Why are your commitments to our living planet so important?
In the Arctic, the science points to a 20 percent loss of sea ice--essential habitat for polar bears and their prey--in the last 30 years, and models predict a potential summer ice free Arctic by 2040.
Almost half of our planet's original forests have disappeared. These forests are amazing storehouses of biological diversity, housing over two-thirds of all known terrestrial species. Only about 10 percent of what remains are protected in areas like national parks.
In the last 40 years, one third of America's topsoil has washed off the land, ending up in waterways where it can cloud freshwater streams and smother coral reefs.
We cannot simply standby and allow this to continue. We've reached a critical moment in the history of the earth and it's Time for Change. In honor of all the creatures on our living planet, help protect the future of nature this Earth Day. 1
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to Support
a National Renewable
Energy Standard
A Union of Concerned Scientists ALERT: Clean sources of renewable energy like wind, solar, geothermal, and energy crops reduce global warming pollution, create jobs, save consumers money, and increase America's energy independence and security.
A bill expected in the Senate would require utilities to have 15 percent of their electricity come from these clean, renewable sources by 2020. Please urge your senators to support this strong renewable electricity standard.
Instructions:
Click here to take action on renewable energy standards.
What's At Stake:
The composition of the new Congress offers the brightest prospects seen in years to pass strong federal renewable energy policy through a renewable electricity standard (also known as a Renewable Portfolio Standard or RPS).1
While we wait for Congress to do the right thing, why not switch to florescent bulbs and save $$$ on your electricity bill by lowering your personal energy consumption which in turn helps stop global warming.
Care2.com's Race to Stop Global Warming!
Once per day, you can click for free to slow global warming by offsetting one pound of carbon, a greenhouse gas. Each day, you can take a small step in slowing global warming by offsetting some of your emissions. Just click here to offset a pound of carbon. Be sure to tell your friends 1
the
5
big
ideas
After last
November's election, the Environmental Defense Fund
challenged the new Congress to take on five big ideas
for environmental progress in 2007:
+Fight
global warming AND grow the economy
+Protect
endangered species by working WITH landowners
+Reward
farmers for conservation - friendly farming
+Create a
trust fund for the ocean
+Protect
Gulf Coast communities AND wildlife by restoring
coastal wetlands
The 110th Congress has now been at work for a tad
longer than 100 calendar days. Environmental
Defense thought
this was a good time to pause and assess how Congress
is doing. Click here to find
out. 1
There is no more important cause than the call to action to save our planet.
This is a movement about change, as individuals, as a country, and as a global community. We are all contributors to global warming and we all need to be part of the solution.
Join the 699,203 supporters of the Stop Global Warming Virtual March, and become part of the movement to demand our leaders freeze and reduce carbon dioxide emissions now.1
save our planet?
we
can do it,
YOU
can help
Give Your Kids (&
Yourself)
a GREEN HOURTM
As
a society, we are raising the first generation of
Americans to grow up disconnected from nature. That's
the bad news. The
Green Hour safari program is
the good news! Try it.1
Click here
To join Leonardo
DiCaprio in protecting
the polar bear from global warming,
go to www.PolarBearSOS.org/
The Bush administration record on the environment and all things environ-
mental -- (endangered species, clean air, clean water, mineral and timber rights on federally protected land among many other critical issues) - has not been good. If you'd like to read through the decisions, the Natural Resources Defense Council recorded all the Bush administration's decisions through 2005 and they can be viewed online, if you've the stomach for it.
Click here to read the record.
December 18, 2006
EPA Exempts Pesticides from
Clean Water Act
November 17, 2006
EPA's New Air Quality Standards Endanger Public Health
November 02, 2006
Bush Names Exxon Chief to Chart America's Energy Future
Exxpose Exxon
A coalition of environmental and public interest groups spotlighting ExxonMobil's efforts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, prevent action on global warming, and encourage America’s oil dependence.
http://www.exxposeexxon.com/
Mercury Hair Sampling Project
Test your level of mecury exposure through Greenpeace.
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/mercury
Save Our Environment
Access a coalition of national environmental groups and easily send letters to Members of Congress on pending environmental legislation.
http://www.saveourenvironment.org
Congress.org
To quickly look up and contact your elected officials, go to Congress.org and enter your zipcode.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
REP America
View the website for the "environmental conscience of the GOP." This site includes the Campaign for Change: Action Plan for a Green GOP Century.
http://www.repamerica.org/CampaignforChange.html
PEER
Keep up with what career civil servants working in Bush Administration environmental agencies are doing, through Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
http://www.peer.org
Environmental Health News
Sign up to receive daily news summaries of environmental health coverage from around the world, in your inbox by 9 am ET.
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org
EPA Toxic Release Data
Search for toxic chemical releases by Zip code as reported annually to the EPA in the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory database.
http://www.epa.gov/tri
Body Burden
Get an idea of how many chemicals exist in your body by reading the articles on Environmental Working Group's Body Burden site.
http://www.ewg.org/
Grist Magazine
Keep up to date on environmental policy happenings inside the beltway and beyond - reported with irreverence and a wry twist of humor.
http://www.gristmagazine.com
Presidential Report Card
Read the League of Conservation Voters' grade for President Bush's environmental
record and how the group ranks
other presidential candidates.
http://www.lcv.org
"If we are saying that the loss of species in and of itself is inherently bad -- I don't think we know enough about how the world works to say that." - Interior Department Assistant Secretary Craig Manson, appointed by President Bush to position overseeing the Endangered Species Act, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 12, 2003
"This is clear propaganda." - Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) on EPA ad campaign for "Clear-Skies" Initiative, Oct. 15, 2003
"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." - President Bush, Sept. 23, 2002, Trenton, New Jersey, speech
"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country." - President Bush on the Kyoto Climate Change Treaty, Washington Post, April 24, 2001
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." - President Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
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1 from Union of Concerned Scientists, World Wildlife Fund, Care2.com, Stop Global Warming.org, The Environmental Defense Fund, National Wildlife Federation, Friends of the Earth, MoveOn.org/BushGreenwatch, Vanity Fair, Natural Resources Defense Council and Endangered Species Chocolate (hey, ya gotta' eat.)
brain and eye candy :)
Henry Porter's
Vanity Fair
"50 ways to help save the planet,"
or Leonardo on ice;
Click here
enjoy!
