My Eco Action

From CNN: The U.N.’s leading panel on climate change has apologized for misleading data published in a 2007 report that warned Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said estimates relating to the rate of recession of the Himalayan glaciers in its Fourth Assessment Report [...]

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I got this in my email box today and had to share, even though it’s sad, it’s important. It’s a message from Defenders of Wildlife:
Maximus the grizzly bear was “a big, beautiful, wild bear,” according to grizzly specialist Mike Madel. “He kept to himself, stayed out of trouble.”
But he was gunned down in the [...]

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Are you aware that in the Pacific Ocean there is a massive, well, mass of floating plastic and other debris. It’s located in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean, approximately a thousand miles off the coast of California.
It’s been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and it makes up perhaps thousands of miles of [...]

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When you have left over medications from the doctor, what do you do with them? Do you flush them down the toilet? Dump them in the trash? Millions and millions of people do. This is leading to some pretty serious problems due to the fact that these meds decompose in our soil and water [...]

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Some of the staples of our diets are the ones with the highest pesticide contamination levels in the world and we need to be talking about this more. If no one knows it’s a problem they won’t complain to the suppliers and nothing will ever change. We [...]

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The gases we have in our atmosphere called greenhouse gases are ever-present and help to keep our planet at a constant and livable temperature. Over the course of history, we have pumped a lot of these gases into the atmosphere in the form of carbon and fossil fuels. This has caused the temperature to rise. [...]

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Most consumers do not realize that in their every day lives they actually create or contribute to the creation of a lot of green house gases, specifically carbon dioxide, so understanding your carbon [...]

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Sarah Palin has gone too far, way to far! Not only is she still a staunch supporter of aerial hunting of wolves she now wants to be able to poison and gas the wolves and their pups. WTF?? She is nuts, how can anyone think hunting wolves to extinction is a good thing?
This week alone [...]

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I went to MacDonald’s last night and I got a bit of a shock. I ordered, paid (did the prices go up again??) and then pulled up to the window where I actually pick up the food.
They handed me the drink, I put it in the holder and then…wait for it…they handed me the bag [...]

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