Greenpeace

Finally glad to make it on this site.  I've been putting off Greenpeace for awhile.  I"m not sure why though.  I always have good conversations with the volunteers on the street.

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JUST DISCOVERED GREENPEACE! Very excited to be joining this community of green activists. I was reading The Story of Stuff by Anne Leonard (former Greenpeace employee), which lead me here! The book is inspiring, pushing the reader to look beyond society's conventional (NOT GREEN!) methods and making the reader AWARE! We are all so blinded by our materialistic lifestyle to realize our planet is in danger! HHS has an environmental group (Goin' Green) and I hope to share this website (and this organization) with them in the near future. Hopefully, we can cooperate with Greenpeace to do different projects in ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finalize the first ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollution from power plants in November. In March this year the EPA announced for the first time that it will limit some of the most dire air pollutants, most notably mercury. Currently, there are no national limits on the amount of mercury and other toxic air pollution released from power plant smokestacks. This is an important development for anyone who cares about their lungs, kidneys or fish. The new rule aims at reducing toxic air pollution and mercury emission from coal-fired power plants that ...

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BP's new $1 billion fund for coastal restoration, and said the allotment of money should be treated as if it will be the last. They warned that BP's money cannot be expected to fix decades of environmental damage. Louisiana loses wetlands at a rate of roughly a football field every half hour.      Lawmakers and representatives of community organizations spoke Tuesday during a meeting at Tulane University. Residents can't fix what already has been lost, but this could be a great opportunity to preserve what's left, speakers said.     "We have more national attention to our Gulf of Mexico than ever before. Let's make ...

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Its not just about whales and dolphins, in my opinion we should be protecting everything in nature. Just because we have the brain power it does not mean we should take over and monopolize the worlds resources!

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