2 results for tag: action
Oregonians To Fred Meyer: “We Don’t Want Toxic BPA!”
Post by Sophia Aguilera
OEC and our friends made quite a splash in Oregon’s city center this week. Passers-by in cars honked approval, and those on foot stopped to ask questions. It wasn’t just the adorable babies in our crowd that caught Portland’s attention; it was genuine interest in and concern about our reason for being in front of Fred Meyer: toxic BPA in food can linings.
Remember our grocery trip to local Portland-area stores including Fred Meyer back in 2015? It’s hard to forget, now that lab testing confirmed that most of the cans we purchased were lined with an epoxy that can leach the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol ...
2014 is go-time for climate
Have you heard? News reporters got a glimpse of a leaked draft of the latest international consensus report on climate change. It's the last word summarizing the three giant, detailed reports by the International Panel on Climate Change, a Nobel prize-winning experts. Here's the upshot:
We changed the climate.
It's bad.
We can still ward off catastrophe.
We have to act now, and we have to act big.
As the People's Climate March organizers say, "To change everything, we need everyone."
Here's what you can do:
Join the People's Climate March
Be a part of history
On September 21, New York City will host the largest climate ...