North Carolina and Florida lawmakers are pressuring the Marine Corps to revise or withdraw a booklet it sent to every member of Congress with information on Camp Lejeune, N.C., water contamination. Staff for a half dozen members of Congress, including Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., have scheduled a meeting with Corps and Navy officials on Tuesday [...]
In case you’ve missed the ongoing coverage here of David de Rothschild and his Plastiki recycled plastic boat expedition, it’s a mission worth learning about. Plastic has not spared an inch of the planet from its toxic effects, including the depths of the most remote waters in the world’s deep blue oceans.
* By Mickey Z. Planet Green * When you live in a corporate-dominated culture, everything is potentially a “commodity.” We “spend” time, we “invest” in relationships, and some of us view trees as nothing more than potential lumber and/or paper. 1. Commodity According to the Wisconsin Paper Council, an “interesting rule of thumb is that [...]
This isn’t the first time the crime of hydro-piracy has come to the attention of Amazon watchdog groups. Tankers were known to be exporting oil to South America and refilling their tanks with fresh water from the Amazon to import back to Europe and the Middle East.
It is estimated that each tanker returns with approximately 5 million gallons of Amazon River water. For bottling companies, it is considerably less expensive to treat freshwater than to procure it through desalinization.
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