Obama just gave a wonderful speech on the BP oil spill and what our response to it should be. Do your part now by taking action in some of the following ways.
Of course, environmental organizations around the country are providing great opportunities to help address to the BP oil spill directly.
But addressing the root cause of the problem, our addiction to dirty energy, is also a critical thing we should all be doing in our response to the BP oil spill.
Here are 3 simple actions you can take now:
1) 1Sky is organizing a “Hands Across the Sand” day of action this Saturday, June 16th at 11am (in your time zone).
The Gulf Oil Disaster has shown America the true price of our addiction to oil and now it’s time for real change. President Obama has paved the discussion to a bold, comprehensive climate bill and clean energy bill, but are our leaders in the Senate listening?
1Sky is proud to sponsor Hands Across the Sand, a global day of action to send a simple message to our leaders: NO to Offshore Oil Drilling and YES to Clean Energy. You can join this Hands Across the Sand on Saturday, June 26th at 11 a.m. local time by hosting your own event or attending an event in your area. Whether you’re on a beach or creating an event in your town or city, you can join the thousands of voices around the world to call for a clean energy future.
Find an event in your area and sign up here to respond to the BP oil spill in a meaningful way.
2) Another thing you can do is contact your senators directly telling them you want clean energy and climate change legislation without the offshore oil drilling. Respond to the BP oil spill in this way through the Defenders of Wildlife website.
Defenders of Wildlife writes:
Polar bears drowning as the sea ice they need to survive melts away. Sea turtles, pelicans and other wildlife coated in oil, poisoned in their homes as the result of America’s addition to oil.
It doesn’t have to be this way. And this Thursday, Democratic senators will meet to help decide on their plan for America’s energy future.
You have about 24 hours to take action in that way. Do it now!
3) Cut your own personal addiction to oil. We use oil in many ways, and it is not practical to cut it out of our lives completely, but the biggest use of oil is for automobiles. Get out of you car, get on a bike (with or without your cycling shorts), use mass transit (you can save thousands of dollars a year doing so), or some other sustainable means of transport. If you want to cut our country’s use of oil and offshore oil drilling, do your part.
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Zachary Shahan
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I wonder if it really was done on purpose; make more money off the cleanup than the oil by itself.
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DO YOU REALIZE THERE IS A SAFE EFFECTIVE NATURAL SOLUTION FOR THIS OIL SPILL !!!!!!!
ESPECIALLY FOR THE WETLANDS
We are contacting you as a mutually concerned tenant on this earth. Nature provides us with a resource that helps handle any oil or chemical spills, on contact; naturally without any side effects …
… a resource that biodegrades oil, breaking it down to its natural components (H2O, CO2 and fatty acids), none of which are toxic or hazardous to the environment;
… a resource that ABsorbs not ADsorbs (like polypropylene, hair, hay, etc.), therefore will not leach;
… a resource that rejects water, in its dehydrated form;
… a resource that does not merely breakdown the molecular structure of oil to have it sink to the bottom of the ocean floor (like surfactants do);
… a resource that is naturally renewable and becomes stronger with each harvest;
We have not just come out of the woodwork due to this crisis. In June 2000, when “green” was not the talk of the town, my husband and I started a business with such a product. We have focused a lot of time and energy on educating people (including children in schools) on alternative ways to handle oil and chemical spills, by using this product. We started this business because of an awareness that we need to make some changes with the environment. It is time for us to take more responsibility for our actions, on all levels, including with Mother Earth and how we treat her. Some part of humanity knows this, hence the large movement towards “green”.
We are now at a point where Mother Earth is clearly making a cry for help and I have a strong hearts desire that I can no longer ignore. To stand up and help, and not play small. Look at what happened with the Exxon Valdez. Here we are over 21 years later, and we are still being impacted by that spill, in so many ways. We can not afford to allow this to happen. Especially in the fragile state that Mother Earth is now in. What I need is a voice, a voice from someone who is out there in the media, and will be heard. Someone with connections that can reach the authorities, and help create awareness so that they can no longer ignore this solution. That is what I am reaching out for.
You can visit our website at http://www.Synergy-Environmental.com, or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJY8nvpdzn0&NR… and get a better idea of the potential here. As you will find there, we have obtained approval from the EPA and many other government agencies on the use of this product. You can also contact Rita Graham with DERM (Department of Environmental Resource Management for Miami –Dade County, Florida) 305-297-2583. DERM has been using this product for years in similar wetland situations and much more.
Not one single solution is going to solve this crisis. We have to all pull together to resolve this, otherwise we will be paying a very high price.
Please, if you hear my heart’s call, contact me immediately, so that we can move forward, taking one step at a time, to make a HUGE difference, not only to the environment, but all those families whose livelihood will be affected by this spill, not to mention so many people’s health. It is time, NOW, we can not afford to wait and ponder this situation.
In love and service,
Ana Mariza McGroarty
Synergy Environmental, Inc.
954-309-3656
434-284-1733
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