Sign the online petition at MoveOn.org Petition Background Last month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) asked the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to finalize its 2001 guidance on voluntary labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The senators advertised their request as a move intended to benefit consumers. But in fact, a […]
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It’s hard to go a day without hearing something in the news about the consequences of the oil and gas drilling rush across the United States.
Drillers Need To Clean Up Their Act
The rush is due in part to the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking—in which drillers blast millions of gallons of chemically treated water into the ground to force out the oil and gas. But the drilling boom has also been sped along by industry deregulation.
Thanks to exemptions from our bedrock environmental laws, oil and gas drilling operations don’t have to follow the same rules as everyone else. Three bills introduced in Congress would change this.
The U.S. government keeps approximately 2,611 tons of mustard gas in a facility in Colorado, and 524 tons of a spectrum of chemical weapons—including deadly nerve agent Sarin—in a facility in Kentucky, despite commitments to have already destroyed its chemical arsenals by now.
www.TheRawFeedLive.com September 24, 2013, Tuesday, 11:00PM-1:00 AM Eastern Zohara will be on internet radio to talk about her new book, The Future of Human Experience.
Revolutions Radio hosted by Robert Pepino featured guest Zohara Hieronimus, talking with him about The Future of Human Experience. Originally aired on September 6, 2013, Friday, 11PM-1AM Eastern www.TheWholeAgenda.com
Internet Radio Host Rabbi Wayne Dosick interviewed Zohara on August 28, 2013, from 2-3 PM Eastern. Zohara discussed her new book, and presents her case for a new “Life-centered” Economy based on the thirty years of research and interviews with great thinkers and visionaries behind this book. Listen online! Visit www.SpiritTalkLive.com for more about this […]
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Listen to the interview online… The Donna Seebo Show on www.BBSRadio.com www.DelphiInternational.com
Dear Dr. Zohara,
Incredible. In the past few weeks, you and over 300,000 other CREDO activists have signed Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s petition to restrict the use of the pesticides that are killing bees.
Now we need to build even more momentum to make sure we create a big buzz on Capitol Hill about the need to save the bees.
Please forward the link below to your friends and family. Then click here to post it to Facebook.
Thank you for fighting to save the bees.
Josh Nelson, CREDO Action
Last month, 50,000 bumble bees died after trees in Wilsonville, Oregon were sprayed with dinotefuran, the neonicotinoid ingredient in Safari pesticide. This was the largest bee die-off ever recorded. With bee populations declining across the around the country at an alarming rate, I urge you to support the “Save America’s Pollinators Act” to restrict the use of these chemicals until we can be assured that they are safe and being used properly. Sign the petition online…
Genetically modified foods (GMO foods) have been shown to cause harm to humans, animals, and the environment, and despite growing opposition, more and more foods continue to be genetically altered. It’s important to note that steering clear of these foods completely may be difficult, and you should merely try to find other sources than your […]
The Safest House is an exciting, new documentary that asks: After a horrific natural disaster, why do the victims insist on recreating their vulnerability by rebuilding the conventional home they just lost? Monolithic is a far wiser and SAFER alternative. The documentary illustrates that with stories of successful disaster-survivors: Monolithic Dome homes. Our guest on 21st Century Radio on May 19th, 2013 was David South, CEO of Monolithic Domes, constructing the most energy efficient and safest buildings for personal and public use that are disaster-resistant, energy-efficient and cost-effective. www.Monolithic.com. Listen to my interview with David here.
Petition Statement To be delivered to: The Maryland State House, The Maryland State Senate, and Governor Martin O’Malley Citizens of our state have been bombarded by toxic chemicals in our homes and in our environments and on roadways. I feel it is essential for Maryland to enact a GMO labeling law as soon as possible. […]
Last month, 50,000 bumble bees died after trees in Wilsonville, Oregon were sprayed with dinotefuran, the neonicotinoid ingredient in Safari pesticide. This was the largest bee die-off ever recorded. With bee populations declining across the around the country at an alarming rate, I urge you to support the “Save America’s Pollinators Act” to restrict the […]
Have apples, carrots, lemons or watermelon on your grocery list? Bad news — without bees, these foods could be much harder to find in the produce section, according to a new campaign from Whole Foods Market.
So what would a supermarket without bees look like? Whole Foods pulled all of the produce dependent on pollinators from the shelves of their University Heights store in Rhode Island — a whopping 237 items, or 52 percent of the normal product mix.
In watching the massive media coverage and the reaction to the brutal bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the wise poem “To A Louse…” composed in 1785 by the Scottish poet Robert Burns came to me:
“O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as ithers see us!”
English translation:
“And would some Power the small gift give us/To see ourselves as others see us!”
What must the “ithers” in the Middle East theatre of the American Empire think of a great city in total lockdown from an attack by primitive explosives when Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis and Yemenis experience far greater casualties and terror attacks several times a week? Including what they believe are terror attacks by U.S. drones, soldiers, aircraft and artillery that have directly killed many thousands of innocent children, women and men in their homes, during funeral processions and wedding parties, or while they’re working in their fields.
Here’s what they are thinking: that America is very vulnerable and ready to shake itself upside down to rid itself and protect itself from any terror attacks. The Bush regime, after 9/11, sacrificed U.S. soldiers and millions of innocents in the broader Middle East, drained our economy, so as to ignore the necessities of saving lives and health here at home, and metastasized al-Qaeda into numerous countries, spilling havoc into Iraq and now Syria. We have paid a tremendous price in blowback, because of Mr. Bush’s rush to war.
Why is the reaction to the events in Boston viewed by some as bizarre? Our president said “We will finish the race.” Do we really think that the attackers are doing this to disrupt our pleasure in foot racing?
Newest leak follows TEPCO admission that the “underground tanks are not reliable”
A fourth leak has been detected at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator TEPCO announced Thursday, and is the latest in a string of failures at the disaster-stricken facility still struggling with the aftermath of the meltdowns following the 2011 massive earthquake and tsunami.
“This time about 22 liters of radioactive water has leaked from a junction of the piping. The liquid has seeped into the soil,” Kyodo news reports TEPCO as saying.
On Wednesday, Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka acknowledged that “Fukushima No. 1 is still in an extremely unstable condition. There is no mistake about that.” Foreshadowing the new leak announcement, Tanaka added, “We cannot rule out the possibility that similar problems might occur again.”
And Masayuki Ono, TEPCO general manager, had told a news conference, “We admit that the underground tanks are not reliable,” and said “our faith in the underwater tanks is being lost.”
On the integrity of the existing storage tanks, the New York Times reported:
… as outside experts have discovered with horror, the company had lined the pits for the underground pools with only two layers of plastic each 1.5 millimeters thick, and a third, clay-based layer just 6.5 millimeters thick. And because the pools require many sheets hemmed together, leaks could be springing at the seams, Tepco has said.
On Wednesday, TEPCO President Naomi Hirose told a news conference that the underwater storage tanks would no longer be used, and that TEPCO would be moving 7,100 tons of the radioactive water to surface storage tanks, and would build 38 new steel tanks for the rest of the radioactive water, The Asahi Shimbun reported.
The decommissioning of the Fukushima plant is expected to take at least four decades.
Trader Joe’s performs random audits of items with suspect ingredients, using an outside, third-party lab to perform the testing, the company said. Trader Joe’s system is not unlike that of the USDA, which requires sworn statements from food producers to certify organic foods. The agency requires test samples from approximately 5 percent of products, all of which must be GMO-free in order to be certified organic. For the other 95 percent, the agency relies solely on sworn statements.
Clif Bar & Co. also requires affidavits from ingredient suppliers demonstrating they can meet the company’s stringent non-GMO requirements.
Monsanto would have you believe that verifying and labeling for non-GMO ingredients is a costly and burdensome affair, but the fact that Trader Joe’s, known for its discount prices, can provide GMO-free private label products, which reportedly account for over two-thirds of the company’s estimated annual $9 billion in sales, takes the wind out of the “burdensome” argument. That leaves the cost of adding another line of ink to a label. Trader Joe’s doesn’t yet label its private label products as GMO- free, but the company cites a lack of clear labeling guidelines from U.S. governmental agencies as the reason it doesn’t label, not cost.
Megan Westgate, Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project confirmed what retailers who use the affidavit system said: “An affidavit system like what’s proposed in I-522 is a powerful way to have a significant impact on the food supply with minimal cost.”
As huge American Biotech companies Monsanto, DuPont, and ConAgra await imminent approval of their requests for permits to plant more than six million acres (an area larger than the size of El Salvador) in Mexico with GMO corn, resistance by peasant and indigenous organizations and their allies is mounting. If approved, this will be the first time commercial planting of GMOs has been allowed in the center of biodiversity of any crop. Although the stakes at this moment could not be higher, this is not a new battle. When Cortez conquered Mexico in the 1500s, the Spaniards began an offensive against what they viewed as lowly corn, trying to force indigenous farmers to grow wheat instead. Their efforts failed, as have countless attempts throughout Mexico’s history to eradicate a “corn culture” in which corn is more than a livelihood, more than a food, but also an identity, a basis of religion, and a part of the family.
At stake today are indigenous and campesino (peasant) cultural rights; Mexico’s food sovereignty; Mexico’s enormous biodiversity of corn adapted for countless climates, soils, and conditions; and the nation’s health (one of the types of corn they wish to grow, MON603, caused tumors-and other maladies-in rats in a recent peer-reviewed study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology).
If these plants are good enough to filter the air of the space station, surely they’re good enough for your home.
Having good indoor air quality is very important, especially since many of us spend so much time inside. NASA did a study to find out which plants were best to filter the air of the space station, and the agency’s findings are available to all.
Read online to see which houseplants are best to filter the air (not only producing oxygen from CO2, but also absorbing benzene, formaldehyde and/or trichloroethylene.)
Honey bees are an important part of our ecological fabric, but their population is dwindling. See what you can do to help save the bees.
By Care2.com
Pollinators like bees are critical to our world’s food supply, and their numbers are dwindling. What can we do to help save the bees? We rely on bees to pollinate over 30 percent of our food crops, but Colony Collapse Disorder threatens the world bee population and the future of our food supply. Plants like apples, avocados, squash, cucumbers, and many other food plants that we commonly eat need pollinators in order to grow.
Luckily, it’s not all gloom and doom! Here are some ways that you can take action right now to help the dwindling bee population.
Read this article for five ways you can help the bees.