The Environmental Working Group is taking a stand on pet care products, home toxins and the effect they have on people and animals. Our pets are members of our family, but their food, grooming products and toys aren’t held to the same standards as those labeled for human use. And our pet’s health could be telling us startling things about our own health.
Nature Deva is urging us to send letters to your senators and member of Congress and spread the word about The Kid Safe Chemicals Act. Read more…
How outdated and archaic were your textbooks when you were in school? Since textbooks are so expensive to print and things change fast in social studies and the sciences, I remember my teachers supplementing our textbooks with newspaper articles and mimeographed “ditto” packets. But it’s one thing to need a supplemental packet on the Berlin Wall coming down because it just happened last week. It’s another thing to need be reading from a brand spanking new edition of a textbook that denies the existence of climate change. Read more…
(Warning, the video is upsetting).From Yahoo! News:
“Canada’s annual seal hunt, which the government promised would be more humane this year, cranked up slowly on Friday because of thick ice. Read more…
After reading BraveNewLeaf’s post on the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement, I was thrilled to see that my local mayor was on the list. Read more…
Last week, the U.S. Government announced that the Gray Wolves of the Northern Rockies will be taken off of the endangered species list. In response, eleven conservation groups plan to follow this case through to federal court in a law suit against this violation of the Endangered Species Act. Read more…
Earth Hour is coming up again, and this time, it’s bigger and better than before. Read more…
Environmental Working Group is doing a study of bottled water, and you can help. Read more…
I just got an e-mail from Oceana about the above video and their Valentine’s Day campaign. (I’m still not sure if animals acting natural qualifies as not safe for work. I guess it depends on where you work.)Take a minute to send an e-card to a friend or loved one, print out some Valentines for kids, shop for a bouquet that will benefit Oceana, or make a donation in honor of someone special. Trying to save the ocean in the name of love seems pretty darn romantic, if you ask me.
Wow, this is creepy. I got an e-mail from Friends of the Earth last night regarding the FDA’s decision to lift the ban on selling meat and dairy products from cloned animals.
“The FDA has buckled to big biotech and agro-business despite more than 150,000 public comments opposing the lifting of the ban, and amendments to the federal Farm Bill and Omnibus Appropriations Bill calling for more research before lifting the ban.
Genetically speaking, you meat eaters could eat burgers from the same cow for years.
Don’t eat meat? We still think this issue will interest you, given the risks we take by introducing cloned animals into our food system and ecosystem.
It is too late to stop the FDA from permitting the sale of food from cloned animals, and there are no labeling requirements either, which is why we need to make grocery stores pay a price for choosing to sell it.”
The e-mail goes on to say:
“The FDA claims that cloned animals and their offspring are safe for us to eat, yet studies used by the FDA are incomplete. Cloned animals have a much higher rate of genetic abnormalities than animals that reproduce naturally. Most cloned animals die immediately after birth because the intricacies of the cloning process are still not well understood. Dolly, the first cloned sheep, died only six years after her birth of premature arthritis and lung disease.“
All the more reason to buy organic and free-range meat and dairy products (if you eat meat and dairy).
Please sign the FOE petition to major grocery stores telling them you will not shop at a store that cannot guarantee clone-free meat and dairy. What a strange world we’re living in, huh?
Did you have a family member who sat in the corner at a party or holiday event, carefully folding up wrapping paper for future use? Maybe it was a grandma or great aunt who lived through the Depression and learned to save anything that was usable, maybe it was just someone who was thrifty and knew how to pinch pennies. What ever the reason behind it, saving wrapping paper makes good green sense.