Filed under: Animal Testing
http://www.wspa.ca/makeanimalsmatter/
sign the Animals Matter campaign to help achieve global recognition about Animals Matter, that they can feel pain and can suffer and that we have a responsibility to put an end to cruelty around the world. This campaign seeks 10 million signatures to let the governments of the world know we are serious about achieving a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare at the United Nations.
Filed under: Animal Testing
This is a website called EUROPA and is all about international agreements and reducing animal testing.
Filed under: Sustainable Energy
REEEP webpage (international agreement on sustainable and efficient energy use)
This website contains a speech by Canada’s environmental minister on the aims of the agreement in Ontario (most common place of energy in Canada)
Filed under: Air Pollution, Climate Change, Global Warming, Interesting Articles, Sustainable Energy
British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson is currently visiting Canada. He was in Toronto today to promote the reduction of greenhouse gases. He will also be traveling into Canada’s arctic to get a first hand look at how global warming is affecting the region and the Inuit who live there. Here is an article in which Branson criticizes Canada for not meeting Kyoto targets and here is an article promoting Branson’s Flick Off campaign.
There has been much activity this week from the Canadian government on environmental issues. The federal government has announced a plan to ban inefficient energy consuming light bulbs. Here is an article about it. You can also read an editorial written by the federal minister for the environment, John Baird, here.
Filed under: Animal Testing
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~Mahatma Gandhi
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) is the world’s largest network for animal welfare. It brings together over 700 Member Societies in over than 146 countries and a whole community of individuals around the world who care about animal welfare. —> http://www.wspa-international.org/about.asp
Their ambition is to create a world in which animals are regarded as sentient, and whose needs are understood, regulated and protected by enforced legislation.
Filed under: Animal Testing
PETA believes that animals have rights and deserve to have their best interests taken into consideration, regardless of whether they are useful to humans. Like you, they are capable of suffering and have an interest in leading their own lives; therefore, they are not ours to use—for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other reason.
this is the website: http://www.peta.org/
Filed under: Interesting Articles, Moral responsibility, Useful Links, Waste and Recycling
It was appropriate that our project is taking place during the time when Earth Day is celebrated. Here is a link to a site with some articles on recycling, “green” cars, how to be a green shopper and some other topics of interest to our project.
Here is a website where an organisation is looking at possible solutions to animal testing. They talk about ideas like using humans, stem cell reaserch and other ideas… It looks pretty profesional so I thought it could be a good idea.
Filed under: Uncategorized
Here is a pdf which is on European agreements towards animal testing. It is a bit hard to understand as it is like a script of a meeting, however it talks about what European countries are trying to do. I am not sure how valid it all is but it seems pretty good to me.
Filed under: Vegetarianism
I’ve been looking at vegetarians for the last three lessons and I’ve been told I need to post something, so… This website shows many famous vegetarians, not only people in the media at the moment, but also famous people throughout history. Many are either talented, good looking or just plain cool, so it wastes some time in lessons without getting bored. In addition to this, there are sections at the bottom with stories on vegetarianism, like how Jesus was a vegetarian and also how an old McDonold’s clown has turned vegetarian.
Overall, this website holds no use to anyone, but none the less, I like it. 4/10 ****
Filed under: Animal Testing, Catholic Teachings, Endangered Species, Fossil Fuels, Vegetarianism, Whaling & Fishing
I have been researching Catholic views on Vegetarianism and how it affects the earth. I saw a comment on a website that says that the Bible suggests that Jesus was a vegetarian. I decided to research this on www.Google.com and see what websites I could find which could link in with this. In doing so I found the site: www.jesusveg.com. This site is a Catholic and Christian site which explains why Christians should be vegetarian using references from the Bible and such like. It suggests that Gods perfect world, The Garden of Ede, was vegetarian and so Christians should follow this in order to make the world the perfect place for God and live in peace. Its a good and useful web page as it also teaches how we should respect our environment.
This website is quite good as it shows you a global warming experiment and tells you loads about ozone depletion and oxidation problems that are happening in the environment!! lots of info u should all have a little look!!
http://www.atmosphere.mpg.de/enid/Lower_Atmosphere/teaching_2×0.html
Filed under: Marine Pollution
I found an interesting article about that some areas of the Baltic Sea are contaminated. Some fish that are caught in the Baltic Sea are contaminated with toxic substances. This article warns that if we consume the contaminated seafood from polluted ocean, such as the Baltic Sea, it will eventually threanten our health.
Here is the link: http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=18011&uLangID=1
Stop Animal Testing is another website with a documentary on animal testing. It is against animal testing and focuses mainly on laboratories in the US. It has reports on inhumane treatments of animals. It is aimed at “the American tax-payer” but I think it will apply to anyone. It has a link on the right which looks at alternatives but our school system blocked it so I don’t know what it’s like.
The America’s Whale Alliance website is a website trying to ban all commercial whaling. It has useful links for a number of different problems. It has lots of information to do with whailng as well as information on a few of the other categories of this project. The website is easy to use.
Filed under: Deforestation, Global Warming, Vegetarianism, Waste and Recycling
I have a been looking and researching on the internet how vegetarianism is and isn’t helping global warming. In doing so I found a Kiwi website that deals with different issues including politics, economic issues and environmental issues among others. The website has an article on how how agricultral farming is adding to global warming and is strongly contributing to deforestation.
The website high-lights how McDonalds is one of the bigest contributors to this issue. It says that McDonalds has cuts down and used a vast amount of space in the Amazon to create farms to beef up cows for ther slaughter. This would be acceptablem, however they hae prepared the land in such a way that it is not possible for any thing to grow on the land when the farming leaves.
The website called: http://www.justfocus.org.nz is a great website discussing many different issues in the media at present.
Filed under: Air Pollution, Fossil Fuels, Interesting Articles, Ozone Depletion, Sustainable Energy, Useful Links
This is an article I found about the uses, origin, characteristics and effects of fossil fuels. It’s very informative and I think it would help a lot if the information on it was used.
This is a news article on fossil fuels. It is talking about how scientists at UC Irvine have mapped fossil fuel air pollution in the United States by analyzing corn collected from nearly 70 locations nationwide.
Filed under: Fossil Fuels, Interesting Articles, Sustainable Energy, Useful Links
This is an interesting website I found about fossil fuels. It tells you about how fossil fuels are created and their history of being used by humans, as well as how much is used and modern uses of them.
It talks about all three types of fossil fuels - Coal, Oil and Natural Gas.
The whale and dolphin conservation society’s website is trying to protect all whales from the “cruel” tradition of whaling. On the website there are specific pages that explain what there aims are, news, how to donate and how they are trying to educate people about whales that are close to extinction. This website is easy to navigate around and altogether looks very reliable.
Filed under: Whaling & Fishing
The BBC website gives interesting facts about endangered species of whale such as the Minke, Humpback, Sei, etc. It shows where they are found as well. Also, it talks about how many whales each country kills in the year. For example, Norway kill up to 1,000 common minke per year for commercial purposes.
CBC News has on their website an in-depth page on climate change. There are several videos of reports that cover many topics related to climate change. There are two videos that deal specifically with how climate change is having an impact on Britain.
Filed under: Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Interesting Articles, Ozone Depletion, Sustainable Energy
John Baird (Conservative) the Federal Minister of the Environment addressed a Senate Committee today on the impact that the Kyoto Protocol would have on the Canadian economy.
Here are how a couple of Canadian newspapers are reporting on his address.
Filed under: Air Pollution, Catholic Teachings, Climate Change, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Interesting Articles, Marine Pollution, Moral responsibility, Ozone Depletion, Project Developments, Project Instruction, Sustainable Energy, Useful Links, Waste and Recycling
Not wanting to be outdone by my esteemed colleague I too have found some multimedia tools that may help you. Godtube is a Christian version of Youtube and has films only to do with Christianity.
A few warnings though. The videos will not be viewable within Richard Challoner School as the site is currently blocked by the school’s firewall. Also the site is a Christian site, not Catholic, and therefore some of the resources are not in line with the requirements of the project. One thing it does have is the ability to embed the player and the video in the wiki but not the blog. So I have posted the clips on the Wiki
This first clip outlines some reasons why Christians should care for the environment.
This second clip should be watched and used with CAUTION. It is made by a group of Christians in the UK who do not believe in Global Warming and it’s effects. They use the Bible and some logical arguments to back this up. But I must stress that this is not the views of the mainstream Christianity or the Roman Catholic Church but the use of the Bible References is interesting.
You can find them Wiki“>here.
Hello to the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Flat Planet Project
As you know the use of multimedia is an integral component of this project (20% of the points available) and I wanted to point you to an online tool that you may find useful in completing this aspect of your project. It is called SlideShare and it allows you to upload files which you can then embed into the wiki (or a blog). If you want to use this service you need to visit their site and sign up for a free account. Then you can upload your file and they will provide the code you need to embed it in your wiki page.
Below is an example of what you can do.
Filed under: Uncategorized
I came across this site after Googling ‘Global Warming’. Bible Believers seems to be some sort of Christian discussion forum and I came across an article a member wrote claiming that Global Warming is a lie. The article isn’t all that great but it really does make you think. Check it out.
Filed under: Ozone Depletion
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/index.html
Hello everybody! this is another new site, which is pretty good! got alot of stuff here that will help, its got all about the ozone damage in the US and the science behind it. There are also lots of links withion it. cheers later
Filed under: Animal Testing
This website shows the scientist’s point of veiw on animal testing. He talks about how protesters are wasting their time and they will not stop testing but find ‘aternative’ methods.
Filed under: Fossil Fuels, Interesting Articles, Sustainable Energy, Useful Links
This is the website of the U.S. department of energy. It seems pretty useful, and gives a lot of statistics and information about how useful fossil fuels are for the U.S. as well as other energy sources.
Filed under: Animal Testing
This website looks good for the protestor’s point of veiw. It is a sort of charity appeal. It shows some pictures of lots of animals that are being tested on or have been tested on. It shows different methods that scientists use and different animals used and how they have been hurt. Look at picture archive to see pictures.
Filed under: Whaling & Fishing
Fish stocks in the
North Sea are being seriously over fished. The numbers of fish, such as cod are falling dramatically. When the fish population drops below a critical level it may not recover.
Fishermen have been quotas to limit the number of fish they can remove.
This should then allow the fish to breed and the fish population to recover.
Many different countries fish in the
North Sea. For sustainability to work, careful planning, cooperation and agreement are required between all the different countries.
Because Whales live far from land it is not easy to get international agreements to stop Whaling. It is even harder to police the laws and ensure that some whalers do not break these international agreements. Some Whales are kept in captivity. They are used for both entertainment and research. Many are bread in Captivity and are not used to swimming in open sea.
Filed under: Whaling & Fishing
The International Marine Mammal Project are working to make oceans safe for marine mammals worldwide. On their site is some ongoing campaigns. They also have the ntoes from the International Whaling Comission 2006 Meetings. It has information about the International Whaling Commision also.
Filed under: Ozone Depletion
http://www.dar.csiro.au/information/ozone.html
This site is all about how the ozone layer is damaging the earth and how sun anbd skin is a bad combination for us and the effecys of it. The site is quite good but it is being replaced by something so i dont know whether it will stay like that.
