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USA: • Halt the proposed 5-year offshore drilling (OCS) plan, • Protect marine national monuments, • Block all efforts to weaken the Marine Mammal Protection, • Reject permits that would open our coasts to large-scale seismic exploration (harms the sense of hearing of marine mammals), • Halt efforts to gut the Magnuson-Stevens Act — our oceans´ primary defense against overfishing, • Protect threatened and endangered marine wildlife from extinction

Half of the palm oil imported to Europe is transformed into biodiesel. While fuel companies like Total, Shell and BP make billions in profits, palm oil deforestation is destroying pristine rainforest and carbon-rich peatland in Indonesia and Malaysia, pushing orangutans and other species to extinction. Energy ministers of all 28 member states are meeting on Monday in Brussels. We only have a few days left to convince the Commission and a few reluctant key member States like Germany, Spain, and Italy. Now’s the perfect time to get our voices heard!

Some improvements to xchroot have been realised: a better working --quiet switch, making use of chroot --userspec to avoid su and sudo inside the chroot and a --genuine-retval switch to directly return the return code of chroot / the program inside the chroot.

A big Dutch company has patented melons, tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes. This has been possible because of a flaw in European patent law. Raise your voice against patents on conventional breedings! We need to fight any attempt of big companies trying to iniquitously appropriate common goods as nature. Tell the social democratic federal attorney general in Germany to close the loophole.

Updated and revised article: The climate balance of agrofuels is negative; and even the climate balance of certain waterpower projects; however the loss in biodiversity caused by these projects is at least as bad as the climate balance; apart from the negative influence on food production.