Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Stop Plan to Kill America's Wild Horses

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is the agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior that administers America's public lands, including the animals who call this land home.As part of its wild horse management program, the BLM has spent the past several years rounding up wild horses and keeping them in private, long-term holding facilities—which is expensive. Now, the agency wants to euthanize thousands of healthy horses, claiming it is too costly to feed and care for them.The ASPCA encourages the BLM to explore other solutions, including but not limited to reopening additional land for the horses and increasing certain contraception programs that have already proven safe and effective.
What You Can DoPlease visit the ASPCA Advocacy Center to email a letter to your legislators in the U.S. Congress urging them to oppose the BLM’s plan to kill thousands of healthy wild horses.Thank you for taking action for America's animals.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

You've already collected over 800 business signatures!


Businesses for a Safe Climate
In just one week over 800 businesses have added their names to our "Businesses for a Safe Climate" petition! They've come from all over the country and include everything from restaurants to record labels. People just like you have signed up their own businesses, while others have hit the streets and collected signatures from businesses in their communities. It's been an impressive and inspiring show of support for real solutions to global warming.

But I believe that if everyone lends a hand, we can easily double that number. Here's why it's important: In addition to listing all of the businesses that sign the petition on our website, we'll use these signatures at rallies across the country in August to show Members of Congress that there is broad community support for effective, science-based global warming legislation.

Here's what you can do to make sure it happens:
  1. If you own a business and haven't yet had a chance to sign on to the petition, please take a minute and do so now.
  2. If you have friends who own businesses, send them this email and urge them to sign up.
  3. Don't own or represent a business? No problem. Download the toolkit and start recruiting businesses from your community today.
It's time for our politicians to stop hiding behind the myth that taking real action on global warming would hurt small businesses. It's Congress' inaction that's hurting the business community and all of us, now and for generations to come.

The time for action is now,
Ben Kroetz, Greenpeace Online Organizer
Ben Kroetz
Greenpeace Online Organizer