All Blog Posts Tagged 'environment' (13)

Air America Radio Interview with Riki Ott

Here's my latest interview with Cordova, AK native Riki Ott. Ott is an activist who experienced a community go under after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Here she explains how her community regrouped and how other communities can follow. Hope you enjoy.…

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Added by Christian Avard on March 25, 2009 at 9:07pm — No Comments

Time to Act

Ursa Freedom Project

There are 9,000 bears locked in crush cages and being tortured daily for their bile in China and Vietnam. Please help get the bears out of these horrid cages and onto hallowed sanctuary grounds where they can be rehabilitated. We need journalists to help spread the word!

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Added by Jeanette McDermott on March 20, 2009 at 5:37pm — No Comments

Benefit for the Bears Music Concerts

For 15 years Caesar was locked in a crush cage too small for her large body. Today this is Caesar at the Animals Asia sanctuary. The intention of the Ursa Freedom Project is to liberate 9,000 bears who are still living in crush cages.

Work is underway to organize concerts in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and other cities across the globe to raise awareness and money to liberate 9,000 bears from horrid crush cages on bile farms.… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on March 7, 2009 at 12:59pm — No Comments

Ursa Freedom Project

Added by Jeanette McDermott on March 3, 2009 at 11:43am — No Comments

Ursa Freedom Project

Jasper today, after being rescued from a bear bile farm by Animals Asia, and living free at their sanctuary in Chengdu, China.

I posted a blog recently about bear bile farming and then decided it's not enough to write about an eco problem. I need to take action to solve it! So that's what I did, and now people across dozens of social networks have joined forces to launch a poster campaign to liberate 9,000 bears from crush cages in… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on February 11, 2009 at 12:37am — No Comments

Niche Charities: Small Donations, Big Changes

End hunger. Fight world poverty. Give everyone a home.

We’re all familiar with these far-reaching global goals. Many of us, recognizing both their importance and nobility, do what we can to join such seemingly impossible fights.

But what about the less general (and therefore less-publicized) charities established to serve a more specific need? I’ve compiled a list of five unusual niche charities that, for donations or purchases of less than $100, promise to do quite a bit… Continue

Added by Maria Polletta on February 4, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Uncontacted Tribe Faces Imminent Threat to Survival

Uncontacted tribe in Brazil. Photo taken May 2008, Survival International

An Anglo-French oil company is poised to send up to 1,680 workers into a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted Indians. The company, Perenco, has just been given the go-ahead from the Peruvian government to construct 14 oil wells in the region. Contact with western workers could end in violent conflict or the decimation of the Indians by… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on January 15, 2009 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Youth Eco Photojournalists

"Because village people do not like owls, they kill them and stake them to cast away the bad spirits." Youth photographer Istvan Kerekes took this photo in western Transylvania in the village of Luncavija, Romania. It is one of a dozen taken to make a visual representation of the most austere environmental problems on the Balkans through the eyes of young people. The calendar project, titled The Earth From Below, was an International Youth Photo… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on January 5, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

New Year's Resolution

I love the wondrous, magical Earth we all call Home, and I resolve in 2009 to continue dedicating my life to honoring and respecting Gaia deeply, and participating in the greatest spiritual work of our time -- Earth Healing. I will do this through acts of photojournalism and conservation filmmaking, direct action involvement and educational outreach. Anybody who is of the same mind frame is welcome to join Wired for Earth, where we can work together as… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on December 31, 2008 at 11:15am — No Comments

Green Collar Economy

One of the most innovative and strategic thinkers of our time, Van

Jones is a magnificent disrupter of the status quo. His new book

The Green Collar Economy just hit the stands. In it, Jones delivers

a solution that rescues our economy and environment. Provocative,

personal, and inspirational, New York Times best-seller The Green

Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and

viable plan for solving the… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on November 17, 2008 at 3:26pm — No Comments

Something to Think About

The Sumatran tiger will sound its last call unless the trade in its body parts is stopped and its habitat saved. Humans have brought this species to the brink of extinction, with only 350-400 estimated left in the wild. The few remaining wild tigers are increasingly being encroached upon by human settlements and poached by Asians for their teeth, bones, claws, skins, whiskers and other body parts. Wildlife conservation organizations are trying… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on October 28, 2008 at 7:55pm — No Comments

Calling All Eco Photojournalists!

Visit Eco Paparazzi

If you love Mother Earth and care about her health, and want to share your photos of the beautiful and the shocking, come to ecopaparazzi. Our aim is to take action through pictures – show the world what is happening where we live and use these photos to build change. I also formed a new group here at Wired Journalists called Wired for Earth. Let's work together… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on October 27, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Press Coverage of Global Warming: Good? Bad? Suggestions?

Hey folks,

The July/August issue of Columbia Journalism Review has a really good big-picture critique of media coverage of global warming, which I wrote about over at OnEarth Magazine's blog.

I'm very curious to hear this crew's take on how the global warming story might be better told, particularly with respect to how changing news-industry business… Continue

Added by Ian Wilker on July 10, 2008 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment