video)
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Image credit: The Guardian Oh dear. I suspect I am going to reawaken the age-old “is environmentalism socialist ” debate with this post. Because there’s nothing like discussing property rights to get people to back into their respective political corners. But try as I might, I can’t avoid the fact that everywhere there is perfectly good produce, clothing, and energy going to waste. And everywhere there are
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In Defence of Squatting: If It’s Unused, Is It Yours?
On Tuesday’s edition of “Morning Joe,” Joe Scarborough and his panel discussed the 2010 midterm elections and trashed Republican candidate Sharron Angle as a “mental patient” and a “jackass.” The conversation, which included Chris Matthews and Mike Barnicle, began innocently enough when MSNBC contributor Mike Halperin said Angle is “vulnerable” in the race because “she has extreme positions that are out of step with the mainstream.” One doesn’t have to be fan of Angle’s to question the rude, demeaning outbreaks hurled in her direction. Barnicle boldly stated that Angle was “embarrassing” to the residents of Nevada and ” sounds like a mental patient .” After this incident, Chris Matthews began to misquote Angle’s radio interview with Lars Larson asserting, “She understands why people think of and resort to second amendment solutions to the Democrats in Congress they don’t like.” Here’s the actual quote in full: You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact, you know, Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.
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Brothers Rinchen Samdrup, Jigme Namgyal, and Karma Samdrup (clockwise from top left) are now all in jail. Photos via the International Campaign for Tibet Picking up trash and planting trees sounds about as uncontroversial as activism can get, but an internationally recognized Tibetan environmentalist who had been organizing local villagers to do just tha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tibetan Environmentalist Jailed for Five Years
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Image credit NASA, via Popular Science Announced earlier this week, President Obama’s new National Space Policy is focusing on pollution both here on Earth and the space surrounding it. The new policy hopes to see an international collaboration to hone in on monitoring climate change with satellites and cleaning up space debris, which is viewed as a threat to space exploration (to which
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Obama’s New Space Policy Includes Cleaning Up Space Junk
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A previous protest held April 1, 2009, at the Tate Britain. Photo via Indymedia London Artists angry about BP’s devastating spill in the Gulf of Mexico created an “oil slick” of their own Monday in front of the Tate Britain in London, protesting the museum’s acceptance of sponsorship from the company. Members of the group said they hoped oil-company funding of cultural events would soon become “socially unacceptable” — much in the way that tobacco-company money is shu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Activists ‘Tar and Feather’ BP-Sponsored Tate (Video)
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Image credit: The Age From my post on why consensus matters in climate science to my follow up on why blogging is not science , it’s common for climate skeptic commenters to claim that any reference to the majority of expert scientific opinion on climate change is simply an “appeal to authority”…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lord Monckton Claims Non-Scientists Shouldn’t Talk Climate Science?
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Image credit: Peak Moment TV When Jan Spencer destroyed his suburban driveway, turning it upside down to create a water feature, and create room for a permaculture garden, it must have been hard to predict the chain reaction that would follow. Having now planted a (semi-successful) edible garden on his carport roof, established some serious rainwater harvesting infrastructure, and ripped out his laurel hedge in favor of a food forest, the man is moving on to create similar change in the rest of his neighborhood. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Suburban Permaculture: Neighborhood Watch as the Key to Resilient Community? (Video)
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Participants get painted for their debut in the sand. Image credit: Jess Root As Matt put it, today’s Hands in the Sand event was a refreshing take action way of channeling all the BP hate and directing it toward something positive. A global cry for clean energy, clean beaches and a clean planet using the potent visual cue of thousands of linked hands stringing the world’s shores. For me, compromising my usual Saturday sleep-in-late … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hands in the Sand: A Volunteer’s (Silly yet Satisfied) Perspective
Image credit: Fully Charged From fast-charging electric vehicles , to checking out the Tesla Model S , legendary comic actor Robert Llewellyn has already produced some great material for electric vehicle enthusiasts on his “Gearless” internet show. But it seems it was time for a change. “Gearless” has just relaunched as “Fully Charged”. And it seems Mr Llewellyn is getting more confrontational. Watch… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oil, War, Mobile Phones and Electric Cars: The Fully Charged Show (Video)
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