Environment
& Sustainability
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children." -Native American Proverb
Headlines
- 08/27/08 - Chemical Pollutants Likely Culprits in Rising Birth Defects
- 08/27/08 - Bayer Pesticides Cause Mass Death of Bees
- 08/27/08 - 09.27.08 Green Jobs Now!
- 08/26/08 - Fresh Vegetables, by the Jarful
- 08/26/08 - Half of All Food Produced Worldwide is Wasted
- 08/26/08 - New Research Finds Higher-Than-Expected Levels of Pesticides in Hives
- 08/25/08 - Cornell Chronicle: Eating Healthier Could Cut Energy Use
- 08/25/08 - Even Five-Star Restaurants Can't Be Trusted for Healthy Food
- 08/25/08 - Victory Gardens Symbolize a New Age
- 08/25/08 - Drinking Water of 41 Million Americans Contaminated with Pharmaceuticals
- 08/25/08 - How Cities Across the World Are Promoting Urban Agriculture
- 08/25/08 - Food, Fuel and Water Crises Converging
- 08/24/08 - Obama and Big Corn
- 08/23/08 - Rachel's #973: The General Motors Solution
- 08/23/08 - Post Peak Oil: Losing Control by Richard Heinberg
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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.
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Resources
Greenpeace Paper:
Cool Farming:
Climate Impacts
of Agriculture
and
Mitigation Potential (PDF)
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