Hi there—Over the past year, MoveOn member Marisol Garcia from Phoenix, AZ, has campaigned hard to get Google off the board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the organization behind some of the worst pieces of legislation to come out in recent years, including “stand your ground” laws. Earlier …
B Corp Ripples – 172 of 1,000 ripples completed to date
December 17, 2013 172 of 1,000 ripples completed to date We hope you are enjoying this holiday season! Please take a moment to check out the ripples the B Corp community created in November, moving us another notch closer to our goal of 1,000 ripples by the next Champions Retreat! …
ScienceDaily: New approach to reveal function of Greenland’s ice sheet
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News New approach to reveal function of Greenland’s ice sheet Posted: 15 Aug 2013 01:15 PM PDT Findings from a large-scale ice drilling study on the Greenland ice sheet may revise the models used to predict how ice sheets move. Slow earthquakes may foretell larger events Posted: …
We did it — Europe just banned bee-killing pesticides!!
We did it — Europe just banned bee-killing pesticides!! Mega-corporations like Bayer threw everything they had at this, but people-power, science and good governance came out on top!! Bee “die in” at Bayer’s headquarters, Cologne Vanessa Amaral-Rogers from the specialist conservation organisation Buglife, says: “It was a close vote, but thanks …
Call for Sign-ons to Transition Letter, Save-the-Date for Dec. 13, Community Jobs and Events, and more!
After launching our transition letter on October 16, we have received 90 signatures from our network of non-governmental experts, grassroots groups, former foreign policy practitioners and foundations! The list of signatories has more than doubled in the last week, and we cannot thank these signers enough for their support. Read …
More important: jobs or clean water?
Click here to read the report Every year, 860 billion gallons of raw sewage spill into our waterways – enough to cover the entire state of Pennsylvania one inch deep. Here’s the good news: fixing that problem creates jobs. A new report from Green For All out today found that …