Archive for Activism
Day 50 – Speak Through Dance a Benefit for Autism Awareness and Research.
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Autism is a growing problem and getting worse every year! Support Autism awareness by supporting this event and help to find a solution to this problem. A future where this no autism is a bright future indeed. This Saturday, May 15gth, beginning at 5pm, enjoy Speak Through Dance at [...]
Sego Lily School suffers from the high cost of going green.
What happens when you create a school based on the needs and wants of the children and let the children have a say? Then what happens when that school grows and the dream becomes a Zero Energy, sustainably built and environmentally neutral home to children who want to learn and desire to learn? Well, like [...]
Day 10 – Help shape the future of bicycling in Salt Lake City
On April 16th and 17th the Salt Lake Bike Collective and others will be sponsoring the Utah Bike Summit at the City Library. The full agenda for the two day event can be found HERE. Salt Lake City, in partnership with nonprofit organizations from the Utah bicycle community, presents “Building Strong Voices for Bicycling,” a [...]
Help me spread the word of 350.org and win a prize!
A couple of weeks ago, while attending the Outdoor Retailer Convention, I had the opportunity to attend a breakfast event where Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy, Fight Global Warming Now and many other wonderful books, spoke to our group. As one of the founders of the 350.org movement, Bill issued a call to action. [...]
Monsanto dumps Bovine Growth Hormone!
Can we say Woo Hoo?!? This is wonderful news that I came upon over at the New York Times. It seems that after an unsuccessful bid to make it illegal to label milk as hormone free and lack of acceptance from overseas, that Monsanto has decided to sell that portion of the company. The exciting [...]
Everything Old IS New Again. Hydrogen powered cars.
Perhaps I will make this a weekly feature. It has been a while since my last EOINA post, but I think there is enough out there to make it a weekly post. With the recent news in Hydrogen advances and the potential for Hydrogen cars becoming a “new” reality it is interesting to see this [...]
Fishing for plastic in the world's oceans.
Out in the ocean there is a vortex of plastic as big as the state of Texas where 20% of the plastic comes from ships and 80% of the plastic from land. Imagine finding a light switch plate 1,000 miles out to sea. What can we do about it? Stop using it, plastic that is. [...]
September 21st – A Day Of Peace
Two Words. Watch this.
350 = The Most Important Number You Need to Know.
What is 350? 350 is the red line for human beings, the most important number on the planet. The most recent science tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth. “The hardest challenge [...]
Who Is The Greenest? Try Brazil or India, Even China, But Don't Look To The US.
In another interesting post over at the Green Biz journal they site a recent National Geographic Survey that found that India and Brazil are the greenest countries followed by the Chinese, Mexicans, Hungarians and Russians. According to the National Geographic Press Release the survey is unlike other measures that rank countries according to the environmental [...]
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