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The City of San Diego is Suing Monsanto for Poisoning its Marine Life and Polluting its Bay

March 17, 2015, althealthworks.com | “The Monsanto Company produces a large volume of different chemicals, and many of them are also manufactured by competitors. But when it comes to the dangerously carcinogenic PCBs that have wreaked havoc on towns and waterways across the country, Monsanto stands (virtually) alone: 99 percent of PCB production in the United States was done by the agricultural giant according to this report from the Food & Water Watch.”

 

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The City of San Diego is Suing Monsanto for Poisoning its Marine Life and Polluting its Bay
The Monsanto Company produces a large volume of different chemicals, and many of them are […]
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Solar powered music studio

March 10, 2015, www.youtube.com | “‘Solar powered music studio’ is an episode in the series ‘Time For A Break’ with Turtuga Blanku.  All music was recorded and produced using only solar energy.”

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Solar system (of music studio) explained: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmqbdmWMb-Q Solar powered music studio – Time For A Break – ft. Turtuga Blanku – ‘No More’
http://www.TurtugaBlanku.com https://www.facebook.com/TurtugaBlanku Explanation…
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Filed under: Buildings, Business Policy, Buy Local, Climate, Economics, Energy, Energy - Renewable, Green Jobs, Local Policy, Materials, New, Retrofitting, Solar, Wind

Endorse the San Diego March for Mobilization

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March 9, 2015, www.theclimatemobilization.org | “On Sunday March 15th, at 2 PM, San Diegans will join a coalition of local groups for the first Walk & Rally for Climate Mobilization!  They will gather at City Hall Plaza, then walk to the San Diego Federal Building at Broadway and Front Street to petition the U.S. Government to immediately commence the WWII-style mobilization that’s necessary to rapidly transform the United States into a 100% clean energy economy by 2025.”

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endorsed by: San Diego County Democratic Party San Diego Labor-Council Sierra Club San Diego, Greenpeace San Diego SanDiego350.orgWomen Occupy – San Diego Blue Dot Refill Environmental Health Coalition Citizens Climate Lobby Ocean Beach Green Center La Jolla Democratic Club Peace Resource Center of San Diego, and more! –
San Diego March for CLIMATE Mobilization! … March 15
To petition the U.S. Government to immediately commence the WWII-style mobilization that’s necessary to rapidly transform the United States into a 100% clean energy economy by 2025.
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A new home for honeybees, just off the tarmac

March 08, 2015, www.pri.org | “The practice of maintaining beehives on airport property began in Germany a decade and a half ago and has spread, reaching Chicago, St. Louis and Seattle in the United States. The hives are typically kept in the buffer zone on the outskirts of the airport.”

 Ami Linden
Airports welcome bees as a way to make good use of their required undeveloped space
Airports don’t have a particularly eco-friendly reputation. But they typically have large swaths of land that can’t be developed. And at several airports in the US and…
  • Christine Shahin Wood, Jeavonna Chapman, Pierre Grandchamp,  Robert Brothers
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  •  Robert Brothers ~ “This is a great idea! Thanks for posting it. Hopefully, this will help the word spread to other airports and other people with open space that could be used in this way.”
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Filed under: Animals, Animals & Plants, Business Policy, Compassionate Actions, Endangered Species, Farms & Gardens, Insects, Plants

America’s Second-Largest Retail Chain Is Cutting Antibiotics From Its Meat

March 6, 2015, www.takepart.com | “When it comes to the food industry, it would appear that good news comes in twos.  In February, Nestlé and Hershey announced in quick succession that they would be moving away from artificial flavors and ingredients in their candies. Now, just days after McDonald’s said it would phase antibiotics that are vital to human medicine out of its poultry supply chain, Costco announced Thursday that it plans to do the same—for chicken and other meats too.”

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 Less antibiotics in meat = less antibiotics in the environment
Win, win for people and planet
This Just In: America’s Second-Largest Retail Chain Is Cutting Antibiotics From Its Meat
They will phase out drugs that are important to human medicine from its supply chain.
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Vietnam PM says NO to animal cruelty in festivals

March 5, 2015, www.animalsasia.org | “In a direct response to our campaign to stop Vietnam’s pig slaughter festival – Vietnam’s Prime Minister has announced ‘old fashioned, superstitious and negative’ festivals will end.”

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YOU DID THIS. Vietnam’s Prime Minister – in a direct response to our campaign to end the pig slaughter festival has said – no more cruel festivals.
His Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism has added:
“In a country rich in tradition and culture, we cannot have the image of a pig being brought to a village centre for hundreds of people to witness its head being cut off and its blood pouring out – this is not suitable with a peaceful and hospitable country like Vietnam.”
Read more here: http://bit.ly/18SP5kI
Our campaign, your support, the Vietnamese who voted in their tens of thousands in local media polls against the festival. Together we made it happen.
We will continue our work to ensure this is enforced. Remember – change does happen. People do listen. We could not stop this year’s festival but now it looks certain to be the last. Meanwhile the debate it has provoked will continue to serve the cause for years ahead.
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CTNBio Meeting to Approve GE Trees Cancelled – FuturaGene Taken Over

'BREAKING NEWS: BRAZILIANS RISE UP AGAINST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES. 300 peasants, organized by La Via Campesina, took over the building where the Brazil National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBio) was meeting to decide on the approval of GE eucalyptus trees. The meeting was cancelled. On the same morning in Itapetininga, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1,000 women of the Brazil Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) took over operations of Futuragene, the developer of GE trees, and destroyed GE eucalyptus seedlings. When the Brazilians say they don’t want GE trees, they mean it. READ the whole story, in English: http://stopgetrees.org/victory-ctnbio-occupied-meeting-cancelled-no-approval-ge-trees/ READ, in Portuguese (with video): http://www.mst.org.br/2015/03/05/apos-ocupacao-na-suzano-outros-300-camponeses-ocupam-predio-da-ctnbio-em-bsb.html WATCH the video: http://youtu.be/M7K-xJyvek8 #StopGETrees #Brazil #GETrees #GMTrees #GMOTrees #EucalyptusTrees #CTNBio #Futuragene #gmofreebrazil #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa'

March 5, 2015, stopgetrees.org | “On the morning of 5 March 2015, 1,000 women from the MST took over operations of genetically engineered tree company Futuragene in Brazil.

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“BREAKING NEWS: BRAZILIANS RISE UP AGAINST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES. 300 peasants, organized by La Via Campesina, took over the building where the Brazil National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBio) was meeting to decide on the approval of GE eucalyptus trees. The meeting was cancelled. On the same morning in Itapetininga, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1,000 women of the Brazil Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) took over operations of Futuragene, the developer of GE trees, and destroyed GE eucalyptus seedlings. When the Brazilians say they don’t want GE trees, they mean it.”

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Carbon crash, solar dawn: Deutsche Bank on why solar has already won

March 3, 2015, www.pv-magazine.com | “Deutsche Bank has produced another major report that suggests solar will become the dominant electricity source around the world as it beats conventional fuels, generates $5 trillion in revenue over the next 15 years, and displaces large amounts of fossil fuels.”

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“Carbon crash, solar dawn: Deutsche Bank on why solar has already won
Deutsche Bank says solar market is massive, will generate $5 trillion in revenue by 2030. It describes solar plus storage as next the killer app, and says even in India…
pv-magazine.com|By Sunbeam GmbH”
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Logging Industry Fails Again to Strip Threatened Seabird of Protections

'WIN! Court upholds protections for the endangered marbled murrelet and its nesting habitat, coastal old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. http://ejus.tc/1GJ7XOe This is the fifth time the timber industry has tried to challenge federal endangered species protections to gain access to logging the last and most mature old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, and been rejected. Maybe this time they’ll realize that protecting biological treasures of old growth forests is a priority. Click SHARE or LIKE and TELL US your thoughts below.'

March 2, 2015, earthjustice.org | “The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday rejected yet another attempt by the timber industry to remove federal endangered species protections from the marbled murrelet, a unique coastal bird found in the Pacific Northwest. The appeal was the timber industry’s fifth attempt in the past decade to eliminate protections for the old-growth forests that marbled murrelets call home, despite undisputed scientific evidence which has shown that murrelets are continuing to disappear from the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California.”

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“EARTHJUSTICE DOES IT AGAIN….OLD GROWTH FORESTS AND MARBLED MURRELET PROTECTED IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
WIN! Court upholds protections for the endangered marbled murrelet and its nesting habitat, coastal old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. http://ejus.tc/1GJ7XOe
This is the fifth time the timber industry has tried to challenge federal endangered species protections to gain access to logging the last and most mature old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, and been rejected. Maybe this time they’ll realize that protecting biological treasures of old growth forests is a priority.
Click SHARE or LIKE and TELL US your thoughts below.”
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  • Robert Brothers “Hmmm, which year is this? The first time Earthjustice helped us get solid protection for Marbled Murrelets and Ancient Forests was with the lawsuits leading to the Northwest Forest Plan of 1994.

    “Eternal Vigilance.” — Brock Evans, president, Endangered Species Coalition.”
  • Olivia Ellis “Good news, indeed. Wish Earthjustice could save our old growth forests in the George Washington National Park. It is being sold off in million acre parcels and offered free to fracking freaks at Dominion Power, somebody giving them permission to install 42 inch pipelines across the entire Appalachian Range, including all the headwaters to the midatlantic population! Talk about hard-to-cure-addictions. And criminals running loose!”
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Nebraskans outraged over oil-waste well plan

Nebraska resident holds photo of abandoned oil wellMarch 2, 2015, rapidcityjournal.com | “Residents of northwestern Nebraska are protesting a proposal by a Colorado energy company to store liquid oil-field waste products in an abandoned oil well that resides within the Ogallala Aquifer.  Numerous residents and officials from local governments across the region are opposing the proposed injection well in southern Sioux County, not far from Crawford, Neb.”

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Mainstream Grassroots Resistance to Big Energy
Nebraskans outraged over oil-waste well plan
Residents of northwestern Nebraska are protesting a proposal by a Colorado energy company to store liquid oil-field waste products in an abandoned oil well that resides within the Ogallala Aquifer.
rapidcityjournal.com|By Kerri Rempp Chadron Record
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