http://svereb.blogspot.com/2011/09/planeteer-shirt.html

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Palm Oil is cooking oil made from the fruit of the African oil palm. This palm tree is only found and grown in tropical environments; mainly consisting of areas with rainforests. “Approximately 85 percent of palm oil is grown in the tropical countries of Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.”

Palm Oil a threat?

Palm Oil is a gigantic threat to the environment and you! Here’s how:

• Palm Oil as an increasing threat to our rainforests because of illegal logging. Because this plant can only be grown in tropical environments, rainforests are cut down to make room for plantations. Once a plantation needs more room or has lost the nutrition in the soil, more forest is destroyed to make more plantations.

• Illegal logging methods include the slash and burn method of clearing rainforest. This is the act of purposefully setting an uncontrolled fire to part of the forest. They do not take account the animals in that area of forest. The orangutan is one of the severely affected species by this. There are only predicted to be about 30,000 left in the wild and they are also only found in rainforest habitats. Orangutans are already on the endangered list like many other rainforest species. There are also many other undiscovered species we are losing due to this logging.

• “Manufacturers are now required to state on food labels the amount of trans fatty acids, also called hydrogenated fats, in packaged foods. Both trans fatty acids and saturated fatty acids are associated with elevated heart disease risk factors.” In a study in the article linked above the results showed that Palm Oil, hydrogenated Palm oil, and hydrogenated soybean oil lead to increased cholesterol and heart risk. Many other tests and scientists are also concluding that it can also increase risks in cancer, obesity, and diabetes.

What can YOU do?

1)      READ THE LABEL! Reading the ingredients on a label is crucial to avoiding Palm Oil. If it says “Palm Oil” or “Partially Hydrogenated Palm Oil” on the ingredients list chances are it is NOT from a sustainable or legal source.

2)      CHECK THE COMPANY! There is slowly but surely increasing number of companies joining the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil or the RSPO. These companies DO NOT get  their Palm Oil from  an illegal or environment-damaging source like most do!

3)      WRITE TO THE COMPANY! Is your favorite company not in the RSPO yet? Write to them! If a company knows they are losing money over Palm Oil they are more likely to change their sources!

4)      SPREAD THE WORD!

TO HELP YOU BEGIN!!

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, HERE’S A LIST!

 Make a Difference for Wild Orangutans

Orangutan Friendly Sustainable Palm Oil Valentine Candy List

This information is meant to be a helpful guide for consumers that are concerned about orangutan conservation and deforestation due to non-sustainable palm oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia. The companies listed below are members of the RSPO (Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil) and are committed to using certified sustainable palm oil. Please support companies that are doing their best to make a difference for orangutans.

Company Name                           Snack Name

Nestle                                               Baby Ruth

Nestle                                               Butterfinger

Nestle                                               Crunch Bar

Nestle                                               100 Grand

Wonka (Nestle)                            Valentine Heart Sweetarts

Wonka (Nestle)                            Lik-M-Aid (Fun Dip)

Wonka (Nestle)                            Laffy Taffy Candy and Card Kit

Wonka (Nestle)                            Nerds Candy and Card Kit

Wonka (Nestle)                            Valentine Mix Ups (Bottlecaps, Nerds, Laffy Taffy)

Wonka (Nestle)                            Heart Gummies

Wonka (Nestle)                            Gobstoppers

Wonka (Nestle)                            Chocolate Hearts (Crunch & Butter Fingers)

Wonka (Nestle)                            Valentine Exchange (Butterfinger, Baby Ruth,Crunch)

Lindt and Spungli                       Lindor Truffles (Many Flavors)

Lindt and Spungli                       Chocolate Heart Boxes

ConAgra                                           Fiddle Faddle

ConAgra                                           Crunch & Munch

ConAgra                                           Poppy Cock

Kellogg’s                                           Heart Shaped Marshmallow Treats

Kellogg’s                                           Fruity Snacks

Kellogg’s                                           Pop Tarts

Kellogg’s                                           Famous Amos Cookies

Kellogg’s                                           Austin Peanut Butter Crackers

Kellogg’s                                           Austin Cheese Crackers

Kellogg’s                                           Keebler Brand Cookies

PepsiCo (Frito Lay)                      Cheetos

PepsiCo (Frito Lay)                      Doritos

PepsiCo                                             Grandma’s Cookies

Note: Any products made by Nestle, Lindt and Spungli, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo (Frito Lay), and ConAgra (even if not listed above) are good choices as they are all members of the RSPO.

Products made by companies such as Hershey’s, Brach’s, Russell Stover and Ghirardelli are not orangutan friendly choices as they are not members of the RSPO. If one of your favorite candy bars or sweets is produced by one of these companies, take action by writing a letter and asking them to join the RSPO and be committed to using certified sustainable palm oil.For a sample letter and more information on how you can Make a Difference for Wild Orangutans visit cmzoo.org/conservation/PalmOilCrisis.

Note: Mars has applied to be a member of the RSPO; they are currently waiting for approval. We applaud them for taking this step and look forward to adding them to this shopping guide as soon as they are approved.

MaryKate

http://akronplaneteers.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/palm-oil-how-it-affects-you-and-the-world/

At the negotiations, we worked with hundreds of other international youth from six continents to push for stronger carbon emissions reductions targets and a fair and binding climate treaty. SustainUS delegates worked on a wide range of issues in Durban. Through actions, speeches at the plenary meetings, briefings with negotiators, and speaking to the media, we called for policy objectives and brought attention to youth involvement in climate change. Adam from Milton, MA, started a working group to highlight the importance of water management in climate change. Kate from Redmond, WA, focused on innovative financing for the soon-to-be-launched Green Climate Fund. Alongside Katherine (Manhasset, NY), Ellie (Asheville, NC), Ethan (Statesboro, GA) and MJ (Stow, OH), I worked on the communications and media team writing press releases, documenting events, and setting up interviews with reporters on youth activities at the talks.

Amanda (Washington, DC), who led the working group on youth actions, helped to fill the space between the convention and exhibition center with several creative actions. One in particular highlighted youth cooperation through an action that connected climate justice with Captain Planet. The spirit of working together by combining our collective energies was something that really came through while working with environmentalists hailing from Brazil to Bangladesh. Like the Captain Planet show, the action featured youth climate heroes from five different continents who told a success story on what they have done to fight climate change in their home countries — a reminder that climate change is a global problem that needs global cooperation to solve.

Outside of youth activities, the actual talks were at a gridlock. The United States was pushing to delay a new climate treaty until 2020 — a timetable that scientists have said would be too late to avert catastrophic impacts of climate change. Meanwhile, Canada dropped out of the Kyoto Protocol while Japan and Russia stated that they would no longer meet the Protocol’s targets. Feeling frustrated particularly by the United States for obstructing progress in the last week of negotiations, we decided that bolder action was needed. We wanted to call out the U.S. Congress for blocking climate legislation at home and for preventing our negotiators from actually negotiating the climate deal that was needed.

In the official plenary session, as lead U.S. negotiator Todd Stern was about to speak, Abigail Borah, a 21-year old New Jersey resident and student at Middlebury College, spoke up from the back of the room:

“I am speaking on behalf of the United States of America because my negotiators cannot. The obstructionist Congress has shackled justice and delayed ambition for far too long. I am scared for my future … You must take responsibility to act now, or you will threaten the lives of youth and the world’s most vulnerable. You must set aside partisan politics and let science dictate decisions. You must pledge ambitious targets to lower emissions not expectations. Citizens across the world are being held hostage by stillborn negotiations. We need leaders who will commit to real change, not empty rhetoric. Keep your promises. Keep our hope alive. 2020 is too late to wait.”

Although Abigail was removed by security and suspended for the remainder of the negotiations, she received an ovation and her words reverberated in the conference center. Her action was followed by an impassioned speech by fellow youth Anjali Appadurai about the need for urgency for young and future generations, as well as a sit-in organized by 350.org calling for climate justice. The United States began to change their tune, backing away from the 2020 position.

After 36 hours of overtime negotiations, a deal was passed – but not the ambitious deal that we were hoping for. A second, but weak commitment to the Kyoto Protocol, a green climate fund with no source of funding, and a promise to broker a new climate treaty in 2015.

But in the end, what I came away with was not pessimism that this could not be done. Rather, it was inspiration and hope from my generation and faith that together we hav the power to change things, whether at the UN or in our schools or hometowns. I met amazing people from all walks of life who were working toward sustainable development as journalists, activists, ecologists, and even young political leaders. And as I am writing this back in the United States, I know that this energy is not something that just happens two weeks a year at the negotiations, and that youth around the world are continuing to fight for climate solutions in their own communities every day.

The use of a universal life force energy called chi/ki/prana/ether/orgone etcetra is well known throughout historical cultures of our past. Though that is not true; it was well known during our time too by two U.S. inventor/scientists, one being Willhelm Reich and Karl Hans Welz. Willhelm Reich was a man who came out of the way of Germany, coming to the U.S. hoping he would have the freedom to explore and practice psychology and what would later be called Orgonamy. He found that the blue haze that surrounds the planet is actually an identifiable energy all its own which fluoresces blue in a pure untainted state. He called the energy Orgone, after the energy of the libido. The creation of a box big enough to house a person called an Orgone Accumulator was found instrumental in restoring the libido in both male and female individuals, as well as accelerating the healing of burn wounds. He had created devices which could effect the weather. Eventually this man was put into prison where he later died, and his literary works were burned in a New York incinerator. An introductory video about this man and his achievements can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPV-JExUPns

Later on an Austrian man studied the works of this man and others of this field to come to the U.S. and create a fully automated generator of the orgone energy. http://welz.us/ This invention was named the Chi-Generator, and could be used to send messages across the Atlantic Ocean. This energy can be used for multiple purposes, and may quickly find its way into your household for its ability to both enhance food and drinks and make them stay fresh longer. Sending the energy to plants makes them grow faster and fuller, make seeds germinate sooner, and fruits and vegetables to mature faster than normal. Now however these machines are not marketed nor claim to have health benefits, those that are familiar with Willhelm Reich’s works know beyond a doubt this orgone energy does drastically help. If you have herbs or other natural remedies, or even alchemical/colloidal solutions, charging it with this energy will make them more effective. The uses for this energy is nearly unlimited. Too good to be true? Take the free test at http://chicard.net/

Want to see a catalog of these products and their possible uses? http://www.hscti.net/
I did not believe such a technology was possible, and for that, instead of discounting it as Alex Jones listeners well know, instead I followed the information from this scientist Karl Hans Welz and sought to disprove him and his technology. I went as far as to create my own generator of orgone energy, with results not even the scientist realized were possible! It’s worth looking into, and will make an excellent Christmas Gift for anyone interested in alternative sciences and technologies.

Speaking of The Marathon, two of my favorite episodes are Skumm Lord and Missing Linka. The first I have taken as a spoof of sodium fluoridation of water supplies (the main ingredient in many rat poisons and is produced as a byproduct of making fertilizers, only calcium fluoride appears naturally) In Missing Linka you are given the direct impression that when an environmental disaster happens no one in local governments want to do anything about it (or pay for professional cleanup) and it comes down to Planeteers and intelligent, concerned locals to prevent disaster. How this impacted me was that as I grew older and began to learn of these things, I remembered and saw that Captain Planet had been preparing and warning me for it since childhood.

The BP oil spill in the Gulf is a surefire example of just this type of pollution. The cleanup agent used by BP was called, COREXIT, which makes the oil on the water come together in globules and then sinks down to the bottom of the ocean. In reality this is the same idea behind sweeping dust underneath a rug; it’s still there, but maybe it looks a little better. The people hired to clean up the oil suffered illnesses from the cleanup chemicals, and one person on the Conspiracy Theory: Gulf Oil Spill show claims that it caused brown fluids to drain out of his ears. I also remember seeing in Youtube comments that the second half of the first CP episode was removed starting right after the oil spill, since that is what happens in that episode from drilling. A pertinet Captain Planet episode for this eco-disaster could be related to Season Two’s The Garbage Strikes episode where an experimental refuse eating microbe is stolen by Sly Sludge and is used to make fast cash to solve a trash overfill crisis. Everything seemed ‘ok’ with this quick fix, until it began multiplying and later congealing into a giant monster, eating everything in it’s path, then turning on the people themselves for a snack! Let’s hear some of your stories and favorite episodes! You might just see them in the next marathon if you do.

Captain Planet was the first eco-hero.  Many young adults remember the Captain Planet cartoons, in which the hero would exclaim, “The Power is Yours!”  This educational series, which was co-created by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle, delivered the message that individuals can be vehicles for positive environmental change.  Since the series started, proceeds from the show and generous donations from the community have allowed the Captain Planet Foundation to fund grassroots school and community micro-grants.

I was recently invited to join Captain Planet Foundation’s Board of Directors as a member of its education committee. One of the organization’s cornerstones is funding school and community environmental projects for grades K – 12. Grantees have recycled over 12 tons of waste, developed outdoor classrooms and gardens, organized cleanups, restored acres of polluted land, and turned gas cars into eco vehicles.  Since 1991, Laurel Springs has shared a similar commitment through our environmental videos, workshops, online courses, and virtual symposia series. Like the Captain Planet Foundation, our school’s focus has been to develop and support educational programs that enable youth to appreciate and improve the environment through learning experiences that engage them in active, hands-on projects.

On September 15, which was also the twenty-first anniversary of the cartoon series, I was honored to attend my first Captain Planet board meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.  Laura Turner Seydel has poured her heart and soul into the Foundation and has gathered together a dynamic and dedicated board.  As a way of connecting with the team, I read numerous comments on the Captain Planet Facebook site; these messages came from individuals and groups who support the environmental education mission of this organization.

I hope that the legacy of this organization will continue.  The current generation of capable young adults has grown up with an awareness of the crucial need to safeguard our environment. With respect for the mission and a strong sense of empowerment, they are forming a new community of leaders. One comment on Facebook read, “We are the next teachers, the next doctors, the next senators, and have lived all our lives with the Captain Planet philosophy.” It is my hope that young adults will to mentor the next generation and encourage them to care for our shared environment.

During my trip home, I reflected upon how grateful I feel to be able to work with such wonderful, committed people who are focused on improving children’s lives.  When we teach our students that giving back is an important part of life, we create a new paradigm for a healthy environment.

To learn more, please visit these websites:
Planeteer Movement
Captain Planet Foundation
Turner Foundation
The Captain Planet Facebook Page

They want to cut our trees, kill our animals, and take our water. Monterrey is known to be the biggest industrial city in Mexico, a desert located in the north of Mexico. We need trees! We need green life! WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please don’t let this last beautiful forest die!!!

We say YES to the stadium… but somewhere else!

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More information: www.sialestadioperoenotrolado.org

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September 15th, 2010 was declared ‘Captain Planet Day’ one year ago today in honor of the series milestone 20th anniversary. To celebrate this year’s Captain Planet Day, I’ve sifted through series Co-Creator and Exec. Producer Barbara Pyle’s personal archives of the show’s creation and launch, pulling the best celebrity interviews, media coverage, concept art, and launch party footage to share with you on our YouTube Channel and Captain Planet’s Facebook Page. Check out the clip below for a montage of interviews and press coverage, and keep an eye out for a few of the original voiceovers from before the series’ final cast stepped in!

Today also marks the one year anniversary of the Planeteer Movement’s launch, and get ready for this: In the past year, we’ve gained over 200,000 Facebook Fans, had 19 MILLION individual post views, 85,000 pageviews on CaptainPlanet.me, and launched 43 Planeteer Networks worldwide!! You can launch your own or see if there’s one in your area on our Networks Page. 21 Years, and the Power Is still Ours. Incredible.

That’s not all! There’s a ton of original Launch Party footage from 1990, more clips from the Planeteer Movement, and interviews from around the world on our YouTube page to keep you entertained until next Captain Planet Day! What should we do next year?