By Harriet Blake
Green Right Now
Daryl Hannah brings a personal sweetness and actor’s intensity to the stage of environmentalism, a term she doesn’t like.
Like many environmental terms — green, eco, sustainability, organic – “companies have co-opted and glommed onto these words,” she told an audience in Fort Worth this week. Luckily, she says the public is learning to be more informed.
“People are making ethical choices that help all living things to thrive, not to just sustain,” said the casually dressed actress who has starred in many memorable films such as Splash (with Tom Hanks), Steel Magnolias (with Sally Fields), Roxanne (with Steve Martin) and two Kill Bill movies directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Climate leader James Hansen and Daryl Hannah arrested at coal protest
From Green Right Now Reports:
Famed climate scientist Dr. James E. Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah and Rainforest Alliance Network Executive Director Michael Brune, along with several local residents were arrested on Tuesday while protesting mountaintop removal in Southern West Virginia.
The protesters were outside the gates of a Massey Energy plant in Raleigh County, where they sat down and blocked a roadway. Thirty-one protesters were arrested for obstructing traffic and police officers, according to the Charleston Gazette.
The protesters chose the site because Massey has a slurry (wet waste from coal operations) impoundment that sits near an elementary school.
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Tags: · coal burning, Daryl Hannah, Dr. James E. Hansen, impoundment facilities, Massey Energy, mountaintop removal, Rainforest Alliance Network, Waxman-Markey bill
