AlterNet - EARTH DAY EDITION: Celebrating our Eco-Heroes

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EARTH DAY EDITION: Celebrating our Eco-Heroes

 

 

 

Top Stories from AlterNet for April 22-23, 2006

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In honor of today's 36th annual Earth Day celebration happening

worldwide, AlterNet is pleased to offer short profiles of our

readers' top grassroots environmental activists. From shrimpers to

architects, it's an eclectic bunch working on almost every front

of the green scene:

 

CELEBRATING OUR ECO-HEROES

An AlterNet Editorial

We asked our readers to name the people making a difference

in their communities, working for people and the planet at

the grassroots. Here are your heroes.

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/35290/

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AlterNet is also proud to highlight some of the best of our

coverage on the environment in recent months. And of course,

our full EnviroHealth archives are available here:

http://alternet.org/envirohealth

 

EASTER ISLAND, C'EST MOI

Terrence McNally, AlterNet

What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to

collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?

Jared Diamond explains how we can avert catastrophe.

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/23413/

 

THE COMING RESOURCE WARS

Michael Klare, TomPaine.com

America's closest ally has announced that climate change has

ushered in an era of violent conflict over energy, water and

arable land.

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/33243/

 

PLANET EARTH, YEAR 2050

Traci Hukill, AlterNet

An important report on the world's ecosystems says there is

time to avert the worst consequences of global warming, if

we start now.

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/31222/

 

AVOIDING EVERYDAY TOXINS

Marco Visscher, Ode

They're everywhere -- in the food we eat, in the cosmetics

we use, in the houses where we live. Is there an

alternative?

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/28115/

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New this weekend:

 

TALK OR ACTION AT WORLD WATER FORUM?

Tara DePorte, AlterNet

Clean water should be a basic human right, but it wasn't

necessarily treated that way at the recent World Water

Forum.

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/35293/

 

SEX WITH EMILY: GAY LIFE ON CAMPUS

Emily Morse, AlterNet

In her latest podcast, Emily picks the brain of the director

of a gender equity center at UC-Berkeley -- and learns about

how being HIV-positive changes life on and off-campus.

http://www.alternet.org/story/35294/

 

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And be sure to read AlterNet's biggest stories of the week:

 

Our most-discussed story:

REV. MOON'S CONJUGAL VISITATIONS

John Gorenfeld, AlterNet

We all know the religious Right wants to tell us what we

can't do in the bedroom, but no one asks what they want us

to do instead.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/34072/

 

And our most-emailed story:

FORREST GUMP'S EVIL TWIN

Stephen Pizzo, News for Real

America at large is starting to realize -- finally -- that

President Bush is exactly as stupid as he looks, sounds and

acts.

http://www.alternet.org/story/35238/

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Freshly posted in THE MIX:

 

Matthew Wheeland compares two very different takes on

Earth Day; is the planet doomed, or saved?

http://alternet.org/blogs/themix/35297/

 

Joshua Holland explains why this much-discussed arms race

with China is all one-sided hype:

http://alternet.org/blogs/themix/35273/

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These stories and more are available on AlterNet.

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