Month: November 2011

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Activist and Social Entrepreneur Jeff Gang on Green Organizing and Green Buying

If an environmental advocate has sent you an email, called your phone, or knocked on your door in the last two years, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve made the acquaintance of Jeff Gang. In his year as a Green Corps organizer, Jeff jetted from California to Maine to Minnesota, leading environmental campaigns and striking fear into the heart of […]

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Night Swimming in the Amazon

“The Peruvian Amazon never fails to impose quandaries.”
Conservation scientist Sarah Federman describes one night’s mishap near a far-flung research station in the isolated Peruvian Amazon.

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Fishing for the Future of Fish

Angela Orthmeyer reports on fishers across America who are voluntarily changing the way they fish so that their kids will someday be able to fish as well. She visits four towns to talk to four innovators who are fishing for the future.

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Popular uproar over Beijing air pollution

Over the weekend the New York Times reported on a unique urban escape of the Chinese governmental elite – not to penthouse night clubs or secluded spas, as you might expect, but to pockets of clean, purified air. From Politburo Standing Committee meetings to cross-city car rides, government officials are using expensive air purifiers to create transient spaces free of the ubiquitous Beijing […]

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Forum: Australia’s Big Carbon Tax

With the passage of a historic piece of carbon tax legislation, Australia seems set to lead in the global battle against climate change. But, as Tahria Sheather reports, tensions in the land down under are running high, offering a preview of what may lie ahead for other countries.

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Occupy New Haven Day of Action – November 5th

  More information and opportunities to get involved with Occupy New Haven here — From the Yale Working Group of Occupy New Haven: “A march has been planned for Saturday the 5th at noon on the downtown New Haven Green. A march will proceed, symbolically up Wall Street, turning onto Church Street in front of the Banks, and pausing at City Hall […]