The Essentia Blog

Have you ever wondered if the company you’re buying a product from gives a hoot about the Earth?

Well ClimateCounts.org has a scorecard which measures companies on their commitment to tackling global warming. Using this scorecard while shopping is an easy way make your purchase count in all the right ways.

Climate Counts use a 0-to-100 point scale and 22 criteria to determine if companies have:

• MEASURED their climate “footprint”
• REDUCED their impact on global warming
• SUPPORTED (or suggest intent to block) progressive climate legislation
• Publicly DISCLOSED their climate actions clearly and comprehensively

Among the Worst
35 Kellogg
25 Disney …. for shame!
22 Levis
21 ConAgra Foods (brands they make)
15 Clorox
15 Liz Claibourne
14 CBS
13 Sara Lee
11 Apple
1 Yum (brands they make KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut)
0 Jone Apparel Group (brands they make)
0 Wendy’s Intl
0 Burger King

Among the Best
82 Nike
78 Stonyfield Farm
77 IBM
74 Canon
70 Toshiba
71 General Electric
49 Starbucks

Download your pocket climate card here

I hear congress talking about biofuels constantly. Who’s benefiting?

BioFuels or Agrofuels are the creation of large agribusiness corporations. They’re not green or sustainable.

South America, southeast Asia and Indonesia are clearing land and deforestation is rampant. They use massive amounts of herbicides and pesticides on their crops polluting the water system.

Substituting just 10% cent of fossil fuels to biofuels for all our vehicles would require about 40 per cent of the entire cropland in Europe and North America according to www.davidsuzuki.org.

That’s not even considering the energy requirements to produce some biofuels and the greenhouse gas emissions emitted from these plants. So enough with biofuels already.

More information can be found here www.ran.org
Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland and Bunge are benefiting and are partially responsible for this global catastrophe.

Who raises ppl like this anyhow?

The video above is Part 3 of one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators giving us his insight into the coming century.

If you have time to kill check out the other parts on YouTube