A Great Moral Hunger Chair of the board of Death Penalty Focus, Farrell is also spokesperson for Concern America, an international refugee aid and development organization, and co-chair emeritus of the California Committee of Human Rights Watch. He has also been a Good Will Ambassador for the Un...
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While we all enjoy eating out, many of us may not realize how environmentally destructive it can be. Find out what local restaurants and their partners are doing to lessen their footprints and go green. From the food they serve and the supplies they buy to the spaces they create and the waste th...
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An Edible Education Round Table Chef Waters, owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA, will convene an edible education policy round table with local and national experts, including Illinois Congressman Danny Davis and filmmaker Chris Taylor. Waters has championed this movement nationally, offering...
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The Balance of Nature? Humanity is driving species to extinction a hundred times faster than species would become extinct naturally, and the rate continues to accelerate at an alarming rate. Reducing deforestation and restoring deforested areas is by far the cheapest, simplest and most effective...
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Dr. Cornel West - distinguished author, philosopher, and social critic - sits down with Melissa Mansfield to discuss race, politics and the green movement. West touches on themes from his new book, Hope on a Tightrope, on how to move democracy forward with courage, love and conviction.
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Pulp to Protein: The Green Job Machine / Orphan Teaching Orphans We are witness to the demise of an economy built on what we did not have. Now we have an opportunity to evolve towards an economy based on what we have. In developing countries alone, where basic needs are unmet, the financial cris...
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Ehrenreich’s first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, about the Reagan era, was received with bestselling acclaim. The one problem was the title: couldn't some prophetic fact-checker have seen that the worst years were still to come? Here they are, the 200s, and in This ...
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Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, made a special guest appearance at the 8th annual San Francisco Green Festival, a project of Global Exchange and Green America. He spoke on support for green jobs, plug-in electric hybrid cars and city-wide composting, setting a green agenda for San Francisco.
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The New Apollo Project Since 2003, the Apollo Alliance has argued that the problems of global warming, oil dependence and income inequality require bold action. The Obama administration’s economic stimulus package is the first step in taking us toward a new clean energy economy, but it is just a...
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Getting Green Done If sustainability were quick and easy, as many consultants suggest, we’d have done it by now. Everyone's talking green, but global carbon dioxide emissions are climbing, and climate scientists tell us we have under a decade to solve the problem. We need fewer visionaries and m...
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