Nature is Speaking Mountain Conservation International
Lee Pace, Reese Witherspoon, Liam Neeson, Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford, Ian Somerhalder and Lupita Nyong'o all join forces to give nature a voice.
By Arwa Lodhi Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder. All big celebrities whose films we have all enjoyed at some point or another, but they’re usually acting someone else’s script. For the first time ever, all of these A-listers have joined forces to do their own thing, and have created a beautiful short films to wake us all up to an important fact that should be obvious by now: we need nature to survive. It seems like a basic statement to make, but for centuries, we have been fighting, taming and destroying nature – all to our peril. Below, you’ll hear Julia Roberts making a statement as ‘Mother Nature’ that we all need to hear in…Nature is Speaking – Mother Nature Conservation International
Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder all join forces to give nature a voice. Watch the films and take action at: http://ci-intl.org/1OiRBh3 | Follow us on: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ConservationOrg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/conservation... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Conservatio...
A Climate Awakening
In Case You Needed Another Reason To Visit Aruba
Renewable Energy Developers Wanted to Spread the Green
by Ken Silverstein for Forbes
Smaller enterprises want energy developers to spread the green, allowing them to get in on the renewable wave rolling through America. The dynamic has made it easier for larger corporations with more demand to buy wind and solar electricity but it has nudged out the less brawnier brands.
The guys at Google and Facebook, for example, are stimulating the need for wind and solar energy that they are using to feed their electricity-starved data centers. The developers of those energy projects, in return, are getting solid customers that are buying their output at a fixed price over a certain period of years.
But individual commercial and industrial customers aren’t generating the type of demand that can propel big energy projects into the market. Now, though, that may change. The same so-called power purchase agreements that are used to attract the likes of Microsoft, Intel and SA…