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ECOALERT!Protect Forests & Habitat 19 y
Eco-Action Alert: Tell the Bush Administration that our roadless national forests should stay roadless! Sign a petition affirming your support for our nation's endangered species and critical habitat!
Take Action: Stand up for America’s wild forests: Sign your name! America’s remaining roadless national forests belong to all Americans. But this spring, the Bush administration took a huge step backward by repealing the 2001 "Roadless Rule," opening nearly sixty million acres of America’s last wild National Forests to logging, road construction, mining, oil exploration, and other forms of development. Sign our new petition to tell the administration, once again, that all of our remaining roadless areas should be protected, completely and permanently: &nb ... read more Sugar Cane Car Fuel! 19 y
Brazilians buy "Flex" Cars that run on alcohol from sugar cane to beat high gasoline prices
From the Christian Science Monitor: http://csmonitor.com/2005/1007/p05s01-woam.html
Brazil fights oil prices with alcohol
SUGAR CANE FOR FUEL: As more Brazilian sugar growers turn to producing ethanol for cars, sugar prices worldwide have hit a seven-year high this week.
Sales of ’Flex’ cars that run on alcohol or gasoline surpassed August sales of gasoline-only vehicles.
By Andrew Downie | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilians aren’t waiting for high-priced hybrid cars.
Drivers are fighting rising gasoline prices by buying ”flex” or ”f ... read more Fantastic Primate Photos! 19 y
Fantastic photos of primates--gorillas, orang-utans, monkeys, lemurs, chimpanzees, bonobos, and monkeys from a great website! Wonderful for kids, too!
Baby Chimpanzee
Mother Orangu-tan and baby
Vervet Monkey
Newborn Gorilla
Red-fronted Lemur Family
Mother Bonobo and Baby
All Photos are from this Great Website! http://www.primates.com/index.html
See more Photos, read information about, and learn about endangered primates--chimpanzees, orang-utans, gorillas, bonobos (cousins of chimpanzees), lemurs, and monkeys. Wonderful for kids! http://www.primates.com/index.html
Related Blogs:
Chimpanzee Sanctuary: http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=184
Great Apes ... read more Great Animal PHOTOS! 19 y
13 Great Animal PHOTOS! CUTE!
Looking for me? Awww..what a fragrance!! I am brave....very, very, brave... Ave Mar eeeeee eeee ahhhhhhhh It’s a bird, It’s a Plane...It’s Superman! OOOOh, Baby, I’m having a good hair day!! You lookin’ at me? Ahhhhhh...feels so good!!! Kowabunga Dude!! Look into my eyes, deep into my eyes.. ZZZZZ,zzzzz,ZZZZZ,zzzzz,ZZZZZ.zzzzz.. I really need to think about that.... You liked the pictures? You REALLY liked the pictures? Then make sure an’ tell all your friends! MORE ANIMAL PHOTOS: Lemurs and Baby Pandas: http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=92 New lemur species discovered in the ra ... read more Enviro Fight Never Over 19 y
Newsweek interview with Frances Beinecke, president-elect of Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the nation's largest environmental organizations, on environmental challenges the world is facing.
THE FIGHT IS NEVER OVER
Frances Beinecke, the incoming head of the Natural Resources Defense
Council, shares her thoughts on new environmental solutions and challenges.
By Jerry Adler
NEWSWEEK
Oct. 17, 2005
At the Manhattan headquarters of the Natural Resources Defense Council,
one of the nation’s largest environmental organizations, Frances Beinecke sits
in a corner office with not much space to spare; frugally, the lights are switched
off on a sunny afternoon, and the coffee served to visitors is barely
lukewarm.
Beinecke, 56, a Prius-driving graduate of Yale and the Yal ... read more Shoshone Solar Energy 19 y
Western Shoshone Nation receipt of solar panels is first step towards locally run energy systems, serves as a model of alternative energy development in a desert region, and is another step towards environmental justice for Native peoples.
Article from: Manataka American Indian Council, Smoke Signal Newsletter, Volume VII Issue 10 OCTOBER 2005 http://www.manataka.org/page872.html#Ecology%20Front
Ecology Front
Solar Energy Moves into Western Shoshone Territory in Nevada
--Honor the Earth, in coordination with Solar Energy International, the Western Shoshone Defense Project, American Spirit Productions and the Battle Mountain Band of Te-Moak Western Shoshone will provide free training and installation of a solar photovoltaic system in the heart of Western Shoshone territory near Elko, Nevada.
Solar panels an ... read more Volunteers Needed! 19 y
I sent an e-mail out to my physician-friend regarding the use of herbicide at the El Dorado Nature Center. I have posted her response below. She believes that the Center's use of herbicide, without the detergent additive that causes so much environmental devastation, is a step in the right direction, but more community volunteers are needed.
Dr.Dorothy Calabrese, M.D., Environmental Medicine specialist wrote:
Dear Liora:
(The El Dorado Nature Center staff is) on the ball. This (herbicide with active ingredient glyphosate + water, without the "surfactant" or detergent additive) is their generic (cheaper) herbicide equivalent of IPPM (intermittent partial pesticide management) If they let the environment get overgrown, the ecology will shift with adverse consequences.
This is where they should have boy scouts, citizen volunteers, or people
doing court--ordered commuinity service etc come in and ... read more CA Safe Cosmetics Act passed 19 y
California Governor signs two bills: Safe Cosmetics Act of 2005 and Radiation Safety; vetoes Biomonitoring Program and Safer Cosmetics for Californians bills
October 13, 2005
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With your support this year, the Breast Cancer Fund made history. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law two of the four bills sponsored by the Breast Cancer Fund in 2005. Today we step back to consider the work that lies ahead, and stop to celebrate the strides we are making toward improved public health and breast cancer prevention. SB 484: The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2005 SIGNED In a landmark advance in the safety of cosmetics products, the governor signed SB 484 on October 7, bringing additi ... read more Herbicide, Round 6! 19 y
Since I wrote the original blog about the El Dorado Nature Center and the use of the herbicide Roundup, I've found out some new information: The herbicide used at the Nature Center does not contain surfactant, the inert "detergent" additive that is known to cause environmental devastation.
Dear All:
This week I spoke with the "grounds coordinator" of the Nature Center, Donnie Haigh, who seems to know a lot more of what is going on than Ken Herbage, the superintendent of maintenance for the entire extensive Long Beach Parks system whom I spoke with last week.
Haigh told me that the Nature Center makes up their own herbicide solution--1 part glyphosate (the active ingredient) to 100 parts water; they don’t have the inert surfactant, or "soap", in it that commercial Roundup has. The surfactant, from what I’ve been reading, is the more t ... read more Pakistan Earthquake Aid 19 y
Oxfam America is one of my favorite nonprofit organizations. Oxfam is seeking donations to help Pakistan/India Earthquake and Central America Disaster relief efforts. Please HELP NOW!
PLEASE HELP NOW: Pakistan/India Earthquake and Central America Disaster
In a year of mounting tragedies, Oxfam now faces the challenge of helping people devastated by the earthquake in South Asia and by a deadly combination of hurricanes, flooding and volcanic eruption in Central America.
Oxfam urgently needs your donation to our Global Emergencies Fund, which makes it possible for us to respond immediately to multiple crises. This vitally important fund is playing a crucial role in helping Oxfam reach out to people whose lives were tor ... read more Toxic-Free Future! 19 y
ECO-ALERT: Show European Members of Parliament We Support a Toxic Free Future!
After two years of debate, 732 members of the European parliament will be voting on the new chemicals law, REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals). They are Europe’s elected representatives and should vote to protect their citizens and children from chemicals that build up in our bodies and could interrupt our hormone system.
Tell them that they need to vote for safer chemicals!
Join a ”virtual gallery” being presented to European Members of Parliament.
Our European allies are asking for our help as they create a gallery of photos of individuals and familie ... read more Chimpanzee Sanctuary 19 y
In Cameroon, the Chimpanzee Rescue Center provides sanctuary to chimpanzee orphans of the bushmeat trade, while working to save chimpanzees and gorillas from extinction.
Need for Speede
Sheri Speede, chimpanzee champion, answers Grist ’s questions
http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/10/10/speede/index.html?sour...
10 Oct 2005
Questions from Grist editors:
Q: With what environmental organization are you affiliated?
A: I’m a veterinarian who directs a conservation project in Cameroon, in west-central Africa -- In Defense of Animals - Africa.
At the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in the M ... read more Well, looky here! 19 y
I've been writing about the use of Monsanto's infamous herbicide, Roundup, at the El Dorado Park Nature Center, and what action I'm going to take to try and get it banned from use. Think I just found myself some Nature Center allies! The best part of it is, I took this info. right off of the Long Beach Park, Recreation and Marine's very own website!
ACTIVITIES AT THE EL DORADO NATURE CENTER:
El Dorado Audubon Society Meeting
Members share their love of birds and the environment at this monthly program on the 3rd Thursday of the month.
Sustainable Living
Join with others in a nine-week study circle about sustainable living. Learn about steps we can take to move toward ecologically sustainable organizations, lifestyles and communities. Materials fee of $15 will cover reading materials from Northwest Earth Institute. Wednesdays, Oct 19 - Dec 14, 7-9pm.
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
1st Saturday Stewards
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Nature Center Illusion Shattered, or was that Delusion?
I’ve been crying since Friday morning when I found out that the Nature Center I frequent uses Monsanto’s Roundup, a powerful herbicide, to kill weeds along the trail and god-knows-where-else in the park. I know that Roundup is an herbicide used frequently by parks all over the country for just this purpose (it’s even used by the Forestry Service in State and National Parks!), but I always believed, until Friday, that my beloved Nature Center was exempt.
Maybe I wanted to believe this because I live in the suburban wasteland of Southern California, and the Long Beach El Dorado Park N ... read more Herbicide:Drink Up! 19 y
I spoke with the Superintendent of Maintenance at the Nature Center where I walk almost daily. He told me that the herbicide they use to kill weeds, Monsanto's Roundup, is "safe enough to drink"!
I contacted the Long Beach Parks, Recreation, and Marine Dept. to file a complaint about the Roundup herbicide used in the Nature Center (see blog ”Broken Hearted”: http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=180 and spoke to Ken Herbage, Superintendent of Maintenance. He told me that the Park maintenance employee should not have been using Roundup during hours the park is open to the public, but should have used it only on the day the park is closed, Mondays.
I was incredulous that the Nature Center uses Roundup at all, as the Center has many volunteers that regularly pull weeds and d ... read more Broken Hearted 19 y
I am heart-broken to find that my Beloved Nature Center is using RoundUp, a potent herbicide, to kill weeds. Can Mother Earth forgive us? Can we forgive ourselves?
Got back from a walk to the local elementary school around 6:30 this evening. I went there to do my sungazing practice. The school was alive with kids playing baseball, riding bikes, laughing. The sunset through the trees was spectacular. Only one thing to mar the experience. One minor, inconsequential thing. A man, someone’s Daddy, was putting the lines down on the field of grass for tomorrow’s soccer game. He was using paint from an aerosol can. White aerosol paint, loaded into a small line-painting machine that he rolled along the grass. I could see the aerosol spray mist, and smell it ... read more Global Warming Labels 19 y
Global Warming Labels Bill Signed Into Law in California
AB 1229, the Union of Concerned Scientists’ bill requiring global warming emissions labels on all new vehicles sold in California, has been signed by Governor Schwarzenegger and is now law! Until now, consumers had virtually no way to measure or compare the global warming pollution impact of their car choices. Now, thanks to our collective efforts, new car buyers will be able to tell right away on the showroom floor which vehicles are the most (or least) friendly toward the environment.
The letters, legislative office visits, and support from UCS ac ... read more |