Simple Sunday: Polar Bear SOS

I am declaring this Animal Week in honor of our friend Jazzy, who we’ll meet later on. Stay tuned!

Last Sunday, I wrote about an opportunity to “chill the drills” to help save polar bear habitat in Alaska. Unfortunately the current administration has fast-tracked the approval for gas and oil drilling leases in Alaska, yet postponed the decision that was due January 9 on whether or not to place polar bears on the Endangered Species List. (If the bears are declared an endangered species, drilling in their habitat would be restricted.)

Simple Sunday mitzvah: Click here to send a message (via the Natural Resource Defense Council’s web site) urging Congress to pass the Markey bill (H.R. 5058), which will reverse the go-ahead for the oil and gas lease sales until the Bush Administration makes its final decision about protecting polar bears under the Endangered Species Act.

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Simple Sundays: Click for Greenland

Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, although at my house it’s more often a Day of Harried Catch-Up. Here’s a move in a more peaceful direction: “Simple Sundays” on the blog. These mitzvahs will be fast and easy. Here’s the innaugural entry: To raise awareness about problems associated with climate change in Greenland, Kiehl’s, the drugstore-turned-beauty line, will donate 25 cents/click to the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) for the first 500,000 people who click a link on their web site.

Today’s mitzvah: Click here to reverse climate change in Greenland (thank you, Kiehl’s!)

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