VOICE FOR CHANGE- Newsletter

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the Voice for Change Newsletter for the week – the last one for March, wow a ¼ of the year gone already!

Here is this weeks offerings – Enjoy!

Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food – GM crops have gained a foothold in our daily diets. The article details the perils we are unwittingly placing ourselves and our children in and how we might be able to minimize the risks to our future health.

Do we really want to have the plastic bag banned? - The campaign to ban the plastic bag worldwide by midnight on December 31^st 2010, was launched by the Foundation on World Environment Day 2009. To get the job done we need your help. Do you really want to have the plastic bag banned?

FOUR YEARS. GO. – In four years with the collective effort of all we can move to a more sustainable future. This campaign backed as a supporter by the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation brings together likeminded organizations and people around the world to make it happen.

Greenland’s ice melt widens – finds new study. – The ice sheet is now showing losses increasing in the Northwest coast raising further questions as to how fast Greenland’s ice will contribute to sea level rise of up to 7 meters (21 feet).

Our Featured Sponsor of the week.

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Could we have the next diversion please President Obama? – Now that the Health Care reform is out of the way in the US what will the diversion be now to keep the attention off the important issues of climate change and emissions reductions?

The story of Bottled Water 2010 – with the great Annie Leonard – Annie who brought us the great educational presentations of the ‘Story of Stuff’ and ‘The devils in the details on Cap & Trade’ now provides some of the facts behind bottled water.

Perils of Plastics – Good for a minute and contaminating for 10,000 years – For more than a decade we have worked to show that plastic DOES create a lingering problem. Here are some more of the facts.

10 Ways Mother Earth Will Strike Back If We Don’t Stop Our Wanton Destruction of the Environment – An interesting take from a US writer at AlterNet on where we are headed.

Finally for the ‘Best of the Best’ this week, we have something that everyone should view at least once a week to remind us what the ‘living and business as usual model’ is contributing to global emissions – the real time clock on how we’re doing right now. How are we doing right now? – What goes up doesn’t always come down! and Could Carbon Capture & Storage save us, or has Elvis already left the building? What do you think? 

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