Word: environmentalist
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That's exactly how I would put it. This is moment when the face of environmentalism is changing. We want people to see the EPA and me and our staff and understand that they don't have to be on a mountaintop with a pristine view to be an environmentalist. You can live in a city. The air you must breathe and the water you must drink should be clean. You have the right to not live next to a polluted brownfield. I am hopeful that these changes are going to happen because young people today are growing...
Leonardo DiCaprio A committed environmentalist, the actor and producer was most recently in Revolutionary Road By fusing economic opportunity and social justice with climate change, Van Jones is working to build pathways out of poverty through the creation of green jobs. He is the perfect person to help redefine our country's perception of what it means to be green...
...That kind of talk makes unlikely allies of environmentalists who are already anticipating innovations that may be spawned from the billions of dollars earmarked for green tech in Obama's stimulus package. After all, if there's one federal institution that industry pays more attention to than the White House, it's the Pentagon. Indeed, the impact of the British military's call in February was immediately recognizable: one day after the publication of the "Defense Technology Plan," the august think tank the Royal United Services Institute held a conference in London, sponsored by defense giant BAE Systems, called "Alternative...
...said the inspiration for this project came from seeing one of Washburn’s pictures, which led him to wonder if things had changed since Washburn first took those shots. He discovered that they had. “I didn’t set out as an environmentalist. Brad [Washburn] didn’t think that I would see any change,” Arnold said. “But, I came out a very different and scared person, scared for what we’re doing. My biggest hurdle now is to not scare people to death...
...financially strangle an army government that has ruled since 1962, Burma's regional neighbors are embarking on a new Great Game, scrambling to outdo each other for access to this resource-rich land. "Sanctions don't work if most countries ignore them," says Naw La, an exiled environmentalist with the Kachin Development Networking Group in Thailand. "The military is selling our natural heritage without any concern for our people...