Without Bees, the Foods We Love Will Be Lost March 14, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment We depend on bees to pollinate many of our most-loved crops, including apples, blueberries, pumpkins, and watermelon. But bees are facing huge challenges to their survival. In this video, Rebecca Riley, an attorney at NRDC who is fighting to protect bees, explains the threats bees face and why it’s critical to regulate neonic pesticides. Learn more and take action at https://on.nrdc.org/2t9efrK.
Our Ocean Planet March 13, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment The ocean absorbs one-quarter of the carbon dioxide we produce by burning fossil fuels and stores 90 percent of the heat on our warming planet. But overfishing and pollution have brought the ocean to the breaking point. Its systems are starting to fail. Narrated by Sigourney Weaver, this short film about the interplay of climate change and the ocean makes the case that we need to help the ocean heal so that it can help us adapt to the mounting pressures of climate change. Our Ocean Planet was produced by NRDC, Bloomfish Pictures, and Rock, Paper, Scissors. It premiered at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on September 14, 2018. Take action: https://on.nrdc.org/2MufPLt Narrated by: Sigourney Weaver Produced by: Natural Resources Defense Council Fisher Stevens Zara Duffy Daniel Hinerfeld Lisa Suatoni Rock Paper Scissors
How Air Pollution Kills March 12, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment Four million people around the world who already die annually from air pollution–related diseases. Brian Palmer [@palmerbrian (TW), Brian Palmer (FB), @brianmpalmer (IG)] goes inside those numbers—and your lungs—to understand how air pollution kills.