Archive for 'Interviews with Activists'
Jane Goodall’s 50 years
CNN’s Max Foster interviews anthropologist and U.N. Messenger for Peace Jane Goodall as our Connector of the Day.
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Posted: February 4th, 2010 under General, Interviews with Activists, Nature.
Tags: activists
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Sundance Founder Robert Redford on His Life, His Activism and the Importance of Independent Films
Democracy Now! broadcasts from Park City, Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival, the nation’s largest festival for independent cinema. Today, we spend the hour with Robert Redford. He’s well known as an actor, but part and parcel of who he is is an activist. He took his success and leveraged it to promote his [...]
Posted: January 26th, 2010 under General, Interviews with Activists.
Tags: activist
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An uplifting story of commitment from a fellow Australian I admire
Ian Cleland – Citizen of Earth. Is the Walking Man!
The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation is not about talk without action. Ian Cleland is not about talk without action; he is an inspiration to everyone that action can and will be the change we need to see in the world.
Ian; from me and the Foundation I commend [...]
Posted: January 19th, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General, Interviews with Activists, World News.
Tags: activism
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Japanese Whaling Ship Rams High-Tech Activist Boat – Video Action
In one of the most serious incidents between activists and Japanese whalers on the high seas, a Japanese whaling ship struck a futuristic, “Batmobile” boat piloted by activists who are trying to stop the whale hunt.
The boat had its bow sheared off in the frigid waters of the Antarctica. The six people aboard were transferred [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2010 under General, Interviews with Activists, Nature.
Tags: activism, activists, Antarctica
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Lord Monckton Debates Greenpeace Activist
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Posted: December 14th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Interviews with Activists.
Tags: activists, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations
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‘It’s Not the Kind of Thing Where You Can Compromise’ James Hansen
Climate scientist James Hansen talks about global warming, Copenhagen, and his new book.
James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, is one of the world’s most famous climatologists. He testified at a 1988 U.S. Senate hearing that the emission of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was already producing a [...]
Posted: November 25th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Interviews with Activists, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: 350ppm, activist, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, Kyoto, Obama administration, science, stop climate change
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An activist’s guide to Copenhagen
What’s on, who’s there and where to stay. Click here for a calendar of actions during the conference
Oxfam members wearing masks of world leaders offer a Copenhagen menu to other members representing poor countries last month in Barcelona. Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images
Never mind the boring old delegates at next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen. Nearby [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, Interviews with Activists, Negotiations.
Tags: activism, activist, activists, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, stop climate change
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Copenhagen activists’ diary
Thousands of activists from all over the world will soon descend on Copenhagen with one message: that world leaders must agree a deal that will be effective in reducing global emissions, and be fair for the people most vulnerable to climate change.
Hundreds of mainstream NGOs, such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, will represent [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Interviews with Activists, Negotiations.
Tags: activism, activist, activists, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, stop climate change
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Indonesia Deports Greenpeace Activists, Journalists
In Indonesia, foreign activists with the environmental group Greenpeace and two foreign journalists are being deported. The activists were involved in conservation efforts and protests to publicize the environmental damage caused by deforestation. The Indonesian government says they misused their visas.
Tom Keunen, a Belgian activist with the environmental group Greenpeace, says the Indonesian police who [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2009 under General, Interviews with Activists.
Tags: activists, CO2 Emissions, deforestation, global warming
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An Angry Mermaid takes on the big bad polluters – who should win?
Cast your vote in the Angry Mermaid Award and help decide which company or lobby group is doing the most to sabotage effective action on climate change.
Voting is open until Sunday 13 December 2009.
Crucial UN climate talks take place in Copenhagen this December. While people, organisations and social movements around the world are calling for strong [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Interviews with Activists, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, emissions reductions, Industry lobbies, Oil Industry, Oil Sands, subsidies
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