The Essentia Blog

The Blacksmith Institute of New York City and Green Cross Switzerland operate the website worstpolluted.org.  They have identified the ten worst environmental threats for 2008.

They are, in no order:
- Artisinal Goldmining
- Indoor Air Pollution
- Groundwater Contamination
- Industrial Mining Activities
- Metals Smelters and Processing
- Radioactive Waste and Uranium Mines
- Untreated Sewage
- Urban Air Quality
- Used Lead Acid Battery Recycling

Check out the site at worstpolluted.org for more on each issue.  You can also download the report from their site as well.

It turns out Chevron is lobbying the Bush Administration to strong arm Equador into dropping it’s 16 billion dollar collection from Chevron for dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into the rainforest.

I’m looking forward to everyone from that generation to retire/die because all this recklessness has to stop. I can’t imagine anyone in my age group agreeing to a destruction of that magnitude. “we have to look out for our shareholders” grunt grunt…

for more information visit www.texacotoxico.org/eng/

Bonaire is an island off Venezuela that’s being polluted by the Freewinds Scientology ship. I’m sure many small islands are polluted the same way.

According to Robert Hare, 5% of the population are psychopathic. Psychopaths thrive in BIG business. They’re all around us.

Imagine you’re 75 years of age. You look back at the thousands of purchases you made in your lifetime. Every purchase effected someone or something, somewhere.

Your decisions have power. Share your ideas, products you like, companies you support with your circle of friends. Choose to be someone respectful, responsible and loving. Only 6 degrees of separation ;-).

Chevron Corporation owns Texaco. Service stations in Canada were re-branded from Texaco to Esso.

Here’s what you can do.