Archive for February, 2008
100$ Goes to Charity
Sun Trust bank will donate $100 to the charity of your choice when you open a new personal or business Sun Trust checking account, accept and make a purchase with your SunTrust check card by May 15, 2008, and submit a completed redemption form by May 15, 2008.
To qualify for SunTrust to donate $100 to [...]
Summer Internship Global Warming and the Race for Congress
National Wildlife Action, the advocacy and lobbying arm of National Wildlife Federation (the group that brought you Ranger Rick), is working to raise the profile of global warming as campaign issues for some key Congressional races this summer.
We are looking for a dedicated intern to help research candidates’ positions and create materials about the candidates. [...]
Rambutans for Orangutans Appeal
The rainforest is a place of indescribable beauty, an ever-changing topography of birth, death and regeneration. Such a place and the inhabitants who reside there, both animal and human, need our help and support to hold onto what forest remains and to pull back from the brink what forest has been lost….
Lone Droscher-Nielsen, founder and [...]
These American Pigs
In 1999 the largest producer of pork in the world, American corporation-Smithfield Foods - emerged on the Polish market. Smithfield Foods bought 79 per cent of shares of the Animex Company, the largest processing plant of pigs and poultry in Poland. Soon after that in our columns appeared an article on the subject of the [...]
Meat Out
Dear Friends,
If you’re not already participating in Meatout 2008, get on board! The recent USDA recall of 143 million pounds of ground beef – the largest beef recall ever – has given us a special opportunity to broadcast the Meatout message.
Represent your community by getting active in March. Small or large, activities can include leafleting, [...]
Weird enough: Naked Mole Rats Don’t Feel Burning Pain
Naked mole rats, like most creatures, don’t like to be pinched or pricked—but just try to get one to yelp by rubbing lemon juice or red-hot chili peppers over a cut. It won’t.
That’s because the hairless, finger-size rats are numb to the burning sensation that almost every other mammal feels when exposed to acids and [...]