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...environmentalist. Wear that “Green is the new Crimson” shirt you got for free last Wednesday...

Author: By Malin S. Von euler-hogan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 List: Halloween Costumes | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...more determined to do its own offshore drilling. Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush Administration officials point to Cuba's petro fortunes as justification for opening more of America's coastline to oil production. Recent polls in U.S. coastal states like Florida support that idea, despite environmentalist complaints that both U.S. and Cuban offshore rigs will foul the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, embargo proponents on Capitol Hill have sponsored bills that would, among other sanctions, deny visas to the executives of foreign oil companies that drill oil in Cuba. Their reasoning: the more oil wealth Havana gains, the less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Cuba's Oil Find Could Change the US Embargo | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Jones does not look like your typical environmentalist. He doesn't wear Birkenstocks. He's African-American in a movement that tends to be overwhelmingly white. His background is in civil-rights activism - specifically prison reform - a cause he champions in Oakland, Calif. But Jones, the head of the non-profit Green For All and the author of the new book The Green-Collar Economy, could represent the future of environmentalism in America and a way for the movement to survive and even thrive through the coming recession. "The solution for the environment and the economy will be the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Working Class with Green-Collar Jobs | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

Jones has a way with a slogan and a talent for cutting to the core of an argument that some environmentalists (Al Gore, for instance) don't always possess. But while Jones has become the face of the new green-collar economy, he's hardly the only environmentalist pushing the idea. The concept is gaining steam because when it comes to climate change, simply protecting the environment is not enough. The only way the environmental movement can grow beyond a relatively small elite is if it meets broad, basic economic needs, not just green ones. "We need to go from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Working Class with Green-Collar Jobs | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...Written by Alaskan music teacher Philip Muger, a self-proclaimed "serious environmentalist" committed to addressing "social and economic inequality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska's Bloggers on Sarah Palin | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

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