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Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics. We are the only organization in the US focused exclusively on promoting the views and interests of the nation's estimated 50 million organic and socially responsible consumers.
The OCA represents over 850,000 members, subscribers and volunteers, including several thousand businesses in the natural foods and organic marketplace. Our US and international policy board is broadly representative of the organic, family farm, environmental, and public interest community.
Website: http://www.organicconsumers.org/
Contact:
Organic Consumers Association
6771 South Silver Hill Drive, Finland MN 55603
Activist or Media Inquiries: 218-226-4164 ยท Fax: 218-353-7652
Agriculture Holds Key to Solving Global Warming
June 3, 2009 03:16 PM - Barbara Kessler Green Right Now ABC7, June 2, 2009 , Organic Consumers Association
Agriculture, so often cited as a factor in global decline - for claiming natural grasslands that store carbon, soil erosion and pesticide runoff - could become a big part of the solution to global warming, according to a hopeful report by Worldwatch Institute released today.
Organic Trade Association Releases Its 2009 Organic Industry Survey
May 7, 2009 10:04 AM - Organic Trade Association via, Organic Consumers Association
U.S. sales of organic products, both food and non-food, reached $24.6 billion by the end of 2008, growing an impressive 17.1 percent over 2007 sales despite tough economic times, according to the Organic Trade Association (OTA), which today made available final results from its 2009 Organic Industry Survey.
Proposed Federal Acid Rain and Mercury Control Act
May 3, 2009 06:46 AM - , Organic Consumers Association
A Central New York congressman, seeing an opportunity that may never come again, has introduced a bill requiring the most drastic cuts in U.S. history to the pollution responsible for acid rain. Rep. John McHugh said he wants to tie his "Acid Rain and Mercury Control Act" into a landmark energy and climate change bill that Congress will begin considering this week, with the goal of a vote by June.
Seeing the Light on Darkness: Studies Link Light Pollution and Cancer
April 1, 2009 10:10 AM - , Organic Consumers Association
During a power outage in California in the 1990s, alarmed residents reportedly called in to report a strange, cloudy shape in the nighttime sky. It turned out to be the Milky Way- seen for the first time. For those of us who live in urban or suburban areas, an overabundance of artificial nighttime light, or light pollution, is nothing new. But light pollution isn't just a bane to astronomers and an annoyance to the rest of us: studies show that it also poses real health risks, including some increased rates of cancer.
What Might the So-called "Monsanto Bill" Really Do?
March 27, 2009 05:45 AM - , Organic Consumers Association
You may have seen that the internet and blog sites are awash with news about a US bill, Bill HR 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, that some are claiming will outlaw organic farming in the USA.
Will Obama Integrate Food, Farming & Health Policies?
December 22, 2008 11:41 AM - , Organic Consumers Association
As Tom Vilsack and Tom Daschle assume their cabinet positions in the Obama administration as Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, respectively, they inherit mammoth challenges. Working together will be key to their success, because their work has a common denominator - food. The connection is simple - the health of America's eaters depends on the health of the food and agriculture system.
UN Climate Deal Could Pay for Forest Destruction
December 9, 2008 09:29 AM - , Organic Consumers Association
POZNAN, Poland - December 5 - Global Forest Coalition, The Wilderness Society,Global Justice Ecology Project and concerned youth highlighted the risks associated with the implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in a "REDD fortune-telling" action today at the UN Climate conference here. In its current form, they argue, REDD could derail the Climate Convention and undermine a post-2012 Climate agreement.
Bush's Environmental Legacy on GMOs
December 8, 2008 10:25 AM - , Organic Consumers Association
In a few hundred thousand years, after all weather effects of 21st century climate change have disappeared from the earth's surface, after our quietly smoldering nuclear waste has been extinguished, two destructive impacts traceable to George Bush's policies will yet remain. The first is extinctions. Species that have died out, including the subset resulting from Bush's environmental policies, will forever deprive our evolving biosphere of their contribution.
It's Not Just the Polar Bears -- The Climate Crisis Is About All of Us
December 5, 2008 09:09 AM - , Organic Consumers Association
George Bush is behaving like a furious defaulter whose home is about to be repossessed. Smashing the porcelain, ripping the doors off their hinges, he is determined that there will be nothing worth owning by the time the bastards kick him out. His midnight regulations, opening America's wilderness to logging and mining, trashing pollution controls, tearing up conservation laws, will do almost as much damage in the last 60 days of his presidency as he achieved in the foregoing 3,000.
Where's The Bailout for Nonprofits?
December 3, 2008 09:17 AM - , Organic Consumers Association
I am a social worker, not an economist, and what I know is this: The stock market is in free fall, financial organizations are being bailed out and the Detroit automakers might yet get financial help from Washington, D.C. But what about those of us in the nonprofit world? Where's our bailout?