myclimate - The Climate Protection Partnership - is based on the concept of voluntary and innovative solutions for climate protection and the promotion of renewable energies and energy efficient technologies.
The international initiative originated 2002 as an ETH spin-off in Switzerland. myclimate is one of the leading providers of carbon offsetting measures. my climate foundation
Ocean Watch Foundation
- is a 501-C-3 non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of the local coral reef communities in South Florida. Its membership is comprised of people from the diving, fishing, boating, environmental and marine industry communities, all with one thing in common: a love of the ocean.
From this common ground the volunteers work together in protective efforts to preserve the fragil coral reef communities.
For more information contact Ocean Watch Foundation, PO Box 462, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33302. Phone: 954-467-1366, website: OceanWatch.org
Reef Check
Founded in 1996 by marine ecologist Dr. Gregor Hodgson, the Reef Check Foundation is an international non-profit organization dedicated to conservation of two ecosystems: tropical coral reefs and California rocky reefs. With headquarters in Los Angeles and volunteer teams in more than 80 countries, Reef Check works to create partnerships among community volunteers, government agencies, businesses, universities and other non-profits.
Reef Check goals are to: educate the public about the value of reef ecosystems and the current crisis affecting marine life; to create a global network of volunteer teams trained in Reef Check's scientific methods who regularly monitor and report on reef health; to facilitate collaboration that produces ecologically sound and economically sustainable solutions; and to stimulate local community action to protect remaining pristine reefs and rehabilitate damaged reefs worldwide.
is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, dedicated to providing education and outreach services that will lessen the toll that travel and tourism takes on the environment and local cultures.
If you would like to operate a boat in the Florida Keys, Captain Flynn Smith offers the most straight-forward, no-nonsense, and reasonably priced course in Florida.
He has a lifetime of experience on and under the water in the Florida Keys and offshore islands.
With a degree in Marine Biology, he also has a serious attitude towards global warming, protecting the coral reefs and Florida Keys environment.
Wildlife Research Team, in its service to the betterment of flora and fauna through environmental projects and studies, seeks to educate, enlighten, and create awareness and understanding in the public consciousness as to these goals and purposes, to be accomplished by training, study, hands-on experience, and compound participation of effort.
"WAR ON PLASTIC"
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"Rejecting the toxic plague"
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by Jan Lundberg
Northern Californians Against Plastic
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new report: plastics additive of great toxicity: deca-BDE
http://www.culturechange.org/plastics_additives.html
The Plastic Recycle Problem / and Resource links
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Jan Lundberg's first report on the subject:
Plastics: Your Formidable Enemy - Culture Change Letter #70
http://www.culturechange.org/e-letter-plastics_enemy.html
Paul Goettlich's mindfully.org has almost everything on plastics:
http://www.mindfully.org./Plastic/plastic.htm
Campaign Against the Plastic Plague:
http://earthresource.org/campaigns/capp/capp-overview.html
Algalita Marine Research Foundation, maker of the award-winning movie,
"Our Synthetic Sea" available for purchase.
http://beyondpesticides.org/news/daily.htm
www.ourstolenfuture.org
Scientific American article on "green plastics"
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Biodegrade/Green-PlasticsAug00.htm
Plastic Oceans news article from Wired News, and more.
http://www.culturechange.org/Petroleum&Plastics.html
"Plastic disaster is creeping on me..." - the Depavers song Green is the Shelter
http://culturechange.org/depavers.html
Berkeley Plastics Task Force report.
http://mindfully.org/Berkeley/Berkeley-Plastics-Task-Force.htm
78 Reasonable Questions to Ask about Any Technology by STEPHANIE MILLS / Clamor, i.18, Jan/Feb03
http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/2003/78-Questions-TechnologyFeb03.htm
Bioneers.org: is a forum for connecting the environment, health, social justice, and spirit within a broad progressive framework. BioNeers.org
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A small Green Sea Turtle was found along a
rock wall near the Dive In dive center in Key
Largo, completely covered with thick, black
oil. The baby turtle was rescued, using
mayonnaise (which dissolves the oil without
harming the turtle)
www.TurtleHospital.org
CO2 is now absorbed into the Oceans, causing acidification and potentially toppling food chain domino #1, the plankton.
Ocean "acidification" occurs when chemical compounds such as carbon dioxide, sulfur, or nitrogen mix with seawater, a process which lowers the pH and reduces the storage of carbon.
Ocean acidification hampers the ability of marine organisms—such as sea urchins, corals, and certain types of plankton—to harness calcium carbonate for making hard outer shells or "exoskeletons." These organisms provide essential food and habitat to other species, so their demise could affect entire ocean ecosystems.
Earth's rivers polluted with cancinogenic chemicals
Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:11pm EDT
www.reuters.com
PARIS (Reuters) - Rivers in eastern and northern France found to be contaminated with chemicals that have been outlawed since 1987 and are proving very hard to eliminate, the government reported on Wednesday.
The River "Rhone" which runs through the southeastern corner of France (scientists said) contained dangerous levels of polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCB / PCBs ).
The latest report said additional rivers were in an even worse condition because of industrial dumping dating back decades, including the River Seine which runs through Paris.
"It's a huge clean-up job," Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the secretary of state for ecology, told a news conference. Other big rivers in Europe are affected by the same problem, she said.
PCB's were used primarily as a cooling and insulating fluid for electricity transformers and capacitors. It has been banned in France since 1987 after research showed it could cause fertility, growth and cancer in humans.
Kosciusko-Morizet said PCB had been very heavily used in industry since the 1930s and France was suffering the consequences of long-standing pollution.
"Cleaning it up is far from easy. It's very complicated because there are huge amounts of sediment." She said it would be technically and economically impossible to clean up the whole Rhone River... (... what about the Ocean?)
Here is the PCB problem
.... connecting the dots .....
with plastic pollution....
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"Alguita, the oceanic research vessel from Algalita, just came back from one of its research expeditions in the Pacific Gyre, an area of the Pacific Ocean otherwise known as the Garbage Patch. They collected samples on the surface of the ocean and found evidence of record high concentrations of small plastic particles.
Birds and fish eat the plastic because it mimics the food they eat, zooplankton. Research data from the Algalita Foundation shows plastic particles outnumber zooplankton 6 to 1. Especially concerning is the fact that the plastic pieces can attract and hold hydrophobic elements like PCB and DDT at up to one million times background levels. As a result, this floating plastic is a "poison pill".
... so... the "easy" solution would simply be to get industry to stop
dumping millions of tons of toxins into the rivers/oceans....
( ... going back 50 years or so... )
... then just get the entire world to stop using plastic 'once',
and tossing it into the garbage/oceans....
... that will probably be about as easy as
oh... maybe stopping the use of fossil fuels...
then we can get back to work on that little global warming "issue".... :-)
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