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It’s Painful Being Green

3_kermit Kermit was wrong, it’s not easy to be green. Thanks to the waste prevention gene I seem to have been born with, daily life in the world’s most wasteful nation has been a constant assault on my senses. I’m pretty sure I’ve had this affliction since birth, that somehow my DNA contained an extra “conservation” chromosome. I know I’m not the only one with this chronic condition but it is all too rare, and unfortunately not infectious. That’s part of the reason our planet is in critical condition.

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UNWED left me unglued

The first-ever-in-the-U.S. United Nations World Environment Day was a true green letter event, held appropriately in the city voted the greenest in the land.
There were many highlights: Accords were signed by more than 100 cities pledging to take three positive environmental steps per year and two dozen Mayors added their names to a Kyoto-like agreement drafted by  Seattle’s Mayor Greg Nickels after the three driest winters in the rainiest city’s history.

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Interview with Joel McEwen

Joel Christian McEwen, is the Director of In Pursuit of Happinessa film still in progress. Danny Glover, Ed Begley, Jr., Medea Benjamin, Howard Zinn are some of those involved. The film will blend documentary, narrative, comedy, animation and drama.LISTEN (19 minutes)
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Carolyn Brown

Carolyn Brown, Director of Marketing Carolyn, founder of GreenWave Communications, helps environmental organizations and green businesses build awareness and action through communications, marketing and partnerships. She earned an A.B. from Princeton University in Politics and Economics, magna cum laude, and an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Born and raised near Philadelphia, […]
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Greener cars in Canada

The Canadian government, apparently lightyears ahead of US, has succeeded in getting automakers to voluntarily reduce their vehicles greenhouse gas emissions up to nearly 6 milion tons by 2010. We’ll get reaction and analysis on how the historic agreement will impact the way cars are made for the rest of us from Sierra Club’s Dan […]