By John DeFore
It must be a bittersweet moment to be Darrell Hammond.
Every talk Al Gore gives, after all, continues to prove the Saturday Night Live veteran’s brilliance at honing in on the speech patterns of public figures; if Gore can’t tweak his style after years of mockery, then clearly Hammond caught something elemental.
But in [...]
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By Barbara Kessler
It’s starting to sound like an Obama Campaign Slogan parsing contest out there in the U.S. Greenscape.
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Longtime ocean advocate Ted Danson is pressing Canada to take a more active role in efforts to reduce fisheries subsidies.
By Shermakaye Bass
Celebrities trade on their celebrity and always have – sometimes in not so earth-friendly ways. But among the nobler echelons of Hollywood, Manhattan and London, renown is fuel for green [...]
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By Barbara Kessler
The newly formed We campaign, brainchild of the Alliance for Climate Protection founded by former Vice President Al Gore and colleagues, has begun a media effort that rests on the belief that united “we” will succeed in fighting climate change.
The group’s first videos in its “Unlikely Alliances” series, airing on network and [...]
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Earth Day reverberated around the world on Sunday, with festivals from Tokyo to Barcelona to San Francisco. In the United States, the key urban festivals attracted crowds of thousands as entertainers blasted music in New York City’s Central Park, the Mall in Washington D.C. and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
But while the day was [...]
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By John DeFore
Plenty of classical musicians have used wardrobe to set themselves apart from their peers, from the Versace-ish getups that helped put the Kronos Quartet on the map to the punk haircut of violinist Nigel Kennedy. But a dress made of garbage may be a first — almost certainly at Carnegie Hall.
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By Barbara Kessler
When Phoenix Sun guard Steve Nash takes to the All-Star court in New Orleans today, he’ll be showing one great new move – toward a more eco-responsible world. Nash will be wearing the Nike Trash Talk, the first pro-quality basketball shoe made from recycled manufacturing waste.
The Nike Trash Talk is composed of [...]
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By Barbara Kessler
Focus the Nation, a collective effort to find global warming solutions that’s being called the country’s largest ever national teach-in, kicks off tonight with a free web cast available to anyone who wants to participate.
The web cast will focus on the “2% Solution,” which refers to the need to decrease carbon emissions [...]
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By Shermakaye Bass
If you’ve heard the Lazy Environmentalist on Sirius Radio or have read the LE website or book, or have shopped at the Vivavi green-design showroom in Brooklyn, then you’ve more or less met Josh Dorfman, the man behind the movement.
He’s everywhere. It’s everywhere. And now it seems the pithy, practical naturalist [...]
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By Tom Kessler
Live Earth – the Concerts for a Climate in Crisis arrives in stores today as a 2 DVD/1 CD highlights package of last July’s historic global event that brought together entertainers for concerts in eight international cities. It captures many inspirational performances, particularly those from Linkin Park (pictured), Foo Fighters, Melissa [...]
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In this round-up from DallasNews.com, you’ll get the details on how Owen Wilson (pictured), Robert Redford, Martha Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are making an effort to be green right now.
By John DeFore
Over the last few years, moviegoers may have come to expect that any documentary pairing scientists and ice caps will be a scare-fest or a sermon — a big-screen effort to hammer home the urgent need to take action countering climate change.
Not so with Encounters at the End of the World, a film that’s drawing glowing reviews as it expands into theaters across the country. Yes, the movie has things to say about the environment — in at least one instance, it even suggests that humankind’s days here are numbered — but it is far from strident, superficially issue-driven, or even political. [Read more →]
By Nima Kapadia
Jobs in renewable energy are increasing worldwide and causing the coal industry to distribute pink slips, according to a Worldwatch Institute study.
The report, written by Worldwatch senior researcher Michael Renner, estimates that 2.3 million people are working in renewable energy jobs - either directly or indirectly. From that number:
By John DeFore
Proposals to solve the planet’s CO2 woes through sequestering the problematic emissions — pumping them into some hole in the ground where they can’t affect the atmosphere — raise numerous concerns for skeptics. Won’t the stuff leak out, wasting the fortune we spent on sequestering, and leaving us worse off than we would have been by cutting CO2 production in the first place?
Researchers led by Columbia University geophysicist David Goldberg think they’re closer to resolving some of those concerns, with a proposal that would address the possibility of leakage on two fronts. [Read more →]
San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral will install a state-of-the-art solar photovoltaic power system 
with the help of $65,000 from Pacific Gas and Electric Company, city and church officials have announced. PG&E said its donation to Grace Cathedral is part of the company’s $7.5 million commitment to increase solar power in San Francisco.
“We’re working to make San Francisco the greenest city in the country, and this kind of partnership is exactly what’s needed to help us reach that goal,” said Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco. [Read more →]
First branch banking, then online banking, now for act three: Keeping your green in a vault known for its green.
Two Philadelphia bankers with notable environmental experience have announced the formation of e3bank, believed to be the first green “triple bottom line” bank on the East Coast. Everything from the organization’s infrastructure to its product and service offerings will be built upon “the values of people, planet and prosperity,” say Chairman Sandy Wiggins and President/CEO Frank Baldassarre. [Read more →]
By Tom Kessler
Colorado developers have announced what they say is the country’s largest net-zero energy, master-planned community in Arvada, Colo., a suburb of Denver. Geos Neighborhood, which will begin infrastructure construction this fall, will feature 250 residences and can generate enough renewable energy to supply 100 percent of the annual energy needs of the entire community, the developers say. [Read more →]
By John DeFore
Conservation minded farmers might naturally assume it’s wise to get the most out of what’s available; if post-harvest waste material can be used in biofuel production, it seems to make financial and ecological use to sell it.
Not necessarily, according to a scientist at Washington State University who is urging farmers in her region to leave the waste where it falls.
By John DeFore
The collection of world leaders known as G8 may be taking baby steps on cutting greenhouse emissions (the Union of Concerned Scientists called their recent meeting a “sideshow”) with its goal of a 50 percent reduction by 2050 instead of the 80 percent most scientists agreed is needed.
This week Exelon, an electric-energy giant located in Chicago, made that benchmark look even less ambitious with its own boast: By 2020, the company says, it will have cut its emissions not by half of 1990’s level or even by half of today’s, but by an amount exceeding 100% of this year’s output. [Read more →]
Wal-Mart Stores is joining the Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN), 
World Wildlife Fund’s initiative to save the world’s most valuable and threatened forests. The giant retailer also announced this week that it is moving toward making some of the jewelry it sells meet standards for sustainability and social responsibility. [Read more →]
ROSEMEAD, Calif. — Southern California Edison (SCE) has begun installing solar panels at the first of approximately 150 Southern California commercial rooftops that eventually will make up SCE’s two-square-mile solar generation project — the largest solar panel installation in the world, according to the energy company.
