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Nature’s Path Gigantic Contest: Win One of 3 Eco-Vacations!

Posted on September 23, 2010 | 2 Comments

Contest From Nature’s Path: Win an Exciting Eco-Vacation!

Dear Easy Ways to Go Green Readers:

Do you dream of white sand beaches, luxurious spas or rolling green hills during your 3pm snack time at work or in your home? If you do, the fine people at Nature’s Path can make your daydreams come true with their 3PMmmm Photo Sweepstakes on their Facebook page. What is a 3PMmmm moment you ask? It’s that delicious time of the day when you take your snack break. It could be hiking, sitting in traffic, post-yoga, walking the dog and picking up kids from school. All you need to do is to take a minute to share a photo of your own 3PMmmm Photo moment to win a grand prize of one of three exciting eco-vacations: a Hawaiian tour, spa resort getaway in Tofino, Canada or a visit to an organic farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. There will also be a weekly winner of a prize package full of Nature’s Path goodness. Continue reading →

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production: Comment Now

Posted on August 18, 2010 | Leave a comment

Press Release on the Use of Antibiotics in Food Production
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production

Dear Readers — I received this press release last week in my email, and wanted to pass it along. Please do your own research. I’m not sure about the politics attached, I just know that overuse of any drug in our food supply can’t be a good thing. Take a look, do the reading, and if you are interested in getting involved and leaving a comment, please do so.

Press Release Info on Misuse of Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Currently the FDA has issued recommendations on reducing the misuse of antibiotics in food animal production and is seeking comments from the public for support. Unfortunately, these recommendations are not binding.

Food animals are still being overfed antibiotics to artificially promote growth and compensate for the effects of overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. This practice leads to strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can spread to humans. According to the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 90,000 people die each year of hospital-acquired infectious diseases.[i] Many of these infections are resistant to at least one antibiotic. Continue reading →

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BP Website Dedicated to Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Cleanup News

Posted on August 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

I don’t think I’m alone in realizing the magnitude of the disaster that is the Gulf of Mexico BP Oil Spill. Efforts never seem thorough or quick enough in times like these, and the whole thing quickly devolves into a federal-level disaster of disappointment and mismanagement on the one hand, and then a marketing crash course where it always seems like the corporation at fault puts more effort into cleaning up their reputation than into cleaning up the oil spill.

If you’re with me, then you want answers. I don’t necessarily trust BP themselves to give me the full truth, but starting on their dedicated website to up to the minute news of how the cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico is at least a start. Keep up to date on Google news using keyword searches that look something like: “BP Spill Gulf of Mexico” or “Oil Cleanup Updates BP Spill Gulf” for example.

BP Oil Website Link: Gulf of Mexico Response by BP

In the meantime, here is a link to BP’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Website. It’s called Gulf of Mexico response and should at least provide you with ongoing details of how they are trying to solve the crisis, and how those solutions are playing out.

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Obama and US Administration Defend Actions in Continuing BP Oil Spill Mess

Posted on August 4, 2010 | Leave a comment

Gulf of Mexico BP Oil Rig

Obama administration officials convened today and subsequently defended British Petroleum’s use of dispersants, the most recent solution to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Assistant administrator at the EPA’s special office on Research and Development Paul Anastas went before the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, and offered as consolation the fact that much consideration was given before moving to seemingly drastic measures such as the use of dispersants. According to the Anastas testimony, “…when you look at all of the tools to combat this tragedy… dispersants have been shown to be one important tool in that toolbox.”

Later, the director of the Office of Response and Restoration at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offered the analogy wherein dispersants were like an intensive chemotherapy session, being used to treat a disaster that is fast moving and most likely fatal, just like an aggressive cancer and its necessary treatment. Taking time out for long-term research, but that represents the long term plan, while immediate and proactive, aggressive action still needed to be taken in order to curb the disaster that looms in the Gulf. Continue reading →

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About the Earth First Movement

Posted on July 16, 2010 | Leave a comment

Earth First: Regional Green Revolution

Maine Earth First

With the green revolution always needing a new front leader and a more aggressive push towards action and away from complacency, the Earth First organization has stepped in to fill a void. Offering themselves as the alternative and solution to the following problems: wimpy environmental groups, overpaid corporate environmentalists, reductionist approaches of scientists, Earth First promotes effective, direct action as the only way to go.

It seems that the protection of wilderness across the country is the principal struggle for Earth First, and by allowing regional groups to franchise off of the main mother organization, they’ve successfully created a template for widespread action and success all over the country. Earth First notes that they “have succeeded in cases where other environmental groups had given up, and have drawn public attention to the crises facing the natural world.”

The Earth First Movement was named in 1979, in direct response to lax corporate environmental efforts, and have since leveraged grass roots spirit and organization, legal action, and civil disobedience in service of their agendas. Citing a distinct difference between organization and movement, Earth First notes there are no members, only Earth Firsters. This comes from “a belief in biocentrism, that life of the Earth comes first, and a practice of putting our beliefs into action.” Continue reading →

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The Atlantic Green Feature: Xanadu by Joshua Green

Posted on June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment

How a California Couple Has Gone About Building the World’s Greenest Home

Map of Xanadu: Joshua Green Reports for the Atlantic

In this month’s issue of the Atlantic magazine, my personal favorite, there is an interesting spread by Joshua Green on a California couple who has attempted to build the greenest home on the planet. Continue reading →

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