Population for a Sustainable Planet

  • Posted on 30 June 2010
  • By Sandra Cattell

, attended the Western Regional Advocacy Training on Population and the Environment. The program was sponsored by the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) and the Sierra Club's Global Population and Environment Program (GPEP). The GPEP is the only environmental group in the US addressing population. I arrived at the training knowing that our finite resources divided by more and more people equals less resources per person. I quickly learned that this was an oversimplified, tip of the iceberg perspective of an overwhelming problem.

Hands Across The Sand At Santa Monica Beach

  • Posted on 30 June 2010
  • By The Editor
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Senior Director Ron Silverman exhorted the crowd to break the oil habit, stating emphatically, We cannot continue our dependence on oil anymore. This has to stop here. This has to stop now.
Photo by Jennifer Robinson

Create An Ocean Friendly Garden

  • Posted on 30 June 2010
  • By Douglas Kent

Paddling out to watch dolphins dance through see-forever water. Napping in sand listening to gleeful children being chased by waves. And standing on a pier at dusk, trying to pull dinner from emerald water. Our ocean is our life.

Little wonder why so many people are motivated to protect the Pacific. But what a majority do not know is that it is the small changes that make the biggest impacts. Simple shifts in maintenance practices can greatly influence the amount of type of pollutant entering our water systems.

Reduce Runoff

  • Posted on 30 June 2010
  • By Douglas Kent
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Image by Douglas Kent

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