http://corporateethics.org/ http://corporateethics.org/article.php?id=963 http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/fish/publications/reports/fish-story After a series of safety scares about imported seafood in 2006 and 2007, U.S. consumers are recognizing that more than 80 percent, about 10.7 billion pounds of the seafood they eat, comes from outside the United States. Much of it is imported from Asia and Latin America, regions that have potentially unsafe production practices. Claiming to have discovered the solution to U.S. reliance on imported seafood, the Bush administration is promoting legislation that would allow federal ocean waters to be leased out for industrial fish farming, also known as offshore aquaculture, open water aquaculture, or open ocean aquaculture.1 http://www.ifg.org/programs/Energy/TripleCrisis/index.htm Resources available from the IFG Teach-In: Confronting the Global "Triple Crisis" http://www.gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=768 Ontario is on the cusp of helping oil-sands emissions explode. Shell Canada wants permits to be granted by the end of this year for a new refinery in Sarnia to process oil from its oil-sands mines in Alberta for use in gas tanks across the GTA. http://www.grrn.org/media/indepth.php?newsID=29 As communities work to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, the first place to look is in the garbage can. http://www.healthygulf.org/hot-issue/protect-menhaden-in-the-gulf-of-mexico-3.html Menhaden are a small, oily fish that play an extremely important role in the health of the Gulf of Mexico. Menhaden spend their short lives swimming in large schools filtering algae out of the water and converting it into their highly nutritious flesh. http://corporateethics.org/article.php?id=1593 Location: Vancouver, British Columbia Closing date for applications: May 30, 2008 Posted: May 5th, 2008 http://www.noharm.org/details.cfm?type=document&ID=1916 Nurses Work Group of Health Care Without Harm, announced the release of an rBGH-free Dairy Toolkit in conjunction with National Nurses Week, May 6th – May 12th. The rBGH-free Dairy Toolkit is a collection of resources to help nurses across the country advocate for rBGH-free dairy products in their hospitals, for their patients and in their homes. http://www.farmedanddangerous.org/safeway/ http://pressroomda.greenmediatoolshed.org/attached-files/1/109/10950/DogWReport08%2epdf [PDF]A report on the world-class biological diversity of the region threatened by big paper companies and their corporate customers http://www.pacinst.org/press_center/press_releases/south_africa_water_decision.html Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, Calif., is celebrating a landmark in water policy. He received news of today’s groundbreaking decision of the South African High Court in Johannesburg that not only awarded water rights to the poor, the first in which the constitutional right to water has explicitly been raised, but did so with explicit reference to work from the Pacific Institute. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15023 Poultry giant Tyson Foods has 14 days to dismantle a national multimillion dollar ad campaign centered on the claim that its chickens are raised without antibiotics, a federal appeals court in Richmond ruled yesterday. http://corporateethics.org/article.php?id=1599 http://corporateethics.org/article.php?id=1590 http://www.powells.com/partner/30779/biblio/0801473918 Bronfenbrenner (director of labor education research, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell U.) presents ten papers form the February, 2006 conference, "Global Companies--Global Unions--Global Research--Global Campaigns," which brought together representatives of labor unions, non-governmental organizations, and academia with the overall goal of strengthening labor's ability to conduct corporate research and run cross-border campaigns against transnational companies.