Gulf News; From Bad to Worse

by Rob Kall
OpEd News
June 17, 2010

Sit down. Get ready. Your life has begun to change. It will never be the same again. This gulf disaster is changing everything. Call your legislators. Tell them that they are now on notice. There are the constituents and there are planet killing corporations, ready to wipe out life on the planet for a profit. Those legislators have to choose whose side they are on. No more bullshit. No more lobbyists getting favors...

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Just the Facts :: Water Footprints

by Berit Anderson
yes! Magazine
May 13, 2010

How much water do we use? More than any other country, it turns out. And we could save a lot...

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Is the BP Clean-Up Creating A Toxic Soup in the Gulf?

By Kate Sheppard
Mother Jones
Mon May. 10, 2010

...Dr. Riki Ott, a marine toxicologist and former commercial fisher in Alaska at the time of the Exxon Valdez spill, has been in the Gulf area meeting with fisherman and communities to discuss the potential impacts. While Exxon used dispersants to clean up the Alaska spill, which have had long-term impacts on herring and salmon, what's going on in the Gulf now is unprecedented, she warns. "We've never released them at this rate before, so much, so fast," said Ott. She said lab tests on the toxicity of the dispersants don't reflect the reality of how these agents can affect an ecosystem. The use of the chemicals in such large volumes, she said, "has the potential to cause intergenerational harm."...

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Author Nikolas Kozloff on “No Rain in the Amazon: How South America’s Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet”

DemocracyNow!
April 16, 2010

Environmentalists and indigenous communities along the Amazon celebrated an important victory Thursday after a Brazilian judge suspended bidding on the construction of what is slated to be the third largest dam in the world. We speak to Nikolas Kozloff, author of the new book No Rain in the Amazon: How South America’s Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet. Kozloff argues that protecting the rainforests of the Amazon from environmental damage is not just crucial for the populations that live in and around it, but is a global necessity...

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CITES Faces Political Storm over Tuna Ban

Inter Press Service
by Matthew Berger

WASHINGTON, Mar 6, 2010 (IPS) - The vast majority of the species protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, live on land, but as marine species come under increasing pressure from unsustainable fishing and a range of climate change-related threats that focus is beginning to shift...

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A LONGER LIFE

Conservation International
January 12, 2010
By Molly Bergen

In the Galápagos Islands, a new technology is protecting species, promoting the tourism economy and saving lives – all in a day’s work...

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Clean water, a healthy planet and a clean energy future for America.

Clean Water Action
November 5, 2009

Climate and energy legislation are vitally important to the success of our economy and the health our environment. America's energy policy should be driven by clean energy incentives and firm limits on carbon pollution, which will help drive America's economic recovery. We must invest in energy efficient technologies which would create hundreds of thousands of new construction, energy service, and building maintenance and operations jobs by 2020, and ultimately reduce consumers' energy bills.

Your Senators needs to hear from you today - negotiations are getting fiercer and we need to pass a bill which is strong enough to solve our economic and climate crises. We know we need to make the reductions that science tells us are needed while rejecting handouts to polluters and subsidies for dirty, expensive, and unsafe technologies, like coal and nuclear.

We, the people, have the tools to act and the ability to create clean energy jobs - as a country, we've overcome tremendous hurdles in the past, and this time will be no different.

Please don't delay - send the message below to your Senators right now. They are waiting to hear from you...

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