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easyVegan Link Sanctuary, 09-11-07
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Action Alerts
Center for Biological Diversity: Save Panama Biosphere Reserve From Dams
Please join the growing international movement to protect this ecological jewel and voice your opposition to the proposed Hydroelectric Projects.
DawnWatch: UK media on meat and global warming 9/9/07
“Activists take Gore to task on his diet”
Defenders of Wildlife: Protect Utah Prairie Dogs and Other Wildlife
Fill out the form below to urge your Representative and Senators to support the Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2007 (H.R. 1422 and S. 700), important legislation that would help private landowners protect Utah prairie dogs and other imperiled wildlife that live on their property.
Earthjustice: Say No to the Blowing Up of Appalachia
Tell the administration to stop trying to diminish the buffer zone rule and start enforcing it!
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Tell the U.S. Navy to Stop Killing Whales!
Ear-splitting military sonar is needlessly killing whales and other marine mammals throughout the world’s oceans. Yet the Navy has refused to put effective safeguards in place during testing and training.
(More below the fold…)
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NRDC & The Wilderness Society: Tell Congress to Support Our National Treasures
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
UPDATE, 7/3/07, via the Wilderness Society:
Thank Your Congressperson for Protecting the Tongass National Forest
Thank you is a word we probably don’t say enough, but now is the time to do just that.
Please write your Congressional Representative today to thank him or her for voting yes on an amendment the House approved for the Interior budget. The Andrews-Chabot Amendment stops wasting taxpayer dollars building new logging roads in the Tongass National Forest, America’s largest intact rainforest.
U.S. Representatives Robert E. Andrews (D-New Jersey, 1st) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio, 1st) lead the bipartisan floor effort and deserve an additional thanks.
To let your representative know how much protecting the ecological integrity of the Tongass and the quality of life for southeast Alaska communities means to you, write your member of Congress [here].
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UPDATE, 6/12/07:
Looks like the Sierra Club wants in on the action too:
Take Action: Save Wild Alaskan Forests!
Known as America’s Rainforest, the Tongass National Forest is our nation’s most significant tract of old-growth forest and provide abundant habitat for a diversity of fish and wildlife species, many of which have declined substantially in the lower 48 states. Now the Forest Service is planning new logging roads and timber sales in this wild roadless forest, despite the fact that the Forest Service typically loses an average of $40 million each year logging this area. It’s time for Congress to take common sense action to eliminate these destructive practices.
Urge your member of Congress to stop subsidies for logging in the Tongass!
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Two more enviro alerts, this time in regards to upcoming Congressional votes that concern funding for federal lands and agencies.
First, from the Natural Resources Defense Council:
Tell your representative to protect the Tongass and other national treasures
The House of Representatives will vote this week on two critical appropriations bills that will determine how much to spend on
our most important environmental programs, including those that protect the Tongass National Forest and other public wildlands.
One important amendment would stop the Forest Service from spending our tax dollars to build logging roads through pristine
forestlands in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. For decades American taxpayers have been forced to subsidize nearly a billion dollars worth of clearcut logging in the Tongass — our country’s largest national forest and the world’s largest intact coastal temperate rainforest. Now the Forest Service has proposed increasing logging to five times current levels — and building thousands of miles of new roads at a cost of tens of millions of dollars every year. The Andrews-Chabot amendment to the Interior appropriations bill would end these harmful subsidies and protect the Tongass.
(More below the fold…)
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Biofuels this and emissions standards that…
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
UPDATE, 6/12/07:
…and the Sierra Club weighs in….
Take Action: Support Energy Efficiency Standards!
Incandescent Light BulbIn order to achieve energy independence and curb global warming we must increase energy efficiency. We need an energy efficiency standard that will move America toward the 80% reductions in greenhouse gases that scientists say are necessary to avoid the worst consequences of global warming. By making better use of the electricity we already produce, we can not only save 300 million metric tons of global warming causing carbon dioxide by 2020, but consumers can also save a total of $26 billion.
Urge your Senators to support Energy Efficiency Standards!
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I’m running late, so I though I might take a shortcut and consolidate all of today’s climate change/fuel efficiency/general enviro alerts into one big link farm post.
(In fact, climate change is such a “hot” topic* right now that I may even do a link roundup post every day or two.)
So, yeehaw.
(More below the fold…)
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NRDC: Save Tahuamanu Rainforest
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Via the Natural Resources Defense Council:
Save Tahuamanu Rainforest
In a major advance in our campaign to halt Peru’s export of endangered mahogany, Congress and the Bush administration have agreed to include key protections against illegal logging in the U.S.-Peru trade agreement. Each year, loggers cut down thousands of majestic mahogany trees, laying waste to the lush habitat of the squirrel monkey and threatening the survival of indigenous peoples. More than 80 percent of this tropical timber — much of it illegally harvested — is bound for the United States. Congressional negotiators also insisted on measures that would prevent illegal mahogany from passing through U.S. Customs. Now, we must keep the pressure on the Peruvian government to ensure that all export mahogany is logged legally and sustainably.
» Tell the Peruvian government to do its part to curtail illegal mahogany exports.
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NRDC: Tell Congress not to let polluters weaken the Clean Water Act
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
UPDATE, 5/15/07:
See also: Support the Clean Water Authority Restoration Act, from the National Wildlife Federation.
Tiny Violin alert: If you do use the NWF’s sample letter, there’s one reference to fishing that you’ll want to edit out.
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Via the Natural Resources Defense Council:
Tell Congress not to let polluters weaken the Clean Water Act
Since the Clean Water Act was enacted in 1972, we have made great progress in cleaning up our nation’s waters. But polluters have tried repeatedly to use the courts to cut back on the law’s protections, and last year their efforts paid off when a Supreme Court decision left significant doubt about what kinds of water bodies remain protected by the Clean Water Act.
Now a number of small streams and other waters are in legal limbo. This uncertainty is enormously dangerous — 20 million acres of wetlands and nearly two million miles of streams are at risk of pollution or destruction if they lose their Clean Water Act protections. In response, concerned members of the House and Senate will soon introduce the Clean Water Authority Restoration Act to thwart polluters’ attacks by specifying the kinds of waters that the law must cover.
Americans need these water bodies to be protected — the small and seasonal creeks, brooks and streams that make up over half the river miles outside of Alaska contribute to the drinking water of roughly 111 million people. In addition, wetlands purify water, reduce the risk of flooding and provide important wildlife habitat.
Send a message urging your senators and representative to co-sponsor the Clean Water Authority Restoration Act.
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