Action Alerts
Tell Congress: Pass the 2012 Farm Bill
From the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition: This is it. It’s make or break time for the 2012 Farm Bill. What’s on the table? Hands-on training and tools for beginning farmers and ranchers. Support for cutting-edge organic and sustainable Continue Reading »
Say goodbye to plastic bottles
People of Concord, Massachusetts vote to ban the sale of plastic bottles in their town!
Keystone XL: Hold Our Leaders Accountable
Early Saturday morning, Big Oil’s allies in Congress successfully held the Payroll Tax Cut hostage to a rider that would order the Obama Administration to ignore public input, good science and environmental laws and fast-track a decision on the Keystone Continue Reading »
Protect against mercury emissions
As President Obama prepares to approve the first nationwide protections against mercury emissions from coal plants, big-business lobbyists are working to block these safeguards. To show your support for the regulations — which would cut 90 percent of mercury from Continue Reading »
United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa
People of faith are bringing the religious voice to bear on the need to address climate change to protect vulnerable populations — low-income communities and communities of color — around the globe. Speak Out. Sign the Postcard.
Dirty Air Act
Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky is trying to ram through an obscure rule to gut the Clean Air Act and stop the EPA from doing its job. Paul’s legislation, flying under the radar, would handcuff the EPA from protecting our Continue Reading »
Monsanto is bringing GM sweet corn to our plates
Read more about this and then please join us in sending letters to CEOs of grocery stores to let them know we don’t want this at the following link: http://action.freshthemovie.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8462
Ways to help save our forests
Many endangered forests, some ancient, are being destroyed to make toilet paper, facial tissues, paper towels and other disposable paper products. Make smart shopping decisions with the Natural Resources Defense Council green guide that provides a list of tissue paper Continue Reading »
Vatican issues major report on science of climate change
A working group of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, one of the oldest scientific institutes in the world, issued a sobering report on the impacts for humankind as a result of the global retreat of mountain glaciers as a result Continue Reading »