GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source:  Lives, a partner publication of Scientific American

Pacific Environment and Resources Center and its partner in China, Green Anhui, were featured in an article about extreme water pollution in some of Asia’s most iconic rivers. The organizations were engaged in a two-year struggle against entrenched interests and lax enforcement of regulations to shut down three chemical plants that were dumping a toxic soup into the Huai River Basin causing an alarming increase in cancer deaths.

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Featuring Pacific Environment, a grantee of the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Boston Globe

The nonprofit Food Project empowers youth while educating and engaging them in sustainable agriculture. Not only do teens learn about nutrition and health through farming, but they also gain vital workforce skills such as leadership training, community building and marketing through the organization’s Farmers’ Markets and Community Supported Agriculture programs. The Boston Globe highlighted the work of this unique organization and its impact on the urban agriculture movement.

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Featuring The Food Project, a grantee of the Ludcke Foundation.

RESEARCH IN ACTION

A report by Corporate Accountability International as part of its national public education and action campaign, Think Outside the Bottle, outlines bottled water spending in nine states, maps trends in public water system investments and examines the additional costs associated with water bottling.

The report recommends the elimination of all unnecessary state spending on bottled water and calls for renewed investments in the nation’s public water systems.

Author: Public Accountability International

Date: March 2009

Contact: Kristin Urquiza: info @ stopcorporate abuse.org

To read the report, click here.

Featuring Corporate Accountability International, a grantee of the Jessie B. Cox Trust

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Huffington Post

Corporate Accountability International’s Think Outside The Bottle Campaign is the subject of a video highlighting an action of enviro-pranksters, the Yes Men.  The goal of the campaign is to raise public awareness about the environmental costs of bottled water.

Featuring Corporate Accountability International, a grantee of the Jessie B. Cox Trust.

To watch the video, click here.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: MSNBC

MSNBC reports that carbon dioxide may not be that bad after all for shelled creatures of the sea. Recent research shows that exposure to ocean acidification fosters shell growth in crabs, lobsters, and shrimp.

Featuring the work of scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, supported by Sailors’ Snug Harbor and the Edwin S. Webster Foundation.

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GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Sources: CNN, The New York Times and The New Republic

The plight of the world’s oceans is highlighted in articles by three high-profile board members of Oceana, a major ocean conservation group. Sam Waterston and Ted Danson both address the subject of ocean acidification in CNN and The New York Times, respectively. In The New Republic appears an article by internationally-recognized scientist Dr. Daniel Pauly on global fishing industries and the collapse of world fisheries .

Featuring Oceana, a grantee of the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation.

Click here to read articles in CNN, The New York Times and The New Republic.