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Raising Money for Wildlife with Craigslist Founder

Posted by amir on Thursday, 26 April 2012 in Environmental Heroes

Love wildlife? Got Twitter? Then drop Craigslist founder Craig Newmark a message using the hashtag #Squirrels4Good. For every tweet, Newmark will donate $1 to the National Wildlife Federation, up to $5,000. Newmark will also donate a dollar if you use the #Squirrels4Good hashtag on either h...

FBI Investigate Fracking Protestors, instead of Frackers

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 11 March 2012 in Environmental Heroes

In today’s Washington Post, it was revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been investigating peaceful climate and anti-fracking activists as a threat. In response to anonymous complaints Rising Tide North Texas, a part of the Rising Tide North America ...

Protesters Arrested for Blocking Tar Sands “Megaloads”

Posted by bensor on Tuesday, 06 March 2012 in Environmental Heroes

Four remarkably brave activists eluded the barricades and put their bodies between enormous Alberta tar sands upgrader parts and the ecological and climate devastation they will visit on us all. As three of the last five of 78 ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil megaloads moved through downtown Moscow, Id...

Environmental Hero with a Fish Story

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 12 January 2012 in Environmental Heroes

Shannon Skelton, Environmental Hero with a Fish Story Worth Hearing The early years were a scary endeavor and squeaky tight financially. Yet, Shannon Skelton knew he could build a better river. With water resources valued for sustaining human life, Skelton had his work cut out for him to champion a...

The 2012 WWF Earth Hour Awards are now open!

Posted by Angel on Sunday, 18 December 2011 in Environmental Heroes

In 2011, the fifth year of the Earth Hour campaign, WWF-Australia introduced the WWF Earth Hour Awards to celebrate the grassroots efforts of everyday Australians going ‘beyond the hour’ for the planet. As we enter the second year of the Awards, we're pleased to re-launch last year's favourite ...

Earth Hour 2011: Hanan Hassan and Julia Lin, champions of EnviroKids – Young Panda Award Winners. / ©: WWF-Australia

Climate Modeling Pioneer: Masao Kanamitsu

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 02 September 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Masao Kanamitsu, whose pioneering efforts transformed the ability of scientists to detect climate patterns over the course of decades, died of cancer Aug. 17 at his home in Del Mar, Calif. He was 67. The researcher known to friends and family simply as "Kana" was well known nationally and internat...

James Cameron to Stop Brazilian Hydroelectric Dam

Posted by bensor on Wednesday, 31 August 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Timed with the re-release of the blockbuster film Avatar in theaters last week, director James Cameron has joined forces with Amazon Watch to get the word out about "A Message from Pandora" and the battle to stop the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu, one of the great tributaries of th...

Infant Gorilla Rescued

Posted by amir on Friday, 19 August 2011 in Environmental Heroes

An infant mountain gorilla was rescued from poachers in Rwanda in August 2011 with help from a partnership made up of WWF, African Wildlife Foundation and Fauna & Flora International. A group of Rwandan and Congolese men were attempting to smuggle the female, less than one-year old, into Rwanda ...

Ray C. Anderson dies at 77; carpet tile mogul

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Anderson's Georgia-based firm, Interface, makes carpet tiles from petroleum products. He transformed the firm into a model of sustainability. By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times In the summer of 1994, carpet-tile mogul Ray C. Anderson made a sobering discovery: Although his billion-dollar business wa...

Surfer ridding beach of garbage

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 11 August 2011 in Environmental Heroes

On Earth Day of this year, pro surfer Jesse Heilman, 23, thought about what he might be able to do to make a difference in the environmental landscape. With seemingly insurmountable doom and gloom on the ecological horizon, the possibility of affecting change might seem too daunting for some. &nb...

Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in prison

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 29 July 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in prison today at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. He was taken immediately into custody, being denied the typical 3 weeks afforded to put his affairs in order and say goodbye to his friends and family. Federal prosecutors asked for Tim to...

Woman hopes to walk across Africa for clean water

Posted by grant on Tuesday, 19 July 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Amy Russell isn't expecting her walk across Connecticut to pose much of challenge. She's just going 140 miles, starting Saturday in Granby and finishing next Friday in Greenwich. That is child's play compared to the 7,000-mile, two-year trek across Africa she starts in January in an effort to rais...

Adventurers Embrace Their Inner Nerds to Help the Planet

Posted by Aaron on Friday, 08 July 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Montanans Gregg Treinish and Deia Schlosberg backpacked the length of the Andes Mountains for nearly two years, traversing the rocky spine of South America on foot. The two explorers pieced together a makeshift route that included portions of centuries-old Incan trails and paths carved by inhabitan...

Mark Bittman: Eating Right Can Save The Planet

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 16 June 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Mark Bittman says you can start by changing what you eat. In his book, Food Matters, The New York Times food columnist writes about the environmental impact of industrial farming — and how individuals can make a difference by cutting down on the amount of animal products they consume. "All industr...

Global Warming Expert Focuses on Youth

Posted by henryfool on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Since 1989 Weaver has been studying climate issues and, more recently, trying to get governments to act decisively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, largely from burning of fossil fuels. He’s now come to the conclusion that the federal government isn’t interested, and that it’s time to concentrate...

Captain of Whale Wars: "Arrest Me or Shut Up"

Posted by grant on Monday, 06 June 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Amid scrambling to presentations at the World Science Festival and a United Nations screening of a remarkable new film, the “Journey of the Universe,” I slipped in 45 minutes to interview Paul Watson. He’s the founder of the anti-whaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and central charac...

Environmental Filmmaker Zeina Aboul Hosn

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Shortlisted for the Amnesty International 2008 Media Award for journalists covering human rights, Zeina Aboul Hosn is clearly passionate about the world around her and conveying important messages through her films. As well as working on the widely influential Age of Stupid film, she has participate...

KIDS - Fighting Climate Change Through Innovative Initiatives

Posted by EarthDude on Friday, 20 May 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Floods and droughts may be the "new normal" and sea levels may be rising faster than previously thought, but the younger generation isn’t willing to accept these climate change consequences for their future. As the grownups duke it out in Washington, kids take action with visible r...

Earth Day, One Person Can Make a Big Difference

Posted by grant on Monday, 25 April 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Friday was an important day for everyone, and I’m not speaking of religious circles. Friday was Earth Day 2011. And whether you think about it or not, or you care about it or not, I believe we are lucky to have people out there who do care enough to do what’s best for our planet. We need it to survi...

A Billion Acts of Green: Earth Day 2011 Activities

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 21 April 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Earth Day is a reminder about the importance of environmental protection and sustainability. Most importantly, it reminds us that we can a make a difference when it comes to our planet. The first Earth Day celebration was held in 1970 and it launched the modern environmental movemen...