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Planned Greenpeace Fortress Aims to Stop Heathrow Runway

Airport officials in London will have a really hard time building that planned third runway once Greenpeace is done building their “impenetrable fortress” right smack in the middle of the land intended for the project. The structure, located on one acre of Greenpeace-owned land, will house and protect airport expansion protesters.
But who’s going to design [...]

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Help EarthSpark Send Solar-Powered Lamps to Haiti

Want to help Haiti in a really direct way – that’s environmentally friendly to boot? EarthSpark International, a U.S.-based charity organization that operates in Haiti, is currently raising money to send solar-powered lamps to the country to assist in disaster relief efforts.
If they don’t have light, they can’t work at night – and plentiful sun [...]

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‘Green Spiderman’ Climbs Building to Draw Attention to Climate Change

A French climber known as ‘Spiderman’ scaled a 41-story building in Sydney on Tuesday to draw attention to climate change. Hundreds gathered to watch Alain Robert make his death-defying – and illegal – climb up to the top of an office building in less than 30 minutes without the use of a harness or ropes.
Watch:

When [...]

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Change the Web, Save the Earth

Have you ever noticed that on the bottom of Earthfirst.com posts there are some links that help you take action on an issue you just read about? For example, below a recent post about Obama shelving the Bush-era offshore drilling plan, there are related ways to take action on drilling:

That magic is provided by a [...]

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Climate Activist or Terrorist?

Josh Tulkin, Field Director of the Energy Action Coalition and Power Vote recently found out that he was listed as a suspected terrorist by the Maryland State Police along with two other climate change activists.
From the NYT article:
For a 13-month stretch starting in March 2005, three environmentalists working for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network [...]

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‘Jackass’ Steve-O is Actually Serious about Animal Activism

So, maybe Steve-O is for real about this animal rights stuff. When he became the latest celeb to get naked for PETA’s anti-fur campaign last fall, a lot of people scoffed – I mean, this is the dude that was on the Jackass spinoff ‘Wildboyz’. Goat rodeo, anyone? I, for one, didn’t know anything about [...]

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