Bradley Sausser
MessageThe Ocean is Turning Into a Plastic Soup. Pledge to Rise Above Plastics.
There is a section of the Pacific Ocean twice the size of the continental United States called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Within it, 100 million tons of plastic swirl in a vortex of currents. There is so much plastic in the water that it outnumbers zooplankton by six to one! This plastic
Tell the EPA to make chemical companies accountable for their bee-killing pesticides
In a study led by the French National Institute of Agricultural Research, researchers glued special radio frequency tags to bees and then fed them low doses of neonicotinoid, a popular pesticide that is supposed to kill crop pests without harming the bees that pollinate them. The research team
Urge Senators to use the Food and Farm Bill to realign corn subsidies to support small, local farmers and implement stronger conservation efforts
As a result of subsidies, more corn will be planted this year than ever, with 94 million acres under cultivation. This influx of planting is changing the countryside as farmers plow row after row of a single crop, eliminating land formerly protected by conservation programs and destroying the once