Our wounds don’t show up in our bodies. They show up in our ecosystems. When we feel pain, we must ask where that pain is asking us to look.
Environment News
Public comments on Electronic Warfare Program extended
The Navy’s proposed Electronic Warfare program in the Pacific Northwest threatens to destroy the peace of the Olympic Peninsula forever. Voice your concern today!
Jessica Alba joins fight against toxic chemicals
Jessica is pregnant with her second child and chemicals in the environment are a huge personal concern of hers.
Are we creating our own toxic oil spill?
by Annie Hopper | It is time for us to collectively wake up and change the way that we live on this planet. I can only hope that the Gulf Oil Spill becomes a big catalyst in this global wake up call.
Grandmothers ask for your help healing our planetary waters
Join an international collective of grandmothers on Tuesday, May 18 in a global prayer to heal our world’s waters.
Law Firm Challenges LBAM Twist Ties
The law firm Earthjustice wrote to the CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture on behalf of Stop the Spray East Bay and several other groups, objecting to CDFA’s plan to hang apple moth twist ties in residential areas.
NEW: NYC Environmental Public Health Tracking Portal
The City of New York has released an Environmental Public Health Tracking Portal that allows New Yorkers to monitor the city’s environmental conditions with a few clicks of the mouse.
Dhaka’s air ‘killing 15,000 a year’
Dhaka’s air pollution poses a serious health hazard to the city’s residents with rising respiratory illnesses causing more than 15,000 deaths a year, says the Department for Environment.
Jellyfish threaten to ‘dominate’ oceans
Nitrogen and phosphorous run-off from development is causing red phytoplankton blooms, “which create low-oxygen dead zones where jellyfish survive, but fish can’t.”
ALS Cases Caused By Blue-Green Algae
Cases of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, are twenty five times higher for people who live around Mascoma Lake in New Hampshire than the norm. These local occurrences of the fatal neurodegenerative disease have been linked to cyanobacteria.