“I myself cherish the wildlands of Utah, like the Dark Canyon Wilderness Area, whose castle-like walls reach toward Glen Canyon, or the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, home to pink and red slot canyons so artfully sculpted it seems like they were carved by hand.”
“These are magical places that I have explored with my family. But [...]
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Looking to expand his Sundance brand — and provide opportunities for minority filmmakers — Robert Redford has announced a new initiative in collaboration with the State of New Mexico.
Called “Sundance in New Mexico”, the project will see Redford’s Sundance Institute in Utah work with the Department of Cultural Affairs and the New Mexico Film Office [...]
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The Natural Resources Defense Council’s Southern California office is celebrating its 20th anniversary next week — and the guest list features some heavy A-list talent coming out to offer congratulations.
Hosted by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and taking place at the Beverly Wilshire on April 25th, the event will be attended by both Robert Redford and Leonardo DiCaprio; [...]
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Robert Redford is throwing his weight behind a group protesting a proposed massive eco-village in Napa Valley, California. The development would feature 380 homes, including a 105-unit retirement center — leading many to question how “green” such a community could really be. Redford, who has lived in Napa for eight years, will be join the [...]
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“America is on the verge of a renewable energy gold rush. Hundreds of applications for wind and solar projects have been filed on public lands. I think this is long overdue. We need sustainable energy to help us reduce global warming pollution, and we need it fast. But if we don’t handle this boom carefully, [...]
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Robert Redford headlining PSAs for the first-ever NBA Green Week? What we figured might be another April Fools joke is actually the real deal — and ambitious at that.
The National Basketball Association, in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, will unleash its inaugural NBA Green Week 2009 will tip off tomorrow (April 2nd) and [...]
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Robert Redford is no stranger to recognition for his environmental activism — and the actor can look forward to one more accolade when he receives the first ever Duke LEAF Award on April 18 at Duke University. Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment established the annual award this year to honor artists whose work inspires [...]
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Last year’s Sundance Festival saw the complimentary hand-out of more than 50,000 single-serve bottles of water. That waste is just a drop in the bucket of the 38 billion plastic water bottles thrown away each year by Americans. Festival organizers, however, wanted to reduce this impact and for 2009 have teamed up with FilterForGood — [...]
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Seems like those “Drill, baby, drill!” supporters aren’t keen to stop looking foolish. Adding another layer of inane reasoning to their arguments, protesters marched in Park City, Utah yesterday claiming that Robert Redford’s stance on drilling was “racist” and hurtful to the lower class. The group was led by the Congress of Racial Equality’s national [...]
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Almost as soon as election night concluded, President Bush was setting in motion plans to auction off more than 100,000 acres of pristine wilderness in Utah for oil and gas extraction. Some of those parcels would be alongside or within view of Arches National Park and two other redrock national parks and landmarks. As we [...]
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