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Subject: Making Global Warming a Human Rights Issue | Religious Right Teams
Up with Enviros


Top Stories from EnviroHealth on AlterNet
March 5th, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth
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Daily Message:

Too often, environmental news is bad news -- but this week we have
several stories that show how powerful environmental advocates can be.

Megan Tady's article describes how the Inuit are fighting back to save
their melting home by trying to force the U.S. to be accountable for
global warming pollution through international courts.

In Texas, environmentalists and their allies helped put one of the
country's dirtiest polluters on a greener path. And across the country,
Teresita Perez writes, the unlikely alliance of religious right
organizations and environmentalists is trying to protect women and
their children from the harmful effects of toxic waste.

Each story illustrates not just community struggles, but the larger
fight to pressure the Bush administration into taking decisive steps to
curb pollution that will protect people in the U.S. and around the world.

Thanks for reading.

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IS U.S. GLOBAL WARMING POLLUTION VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS LAW?
By Megan Tady, The NewStandard
As the ice they depend on for their way of life melts away
around them, indigenous people of the Arctic are taking a
crack at Washington in international court.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48820/

ETHANOL: FEED A PERSON FOR A YEAR OR FILL UP AN SUV?
By Robert Bryce, CounterPunch
While politicians and Big Agriculture insist on casting the
need for ethanol in terms of national security, the larger
issue is a moral one: are we going to use our precious
farmland to grow food, or use it to make motor fuel?
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48790/

ONE BITE AT A TIME: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO VEGETARIANISM
By Kathy Freston, HuffingtonPost.com
How to become vegetarian -- and help save the environment --
in six easy steps.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48633/

MOTHERS FACING POLLUTION RISKS FIND ALLIES IN THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
By Teresita Perez, AlterNet
The religious right and environmentalists are teaming up to
protect women and their babies from the dangers of exposure
to pollution and toxic waste.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48631/

THE NEW, GREEN FACE OF WALL STREET
By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
How a leading utility company went from environmental enemy
to savior in one week and changed the financial world --
for the greener.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48681/

IKEA: WHO SAYS BIG RETAIL CAN'T BE GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?
By David Roberts, Grist Magazine
IKEA's environmental policies and ambitious future plans put
U.S. retailers to shame.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48578/

HI, TECH
By Bill McKibben, Grist Magazine
Understanding the power of the Internet for progressive
organizing.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48580/

LEAVE NO CHILD INSIDE
By Richard Louv, Orion Magazine
The movement to reconnect children to the natural world has
arisen spontaneously, ignoring the usual political and
economic dividing lines in society.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48521/
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