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EarthEcho CEO Philippe Cousteau Interviewed for The Huffington Post
Explorer, social entrepreneur and environmental advocate, Philippe Cousteau is the 31-year-old son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau Sr., and the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Philippe is continuing the work of his legendary family through EarthEcho International, the non-profit organization he founded with his sister and mother to empower youth to take action that restores and protects our water planet. EarthEcho recently launched the What's On Your Fork? as part of their Water Planet Challenge. Youth are equipped with an information-packed action guide that they can use to organize a Meatless Monday campaign in their schools, homes and communities. Support and content was provided by the Toyota USA Foundation, Discovery Education, Participant Media and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. Click here to read the interview on Huffington Post
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Planet Connect Announces New Grants for Engaged Youth
Whether you’re in a city, rural area or a suburb, wildlife is all around you. In many places, wildlife faces challenges. Are you a high school student with a creative idea for conserving and protecting wildlife and its habitat in your community? Planet Connect is offering high school students grants of $1,000 to implement their problem-solving projects and participate in a local internship focused on wildlife conservation.
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EarthEcho CEO Philippe Cousteau to host CNNi Going Green Special on the Everglades
Tune in to CNNi this week to catch EarthEcho CEO and CNN Special Correspondant Philippe Cousteau host CNN's Going Green special focused on the everglades Show times: Saturday December 3: 13:30 & 21:30 Sunday December 4: 08:30, 17:30 & 22:00 Wednesday December 7: 05:30 All times GMT
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Nov 17
EarthEcho CEO Philippe Cousteau to discuss What’s on Your Fork Action Guide on CNN Newsroom
Tune in to CNN at 1:45 ET on Thursday November 17th to catch EarthEcho CEO Philippe Cousteau discuss EarthEcho's new Water Planet Challenge Action Guide "Wha'ts on Your Fork"
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EarthEcho Updates, Events, Water Planet Challenge, Everything You Do Makes a Difference, How You're Powered, What You Eat
EARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL LAUNCHES FOOD-FOCUSED WHAT’S ON YOUR FORK? ACTION GUIDE
Does what you eat really have impact on our planet? Could mealtime choices actually help promote clean drinking water? What’s On Your Fork? is a new free downloadable Action Guide and collection of supplementary educational tools from EarthEcho International designed to help educators and students explore the environmental and community impact of daily food choices. This new resource is part of EarthEcho’s Water Planet Challenge, a web-based interactive program exploring a myriad of topics that engage and empower middle and high school-aged youth to design, create and implement service-learning projects in their communities.
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EarthEcho CEO Philippe Cousteau selected as Panelist at White House Event
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) today announced the keynote speakers and plenary session panelists who will kickoff the 2011 GreenGov Symposium, to be held October 31 – November 2, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. Nancy Sutley, Chair of CEQ, will deliver welcoming remarks, and Jack Lew, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will deliver the first keynote address of GreenGov 2011. The first day plenary session will feature clean energy and green leaders, including award-winning journalist and associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Simran Sethi, and renowned explorer, social entrepreneur, and environmental advocate Philippe Cousteau Jr. among others to discuss how they see the Federal Government can lead by example in sustainability.
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Events, STREAM, Everything You Do Makes a Difference, What You Do
Enter Planet Connect’s Get Green Video Contest
No matter where you live, there are ways your city or town can “go greener” through the innovative use of your Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) skills.
Planet Connect and Staples want HS students to demonstrate in a 30 second – 120 second video how one or more of the elements of STEM can help green your city or town. What have you learned in the classroom about how science, technology, engineering, or math could be used to help make your town or city greener, more sustainable and a model for 21st century living?
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Oct 24
October 24th is National Food Day
America Celebrates Food Day with More than 2,000 Events in 50 States Observations Include an “Eat In” in Times Square; a Festival in Savannah, GA; an Open House at the National Archives; and Events in Schools, Churches, Campuses, and Homes New York, NY—Today a diverse range of organizations, public officials, and Americans from all walks of life are celebrating Food Day—a nationwide grassroots mobilization that encourages Americans to eat healthy, delicious food grown in a sustainable and humane way and to advocate for smarter food policies. Spearheaded by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Day is being observed in all 50 states with more than 2,000 events from coast to coast. In the heart of Times Square, 50 notables from the food movement, including restaurateur Mario Batali, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, Food Network host Ellie Krieger, nutritionist Marion Nestle, and several dozen area food activists staged an …
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Waterkeeper Alliance, EcoWatch and Robert F. Kennedy to Announce EcoWatch Online
EcoWatch, in partnership with Waterkeeper Alliance, will host a public event along the Cuyahoga River to celebrate the launch of their nationwide news service website with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., founder and president of Waterkeeper Alliance, as keynote speaker. The website—www.ecowatch.org—goes live the morning of Oct. 27 and will work to unite the voice of the grassroots environmental movement and mo- bilize millions of Americans to engage in democracy to protect human health and the environment. The website will expand EcoWatch’s coverage nationwide and become the first media source to focus exclu- sively on environmental news culled from more than 700 environmental organizations across the country. The site will showcase original content in its Insights column from leading national voices in the environmental movement, including EcoWatch’s advisory board members.
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Freezing in the Arctic and Sweating in Sudan, but on Time in Chicago
I’ve been traveling all my life. It’s part of my DNA, and in many ways defines me and the work of my family. Flying isn’t the most eco-friendly thing in the world, so to offset it I always try do as much as I can in one place. Click here to read the rest of Philippe's article in The New York Times
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