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Green Festival NYC Livestream

Green Festivals: The Road to Rio +20 and Beyond goes live on Saturday morning from the Jacob Javits Center in NYC.  Fund Balance, Green Festivals and the Huffington Post present the Main Stage of the Earth Day Green Festival in NYC and global sustainability and social enterprise content from around the world on the way to the Earth Summit in Rio this June.

Waiting for Superman Makes Impact

President Obama is scheduled to meet Monday with Davis Guggenheim, the director of the new documentary "Waiting for Superman," and the five students featured in the film.

The president called the film "heartbreaking" for its portrayal of real-life students whose best chances for a good education are charter school lotteries.  The film is quite controversial among progressives and labor unions,

Waiting for Superman

There was a time when the American public education system was a model admired by the entire world. Today other countries are surpassing us in every respect, and the slogan "No Child Left Behind" has become a cynical punch line. Documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) explores

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    Earth Island Institute Earth Island Institute is a non-profit, public interest, membership organization that supports people who are creating solutions to protect our shared planet. For 25 years, Earth Island Institute has been a hub for grassroots campaigns dedicated to conserving, preserving, and…


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