We’re in the middle of Patagonia Advocate week! Until November 21st, Patagonia will be donating $10 to the Appalachian Mountain Club for every pair of Patagonia shoes they sell at Planet Shoes . The Appalachian Mountain Club is all about protecting the Appalachian wilderness through education and direct action. Their volunteers run workshops, classes, outreach, and maintain over 1,500 miles of trails

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I will hope you will join me on September 24 in the No Impact Project's mini-march from the George Washington Statue in New York City's Union Square up Broadway and then across town the Dag Hhammarskjold Plaza for a rally in front of the United Nations. This is part of 350.orgs Moving Planet event which is taking place in over 168 countries

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March for climate with me in NYC on Sept 24

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I will hope you will join me on September 24 in the No Impact Project's mini-march from the George Washington Statue in New York City's Union Square up Broadway and then across town the Dag Hhammarskjold Plaza for a rally in front of the United Nations.

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March for climate with me in NYC on Sept 24

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Sign up today for No Impact Week, kicking off January 2nd with YES! When we at the No Impact Project first launched our immersion program in extreme environmental living— No Impact Week —I didn't dream that more than 15,000 people would participate in only a year and a half. After all, we’ re not talking about 15,000 people taking a couple of hours out of their day to attend a political rally or protest environmental issues.

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Join the many experimenting with a better way of life at Yes! Magazine

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Here's a talk I gave a few months ago, in which I argue for a new definition of progress. I argue that we should not just be aiming to “sustain” our current way of life. Instead, we should be looking for a way of life that is both better for the planet and better for us

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To hell with sustainability

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So, yesterday, on 10/10/2010, thousands upon thousands of people at over 7,000 locations around the world got to work on behalf of the planet.

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Now it’s time for world leaders to follow the people on climate change

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We talked not too long ago about generating energy with bodily fluids , and more weird sources of renewable energy seem to be popping up every day. Now, a park in Cambridge, Massachusetts is trying out lamp posts powered with dog poop. If common courtesy isn’t enough to get dog owners to pick up after their pets, maybe this MIT-funded project will do the trick! The Park Spark Project uses an underground Methane Digester to turn doggie waste into usable energy

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Poop Power: Dog-Fueled Park Lamps

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You are invited to a workshop for those who would like to participate in future HumanEarth exhibitions to brainstorm the concept of HumanEarth . HumanEarth Exhibitions is a sector of Ecojunki .  It is a series of exhibitions centered around the theme of human interaction with nature.  The goal of the project is to raise awareness of the ways in which we harm the planet and also of the ways in which we live in harmony with it. The purpose of the brainstorm is to explore What HumanEarth means Set out the basic parameters of forthcoming exhibitions Network Exchanging creative thoughts with other artists and participants Join us at The Greatmore Studio 47-49 Greatmore Street Woodstock 7915 on the 30 Sept 2010 from 18:30 till 21:00 for wine, music, good company and lots of creativity.

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Call to CPT creatives: HumanEarth brainstorm

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There is no such thing as clean coal. We can try to capture carbon all day long, but that doesn’t change the filthiest aspect of this fossil fuel: mountaintop removal mining .

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Help End Mountaintop Removal Mining

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Photo credits (clockwise from top left): beautiful world by purplepixie ;  Nature’s Humor by DarkFireLotus ; Green house effect by inmc ; Climate change on canvas by Ashley Cecil ; Off Shore Eco Farm I by MG Williams Global climate change is the largest threat to sustaining life on Earth, but despite overwhelming evidence – species extinction, dwindling water supplies, mass migrations and mega-storms — some of us are still unclear what climate really means for us. The CoolClimate online art contest will be exploring climate change in its many forms and invites artists worldwide to participate

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The CoolClimate Art Contest: call for entries

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