BK 5: (Nov 6, 2018) - This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists And Their Vision For The Future

Hi Everyone...

At our Nov 6th meeting we will discuss "This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future" by John Kerry & Teresa Heinz Kerry (Apr 15, 2007).

With 201 reading pages it is approximately 7 pages per day.

Check out the Bio & Videos below...

"The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack-concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. Teresa Heinz Kerry and Senator John Kerry traveled across the country in a national campaign to see firsthand how these issues unite people across party and ideological lines. From the San Juan Basin to the Gulf of Mexico to the South Bronx, from mothers on Cape Cod to Colorado ranchers, they found a vibrant coalition of people and communities deploying ingenuity, technology, and sheer will power to save the world they know and love.

Now, in this passionate and personal book, Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry shine the spotlight on an inspiring cross-section of these new environmental pioneers. This Moment on Earth combines intensive research with keenly observed personal experiences to present a portrait of Americans devoted to the natural diversity and spectacular uniqueness of our country."

Video: C-SPAN (No embedding code)

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This is what we discussed at the meeting...

* Dell Computers paying more to plant trees

* Effects of DDT

* United Nation's global Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

* Built-in obsolescence of Tech

* gDiaper

* Chemicals and Carcinogens in humans

* Synthetic estrogen (nonylphenol) in Plastics & Hormone Replacement Therapy

* Cape Cod: phthalates & PVCs in toys, wallpaper, flooring, car seats etc; PCBs & alkyphenols in detergents

* Pesticides consequences

* Hazards of some cleaning products

* Effects of Bisphenol A (BPA)

*  Atrazine

* Mercury in fish

* Air Pollution & the Clean Air Act

* Lobbyist influence

* Minorities and Air Pollution

* Dumping of toxic oil

* Asthma & Air Pollution

* Bucket Brigade

* Clean Water Act & how many bodies of water meet the requirements & the effects

* Earth Day

* Dirty Dozen Campaign

* CAFOs effects to pollution in rivers, lakes etc. 

* Commercial Fishing effects on marine life

* United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings

* Effects of Climate Change

* Oceans absorbing C02

* Fracking

* Jobs in renewable energy

* Companies cutting energy consumption