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MTV Seeks Eco-Activists for TRUE LIFE Documentary Series

Believe it or not, MTV is seeking eco-activists for its award winning documentary series TRUE LIFE. The series is looking to cast young environmentalists taking on the issue of global climate change in their schools, towns, and greater communities.

I spoke with MTV this morning and it sounds like they want the real fanatics, the militants, and the protesters. I’m not sure if this means those willing to go on a hunger strike, spray paint neighborhood SUVS . . . or perhaps spike a couple trees on a local logging site . . . who knows, but if you “appear” to be between the ages of 17 and 28, and are passionately fighting—hard—for an environmental cause, email them at: ecoactivist@mtvstaff.com with all the details of your story, your name, location, phone number and a photo. To learn more about this and other MTV casting calls visit their casting website.
Thanks for the tip Remy C .

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IPCC's last report

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by Katie Kish · 05/04/07

If Ralph knows it, you REALLY should know it.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change told us earlier this year that we’re basically all screwed. That the poor are even more screwed. And that we need to do something about it. Today they will be releasing the fourth report, where they will tell us what we can actually do, and really… the requests and reccomendations aren’t all that surprising.

Basically, from the reports that I’m seeing as previews, we need to divert substantially from using the energies that we’re so used to using today. We need to invest more money into sustainable energy and promote sustainable energy use. Give incentives for buying clean energy and make more products that don’t use theh extensive and dirty energies.

All night talks in Bangkok went on as economists, scientists and government officals discussed how they would tackle the problem of huge emission levels from the oil and gas industry. The parts per million of C02 in the air have raised more than a third since the start of the industrial revolution, and now is the time to hault these emissions to spare the earth some pain, and people in developing countries. If the there is a deley on action the greehouse gases in the atmosphere could raise by an additional 90% by 2030, on top of the 70% increase we’ve had since 1970. C02 is extremely important to keep our eye on because so much of it is produced every year (25 billion tons…) and it just sits in the atmosphere making it progressively worse.

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US Green Builders Praise and Celebrate

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by Olivia Zaleski · 05/01/07

What do you get when you mix green engineers, architects, and contractors with alcohol, awards, and a massive Samba band? Building-savants dancing the Brazilian tango and a fantastically good time.

Image by Christopher Auger-Domínguez, Studio 4b.

Saturday night, I attended the USGBC’s (United States Green Building Council) first annual LEEDers Awards Dinner. The event, sponsored by Green Depot, praised those individuals, who actively promote the design, construction and operation of “energy efficient, healthy, productive and environmentally responsible building in New York City.” In a large open loft on the Lower West Side of Manhattan, USGBC members and award recipients gathered to applaud honorable greenies such as Audi Banny, the senior co-chair of EGBNY (The Emerging Green Builder’s Committee), and Tim Fu the driving force behind LEED workshops and the EGB Career Fair held this past March. The highest honor went to Joyce LaValle, who pioneered the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Atlanta, bringing together over 12,000 industry experts, and influential leaders in the green building movement.

Image by Christopher Auger-Domínguez, Studio 4b.

The event also celebrated what USGBC President, Fiona Cousins, referred to as “milestones” in environmentalism. “The intergovernmental panel on climate change has declared human-made global warming a reality, the EPA have been told that they must regulate greenhouse gases, and Al Gore has won an Oscar for making a movie with climate change at it’s heart!” As guests congratulated, toasted, and samba-ed it was clear that these architects, contractors, and engineers were satisfied with their achievements, but determined to continue on their green mission.

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Gamers Face Global Climate Change, Flooding

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by Summer Rayne Oakes · 04/18/07

I had the pleasure of meeting David de Rothschild, National Geographic Society emerging explorer – and founder of Adventure Ecology – on a recent shoot for Outside Magazine. David uses his adventurous treks across the globe to teach audiences about global warming. In January 2005, he completed a trek across Antarctica via the South Pole, and five months later set a speed record for crossing the Greenland ice cap (or what still exists of it). Check out Mission 1 profiled here.

His aim with his work and with Adventure Ecology is to use the romance of adventure, and the power of the Internet, to unite the world’s schoolchildren in the fight against global warming and environmental degradation.

Most recently in the game, Second Life, David staged a global warming flood – that took over London, the Netherlands, Ibiza and Tokyo.

“Our message was, You may have a second life, but [you still need to] offset your second life in real life,” said David de Rothschild, a London-based environmentalist and adventurer whose nonprofit Adventure Ecology helped stage today’s flood.

Over 5.2 million people live online in the second life and David felt it was the perfect way to reach out to a wide audience. Read more via National Geographic.

from itsgettinghotinhere.org

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Castro on Climate Change

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by Brianne Goodspeed · 04/10/07

~~Eco-Hunk~~ Fidel Castro

This might be old news to everyone by now or it might never have been news at all, but Fidel Castro recently wrote a piece called “Where Have All the Bees Gone?” following Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lulu da Silva’s meeting with George Bush at Camp David earlier this month. The piece is posted at Alexander Cockburn’s reliably contentious Counterpunch.

I have no comment about the Castro piece except to say that I recommend reading and considering it.

(Thanks again to my man on the street with his ear to the ground. You’re better than a press release.)

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