Environment
& Sustainability
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children." -Native American Proverb
Headlines
- 03/16/10 - How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor [Video]
- 03/16/10 - Seeing the Forest Through the Trees
- 03/15/10 - Cities Sue Over Weed Killer in the Water
- 03/15/10 - Vandana Shiva Says Relying on GM Crops to Battle Climate Change 'Suicidal'
- 03/15/10 - Saving U.S. Water and Sewer Systems Would Be Costly
- 03/15/10 - Nearly Half of Americans Believe Climate Change Threat is Exaggerated
- 03/15/10 - Climate Legislation, Science and Activism
- 03/15/10 - OCA and Labor Activists at Shareholder Meeting Say Whole Foods' Business Practices Are Bad for the Planet
- 03/12/10 - Media Coverage of the OCA Sludge Dump in San Francisco
- 03/11/10 - Vote in the Ideas For Change In America Contest
- 03/11/10 - Organic Activists Protest Free San Francisco Compost
- 03/11/10 - How to Provide Relief to Rural Americans, Create Jobs, and Lower Emissions
- 03/10/10 - Monica Conyers Gets 37 Months in Prison in Synagro Bribery Scandal in Detroit
- 03/09/10 - Living Hero Interview with Vandana Shiva
- 03/09/10 - Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Renewable Energy's Limits
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The GNA Platform
Press the politicians
to support:
- A law requiring American cars to get at least 50 miles to the gallon by 2020 and a moratorium on all new coal and nuclear plants.
- A ban on unsustainable logging on U.S. public lands and in tropical rainforests, and a restoration of carbon sequestering wetlands and forests.
- A U.S. energy sustainability program that would withdraw $40 billion in annual subsidies from fossil fuels and establish equivalent subsidies for clean energy sources.
- The conversion of 20% of U.S. farmland to energy-efficient organic farming by 2020 and 50% by 2040, with at least 5% of the USDA's annual $90 billion budget being targeted to rebuild local food systems and help farmers make the transition to organic.
- The creation of five million new Green Collar jobs, with a special emphasis on training and providing jobs for inner-city youth and veterans, to retrofit the nation's homes and buildings, conserve 20% of our energy use by 2015, and provide workers for organic farms and other green sectors of the economy.
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New Movie
Kilowatt Ours follows Jeff and his wife Heather on their quest to rid their home of coal and nuclear energy usage and to cut back the energy they do use as much as possible.
Click here to see the trailer.
Resources
Promoting Refillable Beverage Containers
Greenpeace Paper:
Cool Farming:
Climate Impacts
of Agriculture
and
Mitigation Potential (PDF)
Recommended online newsletters:
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