{"id":2055,"date":"2006-04-22T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/04\/22\/a-celebration-of-grassroots-environmental-heroes\/"},"modified":"2006-04-22T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T13:47:00","slug":"a-celebration-of-grassroots-environmental-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/a-celebration-of-grassroots-environmental-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration of Grassroots Environmental Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/magazine\/pressroom\/\">green issue of Vanity Fair<\/a> has been all the talk around the green blogosphere&#8230; Alternet refers to it in order to introduce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/envirohealth\/35290\/\">yesterday&#8217;s piece on &#8220;eco-heroes.&#8221;<\/a>  While VF tended to focus on high-profile activists (RFK, Jr., Al Gore, Julia Roberts), Alternet asked readers to vote on their grassroots heroes &#8212; the people doing the work &#8220;in the trenches.&#8221; The resulting list is an inspirational read on people who work every day to address mounting environmental problems. Thanks to both groups of activists for raising the profile of green issues, and for doing the grunt work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/green\" rel=\"tag\">green<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/sustainable\" rel=\"tag\">sustainable<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/environmental\" rel=\"tag\">environmental<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/activism\" rel=\"tag\">activism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/grassroots\" rel=\"tag\">grassroots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The green issue of Vanity Fair has been all the talk around the green blogosphere&#8230; Alternet refers to it in order to introduce yesterday&#8217;s piece on &#8220;eco-heroes.&#8221; While VF tended&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Celebration of Grassroots Environmental Heroes &#8226; 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