Green Business Holds iPad Contest!

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Written by MyMelody

Green business, UrbanScooters.com, is giving away an Apple iPad in their latest contest. To be entered in the drawing for to win, all you have to do is watch their latest promotional video, entitled "Chimpanzee Riding on a Go-Ped," and correctly guess who is in the gorilla suit. UrbanScooters.com has provided a number of clues across the internet that will help you track down the correct answer. The last day to enter an answer is at 12 Noon PT on March 31, 2011, so you better hurry! You can Log onto their contest page for more information.

"Chimpanzee Riding on a Go-Ped" is a play on the viral video "Chimpanzee Riding on a Segway," which features, adorable Chimpanzee, Pan-Kun riding a Segway on a Japanese game show and an orginal song by Perry Gripp.

UrbanScooters.com is an eco-friendly business that sells "a variety of products—mainly electric scooters and bikes—to help bridge the gap between home and public transportation." They have been featured in the environmental weekly series Neon Tommy, which focuses on green living. Being more eco-friendly is something that UrbanScooters.com has been committed to since its début in 2002.  UrbanScooters.com gears their business toward conscientious consumers who wish to move "toward greener transportation options" as well as those "looking to reduce their carbon footprint."

Chevron Gets Punked!

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Written by MyMelody

The Yes Men are at it again! And this time they have teamed up with Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) and Amazon Watch to go head to head with Corporate Giant, Chevron.

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Yes Men, they are a duo of activists who use pranks and humor to draw attention to the atrocities done by large corporations against those who, too often, can't fight back.

They are infamous for taking on Exxon Mobile, BP and  Dow Chemical, and now they have set their sights on Chevron, who have recently spent a great deal in order to finance an expensive PR campaign entitled "We Agree."

The We Agree Campaign can best be surmised as a means to con consumers into believing that Chevron has the publics' best interest in mind. But Slogans like "Oil Companies should support the communities they're a part of" stand in stark contrast to the fact that have yet to address their role in refusing to clean up the  toxic pollution it left in the Ecuadorean Amazon. RAN reports that " the 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste polluting Ecuador’s rainforest could lead to as many as 10,000 Ecuadoreans dying of cancer by 2080."

The Yes Men, RAN and Amazon Watch have

Spongebob Squarepants Spreads Environmental Awareness to Young Kids

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Written by PedalPower

The environment is important to some, but to others the environment is not a concern. People that care about the Environment, Global Warming, and Climate Change are aware and respectful of future generations well being, but there are those that just care about themselves, continuing to pollute and consume the earths treasures withouot regard for preservation. People seem to go on and do what they havve been doing for years, as this is their "rythm" or "routine". Hopping in your V8 Car or Truck to drive 1-2 blocks to the store to get some soda, and then driving back home in the same fasion. It is pretty pathetic, actually.

Rainforest Action Network: 25 Years

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Written by MyMelody

"If a tree falls in the forest… and no one is there to hear it… RAN makes noise!"

That phrase best surmises what RAN (The Rainforest Action Network) has been dedicated to for the past twenty-five years, something this short video attempts to demonstrate.  Since its arrival on the public stage in 1985, RAN, headquartered in San Francisco, has managed to become one of the most successful and prominent environmental activist groups in the public forum, with connections that span the globe.

For the past twenty five years, RAN has been dedicated to campaigning for the "the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life." RAN has focused its efforts on non-violent public demonstrations as a means to advance their causes, and they have been remarkably successful in doing so.

In Terms of conservation, RAN has managed to save and continues to save, acres upon acres of ancient forests and ecosystems globally, including forests in Canada, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile to name a few.

The people of RAN have also been tireless advocates for the rights and welfare of indigenous people worldwide. They work with the "perspective that social, economic and environmental issues are interconnected and interdependent," and that