The Dirtiest Energy Project on Earth!

Canada is home to one of the largest environmental disasters in the world, the oil sands: a toxic mining operation that is destroying the largest remaining intact ecosystem in a deadly pursuit of oil.

Currently, the oil industry is trying to get a presidential permit to transport this oil into the United States through a new pipeline.

We must stop this dirty oil pipeline. If this pipeline is built, the American market will be opened up to this dirty oil increasing Big Oil's profits and furthering polluting our world.

The Obama administration has the power to deny the permit needed for this dirty oil pipeline.

Tell President Obama that it's time to put an end to U.S. involvement in Canada's oil sands project, the dirtiest energy project on earth.

Want more information?  Digging up Canada for Tar Sands  or Dirtiest Drilling Project on Earth

How Fast are the Polar Ice Sheets and Shelves Melting?

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has documented that the majority of ice fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated during the late 20th century and are continuing in the early 21st century.  According to the USGS, EVERY ice shelf located on the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula is retreating. The USGS is the first governmental agency in the USA to document the retreating ice.  While  the ice has been retreateing from 1947 through 2009, the MOST dramatic changes have occurred since 1990.

If the global warming trend continues, the retreat of the ice could result in drastic sea-level rises, which would threaten coastal developments, low-lying islands, areas in floodplains and could disrupt weather patterns worldwide.  The Antarctic ice shelves attach to the continental land mass and to the Antarctic ice sheet.  The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98 percent of the Antarctic continent.  As the ice shelves break off, there is melting of glaciers and ice streams flow from the ice sheet to the sea.  That transition of ice from land to the ocean raises the sea level..

According to the U.S.department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar:

This study provides the first insight into the extent of Antarctica's coastal and glacier change, The rapid retreat of glaciers there demonstrates once again the profound effects our planet is already experiencing—more rapidly than previously known—as a consequence of climate change. The scientific work of USGS, which is investigating the impacts of climate change around the world, including an ongoing examination of glaciers, is a critical foundation of the Administration's commitment to combat climate change

This research is part of a larger ongoing USGS project that is studying the entire Antarctic coastline in detail, and this is important because the Antarctic ice sheet contains 91 percent of Earth's freshwater ice. The USGS study focuses on Antarctica, which is the Earth's largest reservoir of glacial ice.

In a separate study published in Geophysical Research Letters, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that ice is melting much more rapidly than expected in the Arctic as well, on the basis of new computer analyses and recent ice measurements (see URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL037820).

Celebrate Polar Bear Day on February 27

Polar Bear Day is February 27, 2010!  

	Take Action: Send a message to your senators telling them you support legislation to protect polar bears and polar bear habitat.

Here are some great ideas of how you can help polar bears by adopting a bear, buying a book or t-shirt, subscribing to kids's magazines or planting a tree through the National Wildlife Federation.



Protect polar bears and other at-risk animals by making a donation to National Wildlife Federation today. 

What is in Your Baby's Bottle?

The average American, including newborns, has hundreds of toxic chemicals in their body. Not only are toxic chemicals present in toys, furniture, wallpaper, paint, carpet, cleaners, paper and food can liners, but also in plastic water bottles and baby bottles.

More than 99 percent of these chemicals have NEVER been tested for safety. In other words, the chemical industry is using YOU and your loved ones as test subjects--without disclosing the danger to you.

Scientific research has established links between the chemicals to which we are exposed on a daily  basis and increasing rates of  leukemia, brain and breast cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, asthma, autism and birth defects.

The Environmental Protection Agency cannot require companies to test chemicals. The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) has no authority.  TSCA does not contain any proactive action to determine health hazards posed by plastics. In addition, the burden of proof is set so high that the government has only banned one group of chemicals entirely – PCBs.

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has launched the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition. Read below of the planned actions of this coalition.

• Our team of scientists has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress on issues concerning toxic chemicals.
• We are working with a broad coalition of concerned people and organizations that run the gamut from health advocates to faith based groups to parents and teachers to make sure the broadest possible swath of Americans are represented.
• We are mapping out an ambitious public education and organizing campaign, including Internet organizing, hard-hitting TV spots and other measures.
  
• We are working with Congressional allies to develop stronger standards and give EPA the power to restrict known human carcinogens and other harmful substances to which Americans are already being exposed.

Imagine a world where there are more healthy babies, fewer women with breast cancer, a return to normal fertility patterns and lower numbers of people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other chronic auto-immune diseases.

Take Action: Give whatever you can afford to the EDF today.  If you do not have funds to donate, spread the word.  Let us stop poisoning ourselves and our children.

For a better, healther world.

Namaste,

CyberCelt

The Beginning of Greenpeace, 1970

1970 GREENPEACE CONCERT RECORDING OF
JONI MITCHELL, JAMES TAYLOR AND PHIL OCHS

Greenpeace Canada is set to release an exclusive two-disc, re-mastered live recording Amchitka, the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace, featuring Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and the late Phil Ochs. The concert, a fundraiser to protest U.S. nuclear bomb tests near Amchitka, Alaska is available exclusively through Greenpeace and all proceeds will benefit the organization.

We are pleased to offer this musical slice of history to Greenpeace supporters and music lovers around the world,said Bruce Cox, Greenpeace Canada's executive director.

This CD is a piece of musical magic. It contains never before heard songs, duets and chatter that capture the confidence and hope of the times. It carries a timeless message that change is possible.

The concert, which took place at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia on 16 October 1970, was organized by former trial lawyer and activist Irving Stowe. As co-director of the Don't Make A Wave Committee, he raised enough money to send 11 peace activists by boat, christened The Greenpeace, to the Aleutian Island of Amchitka. The activists were unsuccessful in stopping the tests, but their voyage in 1971 marks the birth of the worldwide organization known today as Greenpeace.

The Amchitka voyage would not have happened without the concert,and so we owe a debt of gratitude to Irving Stowe, and the talents of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Phil Ochs for generating the momentum that ultimately launched Greenpeace, continued Cox. The activists that traveled to Amchitka set the example that has guided and defined Geenpeace: non-violent direct action to protect our environment and motivate societal change.

The upcoming release features concert performances by then-rising Canadian star Joni Mitchell and a 22-year old James Taylor. Protest singer, Phil Ochs kicks off the CD. Earlier that year Mitchell had been named Top Female Performer of 1970 by Melody Maker magazine and Taylor had released his major breakthrough album Sweet Baby James. Of the historic concert, Amchitka emcee and Canadian broadcaster, Terry David Mulligan says, The crew of The Greenpeace took hold of our hearts and minds and pulled all of us along. As always, music carried the day.

Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. The organization challenges government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research,introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience and educating and engaging the public. For more information on Greenpeace, visit www.greenpeace.org.

For more information on the Amchitka release and press materials, please contact:

Liz Campanile
<> lizcampanilepr@aol.com
Spencer Tripp, Communications Director, Greenpeace Canada <>spencer.tripp@greenpeace.org

Namaste,


CyberCelt

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