Archive for March, 2010
Palm oil products and the weekly shop – You Decide.
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment:-We face many challenges in the global community brought on by practices and lifestyle choices made collectively over the last few decades. Some choices and outcomes we may view as out of our control, made by our political leaders and the masters of Industry and Commerce. This view has been our choice [...]
Posted: March 20th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: deforestation, Palm Oil, species extinction
Comments: 1
Nestle says it drops palm oil supplier after Greenpeace report
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment:- Although on the surface this statement from Nestle following the report of its palm oil consumption by Greenpeace is a positive outcome, (See Here) it begs the question if the statement made by Reuters below, that Sinar Mas is Indonesia’s biggest palm oil producer and the second biggest in the world, [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: activism, Palm Oil, Rainforest destruction, species extinction
Comments: 2
Greenpeace reveal that Nestlé are driving rainforest destruction pushing orangutans to brink of extinction
GREENPEACE STATEMENT – Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, uses palm oil from companies that are trashing Indonesian rainforests, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans towards extinction. We all deserve to have a break – but having one shouldn’t involve taking a bite out of Indonesia’s precious rainforests. We’re asking Nestlé to give [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2010 under Action Needed, General.
Tags: activism, industry, Palm Oil, species extinction
Comments: 2
Methane May Be Building Under Antarctic Ice
BALTIMORE — Microbes living under ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland could be churning out large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane, a new study suggests. In recent years scientists have learned that liquid water lurks under much of Antarctica’s massive ice sheet, and so, they say, the potential microbial habitat in this watery world [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, icesheet loss, methane, methane clathrates, Tipping Points
Comments: 1
Reflecting on the roots of our activism.
In recent days with the harsh reality brought home once more that activism and change costs money, I have reflected on past actions against the odds. Donate a dollar or two to the FIGHTING FUND to keep our VOICE ALIVE. Where we started and why we did. We will over the coming weeks and months [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General.
Tags: Foundation, Pacific Gaia, plastic pollution, plastics
Comments: 1
Where there is no sunlight, no food, frozen conditions – NASA finds complex life in Antarctica under the Ice Shelf
In a discovery at the bottom of the world that could have implications on the search for extraterrestrial life, researchers were astounded to find an amphipod swimming beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet. The amphipod—a shrimp-like creature—was caught on video swimming 600 feet below the ice, where the NASA team expected to find no higher [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: Antarctica, science
Comments: 1
Bluefin tuna ban proposal meets rejection – Sad day for a species
A proposal to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, which is a sushi mainstay in Japan, has been rejected by a UN wildlife meeting. Thursday’s decision occurred after Japan, Canada and many poor nations opposed the measure on the grounds it would devastate fishing economies. Monaco tabled the plan at the meeting of the [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Comments: none
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Tribute – IZ Lives!
In 2006 on the way to be bestowed with the great honour of the Global Environment for Plastic Recycling in Atlanta Georgia, we were privileged to stop over in Hawaii. An island paradise where all visitors are greeted as Cousins. The true meaning of the ‘family of man’ came to us from these warm hearted [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2010 under General.
Comments: 1
Is Twitter a Human Right? One Chinese Activist Thinks So
Katherine Ventura of the Huffington Post writes about Monday’s discussion between Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey and Ai Weiwei: “Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources,” Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei said at the Paley Center for Media in New York Monday night, after challenging Twitter founder Jack Dorseyto make [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2010 under Interviews with Activists.
Tags: activism, activists
Comments: 1
Voices and echoes of support
I have to say that the voices of support for the work the Foundation has so far done, have echoed in our ears over the last few days. I give my personal thanks and those of all involved with the Foundation to the many people who have made contact to express their feelings to the [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2010 under Foundation News, General.
Tags: Voice for change
Comments: 2
