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Our Environment
What is "Our Environment?" We are all sharing the Earth. We all depend on the environment to sustain our lives here on Earth. Without the environment we would not be able to live here on Earth. Are you getting it?

Meat Is a Global Warming Issue
By Dan Brook, E Magazine. Posted August 24, 2006.
Put that hamburger down! Our carnivorous habits are partially responsible for the dire threat of global warming. www.alternet.org/envirohealth/40639

Our Earth Our environment - common heritage of mankind. I believe we should be very concerned about how our earth is being cared for. Let's take care of it in order for future generations to be able to enjoy life on earth. There was a time when I was worried about nuclear bombs. Nuclear war is nothing compared to what is being done to our environment. Nuclear waste is of course a huge problem. War - Destructer of God's Creation. Sacred Places on Earth

Without the environment, there will be no clean water, clean air or soil to grow the food we need. Without oceans, life as we know it would cease to exist. Earth has been a million years in the making. Climate Change - Global Warming
Personally, I believe it is too late to stop Earth's climate change / global warming. We were warned over 30 years ago.... And now we are busy bombing and attacking Mother Earth ... We are still pouring RoundUp, etc., on our Earth, destroying our water, air and land ...

Thank God for environmentalists. Without them we would all be in bad shape. They put their lives on the line when they protest against corporations damaging our environment. Yes, it is OUR ENVIRONMENT. We can not live without OUR ENVIRONMENT. The environment is the background of our life here on Earth.

If you hate environmentalists then you hate Mother Earth and should consider moving off of our planet. Remember the "America, Love it leave it"? Earth is the environment. I say "Earth, Love it or leave it."

Links
Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs:
About, benefits, mercury, disposal. DataOptions.com

Are you an Environmentalist? Do you love our Home - Earth?

Earth First!
www.audubon.org www.realgoods.com
ANWR - The arctic national wildlife refuge
Earth Justice
Vegetarian Links The Nature Conservancy
Sierra Club Green Peace WorldWatch Mother Jones
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps
Pelican Network Our Earth Links
NOAA's drought information center
Union of Concerned Scientists
www.BuzzFlash.com
Vacation on Planet Earth

GMO and Organic Web Site Links
www.defenders.org
Center for Biological Diversity
The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods

NOAA El Niño Page

CHEERS, Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study, US EPA
Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study, Exposure to pesticides and common household chemicals in homes of young children.

Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth International is a worldwide federation of national environmental organizations.

Grist Magazine: Environmental news and humor

http://www.american.edu/ted/HP24.HTM
Trade and Environment Database
(TED) - Asian Cases

http://www.american.edu/ted/3GORGES.HTM
The Grand Canal and the Three Gorges Dam: A Historical Comparison

Attention: Corporations & governments of the World
Without healthy citizens, who will purchase your goods? Who will pay the taxes?

Are you still eating meat??? Read on ....
Read Deadly Feasts, by Richard Rhodes. It is about tracking the secrets of a terrifying new plague ... cows are being fed meat and bone meal to maximize their growth ... Daiy cows are slaughter for meat when their milk production drops after three or four pregnancies ... the meat is ground up for hamburger...cattle brains go into hamburger as well ... diseased ... Please read the book for more horrors than I thought imagined. I still find it difficult to believe that there are people that are making these decisions that directly affect the health and very lives of people all over the world.

Adding growth hormones to our food supply, into cows which produce milk, which humans drink, could be causing humans to become larger. I have noticed that our young are larger than the children I attended school with. People are sicker now than when I was younger.

Biotechnology, The 'Frankenstein Food' Flap. Greenpeace Protest: Are humans today's laboratory animals? News that U.S. agribusinesses are exporting genetically altered soybeans to Europe has touched off protests from political "greens' in Britain and Germany.

Vegetarian Page "But what do you eat???"

www.pelicannetwork.net
Big Sur Sanctuary Coalition

Real Goods - Earth Care

Harmony Earth-Friendly Gifts

World Wildlife Fund

Zero Population Growth

The World Watch Institute Report - State of the World World Watch is a great annual desktop reference used by government officials, corporate planners, journalists, and concerned citizens in 120 countries, and in more than 30 languages. I have been reading the State of the World Reports, founded in 1974, for a number of years now. Following are a few lines of importance to us all:

The fastest progress is now occurring on issues that were first identified decades ago. Five years after the historic U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the world is falling well short of achieving its central goal-an environmentally sustainable global economy.

Since the Earth Summit in 1992, human numbers have grown by roughly 450 million, which exceeds the combined populations of the United States and Russia. Annual emissions of carbon, which produce carbon-dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, have climbed to a new high, altering the very composition of the atmosphere and the earth's heat balance.

The world has so far failed to meet the challenge of integrating environmental strategies into economic policy. Global environmental trends are dominated by just a few nations. "The Legacy of Rio" by Christopher Flavin, looks at eight countries-four industrial and four developing-that together account for 56 percent of the world's population, 59 percent of its economic output, 58 percent of its carbon emissions, and 53 percent of its forests. These eight environmental powers include the country with the largest population-China; the one with the largest economy and carbon emissions-the United States; and the nation that arguably claims the richest array of biodiversity-Brazil. Together with Germany, Japan, India, Indonesia, and Russia, these countries constitute what could be called the E8-eight nations that disproportionately shape global environmental trends.
By Christopher Flavin, "The Legacy of Rio"
State of the World, 1997

Years ago, I found the following and still believe things would be different if those in power would follow these words:

Virginia Woolf proclaimed herself a member of the "Society of Outsiders," saying: "...as a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

Below are a few very important organizations that are helping to save the earth, our environment, for us all:

OrionOnline.org
Orion explores an emerging alternative world view. Informed by a growing ecological awareness and the need for cultural change, it is a forum for thoughtful and creative ideas and practical examples of how we might live justly, wisely, and artfully on Earth.

Environmental Defense
EDF is working to protect tropical rainforest habitats worldwide.
Environmental Defense
Phone: 1-800-684-3322

The Nature Conservancy
Saving the Last Great Places
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
The Nature Conservancy

Sierra ClubProtect America's Environment:
For Our Families, For Our Future
http://www.sierraclub.org

Green Peace
This organization has done more for us than any other group than I know of. For more information, check out their web site
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org

Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization which uses non-violent creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future.

Natural Resources Defense Council
Natural Resources Defense Council

NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 400,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

There is a law firm that is fighting to save and protect our environment. They are an independent, nonprofit, environmental law firm that represents hundreds of clients from nine offices in the U.S.

Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund
The Law Firm for the Environmental Movement
180 Market Street, Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA 94104-4209

GMO and Organic Web Site Links
www.envoy.dircon.co.uk/dig-it-up/links.htm
Links - GMO Watch, etc.

www.thecampaign.org
The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods

www.greens.org/s-r/gga/gnetbio.html
Gateway Green Alliance/Green Party of St. Louis

www.monsanto.com
Monsanto Home Page

www.connectotel.com/gmfood
Genetically Modified Food UK and World News

www.essential-trading.co.uk
a UK based workers co-operative that specialises in supplying natural, organic, GMO free, and fair trade vegetarian & vegan wholefoods to independent businesses in the UK and abroad.

www.organicsupersite.com

Suggested Books

The Sense of Wonder
by Rachel Carson
Harper Collins

Fatal Choice
Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense
by Richard Butler

Blue Frontier
Saving America's Living Seas
by David Helvarg

Tomorrow's Energy - Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and the prospects for a cleaner planet
by Peter Hoffmann

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