The Stream Protection Rule is a common-sense policy that benefits communities nationwide, and shouldn’t be undone.
Source: Tell your Senators not to gamble with America’s clean water!
The Stream Protection Rule is a common-sense policy that benefits communities nationwide, and shouldn’t be undone.
Source: Tell your Senators not to gamble with America’s clean water!
Sean McCarthy
February 1, 2017
From The Cloud Gate (most of you may know it as the giant bean) to it’s iconic Frank Loyd Wright skyline, Chicago is one of the most beautiful cities in the U.S. The only thing that could mar this city’s impressive features is a bunch of trash getting blown around the streets by its equally famous counterpart – the wind. However, Chicago has taken this problem in hand and on February 1st, a $.07 tax per disposable bag – plastic and paper – went into effect at all retail locations in the city.
To further incentivise consumers, the city is handing out 25,o00 reusable “Chi Bags” outside of several Chicago Transportation Authority stations across the city. Retailers in the city are also helping ease shoppers into this new tax. Target is handing out reusable bags to the first 200 customers at each of its 16 locations in the city and Whole Foods has guaranteed to give the first 1,000 people in each its 12 Chicago locations a reusable tote. The city hopes that this tax will dissuade shoppers from using these disposable bags – and empirical evidence shows the tax will be effective.
California and Michigan both instituted a ban on plastic bags last year and both states met with success. Across the pond, Britan banned plastic bags with a stunning effect – they saw a 50 percent reduction in the consumption of plastic bags. These bans are not just for aesthetic reasons, plastic bags are incredibly harmful to marine environments around the globe.
Every year, we consume 100 billion plastic bags and while we may only use them for a few minute, they stick around in the environment for much, much longer than that. After being thrown out, most plastic bags make their way into our oceans where they choke, entrap, and strangle marine life. Plastic bags combine with the rest of the 8.8 million tons of plastic waste we toss in our oceans annually to create a huge problem for our oceans’ ecosystems. Currently, over 800 species are threatened by plastic pollution and over 50 percent of sea turtles have plastic in their stomachs.
This is why plastic bag bans like the one in Chicago are so important. But even if you’re not in Chicago you can help to keep plastic out of our oceans and save marine life! Bring a disposable tote with you when you every time you go shopping and you will effectively keep 330 plastic bags from entering the ocean. For more tips on how to keep plastic out of your life and our planet’s waterways, join One Green Planet’s #CrushPlastic campaign.
Let’s #CrushPlastic! Click the graphic below for more information.
Aleksandra Pajda
February 1, 2017
The amount of waste people throw away every day is quite obviously a huge cause for concern. With no concern for what their actions may bring about, people throw away all kinds of trash in places that should be respected and taken care of – like forests, where trash is a serious hazard for the woodland animals.
Recently, a deer whose head was stuck in a plastic pretzel container was found in Bel Air, Maryland. The container had been stuck on the deer’s head for several days before the Maryland Department of Natural Resources managed to capture and free the poor animal.
The Wildlife Response Team tranquilized the deer, released him from the container, and, once he was recovered from the tranquilizers, returned him to the wild.
This deer was incredibly fortunate, but many animals don’t have such luck. One of the many harmful effects of littering is the risk it poses for wild and homeless animals. Let us remember that and take care never to act carelessly when it comes to things that may seem trivial to us but in reality are terribly serious to the animals around us and often turn into matters of life and death.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb...
Random stuff, but mostly about Guns, Freedom and Crappy Government..
A Globalization Of Kindness Toward All Living Beings
Psychic, Astrologer, Healer, & Blogger
A topnotch WordPress.com site
My Own Paradise: Life on Seven and a Half Acres
Learn • Explore • Grow
Impartial Informative Always
Tamil Society & Culture
System Engineering And Marketing Agency.
News, Analysis, and Culture in Translation
Inspirational, Motivational, and Heartwarming Stories
NEUTRALIZE THE FREE RADICALS
fat loss, nutrition, fitness, healthy dairy-free recipes
News and commentary on wildlife and public land issues in the Western United States
Non-denominational, Independent, Bible believing Church
My #Tweets in 140 characters or more ...from our chosen news sites .... #MeAndU
JESUS HAS EVERY ANSWER
Guardians Who Act With Courage, To Defend The Well Being Of All Life.
Working together to make the world a better place to live! A fine WordPress.com site
Kavita Ramlal, Proudly South African
Home of Lukas Kondraciuk Photography
Political News, Commentary and Humor
beauty & travel blogger // a professional amateur with a penchant for Disney, food, & matte lipstick
Iowa Climate Change
A lifestyle blog on responsible sustainability
This WordPress.com site is the bee's knees
“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” - Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
" This is our daily news that we feel is important & we want to tell people about the truth behind the story "
Citizens Addicted to Truth
Sandy Steinman's Blog
Music, Musings, Memoir, and Madness
Exposing The Establishment Daily
Voices of the American Intelligence Media
My Published Works
The Home of Plant-Based Eating.
Exploring the World of Technology One Byte at a Time
Plowing through Life in the Country...One Calf Nut at a Time
Articles, book reviews and diaries on socio-geo-politics
Only The Truth Shall Survive!
Writing the wrongs of the Right! The most radical Animal Rights blog on Earth! Universal rights, ecosocialism, and political grenades by Roland Vincent.
cherishing the moments and exploring my passion for creativity... through art, photography, food, and writing
Animal news from around the world.
Tarot and Energy Healing Guiding You To Your HigherSelf
Where Creativity and Imagination Creates Wonderful Ideas for Your Home!