Archive for May, 2010
Voice for Change Archive #15 05/10
Hi Everyone! We are pleased to introduce the NEW look of the Voice for Change Newsletter. Designed by the very talented Suzanne Sparling the Executive Director of the Foundations US Operations in Phoenix I’m sure you’ll love it as much as I do! ______________ The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation’s site is growing rapidly. We are ready [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2010 under General.
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Voice for Change Archive #16 05/10
Hi Everyone! It has been another busy week in the calls for change to a safer and more sustainable future. Following on from the investigative article on CCA treated timber ‘Poison sold to the ignorant by the uneducated’ during this week, emails have been sent out to senior members of the Australian State and Federal [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2010 under General.
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Voice for Change Archive #17 05/10
Hi Everyone! Thanks so much this week to all those who took the time to email us and those loyal supporters who made donations to keep the Foundation and the Voice for Change alive! We will battle on however difficult this becomes. If we all continue to be inspired to action, we will make good [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2010 under General.
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U.S. Predicts Up to 7 Major Atlantic Hurricanes
As the hurricane season approaches and the oil spill continues NOAA predicts a season of activity var showHover=false;
Posted: May 30th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, World News.
Tags: extreme weather events, Oil Spill, United States
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Plastic Kills
Thanks to Lisa Rolls Hagelberg at the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi, Kenya for sending this short video Plastic Kills to me – I suggest it says it all! If you haven’t already joined us to STOPlasticbags with a world wide ban, now would be a good time to sign the petition GO HERE [...]
Posted: May 29th, 2010 under Action Needed, General.
Tags: plastic bags, plastic pollution, plastics, StoplasticBags
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How to make the BP Corporation go Beyond Polluting
As regular visitors to the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation and readers of the book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions by the Founder Bob Williamson will know, the Foundations vision is to bring about change through environmental awareness and action to the ‘business as usual’ model. We need now to use our rage against the consequences evolving in the [...]
Posted: May 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General.
Tags: major polluters, Oil drilling, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill
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US oil tax quadrupled to pay for spills – So who will now pay – YOU – Get ready at the gas pump!
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment – If the costs go up for the oil companies, will they take it on the chin, or will they pass it down the line to the end user? – Get ready at the pump. It’s now time to change the charter of the Corporation. WHO should PAY? The US House [...]
Posted: May 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: #BREAKING NEWS, Obama administration, oil, Oil drilling, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, United States
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The video BP does not want you to see – The one you must!
ABC News went underwater in the Gulf with Philippe Cousteau Jr., grandson of famous explorer Jacques Cousteau, and he described what he saw as “one of the most horrible things I’ve ever seen underwater.” Check out what BP does not want you to see. And please share this widely — every American should see what’s [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill
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King Coal in Australia, the ugly political truth.
by Guy Pearse The greatest coal rush the world has seen is being conducted as if climate change is not happening, and coal is king. It wasn’t always this way. Coalmining has a long history in Australia, but coal wasn’t an important export until the last few decades. Before 1960, Queensland had no coal-export industry. [...]
Posted: May 24th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Australia, CO2 Emissions, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, coal lobby, Coal mining, global warming, Stop Coal, subsidies
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Report warns of global warming costs
Health problems require agencies to take all-hands-on-deck approach, expert says The health risks of global climate change read like a chapter out of the Book of Revelation: plagues from mosquitoes and other insects; floods and droughts that cause sickness and mental anguish; food-borne scourges and malnutrition. In a report released recently by federal scientists, led [...]
Posted: May 24th, 2010 under Climate Change, General.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming, science
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