The Story of Stuff Project has teamed up with the Think Outside the Bottle Campaign and several other leading water groups to bring to you much-anticipated animated short “The Story of Bottled Water!” The viral video premieres March 22, 2010 on World Water Day. For old times sake, Green Mondays will take place to watch [...]
From the folks with Back Porch Initiatives: Today, August 17th, we will discuss Coal Mining in Appalachia and the activist movements surrounding it. Mountain Top Removal–a process through which coal is extracted from mountains using explosives rather than mining and extracting–in Appalachia has become a hot-button issue among mining corporations, governments, power companies, envrionmental and [...]
From the folks with Back Porch Initiatives: Today, July 13th, we will focus on climate change commitments addressed by world leaders at the 2009 G-8 Summit and national leaders in the federal cilmate change legislation. As we overview the specifics and implications of these current events, we will also take a look at the way [...]
From the Back Porch folks: Today, June 29th, we will view the documentary, “Cane Toads: An Unnatural History” and discuss the dangerous problems that can arise with the introduction of invasive species.
Today, June 8th, Back Porch Initiatives will be discussing the ground they’ve covered during Green Mondays over the past year and brainstorming where to go next. Since we began our weekly discussions at globehopper over a year ago, we’ve covered topics from local foods to smart growth to voting rights to the river. Please join [...]
Tonight, Jenna Clarke, organizer of Richmond’s environmental film festival “The Biggest Picture,” will overview a few of the films at this weekend’s festival and how they and others have affected environmental activism. In 2006, former Vice President Al Gore released the film An Inconvenient Truth, which amounted to a call to action on the threat [...]
Tonight’s Back Porch Discussion at GlobeHopper features Tim Adkins (co-founder of Richmond-based Backyard Farmer) and Kate Ruby (developed of an urban agriculture program in Church Hill). They will talk about opportunities for local food projects in Richmond. Founded in 2008, Backyard Farmer is a local business that works with individuals in Richmond to design and plant gardens [...]
This Monday, April 6th, Hilary Lufkin, a community organizer and educator for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) will be joining us in a discussion about the new coal plant proposed in Surry, VA. Ms. Lufkin will outline issues surrounding the coal plant, including its effects on the surrounding communities and ecosystems, its projected effects [...]
Today, Monday 3/23, Michael Pirron, CEO of Richmond-based Impactmakers will join us in a discussion about corporate social responsibility and a new funding model for non-profits. Founded in October 2006 as the nation’s first “competitive social venture,” Impactmakers is an information technology and consulting firm that donates all of its profits to charitable community partners [...]
This week we will have Green Corps Class of ’09 and Think Outside the Bottle Organizer Pete Williams as our special guest speaker. We will investigate water issues from the perspective of water as a human right. Join us to discuss issues surrounding water privatization vs. public ownership of water. Gathering begins at a new [...]
This Monday, January 26th, join us in watching OilCrash, the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, OilCrash is compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining. The film visits with the world’s top experts [...]
From the folks at the Back Porch Energy Initiative, about tonight’s discussion: Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough poses the question of what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account “all children, all species, for all time.” Join us as we watch clips from McDonough’s lectures and explore the concepts [...]
The folks at the Back Porch Energy Initiative will be kicking off the new year tomorrow night: This Monday, January 5 we will be watching clips from the award-winning film Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America. Filmaker Jeff Barrie offers tangible solutions to one of America’s most pressing environmental challenges: energy. In light of [...]
From the folks at the Back Porch Energy Initiative, about tonight’s discussion: Because environmental factors affect all people, regardless of background or religious beliefs, we often view the environment as a strictly secular issue. However, it is possible to work within the framework of faith to help alleviate environmental hardships for individuals and the planet [...]
Back Porch @ GlobeHopper welcomes guest speaker Richard Taranto to talk about the future of seafood and our oceans. As we all are aware, many of the earth’s natural resources both, renewable and non-renewable, are under stress. This Monday’s discussion will focus on another resource that was once considered almost limitless — fish, and look [...]
