Word: environmentalists
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...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...
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...
...Written by Alaskan music teacher Philip Muger, a self-proclaimed "serious environmentalist" committed to addressing "social and economic inequality...
Regardless, the renowned environmentalist energetically supported Obama during his talk and repeatedly attacked the current Administration...
There's an unmistakable bitterness in the air in America's self-styled "sweetest town." Last month's deal to close down U.S. Sugar in the name of saving the Florida Everglades may have been greeted with environmentalist hallelujahs around the nation, but for Clewiston it sounded a death knell. Clewiston, population 7,300, is a company town, and its primary employer is to shut down its operations under the plan to sell U.S. Sugar's 187,000 acres to the state. The locals are angry and exasperated that this still-unplanned mammoth act of environmental engineering will come...