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From Oprah to Al Jazeera: Plastiki Got Its Message Out, Even in Stormiest of Seas
Plastiki expedition leader David de Rothschild talks with ecopolitology about the challenges and opportunities of running a wired environmental education campaign from the middle of the Pacific on a boat made out of plastic bottles.
Energy Dept. Gets Social with Twitter and Facebook Pages, New Blog
The U.S. Department of Energy stepped up its social media presence today by launching a new blog, Facebook and Twitter pages. While this is not the beginning of DOE’s social media strategy — the Department already has YouTube and Flickr pages, and Secretary Steven Chu has a personal Facebook page — DOE hopes that the [...]
Bill Clinton Calls for Electric Car Conversion Program (Video)
Call it ‘Cash for Conversions’ or maybe ‘Greenbacks for Green Cars,’ former President Bill Clinton tells the Digg community that an electric car conversion program could help speed the transition to electric cars.
7 Things Glenn Beck Doesn’t Know About US Public Lands Policy
Multiple agencies with diverse missions and overlapping interests mean management of public lands in the U.S. can get pretty confusing. But at their very root, public lands all have at least one thing in common: they are all public.
Communicating Climate Change: Joe Romm on Cutting the Crap
Our ongoing series “Communicating Climate Change” will often feature conversations with journalists and other communicators who face the challenge of writing on climate issues. This week: Climate Progress blogger and former Clinton administration renewable energy official Joe Romm.
Communicating Climate Change: A Conversation With Andy Revkin
Our ongoing series “Communicating Climate Change” will often feature conversations with journalists and other communicators who face the challenge of writing on climate issues. What better place to start than until-recently-New York Times reporter/blogger Andrew Revkin?
USGS Develops Twitter-Based Earthquake Detection System
Seismologists say Twitter is the fastest way to get information out of a earthquake area, especially in less densely populated areas.
Ecopolitology Now on Alltop
Well, thanks to the good folks at the popular social news aggregator, ecopolitology will now be among the “magazines” you can page through while searching for the latest in environmental and cleantech news at Green Alltop.
How Does Your Senator’s Website Score on Energy and Environment?
According to a little digging done by Grist, websites of GOP Senators are, by and large, not so hot when it comes to presenting their positions on energy, environment and climate change issues. Then again, neither are the Democrats’.
10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media
Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop.
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