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13906 November 27, 2022 Food, Climate, Green Living Climate Victory Gardens Food & Climate The Green (Thumb) New Deal: “Climate Victory Gardens” Tops 1,000 Milestone, Green America Releases New How-To-Guide In Time for Spring Planting Season, Green America Toolkit Explains Carbon-Capturing Gardening Practices Americans Can Use in Their Backyards; Climate Victory Gardens Sprouting Up in Minnesota, Colorado, and Virginia.
13733 April 6, 2019 Climate Smithsonian: Practice What You Print, Skip the Slip to Reduce Paper Receipts Save Trees: Green America's Better Paper Project Historic "Skip the Slip" Bill Introduced in California Assembly to Tackle Major Impacts of Paper Receipts
13682 November 28, 2022 Climate Tell the communications industry to act on energy justice and clean energy Fight Dirty Energy, Grow Clean Energy Verizon Sets Major New Clean Energy Goal in Response to Pressure From More Than 30,000 Consumers After hearing from more than 30,000 consumers mobilized by Green America, Verizon has set a goal to achieve 50% clean energy use by 2025.
13470 December 5, 2022 Labor, Social Justice Tell Godiva: End Child Labor End Child Labor in Cocoa Is There Child Labor in Your Halloween Candy? Chocolate Scorecard Identified Good, Ghoulish Companies Green America’s Chocolate Scorecard grades chocolate companies on child labor and ESG practices. The worst companies include Godiva, Cadbury, and Ferrero.
13100 November 30, 2022 Food, Climate Re(Store) It! Food & Climate Rosario Dawson And Ron Finley Promote Effort To Go Beyond Sustainability And Become “Regenerative” With Climate Victory Gardens Video Rosario Dawson And Ron Finley Promote Effort To Go Beyond Sustainability And Become “Regenerative” With Climate Victory Gardens Video
13076 September 10, 2018 Food, Climate, Finance Re(Store) It! Food & Climate Green America’s Center for Sustainability Solutions To Host Event on Investing in Agricultural Climate Solutions Global Climate Action Summit Affiliate Event “Carbon Sequestration in Soil: Scaling Investment” Explores How Investment Can Drive Climate Solutions in Agriculture.
13043 January 30, 2019 Climate Skip the Slip to Reduce Paper Receipts Save Trees: Green America's Better Paper Project Green America Urges CVS To Improve Receipt Practices, Keep Pace With Leading Retail Chains CVS' Practice of Printing Some of the Longest Receipts is "Coming Up Short"; Receipt Paper Continues to be Major Source of toxin BPS.
12265 November 27, 2022 Food Re(Store) It!, Climate Victory Gardens Food & Climate "Making American Green Again:" Largest Ever Victory Garden Project Since World War II Launched Gardens Could Combat Climate Change While Producing 12 Million Tons of High-Quality Food; Push to Equal WWII Victory Garden Level Would Equal 40 Million Gardens.
12233 December 17, 2019 Climate, Social Justice Smithsonian: Practice What You Print, Skip the Slip to Reduce Paper Receipts Save Trees: Green America's Better Paper Project, Environmental & Climate Justice, Economic Action, Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Sustainable Shopping Tips “Skip the Slip” Report Release 2018 Walmart, Walgreens, Target and Petco Among Retail Laggards, While Apple and Best Buy Are Leaders; Report Provides Tips for Consumers and Workers to Minimize Their Exposure to Receipts.
10750 June 26, 2019 Climate, Finance Clean Energy Victory Bonds Grow Clean Energy, Environmental & Climate Justice Green America Applauds Introduction of Clean Energy Victory Bonds Bill will allow all Americans to invest in a clean energy future for the country
8754 June 26, 2019 Food, Climate Food & Climate Major Food Companies Join to Address Climate Change and Healthy Soils by Creating a New Standard Focused on Regenerative Agriculture The Carbon Underground and Green America, in partnership with Ben & Jerry’s (Unilever), DanoneWave, Annie’s (General Mills), and MegaFood have begun development of a global verification standard for food grown in a regenerative manner.
8734 November 28, 2022 Climate Tell the communications industry to act on energy justice and clean energy Fight Dirty Energy Verizon Flunks Green America's Scorecard Grading Wireless Companies on Clean Energy Green America gives Verizon an F on clean energy sourcing, commitment to improve, and emission reductions.
8675 December 12, 2022 Climate Tell the communications industry to act on energy justice and clean energy Fight Dirty Energy, Grow Clean Energy, Environmental & Climate Justice, Economic Action Green America and T-Mobile Push AT&T and Verizon to Match T-Mobile’s 100% Renewable Energy Commitment T-Mobile became the first telecom to adopt a 100% renewable energy commitment.
8568 June 25, 2019 Climate, Social Justice Fighting Pipelines Fight Dirty Energy, Environmental & Climate Justice FERC Protest: 200+ Groups Demand Changes to Toothless Pipeline Review Process Protesters Post List of Eight Key Reforms to Ensure “Meaningful Fixes” to Approval Process at FERC Headquarters.
8552 October 31, 2018 Climate, Social Justice Fight Dirty Energy, Grow Clean Energy, Environmental & Climate Justice Green America: FERC Made the Right Decision in Rejecting Subsidies for Coal and Nuclear Green America is pleased that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has announced that it is terminating the Department of Energy (DOE) Proposal to provide market-based incentives to coal and nuclear power plant owners.
8541 June 25, 2019 Food Genetic Engineering Sustainable Foods Summit… New Horizons for Eco-Labels and Sustainability
8470 June 25, 2019 Food, Climate Re(Store) It! Environmental & Climate Justice, Economic Action, Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Sustainable Food, Food & Climate, Industrial Agriculture "Re(Store) It: Campaign Launches on World Soil Day to Save the Earth... Literally Effort Promotes “Regenerative Agriculture” Practices That Bolster Soil Health and Fight Climate Change.
8343 June 25, 2019 Food, Social Justice Re(Store) It! Genetic Engineering, Choose Fair Labor, Economic Action, Sustainable Shopping Tips, Sustainable Food, Food & Climate, Industrial Agriculture Not All Those Fancy Labels on Your Groceries Are Created Equal. A New Resource Identifies the Good and the Bad Apples Know The Difference Between “Free-Range” and “Cage-Free”? “Natural” and “Non-GMO”? Big Corporations Are Betting You Don’t.
6587 June 25, 2019 Climate Fighting Pipelines Fight Dirty Energy Activists Deliver Strong Message to Congress and FERC: No More Fracked-Gas Pipeline “STOP TRUMP’S DIRTY ENERGY AGENDA, THE CHANGE STARTS HERE” Protest: Activists Demonstrate at FERC’s First Public Meeting Since January, Deliver Letter from 139 National and Local Groups to Congress Urging Opposition to Dirty Energy Bill
6320 June 25, 2019 Climate Tell the communications industry to act on energy justice and clean energy Fight Dirty Energy, Grow Clean Energy Hang Up On Fossil Fuels: Green America Launches Campaign Urging AT&T, Verizon To Commit To 100% Renewable Energy As Tech Leaders Apple and Google meet 100% Renewable Energy Goals, Lagging Telecommunications Giants Far Behind at Less than 2%.
6273 August 24, 2017 Green Living Economic Action Jeff Marcous, CEO of Dharma Merchant Services, Named Board Chair of Green America
5525 November 28, 2022 Labor Choose Fair Labor Green America & Child Labor Coalition Warn of Curtis Ellis in Dept. of Labor Groups Say Ellis Unfit to Serve, Citing “Xenophobia,” “Lack of Regard for Human and Civil Rights.”
5420 June 26, 2019 Finance Break Up with Your Mega-Bank, Fighting Pipelines Socially Responsible Investing, Strategies for Shareholder Activism, Economic Action Global coalition stages protests and bank closures across the globe to defund Dakota Access Pipeline
5421 June 26, 2019 Finance, Social Justice Divest & Reinvest , The Green America Credit Card, Break Up with Your Mega-Bank, Fighting Pipelines Socially Responsible Investing, Strategies for Shareholder Activism, Economic Action 10 Banks Financing Dakota Access Pipeline Decline Meeting with Tribal Leaders
5422 June 26, 2019 Labor Samsung: End Smartphone Sweatshops End Smartphone Sweatshops Green America: Samsung Must Act to Protect Workers