http://www.dogonvillage.com Connecting the Black Diaspora with news, politics, and issues important to African-Americans Fri, 10 May 2013 16:19:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/02/president-obamas-call-to-tackle-climate-change-answered-by-hbcu-green-ambassadors/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/02/president-obamas-call-to-tackle-climate-change-answered-by-hbcu-green-ambassadors/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:56:05 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3679 Washington, DC – As President Barack Obama reiterated the need to fight climate change during his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, “Green Ambassadors” were already doing their part to tackle climate change by promoting sustainable lifestyles to students and staff at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Selected and trained by UNCF Special [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/02/president-obamas-call-to-tackle-climate-change-answered-by-hbcu-green-ambassadors/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/07/naacp-says-epa%e2%80%99s-cross-state-air-pollution-rule-will-improve-health-conditions-by-holding-power-plants-accountable/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/07/naacp-says-epa%e2%80%99s-cross-state-air-pollution-rule-will-improve-health-conditions-by-holding-power-plants-accountable/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:33:08 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=2386 Baltimore, MD – Last week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized rules that will cap toxic emissions from power plants. The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is designed to limit air pollution that blows across state lines. On Tuesday the NAACP put out a statement lauding the new rule: “The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule will improve [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/07/naacp-says-epa%e2%80%99s-cross-state-air-pollution-rule-will-improve-health-conditions-by-holding-power-plants-accountable/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/green-dmv-launches-the-green-faith-initiative-and-gives-away-90000-for-energy-efficient-retrofits-to-dc-houses-of-worship/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/green-dmv-launches-the-green-faith-initiative-and-gives-away-90000-for-energy-efficient-retrofits-to-dc-houses-of-worship/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:49:49 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=2029 Washington DC – On Saturday, April 23, several Washington, DC residents gathered at Good Success Christian Church in Northeast DC to participate in GREEN DMV’s most recent initiative designed to engage DC residents on issues of sustainability and help connect them to resources that enable them to participate in the promise of the growing green [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/green-dmv-launches-the-green-faith-initiative-and-gives-away-90000-for-energy-efficient-retrofits-to-dc-houses-of-worship/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/uncf-celebrates-earth-day-releasing-green-report-highlighting-minority-college-and-university-progress-going-green/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/uncf-celebrates-earth-day-releasing-green-report-highlighting-minority-college-and-university-progress-going-green/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:34:00 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1930 FAIRFAX, VA – UNCF (United Negro College Fund) recently announced the release of the Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) Green Report, a 2010 Campus Sustainability Survey developed by the UNCF Institute for Capacity Building and the Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI) finding that colleges and university whose student bodies include large percentages of Black, Hispanic and Native American [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/uncf-celebrates-earth-day-releasing-green-report-highlighting-minority-college-and-university-progress-going-green/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/atlantas-largest-single-day-eco-collection-event-scheduled-for-april-23/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/atlantas-largest-single-day-eco-collection-event-scheduled-for-april-23/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:31:31 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1889 With more than 400,000 pounds of electronic equipment collected since its inception, Atlanta’s largest and most popular single-day recycling event is proudly celebrating nearly a decade of caring for the environment. This year, the City of Atlanta’s Electronics Recycling Day, will take place from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, 2011 at [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/atlantas-largest-single-day-eco-collection-event-scheduled-for-april-23/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/radiation-traces-found-in-u-s-milk/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/radiation-traces-found-in-u-s-milk/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:44:40 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1773 By Stephen Power, WSJ – The U.S. government said Wednesday that traces of radiation have been found in milk in Washington state, but said the amounts are far too low to trigger any public-health concern. The Environmental Protection Agency said a March 25 sample of milk produced in the Spokane, Wash., area contained a 0.8 [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/radiation-traces-found-in-u-s-milk/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/death-of-a-dolphin-sparks-anger-in-the-gulf/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/death-of-a-dolphin-sparks-anger-in-the-gulf/#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:07:45 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1551 Capt Lori DeAngelis runs a boating business called Dolphin Queen Cruises, which ferries tourists in Orange Beach, AL, to see pods of dolphins at play in the Gulf. Capt Lori reveres dolphins. In fact, she used to be licensed to handle the federally protected mammals. “They are like kin to us,” she says. The BP [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/death-of-a-dolphin-sparks-anger-in-the-gulf/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/01/bizarre-death-of-fish-and-birds-in-arkansas-louisiana-kentucky-and-brazil/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/01/bizarre-death-of-fish-and-birds-in-arkansas-louisiana-kentucky-and-brazil/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:56:41 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1179 By Jaime Uribarri and Michael Sheridan, NY Daily News – It isn’t 2012, but a rash of animal deaths is making this year look like the End of Days. Following on the heels of thousands of red-winged blackbirds dying in a small Arkansas town, several hundred more mysteriously died farther south in Louisiana. Officials are [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/01/bizarre-death-of-fish-and-birds-in-arkansas-louisiana-kentucky-and-brazil/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/12/ed-roche-transforms-gang-lives-with-training-program/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/12/ed-roche-transforms-gang-lives-with-training-program/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:33:47 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1093 LOS ANGELES – Ten years ago Ed Roche started recruiting students for his trade program from the most unlikely of sources – street gangs. He and Eighth District Councilman Bernard C. Parks recently appealed to the Los Angeles City Council to help fund Roche’s unique initiative that has taken gang members off the street and [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/12/ed-roche-transforms-gang-lives-with-training-program/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/is-your-neighborhood-killing-you/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/is-your-neighborhood-killing-you/#comments Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:35:22 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=989 Winston-Salem, N.C.- Since the 1970s Americans have benefited from legislative action to clean up air and water supplies, remedy toxic spills and increase food safety. In many communities, grassroots efforts provide a backstop where legal compliance is absent. But in both rural and urban areas across the U.S., racial minorities and the economically disenfranchised suffer [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/is-your-neighborhood-killing-you/feed/ 0