Archive for April, 2012

Culture, Reviews

Review: Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

Review: Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

Big Boys Gone Bananas!* documents the year-long battle between film director Fredrik Gertten and the crushing public relations and legal force of Dole Food Company.

“If you have mighty enemies, then you need many friends,” said Gertten when introduced to …

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Turning Rio+20 into Kony 2012: Sustainable Development for the Facebook Generation

Turning Rio+20 into Kony 2012: Sustainable Development for the Facebook Generation

 

Michael Davidson, Philip Goo and Yiting Wang of NRDC hosted a lively session called “Accountability in the Age of the Internet” on the second day of the Citizens Summit. This is their message to participants and for everyone interested …

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Culture, Reviews

Review: The Last Mountain

Review: The Last Mountain

The Last Mountain, Bill Haney’s piercing new documentary about coal mining in the Appalachians, features enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. In shot after shot, violent plumes of rubble erupt skyward from the side of denuded mountains, leaving …

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At Yale

Volume VI

Volume VI

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Culture, Reviews

The final 'dream' scene in Eating Alabama

Review: Eating Alabama

shaggy haired man perches in a little wooden shack, camouflaged head to toe, arms cradling a rifle and eyes watching for deer. Trepidatiously, he loads a shell and while his voiceover announces unassumingly, “I’ve never done this before.” And so …

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At Yale

OP-ED:  Positive Environmentalism – An Open Letter to Faculty, Staff, Alumni and Students of FES

OP-ED: Positive Environmentalism – An Open Letter to Faculty, Staff, Alumni and Students of FES

Update: SAGE has published a response to this letter here.

im Jeffery, CEO of Nestlé Waters North America, sat comfortably on-stage. He had come to Burke Auditorium to discuss extended producer responsibility initiatives underway at his company.

During his …

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