Activists call for President to keep promise to label GMO's

A group of safe-food advocates working through the Occupy Monsanto and Food Democracy organizations announced today, Jan. 14, 2013, their planned roving assembly in Washington, DC for 2nd Inauguration of President Barack Obama. Hundreds of safe food activists will hold a "GMO Free Inauguration" by sharing organic & non-GMO food and hot drinks via a roving musical assembly. Keep reading

White River receives National Blueway designation

Fans of U.S. natural areas have long known that the White River and its watershed are special. Today, Jan. 9, 2013, the Department of the Interior has made it official. Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes today announced that the White River, along with its watershed, has been named the nation’s second National Blueway.Keep reading

Dangers of Arctic drilling dramatized: Shell's oil rig remains stranded. Shell’s Arctic drilling rig Kulluk that ran aground on Monday near Kodiak Island and remains stranded today Sunday, Jan. 06, 2013 amid high seas and strong winds. After numerous attempts to regain control of the vessel, the U.S. Coast Guard is now working to stabilize the rig, minimize damage and detect fuel spills. The rig has about 155,000 gallons of diesel fuel and other petroleum products aboard, none of which has spilled, state environmental regulators said. Environmental groups question wisdom of any Arctic drilling “This latest mishap is another painful reminder that Arctic drilling is simply not safe,” said Deirdre McDonnell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. Keep reading article.

When +Bill McKibben set out on his @350.org’s Do the Math Tour, he and a slew of green celebrities asked people and institutions to divest from fossil fuels. The 350.org organization believes divestiture from fossil fuels and investment in renewable energy is essential to health of the planet and all its living systems. Some colleges have listened. According to a 350.org update: Unity College in Maine became the first in the nation fully divest from fossil fuels. Hampshire College in Massachusetts has also passed a sustainable investment policy that effectively divests them from fossil fuels. At Harvard, a student resolution supporting divestment passed with 72% of the vote, and students are now pushing to meet with President Faust about divestment. UNH students delivered 1,000 signatures to their president to call for a meeting on divestment. At Brown, students rallied to push their administration to divest from coal. Perhaps most surprisingly, an entire city appears to be doing the math. Seattle Mayor @Mike McGinn sent a letter to the city’s two chief pension funds in late December, formally requesting that they “refrain from future investments in fossil fuel companies and begin the process of divesting our pension portfolio from those companies.” Keep reading at http://www.examiner.com/article/first-mayor-to-lead-divesiture-from-fossil-fuels-seattle-s-mike-mcginn?cid=db_articles

Individuals alone can't solve the world energy problems http://www.examiner.com/article/individuals-alone-can-t-solve-world-energy-problems-governments-must-act

KFC wraps chicken in tiger habitat

Greenpeace International began an email campaign this week to rev up support for their campaign to convince KFC to stop using throwaway packaging made by destroying the Indonesian rainforest. The Sumatran tiger, the last subspecies of tigers still alive in Indonesia’s rainforests, is on the brink of extinction. Only 400 of these tigers remain in the wild. Continue reading...

Wild whooping crane chick hatches in Wisconsin

Wild whooping crane chick hatches in Wisconsin
The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP) today annouced another success in its efforts to reintroduce a wild migratory whooping crane population in eastern North America. A whooping crane chick hatched yesterday in Wood County, Wis.

Click link to read story. The video is from a previous hatchling.