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Kid-Safe Chemicals Act
http://www.ewg.org/kidsafe

EWG's Kid-Safe factsheet [PDF]
http://www.ewg.org/files/EWG-Kid-Safe-factsheet.pdf

How Green is DuPont's Replacement for Teflon?
http://www.ewg.org/reports/teflongreenwash

Colorado's Chemical Injection
http://www.ewg.org/reports/injection
Added on July 02, 2008 by RachelCarson100

PROTECTING POLLINATORS

North American Pollinators Program Campaign (NAPPC) is working to educate the public about pollinators and how we can better protect them. For more information on NAPPC, contact www.nappc.org and for schools, contact http://www.pollinationcanada.ca/
Added on July 02, 2008 by RachelCarson100

Climate Change and the Health of Children

New EPA Web Resource
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp /ochpweb.nsf/content/climate .htm

Web also provides links to other Climate Change resources
  Basic Information
  Science
  Climate Research
  Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  Health and Environmental Effects
  Frequent Questions
  U.S. Policy
  What You Can Do
  Climate Economics
  Climate and Aging
  ENERGY STAR Pledge
  Other Links
Added on June 30, 2008 by RachelCarson100

Cautionary talk about synthetic turf

William Crain speaks about Synthetic Turf. A video presentation (June 2008).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pud7WFZr65o
Added on June 28, 2008 by RachelCarson100

We All Live Downstream

Today I am launching my new blog, We All Live Downstream , and I invite you to check it out and be part of our emerging online community of water-loving people who care, think and act in ways that protect our planet. See if you agree (or disagree) with me that we are part of a Five Billion Year Recycling Project.

John DeCock
President, Clean Water Action

Added on June 23, 2008 by RachelCarson100

MRGO Must Go

The Army Corps of Engineers constructed the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO, commonly called "Mister Go") in the1960s as a navigation shortcut between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.  MRGO damaged or destroyed tens of thousands of acres of wetlands that served as a natural hurricane barrier, and increased the destructive power of Hurricane Katrina.  After Katrina, Congress told the Corps to develop a comprehensive closure plan for MRGO that included the restoration of wetlands.  The Corps has committed to plugging the channel with a rock dam-but that's not enough!

We need your help to ensure that:
  • The channel is plugged on time; and
  • The Corps stays focused on restoring the MRGO-damaged wetlands that used to protect New Orleans and St. Bernard.
Please take action now to ensure MRGO really goes:
  • Write to the President. Visit www.MRGOmustGO.org to send a personalized email to the White House to make sure this critical work gets done.
  • Raise public awareness. In Baton Rouge, you can pick up a free yard sign and bumper sticker at the LEAN office (225-928-1315), or at the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana office (225-767-4181). Please visit www.MRGOmustGO.org for pickup locations in the New Orleans area.

For More About LEAN:


LEAN logo
WWW.LEANWEB.ORG
Added on June 23, 2008 by RachelCarson100

Healthy Choices

"The environment makes it easier or harder for healthy choices to be the default choices. And adults create the environment that kids live in."
- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as quoted in TIME

http://www.healthyschoolscampaign.org/
Added on June 23, 2008 by RachelCarson100

Maude Barlow | Life, Liberty, Water


http://www.truthout.org /article/life-liberty-water
In YES! Magazine, Maude Barlow writes: "It's a colossal failure of political foresight that water has not emerged as an important issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign. The links between oil, war, and U.S. foreign policy are well known. But water-whether we treat it as a public good or as a commodity that can be bought and sold-will in large part determine whether our future is peaceful or perilous."
Added on June 23, 2008 by RachelCarson100

Sisters on the Planet

Four films from Oxfam
As obvious as it sounds, climate change affects everybody.
But climate change is already having a disproportionate impact on people in developing countries, and it's hitting women hardest.

It's not the easiest idea to understand, so to help explain we've made these short films about women, in both rich and poor countries, who are determined to do whatever they can to put a stop to climate change.

Watch them and become aware of the impact our changing climate is having on people's lives. And be inspired to join the fight against climate change too.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/climate_change/sisters/index.html
Muriel's story : Sahena's story
Martina's story : Melissa's story
Added on June 19, 2008 by RachelCarson100
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