Pass the Shark Conservation Act

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/349500607?z00m=19813916 Pass the Shark Conservation Act Target: U.S. Senate Sponsored by: Oceana Every year, millions of sharks are caught for their fins to feed the growing worldwide demand for shark fin soup. And this demand has led to drastic declines in shark populations around the world. Some populations have declined by as much as 99 [...]

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Radioactive Longer Than Expected

Published on Sunday, December 20, 2009 by ABC News Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Radioactive Longer Than Expected Radioactive Material Isn’t Disappearing From the Environment as Quickly as Predicte by Alexis Madrigal Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident in history, created an inadvertent laboratory to study the impacts of radiation  and more than twenty years later, the [...]

Climate Summit: History Was Not Made

Published on Sunday, December 20, 2009 by Inter Press Service Climate Summit: History Was Not Made by Stephen Leahy COPENHAGEN – There is no Copenhagen climate treaty. History was not made here and no deal was sealed. After two years of intense negotiations by 193 countries, what is abundantly clear is the enormous divide between [...]

My Thoughts

It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain.  It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbors than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs.  It is easier to fall in step with the slogans [...]

Tell Walmart: Post Seafood Warnings!

Tell Walmart: Post Seafood Warnings! Target: Walmart Sponsored by: Oceana Oceana is asking grocery stores to protect kids from mercury in fish by posting the Food and Drug Administration’s mercury advice at their seafood displays. Over a third of the major grocery companies are on board but retailing behemoth Walmart has not agreed to post [...]

The Truths Copenhagen Ignored

Published on Saturday, December 19, 2009 by The Independent/UK The Truths Copenhagen Ignored by Johann Hari So that’s it. The world’s worst polluters – the people who are drastically altering the climate – gathered here in Copenhagen to announce they were going to carry on cooking, in defiance of all the scientific warnings. They didn’t [...]

Senate Approves $636 Billion Military Spending Bill

Published on Saturday, December 19, 2009 by Reuters Senate Approves $636 Billion Military Spending Bill by Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate approved a $636 billion military spending bill on Saturday that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and also includes money to extend jobless aid and Medicare payment rates for two months. [...]

Blood Diamonds From Zimbabwe

Published on Friday, December 18, 2009 by The Providence Journal Blood Diamonds From Zimbabwe by Tiseke Kasambala JOHANNESBURG — As Americans flock to stores for holiday shopping, some will buy diamonds for loved ones. But that gift could have a bloody past. If the diamonds are from Zimbabwe, the stones could have been mined under [...]

Obama’s Climate Sham[e]: Empty Rhetoric in Copenhagen Speech

Published on Friday, December 18, 2009 by It’s Getting Hot in Here Obama’s Climate Sham[e]: Empty Rhetoric in Copenhagen Speech by Jamie Henn There was a time, say 12 months ago, when each speech by Obama was anticipated with a mix of excitement and hope. Despite myself, I felt that same mix of giddy expectation [...]

Copenhagen: The Courage to Say No

Published on Friday, December 18, 2009 by The Nation Copenhagen: The Courage to Say No by Naomi Klein CopenhagenOn the ninth day of the Copenhagen climate summit, Africa was sacrificed. The position of the G-77 negotiating bloc, including African states, had been clear: a 2 degree Celsius increase in average global temperatures translates into a [...]