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Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 22, 2009 at 9:26am

@Sydni: I watched it as well. It's not just kids but the public in general that is unaware. Like they said, so much of it is miniscule because it is a little pollution from a gazillion sources, so it seems invisible. It was informative, but as always, very discouraging that no one seems to care all that much, especially politicians. The worst part was the chicken industry section with all that manure. They were totally screwing those farmers, and the taxpayers.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 22, 2009 at 8:46am

They're probably stealing them. This is a little OT, but I don't think the states want to squash out smoking, to be honest. In spite of the healthcare costs associated with it, it also generates a lot of tax revenues, which are of course badly needed. Financially, it benefits the government for people to continue to smoke.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 21, 2009 at 4:35pm

@Sydni: Yeah, people will always take the cheaper route, no matter what. So if you want to stop something, charge for it. But on the other hand, I don't think all the taxes on cigarettes has stoped smoking.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 20, 2009 at 1:33pm

FRONTLINE Presents
POISONED WATERS
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, from 9 to 11 P.M. ET on PBS

www.pbs.org/frontline/poisonedwaters

More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, iconic American waterways like the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound are in perilous condition and facing new sources of contamination.

With polluted runoff still flowing in from industry, agriculture and massive suburban development, scientists note that many new pollutants and toxins from modern everyday life are already being found in the drinking water of millions of people across the country and pose a threat to fish, wildlife and, potentially, human health.

In FRONTLINE’s Poisoned Waters, airing Tuesday, April 21, 2009, from 9 to 11 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines the growing hazards to human health and the ecosystem. Read more.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 18, 2009 at 8:03pm

Domino's sugar goes carbon-free

Sugar is a naturally sweet product from our earth, so it’s natural for us to want to be good stewards of our environment. We have a head start at this, in fact, because the sugar cane plant converts sunlight to energy more efficiently than any other major crop. As a result of this and the various earth friendly farming techniques and energy producing efforts at our Florida facility, the sugar you find in specially marked packages of Domino® Sugar have been certified CarbonFree® by Carbonfund.org, a non-profit organization that certifies products with carbon neutral footprints. The label CarbonFree® means the product's carbon footprint is rendered neutral by cutting green-house gases. And that’s a sweet thing for all of us! Read more.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 18, 2009 at 5:17pm

Here is a PDF presentation on plastic bags you can link to, distribute, share, etc.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 17, 2009 at 6:44pm

Some of you may be interested in my post on Texaco in Consumer Ethics.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 17, 2009 at 5:26pm

Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

From Publishers Weekly
Around the world, climate change is indicated by natural events-especially in shifting migration routes-leading to results familiar (species die-out) and unexpected-like the discovery of a heretofore unprecedented "pizzly," a bear cub with one polar parent and one grizzly. Not all geographical displacement is quite so friendly; as ""ecological niches are shriveling up and disappearing," common and persistent species are dying off at a rate "between 17 percent and 377 percent faster than normal" over the past 400 years. While reviewing the evidence that points to drastic changes resulting from even small global temperature increases, Barnosky also discusses biodiversity's importance, compares rates of evolutionary change with global temperatures, and recounts Earth's four previous mass extinctions. One of her grim assessments is that "many of the species that humans tend to like" will be wiped out by global warming, and spur helpful evolutionary diversification only in "what we normally call pests." For the most part Barnosky is less gloomy than curious, able and straight-forward, flavoring his report with a sense of adventure and possibility; by the end of his discussion on humanity's four-pronged problem-global warming, habitat loss, introduced species and population growth-Barnosky will have readers looking to do more than change lightbulbs.

(I have not read this, but I saw in mentioned in a newsletter today.)

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 17, 2009 at 5:16pm

Little People Big Changes: Kids Act for the World Around Them

About "Little People, Big Changes"

"Little People, Big Changes" is a kids' action group in Wilton, Connecticut, founded by Alex and Jordan, who joined together in Fall ’06 to form a “club" committed to identifying issues that affect the world at large, to learning about them, and then to taking action.

Alex and Jordan have been most active with their "no idle" presentation in an effort to raise awareness about global warming and that kids can and should take a central role. They are now joined by many other Wilton kids in a campaign to encourage as many Wilton residents as possible to sign up for the Connecticut Clean Energy Option (CTCleanEnergyOptionsSM), so that their energy usage will be offset with wind and landfill gas renewable energy credits -- displacing energy from suppliers using coal, oil, and gas generation, which create carbon emissions that exacerbate global warming.

In May 2008, Jordan and Alex were honored on behalf of Little People Big Changes by Governor Jodi Rell's Climate Change Committee with a Climate Change Leadership Award. Read all about it.

Register now to join the Little People Big Changes Clean Energy Sign-Up campaign!

(Access site for live links.)
www.littlepeoplebigchanges.com

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 17, 2009 at 5:10pm

Need to recycle something?

Find a recycler near you at www.cleanup.org. Simply type in the item you need to recycle, enter your zip code, and select search.

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