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27/09/2011
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| Duluth, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) -A group gathered in Duluth at the Whole Foods Co-op on 4th Street to encourage congress to help struggling farmers. |
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2011-09-15
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| The past decade has watched the University put together quite the environmental resume. And, with Chancellor Holden Thorp’s commitment last year to end the University’s use of coal by 2020, there’s plenty of reason to think that resume will only grow greener with time.
But the group that pushed for Thorp’s commitment, the Sierra Club’s Coal-Free Campus campaign, wants more. It wants the UNC Management Company, the body that invests the University’s nearly $2 billion endowment, to make its holdings transparent. |
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2011-09-12
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| At Southern Illinois University, The Environmental Coalition – a student run organization – has gathered 400 signatures during the past week in support of its Beyond Coal Campaign, meant to shut down the plant. The coalition plans to get 1200 signatures before approaching the university about a discussion on the plant within the month, said Jason Mischke, president of the Environmental Coalition. |
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2011-06-08
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| GC'08 Elise Nabors dressed as Barbie in Greenpeace's latest action to protect rainforests. Activists rappelled down the face of the 15-story El Segundo headquarters of Mattel, the world’s largest toy company, on Tuesday and hung a giant banner of a frowning Ken doll look-alike with the message: “Barbie, it's over. I don’t date girls that are into deforestation.” The protest marked the launch of a global campaign by Greenpeace against Mattel in connection with paper packaging allegedly derived from Indonesian rain forests. |
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2011-05-27
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| GC'08 Mary Rafferty is working with citizen activists to fight uranium mining in Virginia. |
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2011-04-08
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| GC'11 Todd Zimmer recruited and trained more than 600 student activists at Miami University to advocate for clean energy solutions. Together, they won a commitment from the university to move beyond coal by 2025. |
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2011-02-22
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| GC'10 Michaela Howard and student activists call on MSU to Move Beyond Coal |
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2011-02-02
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| A national fight against McDonald's "predatory junk food marketing" came to the city Thursday as opponents of the fast-food chain's marketing strategy gathered at the Lafayette Road franchise and clashed with members of management. |
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2011-02-02
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| A handful of volunteers for Corporate Accountability International met at a community room in the Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation Sunset Swim Center and walked to the Cedar Mill McDonald’s restaurant, where they hoped to present a petition to Don Armstrong, the owner of 13 Portland-area McDonald’s stores. |
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2011-02-02
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| GC'01 Nick Getzen speaks on behalf of The Jobs Project's efforts to bring solar power to the West Virginia coalfields. |
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2011-01-24
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| Opinion piece in The Miami Student calls on Miami University to move beyond coal. |
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2010-12-01
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| Can a new group of young environmental leaders reinvigorate greens’ grassroots spirit? |
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2010-12-20
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| In the wake of the midterm elections, environmental groups are rethinking their strategy for addressing climate change. The defeat of the green agenda is measured not only in Republican control of the House but also in the huge amounts of money, time, energy and good will green groups invested in the pursuit of failed comprehensive climate legislation. |
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2010-11-10
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| Concerns for the safety of the industrialized food consumption were brought to light yesterday by the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch with their call to ban arsenic in Maryland poultry production. |
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2010-11-10
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| In a continued effort to ban arsenic in chicken feed, Food & Water Watch, a Maryland consumer advocacy group, has released a study outlining the environmental and human health impacts posed by "poisoned poultry." |
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2010-11-02
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| The fight over Proposition 23, the ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law, "will definitely be a David versus Goliath battle," Steve Maviglio, spokesman for the opponents told a reporter in September. "Our slingshot versus their oily club." |
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2010-11-02
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| Green Corps organizers teamed up with Credo Victory Fund Against Prop 23 and Texas Oil Companies this fall to protect California’s landmark global warming law. |
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2010-10-10
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| THE GREEN ISSUE
Here to help
Teaching, tinkering, and other opportunities for eco-friendly volunteer |
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2010-09-30
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| Join Green Corps, CREDO, and special guest VAN JONES as he hosts a Stop Texas Oil: No on 23 phone bank this Sunday at the First Congregational Church in Berkeley. |
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2010-09-30
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| Beyond Coal — a campus offshoot of the Sierra Club — is organizing to petition the University administration to close its coal-fired power plant and instead embrace cleaner energy technology. |
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2010-09-22
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| Sierra Student Coalition campaigns for renewable energy |
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2010-09-21
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| Three current Green Corps organizers - Kady McFadden, Todd Zimmer, and Jennifer Marienau - are among a group of students from Washington University in St. Louis selected to receive a 2010 national award from the Sierra Club. |
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2010-09-20
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| Saturday afternoon outside of Santa Barbara City Hall, dozens gathered — including 1st District Supervisor Salud Carbajal, Goleta City Councilmember Ed Easton, and Santa Barbara City Councilmember Grant House — to oppose Proposition 23 and march to the Tesoro-owned USA gas station on Carrillo Street. Tesoro is the biggest backer of the Prop. 23 campaign. |
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2010-03-23
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| Clemson University's on-campus coal burning facilities have become one of the many targets of the Sierra Club's Campuses Beyond Coal initiative. The goal is for campuses across the country no longer to be dependent on coal for their energy needs. |
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2010-03-12
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| Op-Ed from Green Corps organizer Blair Bowie and Josh Jones |
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2010-01-22
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| COLUMBIA — A clean energy campaign hopes to influence how Sen. Claire McCaskill will vote on energy legislation in the spring.
The League of Conservation Voters hopes to diversify U.S. energy sources, specifically focusing on wind and solar powers, in order to stimulate economic growth, league spokeswoman Michaela Howard said. |
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2010-03-24
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| Minnesota state government spent nearly a half-million dollars on bottled water.
That's the finding by Corporate Accountability International, a nonprofit consumer and environmental group that has for the past several years pushed its "Think Outside the Bottle" campaign in various ways. |
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2010-03-23
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| Tap water is perfectly safe to drink and no state, including New Mexico, should spend a penny on the plastic-bottled stuff, says a Boston-based group known for battles against tobacco and Nestlé's baby formula in the last three decades.
Members of Corporate Accountability International hosted a water-tasting event Tuesday at the state Capitol to prove that tap water tastes as good as bottled. |
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2010-03-22
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| Co-signed by 10 faculty- and op-ed on why Virginia Tech should go coal free in their student newspaper. |
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2010-03-31
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| The steady drumbeat of Green Corps organizer Laura's work to get UNC Chapel Hill to get Beyond Coal is continuing to get notice in the local media. |
