New EcoFarm: Are We all Together in the Bioeconomy
A good opinion piece about the need to move away from the "us vs them" mentality that has dominated ag-environmentalist relations through a marriage of global and local in the bioeconomy.
NetNow Linkblog: What we're reading today at NRDC
Recent Links Tagged "environmentalism"
Mission Playground - Shop
Saw this t-shirt on the F-train this morning, while a few feet away another hipster sported a Greenpeace tee. Environmentalism hasn't been this cool since about 1971.
green.tv » Video
Not yet a ton of content on this multimedia site, but great partners (including UNEP, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth). Worth an occasional peek to see how its doing.
Seed: Bill McKibben on the "state of the planet"
The author of "The End of Nature" matches urgency with real hope -- like many of us he senses that we are experiencing a moment in time, that awareness is nearing a tipping point at which the right changes can happen.
Carl Pope: Taking the Initiative - Sierra Club
Sierra Club executive director Pope's blog, started March 05, powered by Blogger. Appears within the Sierra Club website nav, which may not have been the best choice.
GREEN / Green Blogs: The Green revolution moves online
Blogs about the environment approaching critical mass. "At the same time that blogging has taken off, we've also had a real zeitgeist shift where suddenly the idea of living in a green and prosperous way is really hot." -- Worldchanging's Alex Steffen
Living on Earth: Who’s an Environmentalist? Bruce Gellerman talks with Timothy Profeta of Duke University’s Nicholas Institute
Profeta: "People support environmental protection, but they looked at it through the economic effects, through moral obligations to future generations, through health effects, etc. And you had to appeal to their interests through all those lenses." Bingo.
Enviros need to get social, says activist-turned-sociologist Marshall Ganz | By Gregory Dicum | Grist Magazine | Main Dish | 02 Dec 2005
"As voluntary associations fade from our cultural landscape, political participation is threatened, especially on the left, says sociologist Marshall Ganz." Really interesting Grist interview about how to grow (or re-grow) a true movement.
