PLANET IN PERIL

EDITOR'S NOTE: Let's get behind movements like these and stop this grinning jackass in his tracks! l.p. http://www.canadians.org/action/2010/RTW-June-18.html Updated July 6, 2010 After years of hard work, there has been a breakthrough in our right to water work at the United Nations. Several countries are prepared to support a resolution on the right to water which is likely to be voted on at the end of July. Council of Canadians Chair Maude Barlow, and Blue Planet Project Organizer Anil Naidoo have been speaking to international delegations urging countries to support the resolution. Unfortunately, Canada appears to be obstructing the process. It will be crucial that we get as many letters to the Canadian government over the next few days demanding that Canada support the right to water. Please join us in sending the email below to Stephen Harper. http://www.canadians.org/action/2010/RTW-June-18.html

By: Dominique Jarry-Shore, The Canadian Press - 24/07/2010 TORONTO - A new Canadian study... Monarch cluster, courtesy of www.hiltonpond.org

By Andrew Nikiforuk, 15 Jul 2010, TheTyee.ca Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly.... Open pit bitumen mine courtesy Beautiful Destruction.

NEW YORK - July 22 - CommonDreams.org Outlawed in homes and gardens, pesticide is still sprayed on food crops Crop-duster photo by l.p. EDITOR'S NOTE: In case you think chlorpyrfos (Lorsban) is a problem only in the US, think again! It is used extensively on grain crops on the Canadian prairies and made a Swan Valley family very sick a few years ago. Read their story here. "Family Believes it was Poisoned by Crop Spray " l.p. Why no lawsuit here?

John Mulrow and Alexander Ochs, with Shakuntala Makhijani - Worldwatch Institute - Jul 22, '10 The average sea level... Peter Hollinger photo

By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent - 20 Jul 2010 Telegraph.co.uk Huge swaths of rainforest… British dairy herd, courtesy of Superstock