As going green becomes more and more popular, it seems that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.
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Ecopreneurs: We Must Be the Change
Which Organic Products are your favorite, and who owns them?
This a chart of some popular organic brands and which large food processing corperations own them. Also shows which corperations do not have any organic brands.
Notice the absence of Whole Foods.
Tell your Senators to support renewable energy development by cutting oil industry handouts!
ExxonMobil recently reported the largest quarterly profit for any corporation in American history yet the government still hands out subsidies to oil and gas corporations. Tell the Senate that this should be diverted to renewable sources of energy!
Stop big media from taking over the Internet
please keep the Internet open and free. stop big media from hearing your voice and concerns about the environment. this is crucial for treehugger.com and all who use the internet. visit savetheinternet dot com for how you can help. this is not an advertisment, this is a cry for action to keep our Internet open and free. thank you.
The Paradox of Plenty: Marion Nestle’s “Food Politicsâ€
In Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002), Marion Nestle, a leading nutritionist and then-chair of the NYU department of nutrition, food science, and public health, shows that calling ketchup a vegetable is just the tip of the regulatory iceberg. The book is a thorough and often shocking review of the historically cozy relationship between the food industry and the US government, and how that relationship has affected the food regulations (and deregulation) that determine the quality and the marketing of the food we eat.
Video: "Achieving a Low Carbon Future: Can Sustainability and Prosperity Coexist?"
By now, there is general agreement that if we are going to mitigate the worst effects of climate change we must achieve at least a 70% cut in global emissions by the year 2050, but there is little agreement on how to reach that goal. Leading utility companies and energy investors discuss their vision for a low-carbon future, and where they are putting money to achieve it.
Video: Advancing Sustainable Prosperity
The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Carl Byker and it includes interviews with several key CERES partners.
A Slice of Brooklyn aka Keeping Brooklyn Brooklyn (Community Action + Grassroots Benefit)
It’s up to us to let Papa John ’s know that we oppose this obscene corporate intrusion into our neighborhood. Please call and write Papa John’s and — respectfully — let them know that they are not needed, nor wanted, nor welcomed in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.