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Let California Air Resources Board know all industrially produced biofuel crops from live biomass, edible or not, still require land, soil, water, fertilizer and other finite inputs. It is clear that industrial biofuels are not "renewable energy" given that these inputs are all in limited supply, and indirect land uses lead to destruction of soil and forest carbon sinks elsewhere.
Please protest proposals for large scale use of charcoal in soils for climate change mitigation, and against their inclusion into carbon markets. Biochar, along with agrofuels, will result in devastating expansion of industrial agriculture which threatens people, climate and ecosystems.
Fuel from food and already overstressed terrestrial ecosystems is immoral and unsustainable. The Obama administration must start by rejecting the proposal to increase the corn ethanol fuel blend limit from 10-15%.
The use of coal must end if we are to maintain an operable atmosphere, human civilization and all the Earth's complex life
The Canadian government wants special treatment for the world's dirtiest oil. President Obama must stand strong on clean energy and sufficient climate policies.
Protest Finnish timber giant Stora Enso and the government profiting from destroying Finland's last ancient forests. Let them know Finland and the World's old-growth must be protected and restored to sustain the Earth's biosphere and ecosystem processes including climate, water and biodiversity.
Many seek to "geo-engineer" a global solution to climate change; that is, modify the Earth's biosphere at a planetary scale. Is humanity so resistant to change that we will seek to construct a "Frankensphere", with dramatic unknown consequences, rather than reducing emissions, consumption and population?
President Morales must be encouraged to live up to his grand rhetoric, and end his government's hurried measures to decimate massive indigenous rainforest protected areas and their biodiversity and climate values, in a manner eerily reminiscent of the capitalistic system against which he rallies
Their unwillingness at climate talks to bear the costs of reducing carbon, and ending their addiction to coal, will destroy the atmosphere, biosphere and all our futures
Like his Presidency, it is time for President Bush's looting, plundering, and pillaging of America’s natural beauty, ecological treasures and vital ecosystems to end
Deforestation, eviction, drought and murder are too high of price to pay for toxic soybeans -- and Paraguay's new government knows better and must stop the destruction
Climate change and the bad economy are both symptoms of the same growth-based "ecological bubble". Tell governments to urgently address climate change despite the economic downturn, as both Wall Street and Main Street must realize that without ecosystems there can be no economy
There is no chance of achieving global ancient forest protection, climate stabilization and ecological sustainability until RAN and other ancient forest logging apologists follow Friends of the Earth in withdrawing from the Forest Stewardship Council and uniting to work to end ancient forest logging
Gunns of Australia's controversial plans to build a huge pulp mill to make disposable consumer items largely from clearfelling ancients forests is close to failing, let us together make a final decisive push to warn off potential investors and environmental approvals and achieve its permanent withdrawal
It is time for the international community led by Europe to step up and finance large-scale Amazon rainforest preservation to protect the Earth's atmosphere, biodiversity, and life-giving ecosystems; while helping meet needs for national advancement
These ancient forests must be fully protected and all industrial development ended to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem health, focusing upon employment from standing trees and fully intact ecosystems, and failure to do will lead to a renewed "War of the Woods" and global anti-B.C. markets campaign
Let the Kenyan government know destroying ecosystems for toxic sugar monocultures is unethical, and ask them to please follow their own environmental laws, and permanently cancel the project
Encourage Mr. Gore to tell the full truth regarding the magnitude of actions required for climate change solutions, including advocating for an end to coal and ancient forest logging, and personal sacrifice including reduced consumption
The wild and free Xingu River is critical to maintaining intact the Amazon, its peoples and the Earth we share
Leading global consumer products company poised to destroy Ivory Coast's rainforests as both investor and customer, pushing three primates to extinction, just after its future commitment to rainforest protection and certified oil palm in 2015 was much heralded by some
Dam construction must not damn opportunity for protection of one of Asia's last intact, fully functional natural ecosystems
It is gravely unethical and ecologically devastating to expand production of biofuels by allowing land to be stolen from local Afro-Colombian communities; and at the expense of Colombia's ancient primary rainforests, food security, water resources and regional climate
Patagonia's wild rivers to be dammed, destroying ancient temperate forests, for 50 years of electricity; please let supposedly environmentally responsible Home Depot know they should not be doing business with the project's primary Chilean advocate
Australia's new "climate friendly" government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end
South Korea must be convinced not to sacrifice its natural river ecosystems for a cross-country concrete canal that will severely damage the nation's water security
Outrageous support by big environmental groups for first-time industrial logging of primary and old-growth rainforest wildernesses based upon vague claims that FSC certification makes it sustainable, well-managed and now even "carbon positive" is a big lie and must end
Only soy products that do not directly or indirectly destroy ancient rainforests, or intensify climate change and other problems inherent with large-scale industrial monocultures, will be tolerated in international markets
Oil shale production in Western U.S. with Department of Energy subsidies will prolong dependence upon filthy fossil fuels while destroying the climate, water and land
Ask the Polish government to stop exploitation of the ancient Bialowieza forest, preserve the whole complex as a national park, and end permanently extensive logging that threatens Europe's last remnant old-growth northern temperate forests
The PNG government continues to approve rainforest destruction and diminishment even as they vocally seek to be paid with carbon market funds for their "protection"
New York City is one of the biggest consumers of ancient rainforest timbers; and their use of tropical hardwoods must end to protect global climate, ecosystems and biodiversity
Given revelations of misconduct in Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforests by the World Bank, their desire to administer global carbon payments for rainforest protection as a means to address climate change is suspect
Rare mountain caribou threatened by further closed door, secret forest negotiations; survival depends habitat protection across their full range including ending logging of their ancient temperate rainforest habitat
Selective logging diminishes primary and old-growth forests' carbon stores, ecosystems, and biodiversity; and has no place in proposed carbon market payments for rainforest and climate protection
Growth in aviation threatens the Planet, celebrities flying in private jets are no friend to the environment, and shared climate sacrifice means the super-rich must swear off jet-setting ways
An important precedent must be set that industrial logging of ancient forests, even if FSC "certified", must end
There are limits to agricultural intensification that if surpassed threaten European wildlife and terrestrial ecosystem sustainability
Support for "certified" ancient rainforest logging crumbles further due to string of inappropriate and illegal certifications, most recently in Peru; and as Norway rejects FSC and all primary rainforest logging certification schemes
Let the Ugandan government know rainforests and their ecological services including water, climate and biodiversity are more important than sugar which can be grown elsewhere
There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council
Given the science and evident abrupt climate changes, Kyoto successor agreement must be negotiated now that emphasizes mandatory emissions reductions for all major industrial economies
Tell the World Bank, WWF and Greenpeace to stop aiding and abetting failed "sustainable" and "certified" forest management for the Congo Basin and elsewhere, and instead commit to End Ancient Rainforest Logging
Destroyer of ancient rainforests and indigenous livelihoods from Malaysia to Guyana now a publicly listed company that along with its financiers is facing renewed international protest
Let the President know the world expects Indonesia to keep the Environment Minister's promise to tackle the root causes of rainforest fires and peatland drainage
Let the Finnish government know that the age of ancient forest logging is over; that these forests are needed for climate buffering, biodiversity protection, forest restoration seed stock and are vital to achieving global ecological sustainability
The strength and permanence of protected status for ancient rainforests under Brazilian law is at stake
Industrial biofuels threaten Rainforests and European land sustainability
With a decade to avert global warming catastrophe, let the U.S. Supreme Court know carbon dioxide is clearly by both science and law a pollutant, causing climate change mayhem, and as such must be regulated - even if it means, given lack of political leadership, "legislating from the bench"
All of Ecuador's protected areas including all of Yasua must be strictly protected from oil and logging
Dramatic efforts required with coal and forests to ensure Australia's well-being and planetary survival
Their survival in isolated fragments depends upon maintaining and establishing corridors between large habitats and protection from human encroachment
Protected areas, water resources and indigenous peoples will all be devastated if French Government grants environmental approvals - decision on environmental license for industrial open-air gold mining in the primary
rainforests of French Guiana expected soon!
Insist leading Australian/New Zealand bank stop financing destruction of PNG's ancient rainforests by Malaysian loggers
Insist Malaysian authorities respect native customary land rights and boundaries of Penan's last remaining ancestral rainforest reserves
Canadian-based Barrick Gold plans to soon launch a glacier gold mine that will taint pristine valley with cyanide, destroy regional water supplies and devastate local sustainable agricultural practices
President Bush has shown throughout his Presidency little inclination to
address looming climate change, yet the science is clear, and the Earth cannot wait for new U.S. leadership
Proposed National Park "Richest of the Rich" in Terms of Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Threatened by Logging
Beijing Olympics 2008: Destroying Papua's Ancient Rainforests to Raise the Olympic Torch
Call upon Bank board to prevent climate mayhem by halting subsidies for deadly fossil fuel projects while greatly increasing renewable energy and efficiency funding
Let Russian government know oil and water do not mix, must ensure pipeline steers clear of Lake Baikal watershed
Project will devastate South America's rainforests, water and climate
Short sighted energy policy threatens regional ecosystem, security and indigenous rights
Industrial logging of ancient primary forests is ecologically and socially indefensible
Insist Colombian government not change forestry laws to follow failed industrial rainforest harvesting model
Mainstream groups participate in Canadian plan which condemns most of British Columbia's Great Bear temperate rainforest to industrial logging
Europe's rush to oil palm and soya biomass as source of renewable energy misguided and unsustainable
Send a protest email supporting the boycott of the largest, most profitable, and most ecologically damaging oil company
New Zealand Government Fails to Protect Endangered National Bird
Please Help Protect Peru's Isolated Indigenous Peoples and Their Habitats
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