Choose a link go to a web site, write letters, make phone calls, talk to your friends, share the info. etc.
"Ours is the first generation faced with decisions that will determine whether
the Earth our children inherit is habitable" -Lester R. Brown, President World Watch Institute
"If we did a better job of managing our resources more sustainably, conflicts
over them would be reduced. Protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace." - Wangari Maathai
(Nobel Prize Winner)
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ---Mahatma Gandhi
"I always wondered
why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody." - Lily Tomlin
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,
it's the only thing that ever has." ---Margaret Mead
"If you don't live it you don't believe
it."---Paul Harvey
"It's easier to say
what we believe than to be what we believe." ---???
IMPORTANT LINKS: (click on underlined
text for more information).
Nuclear Power is not clean energy, contrary to the claims of the NRC and President
Obama. As per an article in "The Huffington Post" "The Hidden Cost of Nuclear Power" by Alec Baldwin: "One such issue is the impact of mining and processing radioactive materials into actual fuel. The
mining and processing of material like uranium is one of the most carbon intensive processes used in creating energy. To mine,
mill and refine uranium and to then submit the material to the enrichment, or gaseous diffusion, process takes vast amounts
of energy. In sites around the US, massive coal burning plants pollute the air while providing the energy for uranium enrichment.
Add to that the power needed to fabricate the enriched UF6 into fuel rods, and the resources needed to store the byproduct,
reduced or depleted UF6. You begin to see that everything that leads up to a utility reactor going on line is anything but
clean."
a documentary about the global localization movement.
You'll
hear from luminaries of the environmental movement from six continents, including Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David Korten,
Samdhong Rinpoche, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Michael Shuman, Zac Goldsmith and Keibo Oiwa.
Four Years.GO.com is a campaign to catalyze and empower a fundamental
shift in the direction of humanity, inspiring collaborative action, connecting individuals and organizations, and amplifying
best practices and successes.
We are creating a global rallying cry to inspire
an awareness of the urgency to shift humanity’s trajectory by 2014, before our destructive trends make that shift impossible.
We are empowering individuals and organizations to set and reach goals that will cause a positive global tipping point by
2014, setting humanity on a new path toward a socially just, environmentally sustainable, and spiritually fulfilling future.
Awaken The Dreamer
Initiative: Our mission is bringing forth an environmentally sustainable,
spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Planet Earth.
Free children from poverty. Free
children from exploitation. Free children from the idea that they are powerless to change the world. Free The Children is
the world’s largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved
in our innovative education and development programs in 45 countries. Founded in 1995 by international child rights activist
Craig Kielburger, Free The Children has a proven track record of success. The organization has received the World’s Children’s Prize
for the Rights of the child (also known as the Children’s Nobel Prize), the Human Rights Award from the World Association
of Non-Governmental Organizations, and has formed successful partnerships with leading school board and Oprah’s Angel
Network.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come
through the warmest decade, the warmest 12 months, the warmest six months, and the warmest April, May, and June on record.
A "staggering" new study from Canadian researchers has shown that warmer seawater has reduced phytoplankton,
the base of the marine food chain, by 40% since 1950.
Nine nations have so far set their all-time temperature records in 2010, including Russia (111
degrees), Niger (118), Sudan (121), Saudi Arabia and Iraq (126 apiece), and Pakistan, which also set the new all-time Asia record in May: a hair under 130 degrees. I can turn my oven to 130 degrees.
And then, in late July, the U.S. Senate decided to do exactly nothing about climate change. They
didn't do less than they could have -- they did nothing, preserving a perfect two-decade bipartisan record
of no action. Senate majority leader Harry Reid decided not even to schedule a vote on legislation that would have capped
carbon emissions."
