The news out of Los Angeles County of the newest success in the battle against the Plastic Bag Monster reminded me of this fun and inspiring video from Green Sangha, with Bay Area performers and activists AshEl Eldridge and Jenni Perez. Here are the lyrics: Shoulda brought your own bag Yeah but you forgot it [...]
Archive for the ‘Environmentalism’ Category
17 Nov
L.A. County Stands Up to the Plastic Bag Monster
First published on Ecolocalizer. Los Angeles County joins the small but growing ranks of local governments that have banned single-use plastic bags. After California’s statewide plastic bag ban law (AB 1998) failed to pass this year under pressure from the chemical and plastic bag industries, it is up to cities and counties to take local [...]
18 Oct
Bioneers 2010: Dispatch from an Earth Community Movement
Once again, the 3-day Bioneers mother-ship has landed and departed, and a thousand pods of social and environmental change have dispersed across the globe, refreshed and re-energized. Or to use the less technological metaphor by Janine Benyus, founder of the Biomimicry Institute, “This is kind of a seasonal migration ceremony, Bioneers. If we were migrating [...]
16 Oct
Live from the Bioneers Conference
I’m live tweeting from the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, CA all weekend. You can follow along at @vanlenning, @Ecolocalizer or get the ecolocalizer Twitter widget Box. Founder Kenny Ausubel coined the word bioneers in 1990 to describe “an emerging culture of social and scientific innovators who are mimicking nature’s operating instructions to serve human [...]
27 Sep
Non-violent Direct Actions Against Mountaintop Removal in D.C., 100+ Arrested
W.V. Resident and Coordinator of Appalachia Rising Katie Rooth Arrested at Today’s Day of Action in D.C. “Hey hey, ho ho! MTR has got to go!” So chants the people gathered in D.C. today to demand an end to mountaintop removal mining. Today’s Day of Action is the culminating event of Appalachia Rising’s 3-day mobilization. [...]
25 Sep
5 Reasons Why Californians Must Crush Prop 23
The showdown for a clean energy and clean air future is here and we should be jolted. In November we all have to come out in force and vote no on the Dirty Energy Proposition 23. And we must not just beat Prop 23, we must pulverize it like the dust beneath our feet. Here [...]
