Paige Heydon Joins to Lead Environmental Advocacy Organization to New Heights DENVER, CO--(Marketwired - Dec 21, 2015) - Rock the Earth, a national nonprofit environmental organization that works to protect America's natural resources, announced that Paige Heydon has joined as Executive Director. Heydon brings more than 18 years of non-profit experience to Rock the Earth, [...]
The facts are slippery when it comes to the great fracking debate in America, where truth, lies, and spin often collide and end up leaving us confused and dizzy. And sometimes we sadly get treated to the perfect mix of manipulation of fact and fiction, courtesy of the powers that be, that leaves us even [...]
Let's be honest: We all know why the U.S. Congress won't pass comprehensive climate change legislation or enact a regulatory framework that accelerates America's transition to a clean energy economy. It's no mystery: The logjam created by money influencing politics. The dollar is still the mightiest and most powerful influencer in Washington. The fossil fuel [...]
He hails from Australia, but John Butler’s music makes its home in any natural landscape. On Sunday, the tribal roots melange of the John Butler Trio will wash over the crowd at the Snow King Ball Park for the first JacksonHoleLive show of the season. Anderson East will warm the stage as the opening act. [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Marc Ross Executive Director, Rock the Earth (303) 454-3304 / (412) 953-6280 marcr@rocktheearth.org Joanna Kulesa (408) 806-9201 joannak@rocktheearth.org ROCK THE EARTH ADVOCATES CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS AT BONNAROO 2015 Nonprofit Screens Environmental Films, Hosts Interviews and Performances, Conducts Postcard Campaign Sending Message to the White House MANCHESTER, TN – June 9, 2015 – [...]
DENVER CO--(Marketwired - May 21, 2015) - Rock the Earth, a national nonprofit environmental organization that partners with the music industry, today announced it has received a grant of $81,000 from the John Denver Aspenglow Fund. A portion of the grant will be utilized for the organization's coalition work in protecting the Central Mountains of [...]
The world we live in today will not be the world we hand off to future generations. Despite this fact, supported by thousands of scientific studies examining the impact of climate change and the plague of pollution, many of our world leaders continue to ignore the truth and persistently place shortsighted self-interest and economic wealth [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Marc Ross Executive Director, Rock the Earth (303) 454-3304 / (412) 953-6280 marcr@rocktheearth.org Joanna Kulesa (408) 806-9201 joannak@rocktheearth.org ROCK THE EARTH ANNOUNCES TENTH ANNUAL 2015 PLANET DEFENDER AWARD WINNERS Artist Xavier Rudd, Community Leader L. Hunter Lovins and Grassroots Activist Tim DeChristopher Honored for their Efforts in Defense of the Environment DENVER [...]
One always remembers the first job in their career, and I'm no exception to that rule. When I graduated from law school in 1993, I decided to commence my legal career as a mining attorney with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. It was in those first few years of my fledgling legal career that [...]
For a chance to enjoy a spectacular six-course dinner spearheaded by some of Denver's top kitchen talent while benefiting an environmental cause, tickets are now on sale for Dine Out for Earth, presented by Rock the Earth, a nonprofit organization that partners with the music industry to protect and defend natural resources. This year's event [...]
ALO frontman Dan Lebowitz and New Monsoon’s Bo Carper and Rajiv Parikh will perform live at Calafia Café & Market A Go-Go in Palo Alto, California for a special Dine Out For Earth California six-course dinner event. Benefiting Rock the Earth and Earth Day San Francisco, the 80-person limited seating meal will take place Friday, [...]
In 2014, our planet added approximately 80 million new Earthlings. That equates to the population of California, New York and Florida added to a world with depleting natural resources, unprecedented water scarcity and citizens with a "throwaway" mentality. As scientists predict that Earth's population will only continue to grow, our fate will be determined by [...]
Can we work together to preserve our nation's bio diverse and increasingly threatened wilderness, and still extract the energy we need to power our economy? If we cling to today's prevailing notions that if you're on the left, you're an environmentalist, and if I'm on the right, I'm a gas driller. Then the answer to [...]
Hours before the Flaming Lips performed to tens of thousands of festivalgoers, frontman Wayne Coyne sat down for an interview at the Solar Stage with just a few hundred fans. The topic of the conversation was "Social Change Through Music," so Coyne discussed his work with helping homeless dogs in Oklahoma City and Amnesty International. Coyne [...]
The international renewable energy landscape is dynamic, competitive, and often a provocative and polarizing plotline. Dynamics are such that our world has experienced a lift in technological advancements that allow us to understand the need for renewables in a clearer way. The international competition has heated up so much so that countries like India and [...]
I was cooking a meal recently at my home in Denver, Colorado on my natural gas stove when my mind drifted to the ongoing debate about fracking. You've got to love irony. Despite the comfort and warmth natural gas provides for many of us, here are the cold facts. Like my family, about 61% of [...]
In developing this commentary on corporate responsibility, I kept thinking about a statement made by one of the most influential CEOs in America. At Apple's annual shareholder meeting earlier this year, their usually mild-mannered chief executive Tim Cook delivered an angry retort when asked by a representative of a conservative D.C.-based think tank if the [...]
Grab-and-go, 24-hour quick marts, fast food on the fly, snap open a beverage to quench your thirst in seconds. We Americans love the quick and easy. But supporting our culture of convenience is a pervasive material that, while seemingly harmless in our car's cup holders and incredibly helpful in facilitating these accelerated transactions, actually does [...]
How do we motivate a nation to take up environmental causes when so very few are listening? There are many barriers we must overcome that prevent us from reaching someone's heart - what I believe is the essential ingredient to success. To do this, we must redefine the environmental conversation in the U.S. If we [...]
Those of us involved in the environmental movement are hardly short of projects to criticize. We rightfully lambaste dams, power lines, mining operations and drilling operations when these activities have the potential to damage ecologically sensitive areas. But sometimes we become so caught up in defending land that we forget about the vast, life-sustaining oceans [...]
