On the next Your Call, we'll talk to local environmental activists about their efforts to clean up our act on this planet. April 22, 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day as a national holiday. What environmental achievements do we have to celebrate?
Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How are you celebrating Earth Day? Who are your Earth Day heroes? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.
Guests:
Kevin Connelly, associate director of the Earth Island Institute in Berkeley
Marie Harrison, community organizer with Greenaction in Bayview/Hunter's Point
Terranisha Nathaniel, a junior at Excel High School in West Oakland
Sandy Saeteurn, community organizer in Richmond
James Walker, a local city equipment services worker and member of SEIU Local 1021's Richmond Chapter.
Click to Listen: What have we done to protect our Mother Earth?
Earth Day...
ReplyDeletePLEASE! sign a petition TODAY to..
KEEP THE BAN ON WHALING!!!
change.org & Greenpeace have petitions to sign.
PRESIDENT OBAMA IS CONSIDERING LIFTING THE BAN ON COMMERCIAL WHALING! - and simply require "oversight" of commercial whaling - A TERRIBLE IDEA!
TODAY IS THE DEADLINE TO GET COMMENTS IN.
EARTH DAY started with SAVE THE WHALES!
Let's not lose this hard fought victory that protects these gentle giants. Thank You!
Why Environmentalists don't eat meat...
ReplyDeleteClimate Change... Land Use for animals while Humans Starve... Pesticides... Water use... Water degradation from animal waste...
* 70% -80% of the land that was once Amazon rain forest is dedicated to grazing.
* A quarter of the world's land is used for 1.7 billion livestock animals...
Green house gasses...
* A widely cited 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Livestock's Long Shadow, estimates that 18 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions are attributable to cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, camels, pigs, and poultry. But recent analysis by Goodland and Anhang finds that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions.
* The environmental impact of the lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food has been vastly underestimated, and in fact accounts for at least half of all human-caused greenhouse gases (GHGs), according to Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang, co-authors of "Livestock and Climate Change".
* Livestock production is an intensive industry consuming large amounts of water, fertilizer, pesticides, and fossil fuels—all of which contribute to global pollution and environmental degradation. Waste from the nearly 2 billion livestock is an additional environmental issue.
To learn more online go here:
http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf
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Your Call Radio podcast 4-12-2010 guests discuss the environmental devastation caused by raising animals for human consumption.
Make an Earth Day resolution to reduce or stop eating animals....