Archive for 'Action Needed'
Time to step up the pace to BAN THE BAG.
On World Environment Day June 5th 2009 the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation with the help of its dedicated staff and all of you, launched the STOPlasticBags – Global action to Ban the Plastic Bag; forever. On September 26th 2009 we held the first ‘Say NO to Plastic Bags Day’. The petition is going strong with over [...]
Posted: March 10th, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: activism, petitions, plastic bags, plastic pollution, StoplasticBags
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Time to Choose: Elephants or Ivory?
In 5 days, 2 African governments will try to pry open the worldwide ban on ivory trading — a decision that could wipe out whole elephant populations and bring these magnificent animals closer to extinction.
Tanzania and Zambia are lobbying the UN for special exemptions from the ban, but this would send a clear signal to [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: activism
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Beached whales killed by ingesting plastic
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment: – Although this incident occurred in December 2009 it came to our attention recently via a contact in the United States. As many will know we are endeavouring via the STOPlasticBags campaign to highlight how our profligate consumption of plastic bags impacts on our world. This is another stark example of [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Nature.
Tags: activism, natural systems, plastic bags, plastic pollution, plastics, StoplasticBags
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One of a Select Few
The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation and its web site are fast becoming one of the most visited places on the web for information on environmental issues that affect not only concerned environmentalists like you and I but everyone here now, and all those to come.
Our web traffic will hopefully continue its strong growth over the coming [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General.
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Paper Bags or Plastic Bags? Everything You Need to Know
This excellent analysis of plastic or paper bags by TreeHugger as they impact our environment should be commended for its in-depth coverage of the data. As many will know the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation on World Environment Day in 2009 commenced a global campaign to Ban the Plastic Bag our initiative later endorsed by the United [...]
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: deforestation, plastic bags, plastic pollution, StoplasticBags
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Robin Hood Tax – How the banks might fix the world – as if!
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Posted: March 1st, 2010 under Action Needed, General.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming
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All aboard, please take your seats and fasten your seatbelts. There is a 25% chance this plane will crash.
By Bob Williamson – Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
The reality of that welcome to us would be our reply, “I’m not getting on this flight!”
Yet we are all in fact on that flight with climate change and the plane has taken off.
Much has been promoted in the media lately that climate change science is somehow conspiring to [...]
Posted: February 27th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: activism, Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, finite resources, glacial melt, global warming, icesheet loss, methane, natural systems, resource depletion, stop climate change, Tipping Points
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All day every day rainforests are cleared for palm oil
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Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: Amazon Rainforest, habitat loss, Palm Oil, Rainforest destruction, species extinction
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Does your breakfast cause rainforest destruction?
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Posted: February 22nd, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: activism, activists, Amazon Rainforest, habitat loss, Palm Oil, species extinction
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‘When You Look At The World’
The Foundations good friend and collaborator on a number of projects J.P. Taylor is an inspirational environmental teacher. In ‘When You Look At The World’ J.P. calls us to action to take a stand at a personal level to save the destruction of the Worlds remaining forest lands from clear felling for palm oil plantations.
As [...]
Posted: February 22nd, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General, Nature.
Tags: activism, Amazon Rainforest, habitat loss, Palm Oil, species extinction
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