Here Are Some Non-Obnoxious Ways To Be A Green Advocate

April 22, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Be An Effective Advocate For The Environment This Earth Day! You know the type -- the slacktivist who comes out of the woodwork on Earth Day with baby seal photos on Facebook; the too-in-your-face activist who actually turns you off from the cause; or the naive advocate who just seems ill-informed. Nobody wants to be that guy -- any of them.  Continue reading... Boston Marathon Help: Funds Set Up For Martin Richard, Lu Lingzi, Krystle Campbell, Other Victims And Survivors (UPDATE) Tim DeChristopher Released: Climate Activist Leaves Federal Prison After Serving 21 Months An 'Expiration Date' For Extreme Poverty? Non-Annoying Ways To Be A Green Advocate On Earth Day Heroic Teen Stops Sex Offender From Kidnapping Little Boy Why Empowering Girls Is Key To Ending Poverty These Soldiers Neared Boston Finish Line, Then Did Something Amazing ERIC E. SCHMIDT The Next 5 Billion: What Do You Think? In the coming decades, five billion people -- the majority of humanity -- will come online for the first time, mostly in parts of the world ridden with conflict, instability and repression. We've spent much of the last year traveling to those parts of the world to witness the new digital age firsthand. Continue reading... GEORGE TAKEI Why We Must Remember Rohwer I was just five years old, and would spend much of my childhood behind barbed wire in that camp and, later, another in California called Tule Lake. One hundred twenty thousand other Japanese Americans from the West Coast suffered a similar fate. Continue reading... YOKO ONO Let's Give Clean Water a Chance For me, it started when gas companies visited my town in upstate New York to pitch a natural gas pipeline that would provide infrastructure for future fracking. I did not want to see my land destroyed. Continue reading... SEN. MARTIN HEINRICH Protecting the Environment Is a National Priority What unites us is our commitment to protecting our environment and public health. Now, we are bringing our commitment to clean energy and combating climate change to the U.S. Senate. The environment shouldn't be a partisan or regional issue, it should be a national priority. Continue reading... CHRISTINA WEISS LURIE A Game of Inches It has been said that football is a game of inches and that field position often determines who wins and who loses. Is not the same true when it comes to protecting the planet? Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003