Recycle your cell phone or ink jet cartridge; protect the Black Warrior River

Black Warrior Riverkeeper is conducting an ongoing cell phone & ink jet cartridge recycling fundraiser.  Please help protect the environment by donating your used digital cell phone(s) and ink jet cartridge(s). Your used cell phone(s) may be tax deductible and will be recycled in accordance with EPA regulations or refurbished and sold. 100% of the proceeds will help fund our efforts to protect and restore the Black Warrior River and its tributaries.   You can mail us your phone or ink, or drop off at our office:

Black Warrior RIVERKEEPER  -  712 37th Street South  -  Birmingham, AL  35222                (205) 458-0095

For more information about this recycling program, see http://www.ecophones.com/index.php or contact me directly at cscribner@blackwarriorriver.org

Undo EPA's Irresponsible Mercury Rule

http://www.actionstudio.org/public/page_view_all.cfm?option=begin&pageid=6193

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a final mercury rule that will allow the coal-fired utility industry to continue to add tons of mercury to our air and waterways for decades to come...

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

STOPGLOBALWARMING.ORG

The results are in. Global warming is real. It's more than an environmental issue; it's about our national security, it's about our public health. It's an urgent matter of survival for everyone on the planet - the most urgent threat facing humanity today. That's why it's going to take more than policy debates and think tanks and lip service from governments. It's going to take action - by you, by all of us working together.

The first step is to join stopglobalwarming.org!

TAKE ACTION >> By clicking the link below you can join David Whiteside, Nelson Brooke, Mark Martin, Charles Scribner IV, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., John McCain, Gen. Wesley Clark, Michael Oppenheimer, Walter Cronkite, Jon Fishman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Laurie & Larry David and thousands of others to send a message to political and business leaders to acknowledge the threats of global warming and enact American solutions to address this urgent threat:

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/marchers/?941

Is your town participating in the Mayoral Climate Protection Agreement?  Click here to find out.

Watch Jack Black and a gang of future leaders take on corporate America!   Blue Man Group really gets the message across loud and clear with this great video.

PREVIOUS CAMPAIGNS (Expired Actions)

MERCURY

Test Your Mercury Levels

http://www.waterkeeper.org/mainarticledetails.aspx?articleid=176

Black Warrior Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance have teamed up with Greenpeace and the University of North Carolina to offer you the opportunity to test your mercury levels.

Why would I want to know my mercury level?

Mercury is highly toxic heavy metal that contaminates a third of our nation’s lakes, a quarter of our rivers, and many of the fish that we eat. Mercury ends up in the tissues of commonly eaten fish like tuna and bass and threatens the health of millions of people across the United States. Humans, at the top of the food chain, can consume enough mercury to put them at risk of neurological, circulatory and immune system disorders. EPA and the Centers for Disease Control estimate that 630,000 children are born every year with unsafe levels of mercury in their blood.

ROADLESS NATIONAL FORESTS

Help stop federal plans favoring logging and mining in the last pristine areas of our National Forests.

    America's last roadless National Forests belong to each and every American.  All of our remaining roadless areas should be protected, completely and permanently, through reinstatement of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule of 2001.  On May 5, the Bush administration repealed the widely supported Roadless Area Conservation Rule, opening nearly sixty-million acres of America's last wild National Forests to road construction, logging, mining, oil and gas exploration, and other forms of harmful development.  

TAKE ACTION >> By clicking the link below you can sign the Citizen's Petition and help protect our last wild forests:

http://www.net.org/petition.php?partner=BWR

A petition with all of the signatures will be presented to President Bush and the Department of Agriculture. A copy of the petition will also be delivered to your Governor.

Caney Creek Falls of the Sipsey Wilderness in your Bankhead National Forest.

Photo © Lamar Marshall