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"Democracy Now!": Thurs. July 22 2010
Jesse Jackson calls Shirley Sherrod a "true freedom fighter" who fought back against "attempted character assassination"; Nevada leads the nation in uUnemployment, foreclosures, and bankruptcies; Reid leads in Nevada's senate race after a series of controversial statements by GOP challenger Sharron Angle; "Neither the destruction of the Ninth Ward nor the South Bronx was inevitable," declares Majora Carter on the struggle for environmental justice. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
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You don't have to go broke to go green. And you don't have to live in Walden to understand that there's a connection between the environment, our economy, and the way we live. As climate action week gets underway, we speak to longtime environmental activists and community leaders about the future of our planet. Majora Carter, an urban redeveloper and the founder of Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), has worked since the late 1990s to bring together the worlds of urban renewal and environmental sustainability. How does one make it work? Carter joins us in studio.
GRITtv: September 21, 2009
You don’t have to go broke to go green. And you don’t have to live in Walden to understand that there’s a connection between the environment, our economy, and the way we live. As climate action week gets underway, we speak to two longtime environmental activists and community leaders about the future of our planet.
