Hello Electric is a new global movement for electric cars, dedicated to bringing people together online to take meaningful action to get these clean, new cars onto our streets faster, ending our addiction to oil and the damage it causes to the environment. I just joined Hello Electric in an urgent campaign. BP’s CEO Tony [...]

Panel discussion from the the Aspen Ideas Festival.  Thanks to the Breakaway Cook Eric Gower for the tip. Billions to Be Served: Meeting the Needs of the People and the Planet The United Nations has determined that, in the next 40 years, we must double crop production to feed, fuel and clothe nine billion people. [...]

I’ve recently seen this ad on TV and YouTube: The ad was made by Americans Against Food Taxes, an interest group that includes some big agro-businesses and industrial fast food producers who are opposed to a proposed tax on soft drinks and juice drinks, in other words, beverages that contain high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). [...]

The Iraqi Parliament will soon vote on a US-backed law that could hand too much oil revenue and control to foreign corporations. A Sunni, Shia and Kurd Parliamentarian are planning to stand together and present this petition to the Iraqi Parliament. They want us to help them show that the world supports Iraq’s right to [...]

Iain and I went to GreenDrinks NYC, a meet-up for people who work in the environmental field, last night to represent Avaaz. Click on the photos to see more on the Avaaz Flickr account.