Last year I posted this great post from my friend, Kestrel, about why we don’t celebrate Earth Hour. It stands as my reason for not celebrating it this year, because as long as the World Wildlife Felons are involved, I won’t participate. s.
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I’d read an earlier piece on this horrible fad of learning to butcher animals in your home, but now it seems to include slaughtering them yourself, too. Read the latest DawnWatch Alert on this fad and Peter Singer’s call for a tax on meat, which is brilliant, in my opinion. New York’s Sunday papers, October [...]
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Blog Action Day! No one likes to talk about human overpopulation as the number one crisis facing our planet. Environmentalists and wildlife protectors don’t like to talk about it because they likely have children, and there’s the idea that having as many kids as you want is a God-given right and mentioning that “right” as [...]
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Here’s a recent DawnWatch Alert that’s worth sharing with all your dairy-loving friends: Yesterday’s Washington Post report on the livestock industry’s devastating effect on antibiotic effectiveness is followed today (Friday, September 18) with a front page New York Times story on the industry’s impact on the safety of drinking water supplies. The article, by Charles [...]
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The Age of Stupid premieres in the U.S. on September 21 and elsewhere on the planet on September 22. I have my tickets for the U.S. premiere! From the Web site: “The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars [...]
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Fantastic post by co-blogger Kestrel. It is abundantly clear that people and governments are not reacting appropriately to the catastrophic consequences of climate change. In North America, Obama’s administration appears to be bowing to pressure and backtracking on climate action while Canada remains a moral renegade obstructing climate talks so it can continue to wallow [...]
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Yesterday, the White House released a detailed scientific report forecasting devastating impacts of global warming in the United States if we don’t take dramatic steps now to cut our global warming emissions. The report, titled Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, breaks down climate change effects by region. Here’s the information provided by [...]
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My disappointment with the Obama Administration’s environmental decisions continues – unabated. Earlier I wrote about the EPA’s decision to approve 42 of 48 mountaintop removal permits and now the Obama Administration plans to regulate MTR. I feel so much better knowing those 42 mountains will be blow to smithereens with EPA regulators standing by. I’m [...]
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Amazing. An entire city chooses to eat only vegetarian foods for one day every week. I hope the participation is high among the citizens of Ghent! What about you? Can you eat vegetarian for one day a week? Or, like NY Times food writer Mark Bittman, can you try Vegan Before 6? All your meals [...]
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Another outstanding guest post by kestrel. The Toronto Star published an article stating that the Governor General’s chowing down on a raw seal heart has given Inuit leaders hope that southern palates will take a shine to arctic meats such as seal, caribou and muskox. With 58 percent employment in the region (stated in the [...]
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