Hip hop can bring green issues to communities of color

The environmental movement largely has failed to connect with people of color and marginalized urban communities. By confronting issues from contaminated water to climate change, hip hop music can help bridge that divide and bring home the realities of environmental injustice.

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Hip hop can bring green issues to communities of color

DJ Spooky Talks About "Terra Nova," His Multimedia Antarctic Climate Change Symphony

“Antarctica is controlled by no government, and belongs to no country.” That factoid is one of many DJ Spooky, aka Paul Miller, includes in his newest multimedia work, Terra Nova: Symphonia Antarctica . It’s a sly reference to the mutli-disciplinary artist himself, but it mainly underscores our estrangement from a mysterious and rapidly-shifting continent. With sound and video Miller collected in Antarctica, Terra Nova is a sensory-intense portrait of a mysterious place

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DJ Spooky Talks About "Terra Nova," His Multimedia Antarctic Climate Change Symphony

Renewable Energy Chargers: 6 We Love and 6 That Will Never Fly

Photo via dmack901 Charging gadgets with renewable energy is something we can’t get enough of around here. We talk about it all the time because it’s a great way to get off grid. However, not all the chargers we see coming out of designers and stores look like they’ll be successful.

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Renewable Energy Chargers: 6 We Love and 6 That Will Never Fly

Three Five Zero: A Climate Change Rap for Copenhagen

At the Beijing installment of October’s 350.org event , hundreds of students came together to jeer climate change and educate their peers about the havoc warming temperatures were wre… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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