Today March 9, 2010 marks the 13th anniversary of Notorious B.I.G., AKA Christopher Wallace’s murder. Now we don’t know if BIG would get down with Climate Justice or Going Green but we do know that he shared one ideology with us and that is that the sky is the limit and you can have what you want and be what you want.
Check out the video for Sky’s the Limit below. RIP BIG We’ll always love Big Poppa!
The Joint Center For Political and Economic Studies recently released an opinion poll on African-American viewpoints on Climate Change and the Mid-Term elections that shows that YES African-Americans really do care about the environment and want our political candidates to also care about the environment. Reverend Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus put his two cents in on the matter and gave the mainstream enviro-world a big fat “I told you so” in an article he posted on the Huffington Post.
Visit the links to the article and opinion poll below and watch the video from the closing press conference of the Clean Energy Now Bus Tour featuring the likes of Biz Markie, Indianapolis Congressman Andre Carson, Rev. Yearwood and more.
Opinion poll:
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Check out this video from the last day of the tour:
http://hiphopcaucus.org/assets/2010/3/9/CC_4-State_Report_WEB_REV.pdf
Amy Goodman is out here putting The Big Green Groups on Blast!!!! Speak truth to power. Democracy NOW!!!
read the full article below.
The Real Climategate: Conservation Groups Align with World’s Worst Polluters.
Okay it’s official, Something crazy is going on with our environment. Yesterday yet another major earthquake hit, this time in Turkey. The 6.0 magnitude earthquake killed at least 51 people and more updates are coming in by the hour. Check out the CBS report below for more information.
Turkish Quake Survivors Cold, Homeless – CBS News.
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Woman tends a Saudian Arabian Financed Farm in Ethiopia
Watch out, they taking land in Africa Again. Check the link to the article below
How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab | CommonDreams.org
- Matthew J Miller
Note: I am an environmental justice advocate so this is certainly not a break from the environmental movement. It is my realization that I have a responsibility to do some cultural brokering. I intend to offer alternative and relevant perspectives, not to divide. Consider this an acknowledgment of the socioeconomic, racial, political, psychological, and even spiritual challenges that need to be hurdled and taken head on in striving to “green” communities, oppressed and liberated alike. Since this piece is slightly creative, take the personal pronouns as me speaking from a group perspective informed and inspired by personal accounts and my ethnic studies.
I get it: the world is crumbling. Boo-hoo. Did you think my world was in tact before? Oh yes, this is going to be one of those cups of tea. I hope you like it hot. (more…)
“It’s about seeing the world as it can be, not as what it is.”- Dr. KR Sridhar
Yes, Yes Ya’ll! This dude right here is about to change the world and how we look at energy. From CBS’s 60 minutes to Facebook Fan Pages the world is abuzz about Bloom Energy and it’s innovative founder Dr. KR Sridhar.
Sridhar introduced the Bloom Box to the world last week after almost nine years of working on the project in secrecy in the middle of Silicone Valley California. The Bloom Box is a box that uses fuel cell technology to create electricity. the product has gained a huge amount of attention and high profile investors including former Secretary of State Colin Powell and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Bloom Box is already being used for a small percentage of the electricity needs for big name corporations such as eBay, Google and Wal-mart. However, the Bloom Box does face its fair share of critics. Check out CBS’s 60 minutes piece below:
So who is KR Sridhar anyway and is he really about to change the world? (more…)
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Whoa! This year the earthquake’s ain’t no joke. A 8.8 Magnitude hit Chile this morning killing at least 16 people but the death toll is still rising. The epicenter of the earthquake was just 70 miles from Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city. In Santiago, the capital, telephone and power outages made it difficult to determine the extent of the damage.
There has been an overwhelming amount of large magnitude earthquakes this year especially in the Caribbean and Latin America. The most damaging of course was the earthquake in Haiti in January that killed over 200,000 people.
You can read more about today’s earthquake in Chile by following the link to the washington post below.
washingtonpost.com – nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines.
Story Update: BBC news has reported at least 64 and counting. People from Santiago have been e-mailing and tweeting BBC with updates check the story out here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8540309.stm
CNN did a great coverage of the real consequences of environmental toxins. This time they featured the town of Mossville Louisiana which is surrounded by 14 toxic chemical plants. Check out the video:
Click here to read the full story from CNN
For more information how you can support the people of Mossville and the human rights of all people living near environmentally hazardous places visit Advocates for Environmental Human Rights at their website ehumanrights.org
Post Submitted by Kirin Kennedy
The NAACP, the oldest and most powerful Civil Rights organization in America, is going to honor former Green Czar Van Jones with an Image Award. The NAACP is stating that he is a pioneer in the “green collar jobs” with movement. This well deserved award is so ironic as roughly 6 months ago, Fox News Anchor Glenn Beck single handedly caused a furor within the conservative right community that led to Mr. Jones resignation. Beck took a series of Van’s remarks out of context and blew them out of proportion, leading to unwanted negative attention on the newly appoint ‘czar’ on green economy. Where the irony lies is that the NAACP Image Awards are aired each year by the Fox Network, and is a prestigious awards show that honors the achievements of people of color and their allies for advancements in the areas, of Music, Movies, Social justice and Civil rights!!! I am sure that Glenn Beck sat in astonishment as the NAACP announced that Van Jones would be receiving the Presidents Award….
NAACP Image awards air tonight on Fox To read the full post click on the link below!
Kirin Kennedy is a rising young leader and student at Penn State University. She is on the youth executive board of the Pennsylvania Chapter of NAACP and affiliated with League of Young Voters, Energy Justice Network and The Energy Action Coalition. you can read more of her thoughts at environmentaladvocate.wordpress.com
