Carrotmob ‘Makes it Rain’ Money at Greenest Local Liquor Store

Carrotmob, a new environmental advocacy group, decided to use one important fact to our advantage: the fact that corporations will do ANYTHING to make money. The premise? Everyone needs to buy stuff. But we don’t do it in an organized way. If everyone who needed to buy the same type of item got together and pooled their money, we’d have a lot of leverage against the companies that sell those items. Watch the video below to see what happened when Carrotmob pulled a big crowd together to spend a lot of money at the local liquor store that made the strongest environmental commitment.

Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.

EarthFirst Blog Week in Review March 24-28

Pub note: We’re a little late posting this, April Fools Day got us all spun around, what can we say.

Last week was just another freak show around here at Earth First. We came down with our own little bout of March Madness and covered all kinds of crazy shit from an insanely talented elephant to veggie-friendly strippers to Britney Spears actually doing something productive and positive! Mr. Cranky Green bitched and moaned about the pointlessness of EarthHour and then stuck it to those dirty, silly hippies by ratcheting up his energy use that hour. We bet he’s pumped for Energy Wasting Day. Have a great week and remember that mother earth comes first. And she likes being on top.

• Fabulosity - Kimora Lee’s Adventures in Doggie Diamonds (Literally)
• Hillary Clinton Does the Waffle Dance Around Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
• Fake Steve Jobs is Mad He Wasn’t Invited to Join Richard Branson’s Secret Planet Saving Club
• Britney Spears Does a Turn for The Environment: Auctioning Waredrobe for the Natural Resources Defense Council
• Creationist Science Tours: Helping Build Tomorrow’s Crack Ass Backwards Fundamentalist Christians
• How Now See Through Cow- Front Row View on a Bovine Stomach
• Q & A with Mr. Cranky Green: Snowy Winter = Global Warming Called Off? and Adventures in Wind Credits
• Is Helix A Green(er) Film Production? Will Be Shot In One Take
• Video Shows Growth of Wal-Mart Matches Outbreak of Infectious Disease
• The Pedal Pub Allows You to Burn Your Calories and Brain Cells At The Same Time
• Developing Nations Struggle to Cope with Rising Food Prices, Once Again The Poor Get Screwed
• Head For the Hills, Stock Up The Larder, And Git Yer Guns Loaded, Another Huge Antarctic Ice Shelf has Collapsed
• For The Millionare Who Has Everything: The CarLoft Means Never Having To Say Hello (To Your Neighbors)
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• Watch Your Favorite Green Eps of South Park Online- Trey and Matt Set SP Free
• Bash Back at Bulk Mail: Send a Brick Back to Bulk Mailers on Their Dime- Legally!
• Carrotmob: Harnessing People’s Dollars To Drive Businesses Green
• Payback is a Bitch: Treekilling Aussies Get Punked with Huge View-Blocking Box
• Oh The Humanity! Economic Downturn Impacting Wives of Rich Asshole Bankers
• Tinkering with Packaging: McDonalds Looking For Ways to Suck Less
• Green Vaporwear, Hucksterism, and Electric Cars- Wired Magazine Unloads on Zap!
• Excuse Me, I’m Going to Need This to Run My Car, Or The Insanity of Food Based Biofuels
• This Day in Green History: March 27th, 1513- Ponce de Leon Discovers Florida
• The Vegan Stripper: Casa Diablo Gentlemens Club Combines Hot Naked Ladies with Animal Free Eatin’
• Do Your Part- April 1st is Energy Wasting Day
• Vanity Fair’s Greenwashed Cover: There’s Nothing Green About Madonna
• Great Jebus’s Ghost! Video- An Elepant Freakin’ Painting a Picture of Herself
• President Bush To Throw First Pitch At New Green Stadium, Up is Down, War is Peace
• Catch Us After You Plug Back In: EarthFirst is Liveblogging Earth Hour Tonight 8-9pm
• March 29th- Live Blogging Earth Hour: Because Someone Had To
• Dastardly Seal Hunters Die After Boat Flips in Rough Water- No Miracle Seals Come to the Rescue
• As The Boos Rained Down: President Bush Throws Out First Pitch in Green(er) Stadium