Bookworm Sez: April is a month for green
“The Wind at Work, 2nd Edition” by Gretchen Woelfle (Chicago Review Press, 147 pages, $16.95) “Friends of the Earth: A History of American Environmentalism” by Pat McCarthy (Chicago Review Press, 133 pages, $16.95) When it...Read more...
News: Dart Energy gas quality woes
Commenting on the Sunday Herald’s revelation that struggling gas company Dart Energy has secret plans to bring in up to three tankers of propane a day to bring their gas up to necessary standards at their proposed developments...Read more...
Jonathon Porritt
Affiliations: *Member, Balanced Migration Balanced Migration [http://www.balancedmigration.org/about-us/ About], organizational web page, accessed April 6, 2013. ←Older revision Revision as of 22:16, 6 April 2013 Line 36:...Read more...
Conservationists add weight to the bee cause
By CHRIS HILL, Rural affairs correspondent Saturday, April 6, 2013 The need to halt the drastic decline of bee populations has prompted urgent calls for the government to ban pesticides which could be harmful to farmland...Read more...
SF Protesters Tell Obama No Go on Keystone XL by Tina Gerhardt
Mass demonstrations welcomed President Obama to the Bay Area on Wednesday and sent him a clear message on the Keystone XL Pipeline: Just Say No! More than 1,000 protesters greeted him when he arrived in San Francisco's...Read more...
Side with the Bees, Minister, not big Business.
MP’s have produced a report today that calls for three pesticides which harm Bees to be banned . I agree with them. I have long campaigned on this issue. Just last month, along with 125 other MP’s, I took part in a Friends of...Read more...
Top Grocery Stores: We Won’t Sell Genetically Engineered Seafood
Editor's Note: If you haven't, please sign our Action Alert opposing GE Salmon] Friends of the Earth Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of consumer,...Read more...
Plastic bag tax in force from Monday - Video
Published Friday, 05 April 2013 A plastic bag tax, which means shoppers in Northern Ireland will pay 5p for a carrier bag, comes into effect on Monday. We’re sorry. This video is unavailable from your location. The Single Use...Read more...
Time to slash Europe’s land footprint
Ian Fitzpatrick is an anthropologist, ethnobotanist and freelance researcher on food, farming, and environmental sustainability. Before Adam Smith penned The Wealth of Nations in 1776, a group of economists known as the...Read more...
Support wind energy for Victoria?… Support Yes 2 Renewables!
Since 2011, Friends of the Earth’s Yes 2 Renewables has been campaigning hard against the Victorian government’s laws that ban wind farms in large swaths of the state. These laws have cost our state jobs, investment, and...Read more...
Friends of the Earth calls for immediate pesticide ban
Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth are urging the Government to ban bee-killing pesticides. MPs have hit the nail on the head. We need a clamp down on neonicotinoids and an end to secret pesticide testing. This...Read more...
Green group stages uranium mining tour
An environmental group is touring the South Australian outback this week to observe the impact of uranium mining on the environment. Friends of the Earth has been making the trip around mine sites almost every year since 1983....Read more...
The Week A Baby Was Born!
Well that is over. Thank God. Sure, the working week was only four days long but that just meant you had to fit everything you would normally do into a shorter amount of time. And there was that 360 review thing where you...Read more...
Tom Burke
Advisory Board, Counterpoint Counterpoint [http://counterpoint.uk.com/our-team/advisory-board/ Advisory Board], organizational web page, accessed April 4, 2013. ←Older revision Revision as of 22:03, 4 April 2013 Line 13: Line...Read more...
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Obama in S.F. to raise funds Obama in S.F. to raise funds Obama in San Francisco to raise funds San Francisco Chronicle Copyright 2013 San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast,...Read more...
San Onofre: What Happened And What Must Not Happen Now
By Roy L Hales Printed with the permission of San Diego Loves Green Take a very close look at the diagram below. Notice the words “Tube Burst,” “Tube Burst Criterion” and “Tube fails 95% Burst probability 1.35 year.” These are...Read more...
Climate finance could fail those most at risk – report
Karen Orenstein, international policy campaigner with Friends of the Earth US puts it more bluntly: 'Many areas in need of funding, especially adaptation efforts in the poorest countries, simply will not turn a profit'...Read more...
Minister dismisses European experts' concern for Šumava
ČTK Renowned European experts have voiced concern about the new Czech bills on the Sumava National Park in an open letter to Environment Minister Tomas Chalupa, whom they asked not to allow the bills to destroy Sumava's rare...Read more...
Manufacturers propose bee action plan to stave off EU ban on pesticides
Two pesticide manufacturers have proposed a bee action plan in the hope that it will stave off a European ban on insecticides that scientists have said pose a "high acute risk" to bees and bee health.Read more...
News: Controversial gas developer Dart Energy fights to stay afloat
Dart Energy, the leading unconventional gas developer in Scotland, has cut 70% of its global workforce in an effort to stay afloat as the company’s share price continues to plummet. In a statement issued today (2 April) the...Read more...
enewsParkForest: San Onofre: Secret Report Confirms Edison Knew of Major Problems
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 8 – A secret Mitsubishi Heavy Industries report released today confirms that Southern California Edison knew about serious problems in the radically redesigned replacement steam generators for the San...Read more...
Protest Obama's SF Fundraiser
Join activists from CREDO, 350, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity and others (endorsed, of course, by 350 Bay Area), to send President Obama a big message: Stop Keystone XL! *Details are still...Read more...
Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Refuse to Sell GE Fish
A Friends of The Earth News release announced that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 stores across the United States have committed not to sell genetically engineered seafood if it is allowed onto the...Read more...
EarthTalk / BioGems Initiative
Updated 1:15 pm, Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Dear EarthTalk: I heard of an effort to save what are being called "BioGems." What are BioGems and what is being done about them? -- Larry Dibner , Tallahassee, Fla. "BioGems," a...Read more...
Palm Oil: RAN's can of worms reeking of payola!
Payola taints the campaigns that are planned and carried out by anti-palm oil green groups. This may be the only way they know how to survive, as they constantly dream up new causes to justify their existence. This much has...Read more...
Govt oil and gas strategy undermines climate goals
Reacting to the publication of the Government's oil and gas industrial strategy today (Thursday 28 March) Friends of the Earth Energy Campaigner Guy Shrubsole, said: "It's madness for the Government to want to increase the...Read more...
Experts Say Sunscreen Fear 'A Risk to Health'
Possible health risks from tiny particles used in some sunscreens may kill people, say experts. Concern about the potential damage from an anti-nanotechnology campaign being run by environment group Friends of the Earth is so...Read more...
Pesticide company’s Bee Health Plan: Friends of the Earth reaction
World News: 11:56 GMT Saturday 30th March 2013. [Envirolib] 28 March 2013 Responding to multi-national pesticide companies’ ‘Bee Health Plan’ proposal, Paul de Zylva, Friends of the Earth’s Senior Nature Campaigner said: “Just...Read more...
Worst bee die-off in 40 years
– Spring is in the air, and as we plant our vegetable gardens and enjoy the blossoming flowers, it’s easy to forget the small creatures that keep many of our spring favorites alive and are essential to our food supply: bees....Read more...
Court Delays Action On Leaded Avgas
A U.S. District Court Wednesday dismissed a suit brought by Friends of the Earth that aimed to push the EPA to decide whether emissions from general aviation aircraft are a threat to public health, but did not dismiss the...Read more...
