Posts Tagged ‘activism’
By NikkiJade • Aug 7th, 2009 • Category: Spotlight
The three R’s : Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. We’ve had it drilled into our heads since grade school (speaking for Canada here). But have you ever sat a moment to consider each of the acts? In this post, Nicole McCallum breaks down why Reduce is the most effective of the three.
By NikkiJade • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Videos
This video presents environmental activist Severn Suzuki at age twelve addressing global leaders at the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in a powerful, provocative speech.
By NikkiJade • Jun 10th, 2009 • Category: Videos
What would you do for $20,000? National Geographic and Frito Lay’s Sun Chips want to know. The Green Effect is a contest that asked U.S. residents to submit an original idea for an eco-iniative to make a difference in their community, with prizes to turn the ideas to reality!
By NikkiJade • Jun 1st, 2009 • Category: Blog
There’s a petition going on at Care2 right now to stop Iceland’s whale hunting. As The Green Rocket recently released a strongly opinionated blog on this topic, I was pretty excited to see the online community taking action. As I was signing the petition, my co-worker made a provocative comment: “In the context of the [...]
By NunoXEI • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Articles
Every year Canada prepares for its annual seal hunt; now activists also set forth to protest against it on March 15th: International Day of Action Against Seal Hunting. Nuno Teixeira gives you the lowdown on events, from Russia’s ban on the hunting of young seals to Spain’s 100-nudist protest to raise awareness.
By NikkiJade • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Interviews
Nicole McCallum interviews Shawn Boudreau, the founder of The Global Warming Opposition Front, green-safe, not-for-profit, electric company. He is hiking across Canada to raise funds for his organization and to encourage the use of alternative energy sources.
By NikkiJade • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Case Studies
Environmentalist Chris Goodall, conducted a study of the emissions of driving versus walking for a 1.5 mile roundtrip in his book How to Live a Low-Carbon Life. The results are challenged by the Pacific Institute’s, Michael Cohen and Matthew Heberger.
By NikkiJade • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Articles
Nicole McCallum defines what it is to be “rationally irrational” and the benefits it can have on achieving your goals as an “agent of change”. She uses the buyout of the Body Shop by L’Oreal in 2006 as an example of how sticking to your cause even throughout controversy can be a positive experience.
By NunoXEI • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters, ENN–Protesters failed on Tuesday to stop the controversial cull of hundreds of kangaroos on a military base near the Australian capital, Canberra, which animal rights activists had branded as “barbaric”. Military says they would all have starved had not 400 of them been killed.
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
UN Environment Programme, ENN–An unprecedented 1.5 million Chinese children have participated in a painting competition on the topic of climate change, in a sign of the country’s growing awareness of environmental issues. The children collectively submited 200,000 paintings.
