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"As a clear illustration of how easily the chemicals a mother uses on her skin end up in her fetus, consider these findings: An analysis of umbilical cord blood samples taken from twenty-seven European volunteers, in a 2005 study conducted by greenpeace International and Britain's WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund), detected eight groups of contaminants. (1) These included fragrances used in perfumes and personal care products, and synthetic musks, used to replace natural aromas in cosmetics, hand creams, perfumes, and soaps." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"In 2004, Thai greenpeace activists dressed in full-body hazmat outfits placed GM papayas into hazardous-waste disposal bins in a widely broadcast action that led to arrests and imprisonment. It's hard to determine which foods have been altered because they aren't labeled as such. Most consumers reject GM foods when alerted to their presence, but modified crops have creeped into many of the processed foods we eat. With its higher yields, GM has been embraced by industrialized agriculture." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Sydney: Shelter NSW, 2000. 19. greenpeace (2000a). "The Environmental Record of the OCA." greenpeace Olympics campaign briefing (16 Feb 2000); greenpeace (2000b). Green Olympics, Dirty Sponsors. Sydney: greenpeace Australia, 20000; Latham, H. "Sport vs. Bushland." Green Games Watch 2000 11 (Spring 2000): 3-5. 20. For example: The Star, 27 Sept 1996, 22 Nov 1996, 9 Feb 1999. 21. Op. cit., Lenskyj 2000. 22. Ibid: chapter 6. Further Sources Calvin, M. "The Cycle of Cynicism." Mail on Sunday 4 Jul 1999; Grange, M. "Summer Olympic Red Alert." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"Put on a greenpeace Defending the Ocean organic cotton T-shirt and earn some love from tunas and whales. Visit www.greenpeace.org. ?Purchase a desk calendar with stunning wildlife and landscape photography from the Sierra Club at www.sierraclub.org, and benefit this important environmental organization. ?Buy only wood products with Forest Stewardship Council certification, which helps maintain and improve wildlife habitat. Visit www.fsc.org. ?Adopt wildlife. This is a great gift. For fifty to a hundred dollars or more, an acre of land can be protected by the World Wildlife Trust." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Triclosan was mentioned previously this chapter as one of the contaminants found in umbilical cord samples collected by greenpeace International and Britain's WWF. Surveys in Sweden have also found triclosan in the breast milk of 60 percent of women. Triclosan interacts with free chlorine in tap water and degrades under sunlight to produce chloroform. It also produces a class of persistent, highly toxic, carcinogenic chemicals known as dioxins (16 ) ?an ingredient in the Agent Orange defoliant used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Similarly, in 2004, a study conducted jointly by the Environmental Quality Institute at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and greenpeace analyzed women's hair samples (one of several scientific means of testing for heavy metal exposure) and found that 21 percent of women of childbearing age have mercury levels higher than the EPA's safety limit of 1 microgram of mercury per gram of hair. This is no small thing: researchers know that mercury can cross the placenta and affect the developing brain of the fetus. Mercury, like lead, is a potent neurotoxin." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"During the 2001 UN climate change conference in Marrakech, Morocco, greenpeace sent a team to Kilimanjaro to hold a press conference by video link from beside one of the mountain's disappearing glaciers. Kilimanjaro's international celebrity status has also attracted the attention of climate change deniers, who suggest that deforestation on the mountain's lower slopes is more to blame for glacial retreat than global warming." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Visit www.greenpeace.org. ?Purchase a desk calendar with stunning wildlife and landscape photography from the Sierra Club at www.sierraclub.org, and benefit this important environmental organization. ?Buy only wood products with Forest Stewardship Council certification, which helps maintain and improve wildlife habitat. Visit www.fsc.org. ?Adopt wildlife. This is a great gift. For fifty to a hundred dollars or more, an acre of land can be protected by the World Wildlife Trust. I love elephants, so let me tell you about the Wild Lands Elephant Corridor Project. " - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "According to a Beanie Baby Web site, "As a result of discussions between Ty, the manufacturer of Beanie Babies, and greenpeace USA, regarding the toxicity of PVC (short for polyvinyl chloride), Ty has decided to use polyethylene pellets in all of its stuffed animals. This is a historic event—making toys less toxic and removing one more source of deadly dioxin from manufacturing and disposal (incineration) of PVC." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"McDonald's versus London Greenpeace: McLibel In the late 1980s, London greenpeace, a small activist group with no connection to greenpeace International, began handing out leaflets titled What's Wrong with McDonald's? Everything They Don't Want You to Know. The leaflet said that "the more you find out about McDonald's processed food, the less attractive it becomes . . . [and] the truth about hamburgers is enough to put you off them for life." - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.)

"In Spain, the only country in Europe with large-scale commercial growing of GMO crops (and limited to use as cattle feed), greenpeace reported that 25 percent of non-genetically-engineered corn samples in the rich agricultural regions of Aragon and Catalonia had traces of GMOs; numerous growers lost their certification and the price for their crop dropped by one third." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"McDonald's versus London Greenpeace: McLibel In the late 1980s, London greenpeace, a small activist group with no connection to greenpeace International, began handing out leaflets titled What's Wrong with McDonald's? Everything They Don't Want You to Know. The leaflet said that "the more you find out about McDonald's processed food, the less attractive it becomes . . . [and] the truth about hamburgers is enough to put you off them for life." - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.)

"Above: greenpeace workers in Bangkok, Thailand, hand out pamphlets to passersby, supplying them with information on solar energy and clean power. are now committed to changing the climate—but by making smart choices in our own lives, we can both prosper and prevent global warming from becoming any worse than it needs to be. JC Check Your Carbon Footprint mmmm So you've checked your "environmental footprint" [see Questioning Consumption, p. 32] score online, and now you know your overall impact on the planet. But how do you break that number down into concrete elements?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Through consumer pressure RAN and greenpeace organized, major banks such as Citigroup have negotiated new environmental standards for sustainability and investing. www.ran.org Sierra Club Sierra Club deals with many local and national issues and has activist groups throughout the United States. www.sierraclub.org World Wddlife Fund The WWF is instrumental in preserving critical wildlife habitat globally. Help them save elephants, orangutans, and other endangered species by adopting a portion or all of a wildlife corridor or preserve. www.wwf." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Illegal logging is rampant: when greenpeace asserted that 80 per cent of logging was conducted illegally, the Brazilian government -instead of issuing furious denials - threw up its hands and agreed. Even if all this destruction stopped tomorrow, the Hadley Centre's model suggests that the Amazon rainforest would still be doomed unless global warming levels off at two degrees. If the world crosses this crucial tipping point, the model simulates a tidal wave of destruction, beginning in north-eastern Amazonia and advancing steadily south and westwards across the continent." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"This whole project is actually based on what can only be characterized as intentional deception," writes Benedikt Haerlin, former international coordinator of Greenpeace's genetic engineering campaign. "We recalculated their figures again and again. We just could not believe serious scientists and companies would do this."33 There are other considerations. No published study has confirmed that the human body could actually convert the beta-carotene in golden rice." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "And in 2005, greenpeace reported that unapproved rice grown in China had been illegally sold in the market for the previous two years. That same rice was also found in products sold in Europe in 2006. The liability laws vary from country to country, but in some cases industry-friendly policies let the seed producers off the hook. Thus, if for no other reason, until the biotech industry is held fully liable for damage caused by its GM crops, the food industry should insist that developers "keep it in the lab." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "The study had been conducted in 1998 by the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, but results were made public only recently, after greenpeace won two successive court cases. The details will be posted at www.GeneticRoulette.com after the study and write-up have been reviewed by a group of scientists. The Web site will also include challenges and responses to the material presented in this book. We are dedicated to a transparent and scientific debate on this important topic." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Greenpeace report 1. Twelve dairy cows died on a farm in Hesse Germany, after being fed a diet with significant amounts of a single GM corn variety, Bt 176. 2. Other cows in the herd had to be killed due to a mysterious illness. 3. Syngenta, the producers of Bt 176, compensated the farmer for part of his losses, but did not admit responsibility for the cow deaths. 4. In spite of demands by the farmer and even public protests, no detailed autopsy reports were made available." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Even Europe, however, was slow in implementing a serious approach to e-waste, as Greenpeace's findings reveal. But in 2003, the EU began trying to get a handle on electronic waste. They started with recycling: the Waste in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive mandated that by the end of 2006, 75 to 80 percent of the components in electrical equipment, by weight, be recyclable. The EU encouraged research into materials that were less toxic and would biodegrade over time." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "In Europe, greenpeace International tracked European shipments of e-waste overseas, and found it in Chinese and Indian scrap yards, with dangerously high levels of lead, mercury, and cadmium in the dust that workers routinely inhale.' In some areas of China, where e-waste from both continents has been collected into huge open pits, river-water samples taken in 2005 contained levels of lead and other metals from ten to twenty-four thousand times what World Health Organization standards consider safe in drinking water." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "They've got policemen with guns and dogs walking around those fields now," recalled Arnaud Apoteken, head of the anti-GMO campaign for greenpeace France shortly after the arrests of the CFV farmers. "The countryside that normally inspires feelings of tranquility now feels like a war zone."22 In the fertile lands of Auvergne, the police patrol cornfields packed with genes created by a company in America's farm country that is repelling consumers around the world from American food. A hundred miles north of the St." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"He said that maybe there was some kind of proposal, something greenpeace was proposing in Europe, but it wasn't about to become law. I said to them, you don't have to take my word for it, call the European Union. Why would I lie about what the European Union was going to do?" McEwan later told a reporter he was surprised by the EU decision to ban chemicals from cosmetics, and that companies in Europe were doing what they could to influence the situation." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"The Environmental Record of the OCA." greenpeace Olympics campaign briefing (16 Feb 2000); greenpeace (2000b). Green Olympics, Dirty Sponsors. Sydney: greenpeace Australia, 20000; Latham, H. "Sport vs. Bushland." Green Games Watch 2000 11 (Spring 2000): 3-5. 20. For example: The Star, 27 Sept 1996, 22 Nov 1996, 9 Feb 1999. 21. Op. cit., Lenskyj 2000. 22. Ibid: chapter 6. Further Sources Calvin, M. "The Cycle of Cynicism." Mail on Sunday 4 Jul 1999; Grange, M. "Summer Olympic Red Alert." Report on Business Magazine (Sept 2000): 25-34; Spoilsport. "Spoilsport's Guidebook to Atlanta" (brochure)." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"Test plots and fields were destroyed by environmental groups such as Earth First, greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and farmer activists from the United States, France, Japan, Korea, and India. Attacks have continued every year on gene factories producing GMOs, on researchers advocating their use, on genetically manipulated crops, and on ships and trucks transporting GMO seed. Even an Iowa cornfield was painted with the banner, "Warning: Biotech Hazard." One Cargill plant in India was torn down. Cargo ships were blockaded from delivering GMO corn to Mexico." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Every year since 1985, October 16 (United Nations World Food Day) has been a day of anti-McDonald's actions; this practice was initiated by greenpeace in 1985 and by 1999 had spread to 345 cities in twenty-three countries.39 Helen Steel and Dave Morris—the "McLibel Two"—participated in some of the London anti-McDonalds actions, standing in front of a McDonald's handing out a greenpeace flyer titled "What's Wrong with McDonald's? Everything They Don't Want You to Know." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"Thinking we're making small talk before getting into the real reason we're here, we ask Bruno why he came to greenpeace. Bruno says, with only a hint of a French accent, "I had been working with Veterinarians Without Borders, traveling for more than thirteen years throughout Africa. I was helping poor livestock-herders, which I knew was important, but I also wanted to go deeper. I saw firsthand how European policies were creating hunger in poor countries, and I wanted to get to the roots. That's why I came to greenpeace." - Jeremy P. Tarcher, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Get the book.)

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