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Come See a Just and Sustainable Way to Twist, Turn on, and Flush

Apr 15, 2010Charlie PizarroEnvironmental Justice, General Insights, Uncategorized

SF Bay Area folks: do yourself a favor and come to the opening of Literacy for Environmental Justice’s Living Classroom on People’s Earth Day, Sunday, April 18, 2010.) _______________________________________ Water. Energy. Waste treatment. I’m going to make a case...

An Appetizing End to E-Waste

Apr 1, 2010Charles MargulisEnvironmental Justice, Food

Working with Cargill, a leader in bio-based green packaging, and with Ferran Adria, chef of Spain’s three-star Michelin restaurant elBulli, in 2011 electronics industry giant Sony will unveil a new PlayStation made from completely edible materials. Recent reports have...

The Toxies – An Award Show for Bad Actor Chemicals

Mar 1, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Uncategorized

Everyone knows about the Oscars, but have you heard about The Toxies? This Wednesday, March 3 at 11 am, the first-ever red carpet awards ceremony for “Bad Actor” chemicals will take place at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Bad Actor chemicals include some of the...

Discarded but not Degraded: What Will the Aliens Think When They Find Our Plastic Crap?

Feb 24, 2010Charlie PizarroEnvironmental Justice, General Insights, Plastics, Uncategorized

Once-thriving ecosystems around the globe are now choking to death on our discarded plastic relics. It’s a problem that’s on the minds of Generation Green members, so we’ve begun to share a few tips to help you reduce the amount of plastic that the global polymer...

Got an Extra Leg to Stand On? Shameless Polluter Needs to Borrow It

Feb 22, 2010Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice

The entire Ecuadorian Amazon was once a thriving ecosystem and home to thousands of species (including one called homo sapiens). But Chevron-Texaco’s operations have turned this living treasure into a polluted monument to greed and shortsightedness. If you haven’t...

I Got the Post-Holiday, Trash-Collected, Dump-Protected, Obsolete Electronics Blues

Feb 4, 2010Judy LevinEnvironmental Justice, Tips

New electronic gadgets top the holiday shopping lists of millions of Americans every year. And this means that every year, more and more obsolete and highly toxic electronic waste piles up in our basements, garages, closets, and (worst of all) town dumps. Here at the...

What to do About Cadmium in Jewelry: Q&A

Feb 2, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Legal Action, Tips, Uncategorized

Q: What did you find? A: We purchased jewelry from four leading retailers, Saks, Justice, Catherines and Aeropostale, and found significant levels of cadmium. A child’s necklace from Justice and a pink ribbon “breast cancer awareness” women’s bracelet from Catherines...

Don’t Forget: Tell Chevron to Take Responsibility for their Amazon Chernobyl

Jan 29, 2010Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice

This campaign is very important and still needs your voice! CEH ally Amazon Watch has launched a ChevronToxico Campaign, calling on Chevron’s new CEO to heed the indigenous and farming communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon and take responsibility for the Amazon...

Tell Chevron: It’s Time to Take Responsibility for the Amazon Chernobyl

Jan 20, 2010Center for Environmental HealthEnvironmental Justice

Oil spills. Hazardous waste dumping. Soil and groundwater contamination. Wholesale ravaging of entire ecosystems. Not that you’d know it from their slick ad campaigns about how much they care for people and the environment, but Chevron’s operations have created some...

My Word: Congress Must Give Port of Oakland Authority to Set Standards to Help Truckers

Jan 6, 2010Christine CorderoEnvironmental Justice

Published in the Oakland Tribune on December 29, 2009 By Christine Cordero and Rome Aloise A THOUSAND truck drivers face unemployment in January when their rigs are banned from the Port of Oakland. The state is rightly enforcing new diesel truck emission standards,...