David Steinman
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 Today, greenpeace is regarded as having first alerted shoppers to the widespread hazards of PVC in ordinary consumer products. www. greenpeace.org
Natural Resources Defense Council
The NRDC has worked in all areas of the environment from toxics by taking on Alar in the 1980s to promoting sustainable forestry and fisheries. Their top flight attorneys are in the thick of legal battles to protect our natural resources. www.nrdc.org
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy is critical to preserving deep ecological reserves throughout America and the world. www.natureconservancy. |
| An investigation in 2005 by greenpeace and RAN (Rainforest Action Network) tie JP Morgan Chase and BlueLinx, America's largest building products distributor, to illegal logging of endangered forests.17
According to the RAN-Greenpeace investigation, BlueLinx has been "smuggling legally disputed, undocumented timber out of Indonesia's critically endangered rainforests [sic] and flooding the U.S. marketplace with artificially cheap lauan plywood."
In contrast to the actions of BlueLinx, other wood products companies have issued a voluntary corporate embargo of Indonesian forest products. |
| Today, greenpeace is regarded as having first alerted shoppers to the widespread hazards of PVC in ordinary consumer products. www. greenpeace.org
Natural Resources Defense Council
The NRDC has worked in all areas of the environment from toxics by taking on Alar in the 1980s to promoting sustainable forestry and fisheries. Their top flight attorneys are in the thick of legal battles to protect our natural resources. www.nrdc.org
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy is critical to preserving deep ecological reserves throughout America and the world. www.natureconservancy. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Greenpeace UK released a study showing chemicals in the umbilical cord blood of European infants, many of the same chemicals that had been seen in American infants;" Italian politicians agreed to have their blood monitored by scientists associated with greenpeace Italy; citizens of
Washington State were found by the Toxic Free Legacy Coalition to have levels of chemical residue approaching and/or exceeding levels that the EPA terms "safe. |
Stacy Malkan
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 He said that maybe there was some kind of proposal, something greenpeace was proposing in Europe, but it wasn't about to become law. I said to them, you don't have to take my word for it, call the European Union. Why would I lie about what the European Union was going to do?"
McEwan later told a reporter he was surprised by the EU decision to ban chemicals from cosmetics, and that companies in Europe were doing what they could to influence the situation. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Similarly, in 2004, a study conducted jointly by the Environmental Quality Institute at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and greenpeace analyzed women's hair samples (one of several scientific means of testing for heavy metal exposure) and found that 21 percent of women of childbearing age have mercury levels higher than the EPA's safety limit of 1 microgram of mercury per gram of hair.
This is no small thing: researchers know that mercury can cross the placenta and affect the developing brain of the fetus. Mercury, like lead, is a potent neurotoxin. |
David Steinman
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| Through consumer pressure RAN and greenpeace organized, major banks such as Citigroup have negotiated new environmental standards for sustainability and investing. www.ran.org
Sierra Club
Sierra Club deals with many local and national issues and has activist groups throughout the United States. www.sierraclub.org
World Wddlife Fund
The WWF is instrumental in preserving critical wildlife habitat globally. Help them save elephants, orangutans, and other endangered species by adopting a portion or all of a wildlife corridor or preserve. www.wwf. |
Mark Schapiro
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| Even Europe, however, was slow in implementing a serious approach to e-waste, as Greenpeace's findings reveal. But in 2003, the EU began trying to get a handle on electronic waste. They started with recycling: the Waste in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive mandated that by the end of 2006, 75 to 80 percent of the components in electrical equipment, by weight, be recyclable. The EU encouraged research into materials that were less toxic and would biodegrade over time. |
| In Spain, the only country in Europe with large-scale commercial growing of GMO crops (and limited to use as cattle feed), greenpeace reported that 25 percent of non-genetically-engineered corn samples in the rich agricultural regions of Aragon and Catalonia had traces of GMOs; numerous growers lost their certification and the price for their crop dropped by one third. |
Mark Lynas
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 During the 2001 UN climate change conference in Marrakech, Morocco, greenpeace sent a team to Kilimanjaro to hold a press conference by video link from beside one of the mountain's disappearing glaciers. Kilimanjaro's international celebrity status has also attracted the attention of climate change deniers, who suggest that deforestation on the mountain's lower slopes is more to blame for glacial retreat than global warming. |
David Steinman
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| According to a Beanie Baby Web site, "As a result of discussions between Ty, the manufacturer of Beanie Babies, and greenpeace USA, regarding the toxicity of PVC (short for polyvinyl chloride), Ty has decided to use polyethylene pellets in all of its stuffed animals. This is a historic event—making toys less toxic and removing one more source of deadly dioxin from manufacturing and disposal (incineration) of PVC. |
| Visit www.greenpeace.org.
?Purchase a desk calendar with stunning wildlife and landscape photography from the Sierra Club at www.sierraclub.org, and benefit this important environmental organization.
?Buy only wood products with Forest Stewardship Council certification, which helps maintain and improve wildlife habitat. Visit www.fsc.org.
?Adopt wildlife. This is a great gift. For fifty to a hundred dollars or more, an acre of land can be protected by the World Wildlife Trust. I love elephants, so let me tell you about the Wild Lands Elephant Corridor Project. |
Mark Lynas
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| Illegal logging is rampant: when greenpeace asserted that 80 per cent of logging was conducted illegally, the Brazilian government -instead of issuing furious denials - threw up its hands and agreed.
Even if all this destruction stopped tomorrow, the Hadley Centre's model suggests that the Amazon rainforest would still be doomed unless global warming levels off at two degrees. If the world crosses this crucial tipping point, the model simulates a tidal wave of destruction, beginning in north-eastern Amazonia and advancing steadily south and westwards across the continent. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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— greenpeace report
1. In plant DNA, mobile elements called transposons move from place to place and can lead to mutations.
2. The tissue culture process used in genetic engineering activates transposons, and is a major factor for the resulting genome-wide mutations.
3. Transgenes in commercial GM crops tend to be inserted near transposons.
4. This insertion might alter the transgene expression.
Genetic engineering activates mobile DNA, called transposons, which generate mutations
Throughout the genome of plants are virus-like DNA sequences called transposons. |
| Although additional tissue samples were sent to the University of Gottingen, "they vanished in unexplained circumstances," according to a greenpeace report. The report also stated that "common errors in feeding and infections had by and large been ruled out as the cause of death."57 The institute ended its investigations in December 2002, without identifying the cause of the deaths. |
| The European Commission privately expresses concerns about EFSA and GMO assessments while publicly touting product safety
Friends of the Earth The WTO [World Trade Organization] documents obtained by Friends of the Earth, Europe and greenpeace show that the commission fully appreciates the extent of the uncertainties and gaps in knowledge that exist in relation to the safety of GM crops. However, the commission normally keeps this uncertainty concealed from the public whilst presenting its decisions about the safety of GM crops and foods as being certain and scientifically based.... |
| This whole project is actually based on what can only be characterized as intentional deception," writes Benedikt Haerlin, former international coordinator of Greenpeace's genetic engineering campaign. "We recalculated their figures again and again. We just could not believe serious scientists and companies would do this."33
There are other considerations. No published study has confirmed that the human body could actually convert the beta-carotene in golden rice. |
| The study had been conducted in 1998 by the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, but results were made public only recently, after greenpeace won two successive court cases. The details will be posted at www.GeneticRoulette.com after the study and write-up have been reviewed by a group of scientists.
The Web site will also include challenges and responses to the material presented in this book. We are dedicated to a transparent and scientific debate on this important topic. |
| Greenpeace report
1. Twelve dairy cows died on a farm in Hesse Germany, after being fed a diet with significant amounts of a single GM corn variety, Bt 176.
2. Other cows in the herd had to be killed due to a mysterious illness.
3. Syngenta, the producers of Bt 176, compensated the farmer for part of his losses, but did not admit responsibility for the cow deaths.
4. In spite of demands by the farmer and even public protests, no detailed autopsy reports were made available. |
Mark Schapiro
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| In Europe, greenpeace International tracked European shipments of e-waste overseas, and found it in Chinese and Indian scrap yards, with dangerously high levels of lead, mercury, and cadmium in the dust that workers routinely inhale.' In some areas of China, where e-waste from both continents has been collected into huge open pits, river-water samples taken in 2005 contained levels of lead and other metals from ten to twenty-four thousand times what World Health Organization standards consider safe in drinking water. |
| They've got policemen with guns and dogs walking around those fields now," recalled Arnaud Apoteken, head of the anti-GMO campaign for greenpeace France shortly after the arrests of the CFV farmers. "The countryside that normally inspires feelings of tranquility now feels like a war zone."22 In the fertile lands of Auvergne, the police patrol cornfields packed with genes created by a company in America's farm country that is repelling consumers around the world from American food.
A hundred miles north of the St. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 That's why I came to greenpeace.
"When I joined in the mid-nineties, my colleagues here had identified biodiversity and biotechnology as the key environmental challenges in the coming years. At the same time, France was a leader in biotech. greenpeace decided to start gathering scientific evidence about the safety of GMOs. They saw potentially irreversible negative outcomes and risks that can't even be evaluated, such as introducing novel proteins into plants, which could cause allergic reactions if eaten, or inadvertent harm to animal life connected in the environment's web. |
Marion Nestle
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 McDonald's versus London Greenpeace: McLibel
In the late 1980s, London greenpeace, a small activist group with no connection to greenpeace International, began handing out leaflets titled What's Wrong with McDonald's? Everything They Don't Want You to Know. The leaflet said that "the more you find out about McDonald's processed food, the less attractive it becomes . . . [and] the truth about hamburgers is enough to put you off them for life. |
Alex Steffen
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 Above: greenpeace workers in Bangkok, Thailand, hand out pamphlets to passersby, supplying them with information on solar energy and clean power. are now committed to changing the climate—but by making smart choices in our own lives, we can both prosper and prevent global warming from becoming any worse than it needs to be. JC
Check Your Carbon Footprint mmmm So you've checked your "environmental footprint" [see Questioning Consumption, p. 32] score online, and now you know your overall impact on the planet. But how do you break that number down into concrete elements? |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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| Our images of greenpeace are of tiny boats in rough seas trying to block mammoth whaling ships, and of one called Rainbow Warrior sunk by the French secret police in 1985 for its protests against nuclear testing.
But when we're ushered into a conference room, the greenpeace literature makes it clear just how behind the times we are. The group's GMO campaign now uses a quarter of the group's budget, second only to its antinuclear efforts. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 For resources on which food products may contain GMO ingredients, check the greenpeace website at www.greenpeace.org.uk.
Clean Your Air
Airborne exposures include far more than the usual dust, pollen, and molds. A major source is indoor air pollution—according to the EPA, indoor air pollution levels are often two to five times (and occasionally as much as one hundred times) higher than outdoor air pollution. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 According to a greenpeace report, golden rice provides so littie vitamin A, "a two-year-old child would need to eat seven pounds per day."29 Likewise, an adult would need to eat nearly twenty pounds to get the daily recommended dose.28
"This whole project is actually based on what can only be characterized as intentional deception," writes Benedikt Haerlin, former international coordinator of Greenpeace's genetic engineering campaign. "We recalculated their figures again and again. We just could not believe serious scientists and companies would do this. |
| The day after the meeting, Monasterio called a meeting with greenpeace and others to announce Chapela's findings. greenpeace was not willing to wait the two and a half months until publication to start their campaign and told Chapela that they would have to bring his findings to the media. Thus, according to Chapela, Monasterio had indirectiy leaked the research to the press in an attempt to violate Nature's rules about pre-publication secrecy.
In an interview with the BBC, Monasterio acknowledged that he met with Chapela but denies allegations that he was threatening. |
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