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Food And Water Watch Asks Walmart To Reject GM Corn

It's a new year, and it's time to launch our campaign to get Walmart to reject Monsanto's genetically engineered sweet corn. Genetically engineered sweet corn could be planted this spring, but Walmart can refuse to accept it, protecting consumers from this untested and unlabeled product. Can you sign our new petition asking Walmart to reject genetically engineered sweet corn?              Why should you ask Walmart to reject Monsanto's Genetically Engineered (GE) Sweet Corn? 1) Whether you shop ...[READ MORE]

Top Five Environmental Events of 2011 – EcoWatch

Top Five Environmental Events of 2011 This year certainly had its big eco-news events. From natural disasters that led to one of the worst nuclear meltdowns on record to an unprecedented assault on environmental protections and regulations in Congress, 2011 felt like we took 10 steps backward on the protection of human health and the environment. Personally, I’m still reeling from 2010 events, including the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. Supreme Court decision giving a green ...[READ MORE]

Triple Divide – A documentary Film by The Public Herald

TRIPLE DIVIDE  is a new documentary film that lights the shadows about America's quest for energy, where Paradise Found meets the visible hand of natural gas development. Potter County, Pa. (focus of the film) is home to a geological phenomenon called the Triple Divide, one of five widely-recognized in the United States where water drains into three different basins. The headwaters of this Triple Divide are ecological sanctuaries for all things living deep in Appalachia, and provide drinking ...[READ MORE]

A World Without Water – Full Length Documentary

As less and less water is available, you have yet another problem being added and that is the problem of privatization. There are companies now saying ‘why don’t we bottle it, mine it, divert it, sell it, commodify it.’ That greed of privatization, I believe, will be much worse than climate change and everything else that has left us with the water crisis. The world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision’s timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting ...[READ MORE]

Matt Damon – Claus For a Cause – Water.Org

Without water, life would not exist. It is a prerequisite for all human and economic development. Yet today, nearly one billion people – about one in eight – lack access to clean water. More than twice that many, 2.5 billion people, don’t have access to a toilet. There has been significant public attention paid to the issue of water scarcity lately, and for good reason. Although water is a renewable resource, it is also a finite one. Only 2.53 percent of earth’s water is fresh, and some ...[READ MORE]

Thrive – A Must See Film Documentary – Full Length

"Who controls the food supply controls the people; Who controls the energy can control whole continents; Who controls the money can control the world." ~ Henry Kissinger 1973 THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what's REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream -- uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, ...[READ MORE]

Multi-Pure Corporation To Release New Products and New Look

    Multi-Pure Corporation, the leading innovator in water filter technology is getting a make-over. Multi-Pure started its family operation in 1970 and since then has been always been ahead of the competition in terms of products that out perform other drinking water filtration devices available on the market. The Rice brothers, Alvin & H. Allen have literally built their company up from a meager beginning out of their garage, and had a dream that has become a reality.  ...[READ MORE]

Keep Coca-Cola's Plastic OUT Of the Grand Canyon

There were meaningful plans brewing for America’s most iconic national park before Coca-Cola stepped in to protect its own interests. The National Parks Service was weeks away from finalizing plans that would have eliminated the sale of plastic water bottles in the Grand Canyon when Coca-Cola, who sells water under the Dasani name, stepped in and squelched the plans. Join us in telling the National Park Service that we won’t stand for big corporations calling the shots in our nation’s parks, ...[READ MORE]

EPA Admits "Fracking may cause groundwater pollution"

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking — a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells — may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution. The draft finding could have significant implications while states try to determine how to regulate the process. Environmentalists characterized the report as a significant development though it met immediate criticism from the oil and gas ...[READ MORE]

Clean Water And Clean Air Go Hand in Hand

Being in the water filter industry and my husband being an HVAC tech (heating, air and indoor air quality specialist), I am concerned both about the quality of the water we drink and the indoor air we breath. But, when  hubby comes home from a long day of work, the last thing he wants to do is work on the A/C unit, or change filters so recently when I was contacted and asked to test out an air purifying system for free and evaluate it,  I jumped at the chance. Jarden Consumer Solutions and ...[READ MORE]