Greenpeace, Catholic Coalition bring good news on the environment

by Sharon Abercrombie on Jan. 27, 2012

Greenpeace International and the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change are reporting good news on the environmental front.

Greenpeace's ongoing campaign to stop rainforest destruction in Indonesia has prompted Kroger, the giant grocery store chain, to stop carrying Paseo paper products, manufactured by Asia Pulp and Paper, on its shelves. These throwaway tissue products are made from wood fiber from pulpwood plantations that encroach on rainforests in Indonesia and destroy the habitat of the remaining 400 Sumatran tigers. Kroger discontinued carrying the Paseo line after 50,000 activists contacted the company asking them to stop being a part of rainforest destruction.

Next on Greenpeace's list is Kmart. For further information on how to help convince Kmart to follow in Kroger's footsteps, go to the Greenpeace website.

Included in this week's posting from the Catholic Coalition is a link to an Akron Beacon Journal story about a Catholic school's successful composting project. The food scrap recycling effort at St. Paul Catholic School is an outgrowth of last year's Lenten series on taking care of the planet's resources. The project, named B the 1, is grounded in the Catholic mission to help students recognize the practical implication of their faith, the coalition reports.

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Thanks for the shout-out

Submitted by Dan Misleh (not verified) on Jan. 27, 2012.

Thanks for the shout-out Sharon! We hope more people will read the wonderful stories about how Catholic individuals and groups (parishes, schools, etc.) are caring for Creation (http://catholicclimatecovenant.org/news/newsletter-updates/).

However, the headline on this blog may give the impression that there is some symbiosis between the two groups which couldn't be further from the truth. We'd like to make known to your readers that the Coalition has no relationship to Greenpeace whatsoever. In many areas, especially on population questions, the Coalition's position is widely divergent with Greenpeace.

Dan Misleh
Executive Director
Catholic Coalition on Climate Change

Sorry but the whole green

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Jan. 27, 2012.

Sorry but the whole green movement came out of the communists that had to invent other ways to destroy out society. See following web pages, you will see that they are contray to Catholic doctorine.

http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/Radical%20Ecolo...

http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/09/nazi-dreams-were-green-dream...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/the_nazi_origins_of_apocalypti.html

I don't know where you dug up

Submitted by carol juen (not verified) on Jan. 31, 2012.

I don't know where you dug up these readings but I would like to suggest that you read Catholic teachings about the environment and human responsibility toward the care of creation. Read the encyclicals written by the popes. If you check out the link http://conservation.catholic.org/pope_john_paul_ii.htm, you can find some excerpts from writings and speeches of Pope John Paul II. Catholics should have founded this movement and should be at the forefront of it now if they want to follow Catholic doctrine.

Will the Catholic Coalition

Submitted by Wardog00 (not verified) on Jan. 29, 2012.

Will the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change comment on this article?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-war...

Summary:
1. Latest data shows there has been no global warming for the last 15 years.
2. We might be headed for a mini-ice age like the one that happened in the 1600s.
3. The sun has more impact on the climate than CO2.
4. Now which side is denying science?

There was an article in the Wall St Journal on Saturday, signed by 16 prominent scientists, who deny that CO2 is a pollutant and that there is no need to be alarmed by fears of global warming.
Any comments?

The report clearly states

Submitted by Jerry Slater (not verified) on Jan. 30, 2012.

The report clearly states "tissue products are made from wood fiber from pulpwood plantations", and pulpwood plantations are common all over the World, in Brasil, Canada, even in the USA. Is the writer advocating that we boycott all tissue papers and go back to using leaves ? Or should we only use timber plantations for actual wood products like housing, fences, tables & chairs .... If the wood used for making this tissue was illegal, then the US Government would prosecute people under the Lacey Act.

Oh, not wishing to accuse

Submitted by Jerry Slater (not verified) on Jan. 30, 2012.

Oh, not wishing to accuse anyone of double standards, but if Indonesia are not allowed to develop pulpwood plantations, why are we allowing Californians to tear down trees to grow wine ? Perhaps we should ask our liquor stores to stop selling home grown wine and save USA trees ....

Here is the news aricle for anyone interested:

The Planning Commission of Napa County in California unanimously approved a plan that would require developers to offset forest clearing by funding local projects and programs that reduce carbon emissions. Development proposals, which in Napa county includes a lot of vineyards, would have to establish the business-as-usual emissions for a development, then reduce that amount by 38 percent, with offsets as an option. Although offset types have yet to be clearly defined, Steve Lederer, the director of the county’s Department of Environmental Management, listed the installation of renewable-energy generators, planting vegetation, setting up ride-share programs among the possibilities. The plan also calls for a mechanism that would force developers to mitigate the loss of forests, although critics of the plan have said the current plan is merely an “accounting mechanism” and doesn’t lay out how that mitigation would be achieved. The plan will go before the Board of Supervisors for a vote in late March.

The greatest threat to the

Submitted by John Mack (not verified) on Jan. 31, 2012.

The greatest threat to the earth comes not from climate change but agribusiness with its patented seeds and their use in suing farmers in whose fields plants from these seeds grow accidentally or as inserted by an agribusiness giant; its intensive use of poisonous fertilizers; its leeching of nutrients from the soil and from our food; its production of unhealthy food additives; its intense pollution of water caused by its production of biofuels; its production of widespread hunger due to the rise in food prices worldwide as agribusiness converts vast tracks form crops for food to crops for biofuels; its destruction of the Amazon rain forest. Probably more.

Learn about the unpleasant/horrible facts by going to the FaceBook page entitled Occupy Monsanto.

By the way, Obama has appointed a Monsanto lobbyist to oversee US agriculture. Yikes!

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