activism

You can personally prevent a measurable amount of pollution from some of Europe’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters. For the price of 3 ABBA CD's.

Two Greenpeace activist are being held for 23 days without charges for exposing a scandal at the heart of the whaling industry.

It's that simple, that easy.

How to Turn Your Parents Green, by James Russell and illustrated by Oivind Hovland, is a humorous book for kids ages 8-80 (you are never too old to turn your parents green). This book helps alleviate eco-anxiety by empowering children. “The premise for the book is that grown-ups (the Groans) are responsible for causing global warming, but it’s you (the kids) who will have to deal with the consequences.”

The truck above is powered by a wood gas generator, except this one runs on coffee grounds. The Cafe Racer is a 1975 GMC pickup that essentially burns up used coffee to create a combustible gas. The gas is filtered on its way to the engine and, Viola, a caffeine-powered truck.

Illegal in eyes of law - but a celebration of the planet in the eyes of nature lovers...the newest "green" underground trend you might not have heard about.

Part 2 of Justin van Kleek's musing on activism, anger and better ways to communicate an environmental agenda.

sustainablog's newest writer Justin van Kleek considers the (psychological) pollution environmental activists themselves can often spew. Or, to borrow the famous quote from Pogo, "we have met the enemy, and he is us."

When the British Government announced their most recent budget earlier this year, there was much applause from green groups after chancellor Alistair Darling announced almost draconian increases in taxation on gas guzzling cars.

But how effective are these taxes?

It's time for the yearly plea for a day where nobody buys gasoline causing the oil companies to collapse in a heap of conniptions.  Or something like that.  It's baloney to think one day with a few people not buying gasoline will make any difference.  Instead what will make a difference is for lots of people to systematically end gasoline use.

Earth Day fell during Passover this year causing Jews to reflect on how an important tradition offers some wisdom about environmental challenges.

On Friday, April 18 the federal and British Columbia governments announced that they will proceed with a recovery operation of the wreckage that continues to threaten the Robson Bight ecological reserve. The return of the orcas to the area in June makes this salvage operation time sensitive.

On Earth Day 2008, Thomas Friedman was giving a lecture on the politics & economics of global energy at Brown University. Shortly into the lecture, a female audience member ran on stage and threw a green pie at the New York Times columnist.

Environmentalists are used to fighting battles, but this week’s rejection of the Lewis wind farm in Scotland highlights how they are lining up against each other in countryside battles, as issues like protecting birdlife habitat conflict with the need to produce clean energy.

Choi Seung-kuk, the Secretary General of Green Korea, one of South Korea’s largest environmental organizations, has officially bowed out as an Olympic torch bearer. In a press interview this morning, Mr. Choi cited China’s aggression in Tibet as his main reason for refusing to carry the Olympic torch when it arrives in Seoul, the capital city, on April 27.