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Vote Bottled Water Out of the Statehouse

While World Water Day, on March 22nd, has already passed, you can still take action on key water issues.  In the United States you can take the simple yet powerful action to urge state governors to kick the bottle out of statehouses.  From the folks at the Think Outside the Bottle Campaign:

"State governments are spending millions of taxpayer dollars each year to buy bottled water. Be it water coolers by the copier or plastic bottles at state events, our elected leaders are choosing the bottle over the tap.

Wouldn't you agree that this sends the wrong message? After all, about half the time bottled water comes from the very same source as the tap. What’s more, the tap is more highly regulated for quality and safety.

Urge your governor to cancel state bottled water contracts and invest in public water.

Every governor is looking for ways to cut state spending. Now is the time to remind them of the simple solutions that are good for our pocketbooks, environment and public water systems."

Act now for a simple and straightforward way to reduce waste and wasteful spending.

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Lessons From Japan: Act Now for US Energy Future

The world has been following the news of the nuclear crisis in Japan in the wake of the historic 8.9 earthquake that hit on March 11.  Our friends at the Nuclear Information and Resource Service have asked us to pass along this urgent and important message about what US citizens can do right now to ensure a future without the waste and dangers of nuclear power:

"It would be nice to think that U.S. politicians and authorities will suddenly snap to their senses and begin work to end nuclear power and prevent new nuclear reactor construction. It won't be that easy.

 Our number one priority today: ending taxpayer subsidies for new nuclear power.

TAKE ACTION: Contact your members of Congress and urge them to do two things:

1. Oppose new taxpayer subsidies for new nuclear reactor construction,

2. End the nuclear reactor loan program entirely. The existing Department of Energy loan "guarantee" program has $10.2 Billion in unspent money for new reactor construction and another $2 Billion for uranium enrichment plants.

The good news is that the American people agree! According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News public opinion poll, cutting subsidies for new reactors is the single most popular possible budget cut, with 57% finding such cuts either completely or mostly acceptable.”

Now is the time to act to prevent similar nuclear crises in the US.  As we support the Japanese people in this time of crisis, it is also a time to demand a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world powered by clean, safe, renewable energy. Read more. Please share via e-mail, facebook, twitter and blogging.

We hope that our friends around the world will take similar actions and urge their governments to end their support for nuclear power and invest in clean, safe, renewable, energy.

(Photo by BlatantWorld.com shared under a creative commons license.) 

Fight for Public Media!

As many of you may know, here in the United States legislation was recently introduced to the Senate to cut all federal funding for public media such as NPR and PBS, media sources that the American public turns to and trusts.  A poll last week shows that 69% of Americans oppose cutting funding.  We need to make sure our voices are heard!  Get involved by signing the petition and reposting to facebook or twitter.  Let your congress members know the importance of public media to you by calling and e-mailing.  Together we can make sure these news sources continue to exist!

How do you connect to public media?  Do you listen to NPR on the way to work, did you grow up with PBS?  Leave your connections in the comments!

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2010 Campaign Report

This report summarizes the campaigns and projects that EarthAction supported and carried out in 2010. Read about our work to protect a forest in Moscow, indigenous peoples' rights in Colombia, elephants in Africa, endangered languages in Siberia, and much, much, more. It's all part of our goal to create a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.