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Category Archives: Green
CALIFORNIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS SALARIES
I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2013, which listed salaries as follows: Sarah Rose (CEO): ~$120,000 Jillian Elliott (CFO): ~$128,000 Michael Hawk (operations): ~$96,000 H. Eric Schockman: ~$132,000
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Wilderness Society Salaries
I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2013, which listed salaries as follows: * William Meadows (past president): ~$309,000 * James Williams (president): ~$205,000 * Paula Wolferserder Yabar: ~$300,000 * Jane Taylor (marketing): ~$203,000 * Spencer … Continue reading
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Greenpeace Salaries
I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2013, which listed salaries as follows: Daniel J. McGregor: ~$125,000 Philip D. Radford: ~$156,000 Thomas S. Camerlinck: ~$135,000 Nathan Santry: ~$139,000 Kevin Grandia: ~$123,000 David Barre: ~$143,000 Matthew Daggett: … Continue reading
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Sierra Club Salaries
I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2012, which listed salaries as follows: * Susan De La Rosa: $194,888 * Sarah Hodgdon: $203,617 * Robert Sipchen: $226,114 * Patrick Gallagher: $184,649 * Michael Brune: $229,400 * … Continue reading
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Erin Brockovich and the Beverly Hills: Greenscam by Norma Zager
From Amazon.com: “This timely exposé reveals Erin Brockovich’s role in inciting public fear regarding the oil well at Beverly Hills High School. The author describes how Brockovich’s methods to link the oil well with cancer occurrences in former students were … Continue reading
Posted in Beverly Hills, Dennis Prager, Green
Tagged air quality management, air quality management district, beverly hills high school, erin brockovich, norma zager, quality management district
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California Braces for Showdown on Emissions?
I instinctively don’t trust anything that Adam Nagourney writes. The guy is consistently out to lunch. For the past 14 hours, NYTimes.com has featured as its top story, “California Braces for Showdown on Emissions” by Adam Nagourney. I knew about … Continue reading
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Tagged adam nagourney, ballot measure, california braces, emissions, vote
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The Earth Doesn’t Care If You Drive A Hybrid
George Will writes for Newsweek: The cover of The American Scholar quarterly carries an impertinent assertion: “The Earth Doesn’t Care if You Drive a Hybrid.” The essay inside is titled “What the Earth Knows.” What it knows, according to Robert … Continue reading
Posted in George Will, Green
Tagged american scholar, meteor impacts, nobel prize in physics, old earth, volcanic explosions, wall socket
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Environmentally Sensitive Less Likely To Be Ethically Sensitive
From The Guardian: When Al Gore was caught running up huge energy bills at home at the same time as lecturing on the need to save electricity, it turns out that he was only reverting to “green” type. According to … Continue reading
Posted in Bnai David-Judea, Dennis Prager, Ethics, Green, R. Yosef Kanefsky
Tagged canadian psychologists, Dennis Prager, green consumers, honour system, organic baby food, virtuous acts
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Al Gore Confronts An Inconvenient Truth
From the Times of London: There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient … Continue reading
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Tagged al gore, climate change summit, former vice president, government scientists, new york times news, us vice president
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Smart Energy with Greenlite: Save The Earth. And A Few Bucks, Too
Here’s a thought: encourage practical environmentalism, the sort of campaign that yields tangible results and actually benefits consumers. Too much of today’s environmental movement – and this rule applies to all kinds of groups – is just rhetoric, and very … Continue reading
Posted in Ads, Green
Tagged compact fluorescent bulbs, corporate citizen, energy efficient lighting, energy efficient lighting products, energy star label, hero of the day
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