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The Colorado Environmental Film Festival welcomes Late Submissions until November 30th!!

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 09 November 2011 in Arts and Entertainment

The Sixth Annual Festival will occur on February 23-25, 2012 in beautiful Golden, Colorado. The largest environmental film festival between the coasts, the Colorado Environmental Film Festival seeks unique and meaningful films that aim to inspire, educate, and call to action. We are...

Top 5 Eco-Tourism Destinations

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 05 October 2011 in Ecotourism

In recent years, a heightened awareness of our impact on the environment meant it was inevitable that the tourism industry would soon start to reflect the public mood. Although we’re not yet at a place where companies can offer budget holidays are entirely geared around environmental concerns (such ...

Low Carbon Holidays

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 05 October 2011 in Ecotourism

There can be a tremendous sense of environmental guilt attached to the prospect of taking a holiday abroad these days. Fuel-guzzling jetplanes are certainly not the greenest mode of transport, but thankfully there are ways to minimize your carbon footprint and still have a great time. One of the gr...

Chipotle's Quest To End Factory Farms

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 01 September 2011 in Agriculture

by Morgan ClendanielIn this charming music video from Chipotle, Willie sings about going "back to the start" of American farming, before animals were pumped with antibiotics and kept in factories. A farmer, not content with his small family farm, starts to modernize. He turns his farm into a factor...

Stressful home ups lung damage in kids

Posted by GreenDog on Saturday, 25 June 2011 in Human Health

Living in stressful homes increases the effects of outside air pollution in children, resulting in greater pollution-related lung damage, U.S. researchers say. Lead researcher Talat Islam of the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, says psychosocial stress ...

Why Mattel Toy Packaging is Destroying The Rain Forest

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 in Earth Violators

Greenpeace has launched a global campaign against Mattel the world's largest toy company. This is part of a decades long campaign to force multi-national corporations to purge operations links to rain forest destruction. Mattel is accused of packing Barbie and other toys with paper made with hardwoo...

What City Will Be the Most Green by 2020?

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 in Sustainable Development

Can you guess? Boulder CO according to the Daily Camera article by Health Urie. This achievement is subject to Boulder renewing its contract with Xcel Energy with its proposal that includes 90% renewable energy. Boulder is deciding whether to continue to use XCEL or to become a municipal utility....

Thinking About Animals By Tom Boyd

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 07 June 2011 in Animals

I enjoy a good steak. Also chicken, fish, and the occasional pork or lamp chop. Red meat in moderation, to be sure, and not enough fish, but I’m moving in the “right” direction on these matters. I have respect and appreciation for vegetarians, or vegans, but it is not a path I choose. The model I wa...

Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute Bali Indonesia 2011

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 28 April 2011 in Arts and Entertainment

Earth Protect is proud to have been a Program Level Sponsor and presenter at this first annual conference. The Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute’s mission is to support filmmakers and activists to build audiences for their work and to engage people and organizations in social action...

CELEBS Say "TURN IT OFF! EARTH HOUR THIS SATURDAY

Posted by GreenDog on Sunday, 20 March 2011 in General Environment

Since the first Earth Hour in 2007, supporters have included: The Most Reverend Archbishop Desmond Tutu, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, actress Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Kylie Minogue, Yoko Ono, Ashton Kutcher, Brazilian supermodel Giselle Bundchen, TV host and landscaper Jamie Durie, Kevin ...

Earth Protect Welcomes Peter Gephart, MAS, As Post-Graduate Associate

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 22 February 2011 in General Environment

Peter holds a Master of Applied Science in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Denver and has an interest in alternative energy and energy efficiency. He is also interested in policy development to bring more alternative energy into the energy mix and develop programs to...

Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 07 December 2010 in Arts and Entertainment

Join us at the 1st Annual Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute Ubud, Bali April 13 - 17, 2011Join us at The Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute (GSCFFI) celebrating and promoting social change film and media. The Institute supports filmmakers and activists in creating i...

Denver Zoo Reaches Out To Help Endangered Animals

Posted by GreenDog on Saturday, 04 December 2010 in Animals

The Denver Zoo quietly has shifted its mission from displaying captive threatened animals to working worldwide for species survival. The latest project: sending out zookeeper biologists to save the Lake Titicaca giant frog. This fabled underwater frog (Telmatobius culeus) lives only in that windbl...

Climate Scientists Stepping Out by the 100's

Posted by GreenDog on Sunday, 07 November 2010 in Climate Change

Finally, American Geophysical Union, the country's largest association of climate scientists, plans to announce that 700 climate scientists have agreed to speak out as experts on questions about global warming and the role of man-made air pollution. A "Climate Rapid Response Team" is being organized...

Human Rights Advocate Program Application Columbia U

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 01 September 2010 in General Environment

The application for the 2011 session of the annual Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia University is now available. We would like to ask you to disseminate this announcement to eligible human rights activists and organizations. The application is available online at http:/ /hrcol...

Diwen Cao, Earth Protect International Youth Fellow, Woman Working for Good

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 05 August 2010 in Environmental Heroes

About 2 years ago, Diwen met Grant and Carol Barbeito, Earth Protect Vice President and President at a Conference in New Zealand. Diwen is Chinese by birth and had just completed a management degree from University of Waikato. Her interest in helping people and the environment along with her enthusi...

Earth Protect International Youth Fellow

Earth Protect Presents at International Conference on Energy Logistics and The Environment

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 05 August 2010 in General Environment

The Conference is being held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Denver on October 7 to the 9th and for the 2nd time Earth Protect will present at this Conference. WWW.GLOBALCOMMERCEFORUM.ORGThe International Conference on Energy, Logistics and the EnvironmentTheme: Achieving Sustainability through Collabor...

Good News in Galapagos

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 29 July 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

UNESCO says strong action by the Ecuador government has resulted in these amazing islands off their coast being taken off the endangered UNESCO list. The islands were threatened by overuse. This is the island chain that is home to unique animal species that inspired Darwin's ideas on evolution. I ha...

Happy 50TH in Gombe Jane Goodall..(SINGING SMILES)

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 16 July 2010 in Environmental Heroes

Hi Jane and Jane Lovers, What a long journey from a girl in the jungle by herself with no role models and little direction much less anything else, all the way to being an environmental hero! And one of the most famous of our time. We admire her for what she learned about chimpanzees and how much m...

Climate Researchers Not Guilty of Tampering

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 08 July 2010 in Climate Change

For the third time, investigations by independent investigators have found that climate researchers at University of East Anglia did not slant their findings. You will recall their hacked emails had some imprudent statements last year.The report said the scientists' honesty and rigor were not in dou...

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