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Three U.S. retailers pledge to avoid fish from embattled Ross Sea (Safeway, Wegmans, and Harris Teeter)
(03/14/2012) The Ross Sea, a massive bay off Antarctica, has been dubbed the world’s last ocean due to its pristine state, long-untouched by industry and fisheries. However, over the last 15 years New Zealand commercial fisheries have entered the sea, seeking the slow-growing Antarctic toothfish which is usually sold as the high-end Chilean sea bass. Now as conservation groups plead for nations to grant the Ross Sea protected status, Greenpeace has begun a campaign to get good retailers to steer clear of stocking Antarctic toothfish. To date, Safeway, Wegmans, and Harris Teeter has all pledged not to source from the Ross Sea. Antarctica: Ross Island in the Ross Sea. Photo by: Bigstock.Little is known about the Antarctic toothfish, this one was captured and photographed underwater in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Photo by: Paul Cziko, supported by US-NSF through the DeVries-Cheng Lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Switching Off for Sustainability

Overview of Sydney during Earth HourApril 1, 2012, www.worldnature.org | “For one hour on March 31st, 2012, more than 6,500 cities across the world went dark. In Brazil, the lights that usually shine on the statue of Christ the Redeemer dimmed to black. In Colombia, television station TeleMedellin shut off its program transmissions. Even New York City’s Empire State Building and London’s Big Ben stood in the dark for sixty minutes. The voluntary blackout was part of Earth Hour 2012, an international movement that aims to unite people around the world to create a more sustainable future.”

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~ old news, good news
6,500 CITIES TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS FOR EARTH HOUR, 03/31/2012
sometimes it takes 6 months for the full report on the extent of participation in something like this to come in.
Switching Off for Sustainability
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Whole Foods is Taking a Step Toward Sustainable Seafood

March 30, 2012 www.chow.com | In a major victory for embattled sea creatures around the globe, Whole Foods announced today that it will stop selling fish caught from depleted waters or through ecologically unsustainable methods. The grocery chain’s new policy will go into effect on April 22, otherwise known as Earth Day.

 

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Whole Foods Market is the first national grocer to stop selling red-rated seafood, which is a fish species suffering from overfishing or that current fishing methods harm other marine life or habitats.
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EPA Proposes First Carbon Pollution Standard for Future Power Plants

March 27, 2012, www.yosemite.epa.gov | WASHINGTON – Following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants. EPA’s proposed standard reflects the ongoing trend in the power sector to build cleaner plants that take advantage of American-made technologies, including new, clean-burning, efficient natural gas generation, which is already the technology of choice for new and planned power plants. At the same time, the rule creates a path forward for new technologies to be deployed at future facilities that will allow companies to burn coal, while emitting less carbon pollution. The rulemaking proposed today only concerns new generating units that will be built in the future, and does not apply to existing units already operating or units that will start construction over the next 12 months.

“Today we’re taking a common-sense step to reduce pollution in our air, protect the planet for our children, and move us into a new era of American energy,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. “Right now there are no limits to the amount of carbon pollution that future power plants will be able to put into our skies – and the health and economic threats of a changing climate continue to grow. We’re putting in place a standard that relies on the use of clean, American made technology to tackle a challenge that we can’t leave to our kids and grandkids.”

 

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Release Date: 03/27/2012Contact Information: Cathy Milbourn (News Media Only) Milbourn.cathy@epa.gov 202-564-7849 202-564-4355WASHINGTON – Following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution fro…”
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USA imposes first-ever carbon emission limits on new power plants

March 27, 2012, www.tcktcktck.org | The Environmental Protection Agency has just proposed the first-ever national standards to limit dangerous carbon pollution from new power plants. These historic safeguards are critical to ensuring a cleaner future for American communities: no longer will new electric plants be able to endanger our health with unchecked carbon pollution and the climate change it causes.

Instead, our nation can start creating a 21st century power fleet — one that uses the latest clean technologies and reduces the threat of climate change.

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GoodNews FortheEarth‎~ Thanks so much for this article! Because of it, I was able to follow a link to the main EPA site, find all the press releases that came out today, and post them on our Wall. It’s great when someone from another country can tell let us know what’s going on in the USA — a good example of how it helps for people from all places all around the world to work together!

Good News for a Strong Movement – Tell Obama to Cease FDA Ties to Monsanto

~ 432,034 PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED THIS PETITION IN THE LAST MONTH! good news of a strong movement . . . and the campaign goes on.

432,034 Petition Signers Tell Obama to Cease FDA Ties to Monsanto:  “I just signed a petition to President Barack Obama: President Obama, I oppose your appointment of Michael Taylor, a former VP and lobbyist for Monsanto, the widely criticized genetically modified (GM) food multinational, as senior adviser to the commissioner at the FDA.”   The Petition:

Xerox no longer buys from Asia Pulp & Paper

March 21, 2012, www.mongabay.com | “Xerox no longer buys paper products from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a Singapore-based paper giant under fire for its forest management practices in Indonesia, according to a statement published on the company’s official blog late last week.

Xerox made the announcement in response to a Greenpeace investigation that linked APP to illegal harvesting of ramin, a protected tree species.”

“Xerox: we no longer buy from Asia Pulp & Paper
3/21/12 Xerox no longer buys paper products from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a Singapore-based paper giant under fire for its forest management practices in Indonesia, according to a statement published on the company’s official blog late last week..”
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Germany Embarks on Historic Alternative Energy Push

March 19, 2012, www.commondreams.org – Spurred by a public outcry following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, Germany’s Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, announced last year that Germany would phase out all of its nuclear power plants. Now, with a looming 20% energy gap to fill, the European nation plans to follow on its early leadership in the green energy sector with an unprecedented investment in alternative and renewable sources, including wind and solar.
The program will cost 200 billion euros ($263 billion), about 8 percent of the country’s gross domestic product in 2011, according to the DIW economic institute in Berlin. And Bloomberg News reports that, “Not since the allies leveled Germany in World War II has Europe’s biggest economy undertaken a reconstruction of its energy market on this scale.”
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APP affiliates in U.S., Australia, pledge to drop controversial pulp supplier linked to deforestation

March 17, 2012, www.news.mongabay.com | “Two affiliates of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) have announced they are severing at least some ties with the beleaguered paper giant, according to the Northern Virginia Daily and Greenpeace, an environmental group whose recent undercover investigation found ramin, a protected species, at APP’s pulp mill in Sumatra.”

 

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APP affiliates in U.S., Australia, pledge to drop controversial pulp supplier linked to deforestation
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3/17/12 Two affiliates of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) have announced they are severing at least some ties with the beleaguered paper giant, according to the Northern Virginia Daily and Greenpeace, an environmental group whose recent undercover investigation found ramin, a protected species, at APP’s pul…”
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Town passes gas drilling moratorium

March 14, 2012, www.thedailystar.com | WEST ONEONTA  – The Oneonta Town Board passed a 12-month moratorium on natural gas drilling by a one-vote margin Tuesday night.

The vote took place after a markedly less-charged petitioner’s period than the official public hearing Feb. 13.

Board members William Mirabito and Scott Gravelin voted against the moratorium. Supervisor Robert Wood and board member Janet Hurley-Quackenbush were joined by new board member David Jones — who rode a strong anti-drilling platform to a victory at the polls last November — in voting for it.

“YAY! The Oneonta Town Board passed a 12-month moratorium on natural gas drilling by a one-vote margin Tuesday night.”
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Global Activism is Taking Down the Toxic Corporate Food Industry

March, www.realnews24.com | The foundation of the international food industry, monopolized by large corporations that hold zero regard for your health, is cracking. As more and more individuals begin to realize that they are eating their way to disease through the consumption of these products, they become outraged at the companies peddling their latest toxic food product. The result? Companies are now being forced to either answer to the consumer demands (removing the toxic substances from the food supply and adapting legitimate environmental manufacturing practices) , or lose their customer

Increasingly, we see this happening on a larger scale. Major companies like Campbell’s have begun abandoning bisphenol A (BPA), the cancer-linked chemical found in can linings and plastic containers. The change comes after even the FDA was forced to re-evaluate the safety of BPA, potentially issuing a ban by the end of this month. Linked to cancer, diabetes, and much more, consumers have become fully aware of the dangers that BPA presents — and they aren’t handing over their hard-earned dollars to companies that refuse to remove BPA from their products.

 

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Global Activism is Taking Down the Toxic Corporate Food Industry
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The foundation of the international food industry, monopolized by large corporations that hold zero regard for your health, is cracking. As more and more individuals begin to realize that they are eating their way to disease through the consumption of these products, they become outraged at the comp…”
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