Greenpeace

This just got forwarded to me and I can't wait:

Save the date! On November 19 at 9 pm, we will embark on an inspiring journey with His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales to meet visionaries who are changing the way we think about nature and pioneering new ways to live sustainably on Planet Earth. HARMONY: A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT OUR WORLD paints a picture of a growing awareness in people around the world that cuts across boundaries of geography, race, economic status, and religion. It’s a bold call on us all to make a difference now, while we still have the chance.

Not excited? Then check out the HARMONY trailer:

Also, in partnership with HARMONY, TckTckTck, a global coalition working to stop the worst effects of climate change, will be launching a global, call-to-action called mosaic:EARTH, a giant collaborative online media project. Thousands of people will be adding photos and videos to build a spectacular image of the Earth as seen from space. Double clicking on particular image and one can read/listen to the individual’s message. Check it out!

Are you angry at the corporate polluters who bought the election? Are you BPissed? Well, we’ve got the perfect way for you to blow off steam! It’s called The Big Online Oil Spill, our new game that allows you to show your friends what happens when dirty energy companies like BP run the show.

What is The Big Online Oil Spill? It’s a new experiment in online social gaming built by some friends of Greenpeace over at Vanksen. It gets the oil flowing online instead of offshore, but you get to call the shots of where it spills instead of BP. Now that the spill in the Gulf is out of the headlines, The Big Online Oil Spill allows players to keep the spotlight on oil giants by splashing digital oil all over the web, one page at a time. It works like this: you simply go to the game, select almost any website or Facebook profile, squirt some oil on it and share!

So, are you game? Then I have a challenge for you: head over to The Big Online Oil Spill, and spill some oil on five of your friends' websites or Facebook profiles.

Not only will you be able to turn your anger at corporate polluters in Washington into a few laughs, but you never know what you may unlock. And who knows, if enough people play, it may just help prevent the next disaster.

Also, be sure to provide us some feedback on the game by commenting on this blog. It is an experiment and a work in progress (for example, the game can't spill oil on every website). We want to know what you think!

Enjoy the game, and don't worry, it's OK if you start chanting "Spill Baby Spill!"

Note: When you spill oil on a website, you are not actually effecting the site but creating a temporary layer on it for comedic purposes.

As a New York resident  I felt complelled to cross-post this blog from our friends at The Other 98%. However, destructive gas drilling takes place all over the country. It's another reason that we all need to keep working our butts off to kick start the renewable energy revolution.

Seems like everyone is singing the praises of Natural Gas, our newest greenest most homegrown and secure source of American Energy. NOT!  “Clean Natural” Gas is neither. Gas extraction, made possible by hydraulic fracturing (or fracking for short) has to sit right beside Deep Sea Drilling, Mountain Top Removal, and Dirty Tar Sands Oil in the pantheon of insane ways to get our carbon fix.

 

 

Did you know that Halliburton (yes that Halliburton) pantented fracking: a process that mixes millions of gallons of precious fresh water with a proprietary cocktail of toxics, injects it through our drinking water table, and into the ground at a pressure that will fracture rock? Did you know that when Dick Cheney (yes that Dick) was the VP he fracked the EPA to make sure that this insanity would be exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act?

Stand Up, New York!

Fracking has brought the gas rush to New York. Some of the biggest and dirtiest names in Big Oil are coming to frack you. And they will not be gentle with New York’s world class water features.

You can expect the same dirty drilling that has poisoned the water in Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Ohio. Who will be at risk? Everyone downstream. Including the drinking water of tens of million in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

If you love NY and NY State as we do (or just love someone who does) then please watch our video, go to http://CleanWaterNotDirtyDrilling.org, and DO SOMETHING!!

Trader Joe's recently sent out a mass e-mail to all members subscribed to their newsletter. It seems the popular grocery store is fishing for compliments from its loyal customers. They are essentially asking for a product ego-boost, requesting that all recipients vote for their favorite Trader Joe's products.

However, within the seafood aisles, hidden between the lines of misleading ingredient lists,Trader Joe's inconspicuously sells over a dozen red-list species. For example: "Trader Joe's Lightly Breaded Fish Sticks" are made with Alaskan Pollock. This billion dollar fishery is the largest in the United States, however, the Pollock population is currently at a record-low. Steller sea lions, which feed on the Pollock, have also been decreasing as overfishing continues to deplete their food source.

So, rather than comply with Trader Joe's request for product praise, Greenpeace USA suggests we instead remind them that they continue to stock their shelves with our LEAST favorite products, despite our efforts to persuade them to change their ways.

TAKE ACTION: E-mail Trader Joe's at favoriteproducts@traderjoes.com and send them the following message:

"Trader Joe's Lightly Breaded Fish Sticks"

These fish sticks are my LEAST favorite Trader Joe's product because they are made with Alaskan Pollock, a fishery under the threat of collapse. Stop selling red-list seafood species and adopt a sustainable seafood buying policy now!

"Trader Joe's Lightly Breaded Fish Sticks" are unsustainable, but so are the following list of Trader Joe's products, all tainted with red-list seafood species. You can personalize your message by choosing your LEAST favorite and telling Trader Joe's all about it!

"Wild Seasoned Turbot" (which contains red-list Greenland halibut.)

“Barbeque Cut Fresh Salmon Fillets," “Pecan & Hazelnut Crusted Norwegian Farmed Salmon," “Fresh Salmon Boneless Skinless Fillets," “Salmon Stuffed with Feta & Spinach," “Cajun Salmon," “Salmon Stuffed with Couscous & Dill," and “Pacific Supreme Smoked Salmon."(All contain Farmed salmon raised in a way that pollutes the ocean)

"New England Wild Jumbo Scallops" (Contain Atlantic scallops which are bing overfished)

"Trader Joe's Albacore Solid White Tuna"(Contains South Atlantic albacore tuna caught by the use of longlining which results in the bycatch of threatened or endangered sea turtles, sharks and seabirds in large numbers)

“Tempura Shrimp with Dipping Sauce," "Coconut Shrimp," “Medium Cooked Shrimp," “Large Cooked Shrimp," “Jumbo Cooked Shrimp," “Colossal Cooked Shrimp," “Uncooked Wild Blue Shrimp," “Colossal Butterflied Shrimp," and "Trader Joe’s Seafood Blend.” (All contain Tropical shrimp which are caught using fishing methods that are destructive to seafloor habitats)

One year ago President Obama was elected and my hopes for a clean energy future soared.  However, just two weeks ago, that hope began to be blown away in West Virginia when Massey Energy began dynamiting Coal River Mountain—the site of a proposed 328-megawatt wind farm—to prepare for a massive mountaintop removal coal mining operation.

 

But today, organizations from across the country are coming together to demand that President Obama’s Administration be a leader for both clean energy and communities and stop the blasting on Coal River Mountain. In fact, it’s the biggest online action to stop mountain top removal coal mining in history.

Can you take a moment right now to tell the Obama Administration to not blast away our clean energy future?

Here’s what’s at stake:

-The homes, healthy air, streams and ecosystems of the local residents of Coal River Mountain.

-A Coal River Mountain wind farm that would provide 85,000 households with electricity, 700 long-term green jobs, give back $1.7 million in annual county taxes and stand as a model for clean energy across the region.

-The health of the climate as when burning the coal pumps tons upon tons of carbon into the atmosphere of an already dangerously warming planet.

The EPA has the power to either protect the climate and the communities of Coal River Mountain, or it can allow the creation of a 6,000-acre dirty energy wasteland.

You can make a difference today by taking one minute right now to tell the Obama Administration to support clean energy and save Coal River Mountain.

With your help, we can make the clean energy revolution a reality. As my colleague from Rainforest Action Network, Scott Parkin, says

“Coal River Mountain must become our line in the sand. We can no longer allow fossil fuel interests to build more pipelines, belch out more pollution, and destroy more mountains that could become clean energy wind farms. If we can stop the blasting on Coal River Mountain we can stop talking about a clean energy future and start living in a clean energy present.”