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ALERT! NAMING NAMES: UN REDD+ Forest Carbon Fund to Log Primary Forests with Corporate NGO Greenwash Support
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on January 3rd, 2012
By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal and ClimateArk
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Earth is facing the twin global ecological emergencies of abrupt climate change and land being scoured of natural ecosystems. Sadly, corporate American NGOs and the United Nations are responding to these crises by further promoting logging ancient forests. The United Nations REDD+ program to protect primary and old growth forests as a climate change and deforestation solution has been hi-jacked by logging interests [search] and their big pro-logging NGO friends, and will instead subsidize primary forest logging for new plantations. REDD has become a gravy train for consultants, greenwashing NGOs and charlatans of many sorts - claiming logging ancient rainforests for the first time protects them! Old standing natural forest ecosystems are key to sustaining climate, ecosystems, biodiversity, local livelihoods humanity and the Earth System. Corporate NGOs supporting REDD+ must be compelled to stop their old forest logging greenwash - or face ridicule, protest, and an end to public support, until they do.
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Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 27th, 2011
** A final year-end funding appeal from Dr. Glen Barry to support Ecological Internet's ground-breaking, visionary and highly effective efforts to sustain Earth's ecology. Vital unmet needs remain unfunded. Please donate now at http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/donate/
Dear Earth Loving colleagues,
We are very pleased that our shortened year-end fund-raiser has provided nearly $15,000 in resources for Ecological Internet's unique brand of global grassroots biocentric advocacy, committed to sustaining global ecology. For the first time in years, Ecological Internet is on a sound financial footing. Please help us make further progress towards our 2011 funding goal - and meet our programming, computer, data input expenses - by donating what you can online or by check now at:
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Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on FINAL APPEAL! Please Help Ecological Internet to Continue Serving Earth and YouALERT! Brazilian Forest Code Revisions Threaten Amazon Rainforest, National Advancement, and Ecological Sustainability
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 22nd, 2011
By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal
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Brazil's industrial agriculture lobby has forced through their Congress changes to the forest code [search], the primary legal instrument related to Amazon rainforest protections. It has been done without any scientific inputs, and in a way that will greatly expand industrial agriculture by reducing ecological protections. Newly elected President Dilma Rousseff must be encouraged to veto the bill, something she promised to do during the election. Efforts to address forest code deficiencies must recommence in a manner that incorporates the latest agro-ecological science regarding sustainable agriculture and the importance of large, connected and intact rainforest ecosystems within agricultural landscapes. Without a veto, recent progress in Amazon rainforest protection is at stake just as Brazil is to host the Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012.
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Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 15th, 2011
Please help Ecological Internet protect and restore standing old forests for local and global benefit. Please donate what you can afford including by check to support our brave, quixotic, and highly successful campaign to end primary forest logging at http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/ . We have raised $12,303 from 125 donors thus far, 31% to our goal of $40,000.
Dear rainforest colleagues,
Ecological Internet is the only major global rainforest action network working to end primary rainforest and old forest logging. We understand these sacred, nurturing shrines of life must remain standing for local forest peoples advancement, and local and global ecosystem sustainability. Ecological Internet has bravely and at great personal expense protested the huge business of greenwashing the killing of ecologically intact rainforest and selling of the ill-gotten timbers for unnecessary consumption with claims of being sustainable.
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on Give the Gift of Rainforests: Support Ecological Internet to Protect Old ForestsRAINFOREST ALERT! Protest Belize National Park Being Opened by Corrupt U.S. Oil Exploration to Illegal Logging
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 14th, 2011
By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal
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Belizes renowned rainforests [search], beaches, and Mayan homelands are threatened with a resource rampage by a corrupt government confronted with massive foreign debt. With the Prime Minister's permission, Colorado-based oil company US Capital Energy is drilling seismic testing lines through the ecologically spectacular Sarstoon-Temash national park - against international treaty commitments and a Belizean Supreme Court ruling. These cleared lines are now being used by poachers to ransack the rainforest, with stolen timbers transported to Guatemala and onward to China.
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on RAINFOREST ALERT! Protest Belize National Park Being Opened by Corrupt U.S. Oil Exploration to Illegal LoggingRELEASE: Another Tar Sands Pipeline Postponed in Major Victory for First Nations and Ecological Internet
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 12th, 2011
Firm opposition by Canadian First Nation, Ecological Internet, and innumerable others delays the Northern Gateway tar sands pipelines through British Columbia temperate rainforests, threatening the native salmon economy, and onward to Asia.
By Ecological Internet, http://www.climateark.org/
Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
Last week the Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline [search] approval process - meant to transfer filthy tar sand oil from Alberta, Canada to Asia was delayed one year until at least the end of 2013. The $5.5-billion, 1,200-kilometre double pipeline would transport up to 525,000 barrels per day of crude from Albertas environmentally devastating tar sands oilfields traversing innumerable waterways, temperate rainforests, and sensitive coastal ecosystems to ocean-going tankers for transport to Asia. The Enbridge Northern Gateway joint review panel announced the decision by email, noting significant public interest in the Northern Gateway project.
The pipelines would go through B.C.'s sensitive Pacific North Coast ecosystem, and threatens First Nations land and salmon economy. One mishap such as project developer Enbridges recent broken pipeline fouling the Yellowstone River will bring disastrous results and long-term loss of marine life, pristine waterways, and sensitive coastal ecosystems. First Nation opposition is strong and united, making clear the pipeline will never be allowed ...
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on RELEASE: Another Tar Sands Pipeline Postponed in Major Victory for First Nations and Ecological InternetEARTH MEANDERS: They Say Its My Birthday and I have a few wishes
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 8th, 2011
Today is my birthday and its going to be a good time. So as I craft a day of mirth, free spirit and all my favorite activities, let me ruminate upon what I wish for as gifts on this special day.
I want peace on Earth, real peace, the kind where the armies demobilize and dont remain standing like it used to be. Peace where trillions arent wasted from funding public social needs. I want a real and permanent turning of tanks into ploughshares. Wars obscene waste of energy, materials, human potential and life cannot persist if human and ecological being are to continue. I want it to end now.
The truth is we are one human family, one species, perhaps from different lineages with a crazy uncle, but a family nonetheless. And I want us to start acting like it. Nation state boundaries are a new false construct meant to divide us. As a human family I want our basic universal rights strictly and unconditionally observed. The human condition is absolute freedom as long as we dont hurt others. I want gods and governments off of and out of my body.
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and I have a few wishesALERT! Dont Frack with Our Water: Support New York State Residents in Maintaining the Ban
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 7th, 2011
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The New York State government is set to end its fracking ban [search] a dangerous natural gas drilling method placing its citizens, water and ecology at great risk. Fracking blasts water mixed with toxics at high pressure into the ground to shatter deep bedrock releasing toxic methane, chemicals and other contamination while destroying crucial water resources and destabilizing the land. Tell Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo that fracking will never be environmentally acceptable, much less sustainable, and that it needs to be permanently banned. Failure to do so makes him personally responsible for vast water contamination that will forever poison New York citizens he has sworn to serve and protect.
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Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 2nd, 2011
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Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on FUNDING APPEAL: Continually Sustaining the Biosphere by Keeping Global Ecosystems AliveALERT! Tar Sands Not Over Yet: Enbridge Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipelines Heading West to Asia Must Be Stopped Too
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on December 1st, 2011
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The proposed Canadian Enbridge Northern Gateway tar sands pipelines [search] seek to export filthy oil to Asia. The delay of the Keystone pipeline largely due to people power protest makes this route all the more vital to Canada, if tar sands production and transport to the international marketplace are to grow. Ecosystems will be placed at risk from Alberta's massive clearcut mining of boreal forest, Western Canada's intricate waterways, to British Columbias precious and fragile temperate rainforests and coastal waters, endangering the First Nations' salmon economy. To keep the anti-tar sand campaign momentum, this pipeline must be delayed and eventually stopped too! With stalwart indigenous opposition, and the magnitude of vital and sensitive ecosystems to be traversed, our chances are good. This alert was first launched and hundreds of thousands of protest emails sent a year ago, and has now been updated.
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