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What Will You Do For Earth Day?

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 20 April 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Need something to do for Earth Day? Here are several Earth Day links to choose from. EARTH DAY LINKS DLTK's Crafts for Kids features an entire section on craft-making for Earth Day. You'll find songs, coloring pages and construction paper crafts, plus some entertaining online games.Earth ...

Environmentalist Jane Goodall to speak at Penn State

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 21 March 2011 in Environmental Heroes

“I have a broken wrist, black eye and many bruises.” Exhausted from travel, and boarding a plane to Cincinnati for a lecture, renowned environmentalist Jane Goodall explained in a telephone interview on Sunday that she sustained several minor injuries after falling down a cellar. Ho...

Greenpeace Building a New Boat

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 11 March 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Greenpeace is building "the world's first ever purpose-built environmental campaigning vessel." And to help raise the cash needed to finish the project, they've deployed what is arguably the coolest interactive flash website any environmental non-profit has ever used. The Rainbow Warrior name...

Dr. King's Lessons On The Environment

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 in Environmental Heroes

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind [sic] to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind [sic] must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliati...

Sea Shepherd Battle Japanese Whalers

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 01 January 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Japanese whalers shot water cannons at anti-whaling activists on Saturday, the conservationist group's founder claimed, hours after the activists tracked down the hunting fleet in the remote and icy seas off Antarctica. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is chasing the fleet in the hop...

Saving Whales at the Bottom of the World

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 01 January 2011 in Environmental Heroes

“What an awesome way to begin the New Year,” said captain of the Gojira Locky MacLean of Canada. “Our three vessels dancing dangerously through the ice packs locked in confrontation with the three harpoon ships of the Japanese whaling fleet. It was both deadly and beautiful. Dead...

Gnarly Waves and Green Algae, Dr. Mitchell Is Giving Algae A New Name

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 16 December 2010 in Environmental Heroes

December 13, 2010, by David Schwartz AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com Dr. B. Greg Mitchell is a research biologist and senior lecturer at the University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. An avid surfer, Greg credits the gnarly waves of Black’s Beach in La Jolla for hi...

Save A Turkey

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 23 November 2010 in Environmental Heroes

Adopt-A-Turkey Project seeks to end the misery of commercially-raised turkeys by offering a compassionate alternative for Thanksgiving. Since 1986, Farm Sanctuary has rescued more than 1,000 turkeys, placed hundreds into loving homes through our annual Turkey Express adoption even...

North Science Teacher Monica Marlowe is Ambassador of Ocean Education

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 09 November 2010 in Environmental Heroes

Sachem North science teacher Monica Marlowe attended the National Geographic Education, National Teacher Leadership Academy in Ocean Education this past summer. At the scenic Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., Marlowe was prepared as an ambassador of ocean ...

The Dalai Lama on Global Warming

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 25 October 2010 in Environmental Heroes

I was in the same room as his Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama for approximately 1.5 hours this afternoon. He made a visit to Toronto, Canada to address a crowd of over 30,000 in what could be summarized as a lesson of kindness. What emerged from his mouth, however, reached issues including global war...

Canadians are realizing the present and future peril of climate change

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 14 October 2010 in Environmental Heroes

In 2009, Indigenous communities throughout the world called for a global mobilization “In Defence of Mother Earth” on October 12, 2010, reclaiming “Columbus Day” and transforming colonial holidays into days of action in solidarity with Indigenous peoples. Responding to this call and the dema...

Your name delivered to the US Embassy in Japan!

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 03 September 2010 in Environmental Heroes

Yesterday was a big day for our campaign to protect dolphins in Japan. It was imperative that we get Japanese media to cover the beginning of the dolphin hunting season—and more importantly, the worldwide opposition to it. And we succeeded! We began by bringing all our international volunteers to a ...

Calling Young Leaders: Apply for the New Energy Leaders Project

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 in Environmental Heroes

Americans for Energy Leadership — one of the nation’s foremost energy policy think tanks and advocacy groups led by young people – is seeking applicants for the New Energy Leaders Project, an initiative to empower young thought leaders and help redefine the national energ...

Environmental and Animal Rights Activist Returned to Prison for Facebooking

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 30 August 2010 in Environmental Heroes

“When friends are outlawed, only outlaws will have friends.”–Mike Roselle Ummm, yeah. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t watching. We knew it would happen sooner or later. The surveillance state is not only watching social media sites, the social media sites are the surve...

the Rachel Carson Contest

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 28 August 2010 in Environmental Heroes

A panel of judges has pre-selected the finalists for each category based on creativity, originality, and the ability to capture a sense of wonder for the environment. The judges also selected entries which incorporate an inter-generational team in their production. The contest is meant to ...

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

Greenpeace's Kumi Naidoo: From Liberating South Africa to Saving Planet Earth

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 20 July 2010 in Environmental Heroes

By Nell Greenberg, Earth Island Journal Kumi Naidoo is the real thing. Naidoo, who became the Executive Director of Greenpeace International in November 2009, is not your typical career environmentalist. He became an activist at just 15 years old in apartheid South Africa. As a result of hi...

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...

New Heroes in the Fight Against Big Oil

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 01 July 2010 in Environmental Heroes

Catastrophes like the spill in the Gulf expose the destructive side of industries and their environmental impacts. They also create unexpected heroes, ordinary people like Lois Gibbs, propelled into the political arena when industrial waste exposed her community in Love Canal, New York, to c...

Jack Black, Clean Energy Hero

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 24 June 2010 in Environmental Heroes

“No more pollution…or ocean dumpage. FROM NOW ON WE WILL TRAVEL IN TUBES” -Jack Black Jack Black, the modern-day musical genius, once said in response to criticism of his music, “I’m tired of all this nay-saying! Why don’t YOU create something!?” This mantra could be perfectly applied to the globa...