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"Whose Skin Are You In?"
The video "Whose Skin Are You In" shows the pain and suffering of animals who are killed for their skin for clothing.
http://www.peta.org/whoseskin/index.aspThe Indian Leather Trade - video
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=skin-trade- ..."Meet Your Meat" attacks the meat industry and mass production of livestock, where humane treatment is sacrificed for profit. Narrated by Alec Baldwin.
http://www.meat.org/These videos are excruciating to watch.On From Vengeance to Volt posted 1 year, 1 month ago 1 Response
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Mark Bittman on Video
Dave Roberts posted this video to Gristmill in May.
Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/5/17/223829/210As I recall, the video runs 45 minutes to an hour. On The great Mark Bittman on how to push meat off the center of the plate posted 1 year, 5 months ago 18 Responses
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Stop Trashing the Climate
Susie Caplowe and Joy Towles Ezell of the Florida League of Conservation Voters organized a 'Stop Trashing the Climate' Day of Action in Tallahassee on June 5th.
TRASH IS BIG CLIMATE PROBLEM, NEW REPORT FINDS
A zero waste approach revealed as a top climate protection strategy.
Report released by Floridians Against Incinerators in Disguise, Florida League of Conservation Voters in coordination with the organizations that produced the report: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), and Eco-Cycle
Tallahassee: Floridians Against Incinerators in Disguise, Florida League of Conservation Voters in coordination with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), and Eco-Cycle released a report today, Stop Trashing the Climate to step up the message that waste prevention, expanded recycling, reuse and composting is a more progressive tool in the climate crisis tool kit. Publication of timely report on United Nations World Environment Day offers tangible solutions to climate challenge, documenting that minimizing waste and increasing recycling and composting have the same climate protection impact as closing one-fifth of the nation's 417 coal-burning power plants. Coal combustion is the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
"We are taking the opportunity to educate and motivate the public and public policy decision makers to change the way they deal with waste," stated Joy Towles Ezell, President of Floridians Against Incinerators in Disguise and FLCV. "The current "public policy" set by legislators and local governments for Florida over the past few years has set the course for more incinerators in disguise, under the cloak of waste to energy burners and the use of biomass and landfill/consumer waste. A backward direction instead of forward thinking."
"The report key findings show that "zero waste" movement reduces pollution, carbon dioxide emissions, and toxics, creates and sustains jobs. The time is now for "zero waste" strategy vs. ramping up incinerators in disguise, such as waste to energy plants, plasma, gasification, pyrolysis, and biomass burners," stated Ezell.
"Connect the dots... the polluters including the incinerators are busy polluting, the regulators are not regulating and the media and general public are asleep. What is the result? Rapid global warming and there is a significant chance that all of us will develop some type of cancer at some point in our lives, " stated Ronald Saff, M.D., Board Certified Allergy & Immunology. " "Incinerators in disguise" are being promoted throughout the state as a positive solution, clouding the truth. Stop Trashing the Climate shows that all types of incinerators are a detriment to the climate and the wrong direction for Florida. The "incinerators in disguise" are unproven technology, competing for taxpayer subsides, fly under the regulation radar, and could potentially pop up next to every landfill across this state."
Quote from Al Gore Quote from "Earth In The Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit" - Author Al Gore (Author of "An Inconvenient Truth"): "The latest scheme masquerading as a rational and responsible alternative to landfills is a nationwide - and worldwide - move to drastically increase the use of incineration... The principal consequence of incineration is thus the transporting of the community's garbage - in gaseous form, through the air - to neighboring communities, across state lines, and indeed, to the atmosphere of the entire globe, where it will linger for many years to come. In effect, we have discovered yet another group of powerless people upon whom we can dump the consequences of our own waste; those who live in the future and cannot hold us accountable."
Information including the report, executive summary, fact sheet, and U.S. press release is available online at: www.stoptrashingtheclimate.org.
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To see Florida League of Conservation Voters President Joy Towles Ezell and allergy and asthma specialist Dr. Ron Saff at the Tallahassee press conference, click here:
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/19574309.htmlBelow is some additional media coverage from the Stop Trashing the Climate day of action.
Florida Television coverage: The Zero Waste Approach, "Stop Trashing the Climate"
Hour long radio show broadcast across five U.S. states:
http://wpr.org/merens/index.cfm?strDirection=Prev&dte ...Ecolocalizer:
http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/06/want-to-curb-global-wa ...LA times blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/emeraldcity/2008/06/am-gr ...
World Press blog:
http://whygreen.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/stop-trashing-th ...Florida article: Recycle, don't incinerate, enviros say
Grist blog: http://www.grist.org/news/2008/06/05/brief/index.html
Digg Blog Coverage:
Stop Trashing the Climate
Amazing new report that links trash to climate change. Includes recommendations on zero waste, incinerators, packaging regulations, composting and recycling.
Colorado story: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/jun/06/recycling-fig ...On E.U. has trash problem; Hamburg has trash solution posted 1 year, 5 months ago 2 ResponsesClick here to view comment in original post
1 million vow to be vegetarian to reduce carbon
More than one million people in Taiwan have pledged to help cut carbon emissions by being a vegetarian. Taiwan's population is about 23 million, and the one million vegetarians would reduce at least 1.5 million tons of carbon emissions in Taiwan in one year.
The Union of NoMeatNoHeat made the announcement during its anti-global warming drive. Many prominent politicians, such as the legislative speaker, the environment minister, and Taipei and Kaohsiung Mayors all pledged to become vegetarians.
The Union said 20 percent of the world's carbon emissions are created by the livestock industry, which is higher than the 15 to 18 percent produced by all the world's transportation vehicles.
The Union said if a person eats only vegetables for a whole year, roughly 1.5 tons of carbon emissions can be cut.
http://english.rti.org.tw/Content/GetSingleNews.aspx?Cont ...On Still more reasons to eat local and lay off the beef posted 1 year, 5 months ago 33 Responses
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More Fidel
Here's a transcript of a Hugo Chavez-Fidel Castro ethanol discussion
posted to The Fueling Station on March 1st by David Adams, the
St. Pete Times principle biofuels cheerleader.The Fueling Station:
http://blogs.tampabay.com/energy/ethanol/index.html
---------------------------------------------------Chavez: Do you know how many hectares of corn are needed to
produce one million barrels of ethanol?Castro: To do what?
Chavez: To produce one million barrels of ethanol?
Castro: Ethanol. I believe you told me about that the other
day. Somewhere around 20 million hectares.Chavez: [Laughing] Just like that.
Castro: Go ahead, remind me.
Chavez: Indeed, 20 million. You are the one with an except-
ional mind, not me.Castro: Twenty million. Well, of course. The idea of using
food to produce fuel is tragic, dramatic. No one is sure
how high the price of food will rise when soy is being
used for fuel, with the need there is in the world to
produce eggs, milk, to produce meat. It is one more tragedy,
one of many at this time.I am happy to know that you have taken up the flag to save
the species because ... there are new problems, very
difficult problems and therefore to see someone become
a great preacher of the cause, a champion of the cause,
an advocate of the life of the species. For that, I
congratulate you. Continue fighting [words inaudible]
to educate the people so they can understand.
-----------------------------------------------------Adam's comments can be read here:
http://blogs.tampabay.com/energy/2007/03/castro_and_chav. ...But the governments of Cuba and Venezuela are planning
to move forward together on biofuels production. Cuba
is interested in producing ethanol largely for export
according to this IPS report:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36823On Biofuels force the choice on us posted 2 years, 7 months ago 16 Responses