Overbrook grantee The Story of Stuff project released its newest video yesterday, The Story of Cosmetics (storyofcosmetics.org).
Read the promo from The Story of Stuff web site here:
Check out storyofcosmetics.org on July 21 to see our latest film about how major loopholes in U.S. federal law allow the $50 billion beauty industry to put unlimited amounts of chemicals into personal care products with no required testing, no monitoring of health effects and inadequate labeling requirements—making cosmetics among the least-regulated consumer products on the market. Think twice before putting on that lipstick, you might be putting on lead!
Congratulations to Annie Leonard and her team! Click here for a recent profile on Leonard in the LA Times.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The Next Class of Progressive Women’s Voices
Good news for some great progressive women!
The Women’s Media Center (WMC) is pleased to announce the second class of its Progressive Women’s Voices (PWC) program for 2010. Now in its third y ear, Progressive Women’s Voices is an intense media training and outreach program that involves in-person intensive training, weekly interview practice, and ongoing WMC strategy and support.
In 2010, the WMC will host three Progressive Women’s Voices training classes. Each class will include ten women from around the country trained over two separate weekends in New York City. Travel, accommodation, and training expenses are paid for completely by the WMC.
Progressive Women’s Voices is the premier media and leadership training program serving women in our country. In two years, the Women’s Media Center has intensively trained 60+ women who reflect diversity visibly absent from the mainstream media within important conversations around national security, health care, immigration, workplace policy, reproductive rights, climate change, and other issues that fill the headlines every day.
With training from The Women’s Media Center, PWV experts have been featured in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Elle, New York magazine, USA Today, Forbes, Variety, Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Salon, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times; by the Associated Press and Reuters; on Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, CBS Nightly News, Fox News, ABC News, CNBC, Bill Moyers, numerous NPR shows; and within hundreds of other top-tier media outlets.
To see the great women chosen for the program this year, click here. Interested in participating for a future program? Click here to get information on when you can apply to join a future class.
The Women’s Media Center (WMC) is pleased to announce the second class of its Progressive Women’s Voices (PWC) program for 2010. Now in its third y ear, Progressive Women’s Voices is an intense media training and outreach program that involves in-person intensive training, weekly interview practice, and ongoing WMC strategy and support.
In 2010, the WMC will host three Progressive Women’s Voices training classes. Each class will include ten women from around the country trained over two separate weekends in New York City. Travel, accommodation, and training expenses are paid for completely by the WMC.
Progressive Women’s Voices is the premier media and leadership training program serving women in our country. In two years, the Women’s Media Center has intensively trained 60+ women who reflect diversity visibly absent from the mainstream media within important conversations around national security, health care, immigration, workplace policy, reproductive rights, climate change, and other issues that fill the headlines every day.
With training from The Women’s Media Center, PWV experts have been featured in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Elle, New York magazine, USA Today, Forbes, Variety, Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Salon, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times; by the Associated Press and Reuters; on Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, CBS Nightly News, Fox News, ABC News, CNBC, Bill Moyers, numerous NPR shows; and within hundreds of other top-tier media outlets.
To see the great women chosen for the program this year, click here. Interested in participating for a future program? Click here to get information on when you can apply to join a future class.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Ray of Hope in New Ocean Policy
The Obama administration announced the final recommendations of its ocean policy task force yesterday, the culmination of a year of research and negotiation between science, recreation, economic activity and military operations in the nation's oceans, coastlines and Great Lakes. The task force recommends the creation of a National Ocean Council, marking the first time ever a comprehensive federal body will govern ocean policy.
Perhaps the most groundbreaking detail of this news is not the Council itself, but the integrative approach it will take. Under the National Ocean Council, nine regional groups comprised of state, federal and tribal leaders will make recommendations based on marine spatial planning, a way of "zoning" waterways and coastlines. This ecosystem-based evaluation method will monitor activities including offshore drilling and military exercises in the interest of marine conservation, for the first time creating a comprehensive legal framework for ocean, coastal and Great Lakes conservation that prioritizes marine life.
For example, after considering scientific and economic recommendations, a group might allocate a certain coastal area for wind farms, certain areas or seasons for naval exercises, certain areas for offshore drilling, etc. Areas that are not specifically allocated would be off limits to those activities. In a breath of fresh air for conservationists and marine scientists, a bulleted objective of the Ocean Council (from the Council on Environmental Quality's initial press release) promises the new plan "Ensures science-based information is at the heart of decision-making." Read the full press release here.
Perhaps the most groundbreaking detail of this news is not the Council itself, but the integrative approach it will take. Under the National Ocean Council, nine regional groups comprised of state, federal and tribal leaders will make recommendations based on marine spatial planning, a way of "zoning" waterways and coastlines. This ecosystem-based evaluation method will monitor activities including offshore drilling and military exercises in the interest of marine conservation, for the first time creating a comprehensive legal framework for ocean, coastal and Great Lakes conservation that prioritizes marine life.
For example, after considering scientific and economic recommendations, a group might allocate a certain coastal area for wind farms, certain areas or seasons for naval exercises, certain areas for offshore drilling, etc. Areas that are not specifically allocated would be off limits to those activities. In a breath of fresh air for conservationists and marine scientists, a bulleted objective of the Ocean Council (from the Council on Environmental Quality's initial press release) promises the new plan "Ensures science-based information is at the heart of decision-making." Read the full press release here.
Monday, July 12, 2010
BP Attempts "Final" Cap; Residents Hope for the Best
After a seemingly endless series of bad news, BP is installing what could be the final sealant cap to plug the estimated 60,000 barrels of oil gushing each day into the Gulf of Mexico. The previous cap stopped about 15-16,000 barrels a day, which flowed unfettered over the weekend after BP removed the old cap to make way for the new one.
A blog post today on the New York Times web site addresses a growing conflict between local officials on the Gulf Coast and the Army Corps of Engineers. Local officials, led by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, claim the Army Corps is shutting down their plans to mitigate the effects of the spill without offering any solutions. The Army Corps, yet to regain the trust of New Orleanians after Hurricane Katrina, rejected a plan to dump 100,000-plus tons of limestone into Barataria Bay, an estuary leading from the Gulf to New Orleans through a web of inlets. The Army Corps claims this plan will ultimately be more destructive than the spill, since it will exacerbate already-occurring erosion. But local government officials feel frustrated and hamstrung, unable to act.
In the meantime, as BP promises to cap the leak and local officials struggle to find common ground with the federal government, people living in all the Gulf Coast states are feeling grave repercussions, economically and emotionally. A heart-wrenching story in the St. Petersburg Times details the immediate lifestyle changes being felt by residents of Pensacola, Florida. In one particularly poignant analogy, Times writer Craig Pittman quotes coastal geologist and Florida resident James "Rip" Kirby III: "When your entire way of life is built around seeing how the seasons change here, the things you do here, the things you eat, that's the reason you live here -- and all of that is dying slowly before your eyes. It's like checking an elderly relative into a rest home and knowing they're not going to come out."
Click here for a series of blog posts on various aspects of the oil spill from ProPublica.
A blog post today on the New York Times web site addresses a growing conflict between local officials on the Gulf Coast and the Army Corps of Engineers. Local officials, led by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, claim the Army Corps is shutting down their plans to mitigate the effects of the spill without offering any solutions. The Army Corps, yet to regain the trust of New Orleanians after Hurricane Katrina, rejected a plan to dump 100,000-plus tons of limestone into Barataria Bay, an estuary leading from the Gulf to New Orleans through a web of inlets. The Army Corps claims this plan will ultimately be more destructive than the spill, since it will exacerbate already-occurring erosion. But local government officials feel frustrated and hamstrung, unable to act.
In the meantime, as BP promises to cap the leak and local officials struggle to find common ground with the federal government, people living in all the Gulf Coast states are feeling grave repercussions, economically and emotionally. A heart-wrenching story in the St. Petersburg Times details the immediate lifestyle changes being felt by residents of Pensacola, Florida. In one particularly poignant analogy, Times writer Craig Pittman quotes coastal geologist and Florida resident James "Rip" Kirby III: "When your entire way of life is built around seeing how the seasons change here, the things you do here, the things you eat, that's the reason you live here -- and all of that is dying slowly before your eyes. It's like checking an elderly relative into a rest home and knowing they're not going to come out."
Click here for a series of blog posts on various aspects of the oil spill from ProPublica.
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