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Buy More Stuff for Earth Day? Buy local, organic, and fair-trade certified if you're going to buy, but consider not buying anything at all, too.
What are you doing to celebrate Earth Month?
By Jonathan A. Scott, Communications Director Everyone wants to be able to “do something” for Earth Day. For anyone who’s too young (or too old) to remember, this is the annual celebration whose first incarnation, April 22, 1970 helped to galvanize and symbolize the upwelling of popular and political support which made much environmental progress possible over the past four decades. Before that first Earth Day, “The environmental issue simply was not to be found on the nation’s political agenda. The people were concerned, but the politicians wereThe Choice Couldn't Be Clearer
By Bob Wendelgass, President and CEO
We must Re-elect Barack Obama in 2012
In my 20 years of working with Clean Water Action, I have never seen a Presidential race in which the choice was so stark. That’s why earlier this week, Clean Water Action joined with Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters and Environment America to endorse President Obama for reelection in 2012. He has an outstanding record on environmental issues, and despite a hostile Congress, has taken incredibly important actions to address climate change, air pollution and water pollution and other health andClean Water is Good for Business, and for Beer!
This 2012 guest blog post was written by Jenn Vervier, special to We All Live Downstream. At the time Jenn worked as Director of Strategic Development for New Belgium Brewing. This first appeared in The Huffington Post.
At New Belgium Brewing, we not only make Fat Tire Amber Ale and about 15 other beers at one time, we also cultivate our Alternatively Empowered culture. New Belgium Brewing takes pride in being a responsible corporate role model with progressive programs such as employee ownership, open book management, and a commitment to environmental stewardship. We also strive to leverage
Colorado’s “Big Oil” Congressmen Make Us Pay Twice for Gasoline
Fat Cat takes photos with drivers calling an end to taxpayer handouts to Big Oil By Staff From Aurora to Pueblo – the heart of swing-voting Colorado – environmental groups are calling out U.S. Representatives Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton for making people pay twice for gasoline. On tax day, 2012, Clean Water Action and Colorado Conservation Voters held events at gas stations where drivers filling up at the pump took part in a photo petition with a costumed “Big Oil Fat Cat” calling for an end to special tax breaks and subsidies to the oil and gas industry. Big Oil companies get $9.4 billion
On Coal Ash Waste and A Dedication to Polluters
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Coordinator
"Look what they've loaded it up," LaHood continued. "Keystone; Coal ash. None of it has anything to do with transportation." - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood
Coal ash is nasty. It's what's left over when we burn coal to produce electricity and it's full of dangerous, cancer-causing toxins. Coal ash is the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. and we regulate it less than the trash bin under our sinks. The U.S. House of Representatives will vote today on whether to block vital new protections from toxic coal ash waste. They passed