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  Apply pressure to the oil companies

  Here's a good next step on the Arctic Refuge.  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/16/143634/267

  Oil companies are starting to back away from drilling in the Arctic Refuge.  Use your power as a consumer to reward those who have decided that oil drilling and wilderness don't mix.

  For the oil companies who haven't yet backed away: BOYCOTT....and let them know about it!On Senate votes to open Arctic Refuge to drilling posted 4 years, 8 months ago 9 Responses

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  A bigger Pro Life tent?

  I'd be interested in hearing from Joel and others who share his views about expanding the Pro Life tent to include environmental concerns.

  I've thought for a long time that the Pro Lifers focused on Pro BIRTH.  How do you think the idea of putting time, energy and money including tax dollars toward protecting babies after they are born would play in the Pro Life movement?  Is this something that the movement would see as a natural expansion of their agenda?On Whither the environmental movement? II posted 5 years ago 14 Responses

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  I agree. We need a new vocabulary.

  The way to reach this administration and Congress is to link environmental concerns to economic impacts and opportunities.  We need to stop hoping that through persistence we can make them see the inherent importance of bio-diversity, pristine wilderness or clean air and water.  Instead, we need to communicate in terms they already understand.

  This will mean building arguments that center around economic value and cost.  It will mean building business cases for environmental change that are expressed in dollars and cents.

  I've started to give my letters this kind of economic slant, but am not finding much on the web to help me include specific dollar amounts on any given issue.  Does anyone know a good source for environmental studies that address economic impacts?On Whither the environmental movement? posted 5 years ago 4 Responses